Film Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

Film Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

Rather than a narrative, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has a series of wacky events weakly held together to arrive at an inevitable conclusion. Thankfully, for a film that is constantly half-baked, the last set-piece is not actually half-bad.

Film Review: Great Expectations (2012)

Film Review: Great Expectations (2012)

As the 19th Century’s most accomplished writer of soap fiction, one of the keys to Charles Dickens’ longevity has been his ability to create a likeable hero. More impressively, he also possessed an uncanny ability to weave almost every aspect of society into a coherent storyline, gentlemen’s clubs, gaolers, average Joes and all.

AFFFF Review: The Man Who Laughs (2012)

AFFFF Review: The Man Who Laughs (2012)

Those who are familiar with Les Miserables will know that Victor Hugo was not the most cheerful of chaps. The Man Who Laughs, one of his less well known works, might sound merry but where pre-revolutionary France is concerned, there is not a great deal to laugh about.