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Cake
Director: Daniel Barnz
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Lucy Punch, Felicity Huffman, Mamie Gummer, Chris Messina, Sam Worthington, William H Macy
****
15A
A long way from Central Perk
After a decade going global as Rachel in Friends, another decade starring in rom-coms of varying irritability, which adds to 20 years a-tabloiding, she also wants to be taken seriously as an actor.
And, despite an occasionally manipulative script, she pretty much pulls it off in this entertaining look at a damaged woman suffering physical and mental scars in the wake of a family tragedy.
Claire Bennett is an LA divorcee hooked on painkillers and pretty angry with the world . . .
Read John Byrne's full review here
The Wedding Ringer
**
Starring: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting
15A
Chalk-and-cheese guys
Despite the best efforts of its two likeable leading men, Kevin Hart and Josh Gad, The Wedding Ringer disappoints by failing to deliver any genuine laugh-out-loud moments.
Director and co-writer Jeremy Garelick has brought us a fairly predictable bromance about two chalk-and-cheese guys who are brought together under extreme circumstances and are forced to pull off the stunt of a lifetime . . .
Read Sarah McIntyre's full review here
Blackhat
2.5 stars
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang
Duration: 133 minutes
Certificate 15A
An escalating situation
Blackhat looked like a definite couple of hours of fun, but it turned out to be quite disappointing.
For starters, it's directed by Michael Mann, who has been behind films such as Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Collateral and Ali, and is widely regarded as one of the greats of modern Hollywood.
The cast is pretty impressive too: Viola Davis (The Help, How to Get Away with Murder) gives weight to any role, while Chris Hemsworth is both a fine actor - as he showed in Ron Howard's Rush - and a bankable bulk, thanks to his ongoing gig as Norse God Thor in a relentless range of Marvel movies . . .
Read John Byrne's full review here.
Pelo Malo
****
Director: Mariana Rondón
Starring: Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange, Nelly Ramos
Duration: 93 minutes
Pelo Malo
Love is Strange
****
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows, Charlie Tahan
Duration: 94 minutes
Alfred Molina and John Lithgow
Don't approach this movie thinking that The Everly Brothers' classic, Love Is Strange, is going to run through it like a theme song. For it is not that type of movie at all, being dependent on Chopin and painting and bourgeoisie stuff.
Yet the love of the title - strange, or otherwise - underpins this charming, thoughtful movie as a subtly diffuse theme. Seventy-one-year-old Ben (John Lithgow) and the younger George (Alfred Molina) have been an item for 39 years . . .
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
Fifty Shades of Grey
**/2.5 stars
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Duration: 125 minutes
Certificate 18
Dakota Johnson
You may have heard of this one. Read our male and female perspective reviews here and here
Jupiter Ascending
2 stars
Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Starring: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne, Booth, James D'Arcy, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Duration: 127 minutes
There's no chemistry between Tatum and Kunis in this whizzbang sci-fi
The Wachowskis return with a galactic epic that is overly in debt to better, smarter movies like Dune and The Fifth Element. Soylent Green may even get a nod but this is one space opera that makes Battlefield Earth look like Solaris.
From The Matrix to Cloud Atlas, Andy and Lana W have displayed a talent for real high wire verve and inventiveness but it's easy to see why Jupiter Ascending's release was delayed for nine months and why a post-production overhaul was also required - all of it is very visible in nearly every single scene in the two-hour running time.
It sure looks glossy and epic . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
The Interview
***
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Randall Park, Diana Bang, Malcolm, Reese Alexander
Duration: 112 minutes
Certificate 16
C'mon! Nobody said it was going to be Duck Soup!
There were plenty of raised eyebrows and maybe even some sniggering late last year when hackers broke into Sony's computer system and leaked numerous yet to be released movies and some pretty sensitive e-mails. The real thoughts of corporate paymasters about `the talent' made very interesting reading.
But the story surrounding The Interview soon turned very sinister indeed when terrorists, putatively originating from North Korea itself, threatened attacks on cinemas screening the movie . . .
Read Alan Corr's full review here
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