Anna Kendrick

Practically dialogue-free, Richard LaGravanese’s adaptation of The Last Five Years is not a musical for people who don’t like musicals. Still, if you are new to the format, you will be won over by the incredible actors, and the…

After two disappointing outings as an antihero - in 2003’s disastrous Daredevil and this year’s overblown Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ben Affleck must be hoping it’s third time’s the charm with this clunky and transparent attempt…

Mr. Right has a lot in the mix that film fans will find very familiar. In fact, it may seem so familiar to some that you'd need it to be very good indeed to feel worth your time. It's a good job it is then. Sam Rockwell stars as a hitman…

After the wonderful Persepolis and Chicken with Plums, Iranian-born French author/illustrator/director Marjane Satrapi has been relatively quiet on the filmmaking scene.   After her first live-action directorial feature, the 2012 film Gang…

Life After Beth is a film that very much feels as if it wants to have its cake and eat it. Or, perhaps, replace cake with brains. It will end up tagged as yet another zom-rom-com when it doesn't really deserve to be lumped in with others of…

The follow up film from Marjane Satrapi, director of Persepolis is not what you would expect. In one fell swoop she shifts her gaze from biographical animation to screwball, satirical comedy. The Voices sees Ryan Reynolds play Jerry…

I'd heard a lot of good things about End Of Watch before I finally got a chance to watch it for myself so I hoped that it would be a film that I enjoyed. It was. I may not have loved it as much as some people did, but I liked how the film…

In this very sweet and enjoyably macabre stop-motion animated movie, Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) sees dead people. They're all around him and he's not scared by them one bit. Sadly, nobody else believes him and he's picked…

Anna Kendrick is edgy and a bit different from everyone around her. She's the lead character, a student named Beca, in Pitch Perfect and viewers can sketch out her personality very quickly thanks to some major clues. She listens to music a…

At this moment in time, I have to say that I'm pretty much in league with all of the other males being dragged along to the cinema to see these movies. I sit there thinking "why, why, why?" and then I plot ways for my good lady to make it…