Soshite Chichi Ni Nara – Like Father, Like Son

Two Kore-eda films in one year is a bit of treat! - (see here for the other). Again this features children, but this time the adults are much more present than in I Wish. Essentially, two sets of very different parents discover that their sons were swapped in hospital just after they were born, and …

Gravity

I tend to avoid 3D as it usually gives me a headache, but I went with it for Gravity, and threw IMAX into the mix for good measure. I was not disappointed. This is a remarkable film - not for the plot, of which there is alarmingly little - but for the fact that it …

Thor: The Dark World

I had been anticipating the return of the demi-god for quite some time, as the first Thor film was hugely entertaining, as was Marvel Avengers Assemble. This isn't as good as either of the above, but it is solid value for money and ticks most of the required boxes. The script needed some lighter touches, …

Captain Phillips

You wait years for a film about a Somali pirate hijacking, and then two come out in the same year - what are the odds? In contrast to A Hijacking, the Danish movie which spends a lot of time with the negotiation procedure in an office in Copenhagen, Captain Phillips puts the viewer right there on the …