Leon Patreschi

I really enjoyed this film and I feel just a little bashful about admitting it, seeing as it's so frequently panned. Basically it's Independence Day but for the US navy rather than the airforce. But there so many original touches throughout and the device which is used to evoke the Hasbro battleship game is genuinely clever. Liam Neeson has a tiny part for such a big man but the others acquit themselves well, including Rihanna! Best of all, you get to see the USS Missouri in a film again (last time to my knowledge was with the bizarre and threatening Steven Seagal in under siege) and a ship manoeuvre that is probably not in the captain's operating manual.

Almost three stars from me; this is a cartoonishly over the top sci-fi epic, but once you accept the silly sexism (Besson's days must be either numbered or over) which really feels like it belongs to an era which has passed, there are some very enjoyable moments. Gary Oldman is superb as ever.

Hard hitting cops and international drugs drama with a top cast. Some great action, especially the toll road stand-off. Also worryingly believable. Great film overall.

Oh my, it's dark. Dark and bleak. The Joker origin story, told plausibly and pretty much sympathetically. The world made him the way he is. Turns out he doesn't mind killing at all though, so a monster is unleashed. J Phoenix literally acts his shirt off. But honestly, I can't see who this film is made for; maybe Batman completists who want every little dark corner of the Batman world totally filled in. The film is well-acted, reasonably well-scripted, and mostly logical in a comic book kind of way, but if you want to know whether you'll ENJOY it, that is an entirely different bucket of face-paint. Borrows shamelessly from The King of Comedy amongst others. Dark and bleak, dark and bleak, are the lands where the Joker lives. His hair is green and his hands are... RED with blood.