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Review: Men In Black 3D

It's been ten years since the last underwhelming Men In Black movie and 15 long years since the brilliant original - and no one particularly asked to have it back. So... how does Men In Black 3D fare?

New Prometheus viral plays Guess Who with Noomi Rapace's face

It's like that bit at the end of Michael Jackson's Black Or White video. Only far, far creepier. Prometheus marketing machine, you've done it again.

DVD weekly: Sherlock, Fassbender's wang and zombie bin Laden

Among this week's new DVD and Blu-rays, there's something for everyone. Thanks to the release of Sherlock Holmes 2. Otherwise there'd just be something for women and potential terrorists.

Review: The Raid

The Raid is a martial arts movie of such ferocious pace, you'll swear you're watching it on the wrong speed. A shaken-up energy drink of a movie, once unleashed it fizzes out of the can, leaving you adrenalized – and sticky. It's the kind of unapologetic action movie – shorn neatly of any unnecessarily frills – that knows its strengths, has a clear goal and homes in on it with laser precision. Entertainment, truly thy name is an Indonesian guy killing a bunch of criminals with a fridge.

Movie news round-up: Brucey, Busey, Marion and Cameron

This week's movie news round-up was filmed in front of a live studio audience. Far from enhance the experience, it made it really hard to put together: they kept laughing at my typos.

Movie poster round-up: fairies, families and folk unlike us

Sorry this week's poster round-up is a little bit late. I bought Trials Evolution on the Xbox 360, and spent all afternoon playing Trials Evolution on the Xbox 360 and trying to figure out a way to quit my job, play Trials Evolution on the Xbox 360 all day and still pay my mortgage. Maybe if I say Trials Evolution on the Xbox 360 a few more times Microsoft will start paying me. It's quite good, you should get it.

Movie trailer round-up: Sean Penn's teeth, The Dictator and Argos

This is the bit where I make up something to say to serve as an intro for something that clearly says 'movie trailer round-up' in the title. Here are some movie trailers.

When movies and pop music collide

R.I.P. Lee Latchford-Evans and the fat one. (Goofy Prometheus set picture, courtesy of PrometheusForum.net via Reddit)

LOL: when movies and politics collide

Source: The Leveson Enquiry.

Review: The Dictator

Jokes are funny, aren't they? I don't mean in the 'Ha ha, Jimmy Carr is totes a legend LOL' kind of way; more I find them a strange way to get a laugh – painstakingly constructing sentences and cadences to maximise hilarity. It's a far more traditional, way more precise craft than surrealist, situational or observational comedy, and not one that's overly-familiar to Sacha Baron Cohen, who has thus far mostly traded on the comedy of embarrassment – the exquisite awkwardness that hidden cameras and unsuspecting participants provide. The Dictator represents his return to scripted comedy after the Borat/Bruno double-header, but any fears that Cohen's appeal would effectively be neutered while working with a safety net are swiftly allayed – this showcases his talents on the page as well as on the screen.