Tomorrow When the War Began (Caitlin Stasey, Lincoln Lewis) : Movie Review

The low-key acting and sometimes creaky dialogue has the same effect, presenting traditional soapie-style teens and then thrusting them into a new and dangerous world.

Piranha 3D (Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott) : Movie Review

It shows an audience that the two things killer fish won’t swallow are breast implants and Jerry O’Connell’s severed penis.

Splice (Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley) : Movie Review

Splice is silly, it’s utterly serious, and it’s always edge-of-your-seat: Splice is a slice of horror genius.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World (Michael Cera, Edgar Wright) : Movie Review

Director Edgar Wright (working from a series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley) keeps the pace at breakneck speed, so you have to pay attention but if you can keep up you’ll notice that – for a video game influenced action film – this actually has a lot of heart to it.

Killers (Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl) : Movie Review

The action sequences aren’t bad either, and a running joke (wherein everyone in their lives turns out to be a deadly assassin out to collect the massive bounty on Spencer’s head) never really gets old.

Inception (Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page) : Movie Review

The plot is a rigorously planned-out puzzle-box that’s extremely compelling – so much so that in many ways Inception’s greatest success is the high level of post-viewing discussion it sparks.

Predators (Adrien Brody, Topher Grace) : Movie Review

It’s no spoiler to reveal that A) They’re not on Earth and B): They’re being hunted, but even after the big reveal and an attack by Predator “dogs” this still manages to hold its nerve a while longer and build tension rather than just fling gore at the screen.

The Losers (Jason Patric, Zoe Saldana) : Movie Review

The characters are barely one-dimensional but everyone seems to be having fun (especially Patric, who provides more ham than a butcher’s front window), so while this is barely above straight-to-DVD status it’d still be worth checking out just for laughs except for a non-ending ending that leaves the door wide open for a sequel that (after fizzling out at the US box office) will never come.

Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time (Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton) : Movie Review

Plenty of exciting desert adventures ensue, and one of the film’s strong points is that, thanks to the extensive use of CGI to zoom around the various locations and our hero’s fondness for jumping around acrobatically through the alleys and laneways of whatever city he happens to be in, the action sequences are consistently thrilling without relying on rapid-fire editing and obvious stunt doubles.

Robin Hood (Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett) : Movie Review

It doesn’t take long to realise that director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe really aren’t that interested in making a film about the Robin Hood we know and love – presumably because we know and love him a little too well to be bothered going to see yet another film about him.

Cop Out (Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan) : Movie Review

The only high point is Seann William Scott as the world’s most annoying cat burglar, and even his big scene is a throwaway one. Kevin Smith does a surprisingly good job as an action director, and if – somehow – you’ve never seen a buddy cop movie before chances are you’ll have a good time here.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (George Clooney, Jeff Bridges) : Movie Review

The Men Who Stare At Goats isn’t as funny as it thinks it is either (seeing McGregor constantly saying he doesn’t know what a Jedi is gets very stale, very quickly), resulting in a viewing experience best absorbed on free-too-air television.

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