With any luck Gran Torino will be the last film that Clint Eastwood will star in. And I don’t say that because the film is sub-par or because the man is past his prime. No, the film is excellent and Eastwood still has the same power on screen that he’s always had. Instead I hope it will be his last film because it...

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You might as well just give up trying to see another decent Terminator film. It just isn’t going to happen now. With Rise of the Machines, Jonathan Mostow made a jokey parody of the first two films and now with Salvation McG has made Transformers. The straight-ahead, gritty, blue collar, white-knuckle thrills of the first two films have given way to tedious, humourless,...

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People often complain that Terminator 2 was too kid-friendly – there were too many lame attempts at humour. Well, I've never had a problem with T2, preferring it to the original, but with Rise of the Machines the franchise goes too far. The most gut-wrenchingly awful bit has to be the infamous "talk to da hand" scene. What the hell? The Terminator should...

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My brother and I used to refer to Days of Thunder as Days of Chunder (to ‘chunder’ being to vomit). In our estimation, the film was so shit that just to watch a few moments of it would make you regurgitate all over yourself. So how did it fare this time? Was it as bad as I remembered? Yes. And did I puke...

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It’s kind of strange that Slumdog Millionaire was marketed as a feelgood movie. Yes, it has a fairytale ending, but it’s a story filled with violence and misery. There’s a lot of shit to crawl through. At one point the film takes this literally. There’s a scene where the hero, Jamal, has to wade through loads of excrement in order to meet a...

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