The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Rating: ★★
Jun 29, 2008Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
The second of the Narnia films. Director Andrew Adamson seems so intent on copying Peter Jackson that the film becomes all epic fantasy flourishes and battle scenes to the exclusion of all else - even much of C.S. Lewis's book

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Rating:
Jul 20, 2012Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals
This is not a film, it is a money-making machine in the guise of a film that is aimed squarely at undiscerning family audiences, one that plays solely to familiar characters and comic routines and has almost minimal difference to the preceding three Ice Age films

Knights of Badassdom (2013)

Knights of Badassdom (2013)
Rating: ★★
Apr 20, 2014Live-Action Roleplayers Encounter a Demon
This has a winning concept – live-action roleplayers are forced to face a demon they accidentally conjure. Only it seems little more than a one-joke film where the characters running around delivering mock mediaeval dialogue in falsettos soon starts to get rather silly

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rating: ★★★
May 25, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
It is nice to see Bryan Singer regain his form after several years lull. The plot is nothing world-shattering but it is nice to see a character-driven X-Men, while Singer delivers the superheroics with a cheer-out loud elan that most of the sequels missed by a wide margin

Pixels (2015)

Pixels (2015)
Rating: ★★
Jul 25, 2015Alien Invaders Bring Classic Videogames to Life
This has a certain cuteness to its premise – of seeing a bunch of classic videogames brought to life. Beyond that, Pixels is a one gimmick film that suffers from two people whose films I hate – the perpetually banal Chris Columbus and the irritatingly smug presence of Adam Sandler

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Rating: ★★
Nov 3, 2018Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up
Marvel’s third Avengers film, uniting almost every superhero under their roof, resulting in some thirty characters on screen and a plot that becomes a blur of changing locations and superheroic punch-ups

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Rating: ★★
Jan 13, 2024Future Televised Human Hunting
The Hunger Games was one of the biggest franchise of the 2010s. Here a number of the key talents return to make a prequel to the events, telling a story from the early days of the Hunger Games

The Toxic Avenger (2023)

The Toxic Avenger (2023)
Rating: ★★
Oct 11, 2025Mutant Superhero/Troma Remake
A remake of the work that launched Troma films. The original The Toxic Avenger was a gungily nasty film that readily trod way over all lines of good taste. In being cast with name stars, this has been cleaned up considerably