Chris Evans

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a very good film. It's got some fantastic action set-pieces, a good villain, and also benefits from a storyline that adds an edge and relevance lacking from the first movie. Yet, it's still not quite…

I really hoped, as I put on The Iceman, that I'd like it more than the majority of people who had already offered opinions on it. The general concensus seemed to be that the film was good, but not great. It was just lacking something. I…

With the release of Trance (reviewed here) on shiny disc in the UK this week, I decided that now was as good a time as any to look back over the filmography of one of my favourite directors. In fact, I made him an honorary Scotsman after…

I want to start this review with a criticism, which is not directly towards the film, but the decision to change the title for some countries, including the UK. In order to avoid confusion with the classic British spy-fi television series…

Superhero fans of the world, it’s the movie event you’ve been waiting for. The Avengers cometh to make an all mighty good time ruckus, suited and booted without a hair out of place, supercharged for 2 hours of fan boy and girl…

Joe Johnston is a director who has been overlooked and unfairly dismissed far too often, as far as I'm concerned. His first directing gig was on the highly enjoyable Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and since then he's had a few misses along the…

Our sun is dying and a major payload has to be delivered to create a star within a star and save planet Earth - that's the intriguing premise that we're told about at the beginning of Sunshine, a superb sci-fi movie from the masterful…

I’m not a big fan of comic book super heroes, nor the films based upon such heroes, and although a few good ones have slipped through, most fall under the category of Sunday afternoon fodder. Captain America: The First Avenger, I’m afraid,…

Heil Hydra! Captain America isn't an extraordinary superhero blockbuster but a culturally appropriate one. It's heavy, you see, with nostalgic Forties atmosphere that fits its Marvel Comics origins to a T. It's a franchise-starter set…

Captain America: The First Avenger, the latest installment from Marvel, sees Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) who, after being deemed unfit for military service, volunteer to participate in an experimental program that turns him into a Captain…