A crazed, attention-deficit disordered firing range of one-liners, Hoodwinked Too! Hood v Evil feels rather like being beaten over the head with soft toys for an hour and a half, leaving you mildly amused and wondering what just happened! And what did just happen was that Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf and […]
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Enter another epic from the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the 14th century historical novel that was also the inspiration for John Woo’s Red Cliff. A Hong Kong action film based on a story called Crossing Five Passes and Killing Six Generals, that’s pretty much what you get – some excellent fight sequences, […]
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A fluffy soufflé starring two of the biggest names in French cinema, Potiche is dated and theatrical but provides a few gentle laughs for those who don’t mind frothy French farce and a couple of hours of light nostalgia in the company of Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.
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