Film
Nick Hasted
Green Lantern was meant to make Ryan Reynolds a major star, and ignite another superhero franchise. Expectations deflated so quickly on its cinema release that, if this DVD didn’t exist, it would be hard to be certain it came out at all.Warners have dug fatally deep into the superhero second division, drawing on an unmemorable character’s 1959 revival, in which fearless test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds) proves to have the Right Stuff to join the Green Lantern Corps. This GLC, quite unlike Ken Livingstone’s lamented Earth counterpart, is an intergalactic police force dedicated to enforcing “ Read more ...
Adam Sweeting
A movie about advertising and product placement entirely paid for by advertising and product placement? It's a Koh-i-Noor diamond of a concept, and zealous documentarian Morgan Spurlock has applied himself to his task with the efficiency of a Dyson vacuum cleaner and the tenacity of a corporate Salesman of the Month.Spurlock, who survived a 30-day eatathon of McDonald's food despite his liver partly turning to fat and emerged with the splendid Super Size Me, has made one of the most entertaining films of the year, a far funnier one than the stuff that's routinely palmed off on us as " Read more ...
ash.smyth
There is nothing good about The Three Musketeers. Nothing. To list all the ways in which Paul WS Anderson's superfluous remake is crap would require a tome only slightly thinner than Dumas's original novel, and it is impossible, frankly, to imagine how someone could so badly have fisted the simple criteria for a historical action-romp, least of all with a ready-written, solid-gold storyline and a budget of $100 million; but bear with me while I run through just a couple of highlights, and I'll ask you, please, for your own Read more ...