Action & Thriller

Betrayal promises an glamorous story of scandal and deceit during the German occupation of Norway, and it delivers. But is that enough? If it was, this film would be perfect. The attention to period detail is more than a little Mad Men-esque, in that it is both stylish and mesmerising, and whilst I...

If you're tired of superpowers, pointless clichés and anything that hasn't got Seth Rogen in it, prepare to have your prayers answered - The Green Hornet is in town. Almost five years ago, indie film director Kevin Smith was asked at a question-and-answer session whether he'd ever direct a comic book movie....

Some say fraternities foster life-long bonds of friendship and brotherhood. This film plays it a little differently. Here in the UK, we don't do fraternities, as people who enjoy each other's company tend to live together anyway without the need for three letters of the Greek alphabet. But in the States, if...

London Boulevard should have had it all - an excellent cast, an Academy Award winning writer and director, and an original score from Kasabian guitarist, Sergio Pizzorno. Something should have twigged when we learnt that Colin Farrell would be ditching that gorgeous Irish accent, in favour something a...

Whether it's Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, the man (allegedly) responsible for last weekend's cargo plane bomb and the 'underwear bomb', or Carlos the Jackal who shot and bombed his way through the 1970s and 80s, newspaper photographs of the international terrorists are anonymous, bland and mysterious. The three-part...

Darren Aronofsky once again proves himself as one of the leading American independent film directors with his gloriously manic fifth feature, Black Swan. After its premiere at Venice in September, no other film arrived at this year's BFI London Film Festival with quite as much hype as Black Swan....

Every generation thinks they've discovered sex, so the saying goes; the same probably applies to terrorism. Barely a month goes by now without someone trying to ignite a bomb hidden in their pants, but it's easy to forget that back in the 1970s there were numerous terrorist outrages too. Carlos tells the story of...

Sequels to iconic films are usually (Grease 2, anyone?) flops. However, what about Wall Street? Wall Street's Gordon Gekko was, for many of the 1980s financiers, something of a god, a statuesque figure of greed, wealth and cunning that a generation of money and power-hungry bankers, stockbrokers and...

Though Ben Affleck had some success with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, I still think of him mostly for terrible movies. Disasters like Gigli, that ill-fated project with his ex J-Lo, and Jersey Girl, which I can only remember for being painful. So, I went to The Town expecting the worst. I came out in...