Hellboy will keep you wondering… when will it end?
The original duo of films to feature the horned-devil avenger with a heart of gold were top-shelf tear-’em-ups. What we have here is a two-bit, one-note, zero-idea reboot of the Hellboy franchise.
Leigh Paatsch
Curse of the Weeping Woman a hit-miss horror flick
The Curse of the Weeping Woman is a distant cousin of the Conjuring and Annabelle franchises. But don’t let that totally put you off, there are some fair old frights here.
Horror flicks to hide from this weekend
Prepare for the latest chapter in the Conjuring series with a binge horror movie session. Here are five more cursed movies to stream up some terrifying bad luck at home.
Breaking Habits a dodgy doco about a dope-dealing nun
Breaking Habits seems like a compelling doco until you start prodding its selectively truthful story about a dope-dealing ‘nun’. Then some large, unfillable gaps being to appear.
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Boychoir: tear-jerkin’ telemovie stuff
REVIEW: Dustin Hoffman is used a mite too selectively in Boychoir,which istear-jerkin’ telemovie stuff we have all seen many, many times before.
Kumiko: a bleak one-line comedy
REVIEW: A slow, enigmatic and faintly disconcerting drama Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter could also be read as a bleak one-joke comedy.
Age of Ultron: the first and last word
THE first Avengers film soared above the standard superhero blockbuster, pushing up expectations for the sequel. Does Age of Ultron deliver? Leigh Paatsch reveals all.
Sequel is completely unarresting
REVIEW: The race to make the most unnecessary and unfunny comedy sequel of the 21st century has a new leader.
Painful journey as history goes to hell
REVIEW: The moving British drama Testament of Youth is adapted from one of the few memoirs that looked at World War One from a woman’s perspective.
Clever creepy thriller breaks the rule
REVIEW: When the characters in It Follows break the most basic rule of horror movies, you know you’re in for something genuinely new and chilling.
Turgid film is anything but Lively
REVIEW: In The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively is struck by lightning and must stay 29 forever. You’ll feel as you’ve just turned 100 by the end.
Stiller minds the gap in sharp satire
REVIEW: Ben Stiller is in fine form in the clever and observant While We’re Young, where a generation gap keeps opening and closing like a broken elevator door.
Penn shoots blanks in action flick
REVIEW: Everyone’s gotta take a job to pay the bills once in a while. Even a decorated practitioner of the acting crafts like Sean Penn, star of The Gunman.
Thriller really plumbs the depths
REVIEW: Jude Law leads a team of scary misfits on a hunt for Nazi gold in the submarine thriller Black Sea.
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