Planning a trip to the flicks? Don't butter your popcorn until you read our reviews of new and recent cinema releases including Cinderella, Get Hard, Insurgent, The Gunman, and Home.
Get Hard
2/5
Starring: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Tip 'TI' Harris, Alison Brie, Craig T Nelson
Will Ferrell plays hapless financier James King who is sentenced to ten years in San Quentin's notorious prison following insider trading at the company headed by the man who was to have been his future father-in-law. Now King has lost his job, his fiancée - the boss' daughter - and there are just 30 days until he is put away in chokey.
Fortunately he meets a young black man, Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), who spots an easy way to make a handsome few bucks . . .
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
Cinderella
4/5
Starring: Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Ben Chaplin, Hayley Atwell, Derek Jacobi, Stellan Skarsgård
Kenneth Branagh, one of the most acclaimed Shakespearean actors and directors of our time, may seem like an unlikely candidate to put a new spin on the much-loved rags-to-riches tale, but he manages to do a bibbidi-bobbidi-brilliant job of it!
Packed with even more charm, heart and fairy dust than Disney's 1951 animated outing, this live-action flick gives viewers an insight into the mind of Cinders (James) and those around her . . .
Read Laura Delaney's full review here
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
4/5
Starring: Tom Kenny, Mr Lawrence, Antonio Banderas, Seth Green, Clancy Brown
If only I could be seven again. Or even 11 - I'd take that. It's hard to argue against eternal childhood when you come out of a cinema feeling as full of the joys as I did after this hugely entertaining sequel.
It certainly helped that I'd gone into the cinema thinking that a second SpongeBob movie, more than a decade after the first one, seemed a bit of a cynical exercise. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
Read John Byrne's full review here
Seventh Son
2.5/5
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Olivia Williams, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore
Jeff Bridges is the last warrior of a mystical order, so a valuable man to have around when you want to have something miraculous done. Battered by life and somehow forlorn, we first meet him in a rough tavern, in an alcoholic, dejected state. Reluctantly he agrees to do some wonder-working, performing an exorcism on a young girl.
Actually, he gets very perfunctory thanks from the parents, who depart quickly indeed with the newly-cleansed daughter. Clearly, bad manners were a feature even in the Dark Ages, or whatever vague period of the primeval past this movie is set in. The folks should at least have invited him to the nearest takeaway for a slap-up meal, as he seems to eat only occasionally, and when he does, he eats ravenously.
Read Paddy Kehoe's full review here
Insurgent
2/5
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Daniel Dae Kim, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Zoe Kravitz, Ray Stevenson
Based on Veronica Roth's bestselling novel trilogy, the sequel picks up where Divergent left off, in the aftermath of a war against Abnegation. Wracked with guilt and nightmares following the massacre of her parents, Tris (Woodley), now a hardened revolutionary, goes on the run from power-hungry Erudite leader Jeanine (Winslet).
Read Laura Delaney's full review here
Home
3.5/5
Starring: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones
The Boov are on the run from the evil Gorg and are looking to relocate to an ideal planet, and find one in Earth. In return, Earthlings are shunted off around the world in a most benevolent fashion, which is where Rihanna's character, the 12-year-old Gratuity 'Tip' Tucci, comes in.
She gets separated from her mother, and bumps into Oh when he is on the run from his fellow Boov after inadvertently revealing their location to the galaxy. An alliance between the two is soon forged and a series of adventures begin that bring them closer together.
Read John Byrne's full review here
The Gunman
3/5
Starring: Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca
Well, you couldn't accuse him of being in a rush - some of us have only been waiting 24 years to see Sean Penn lock and load like he did during the finale of Irish mob gem State of Grace.
Now, aged 54, he stars in his first bona fide action-thriller, albeit one which also takes shots at big business. The best bits of The Gunman prove that Penn should have done more of this kind of stuff years ago; the disappointments say he had enough time to choose a project where everything was perfect...
Read Harry Guerin's full review here
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