Basically Sausage Party is a sniggering, dirty spin on the typical Pixar film, with the one big joke being its cartoons dropping f-bombs.

Blood Father heads towards an anaemic finish, but it offers plenty of pulp excitement along the way.

Tom Hanks sure suits the rank of captain. He was one in Saving Private Ryan and high-seas thriller Captain Phillips.

A cautionary tale about a high school teenager working out who she is and the dangers of being hardwired to the internet.

Bad Moms follows a group of frazzled moms in suburban Chicago who decide to throw away "having it all" in exchange for having fun and making time for themselves.

Well, it could have been worse. Like Absolutely Fabulous the movie bad or Mrs Browns Boys D' Movie bad.

As a movie, 'Chasing Great' reminds us that Richie McCaw is one impressive bloke, but also that over-achievers are tricky doco subjects.

Bad Moms is essentially your average frat-house party flick, starring hot Hollywood mums in place of Zac Efron - or at least it's trying to be.

There have been three previous Ben-Hur movies, as well as an animated version, a mini-series and a famous homage - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - that ripped off its chariot race.

The 12th and latest film to be based on a novel by the austere doyen of espionage fiction, John le Carre, may be the least satisfying ever.

The Shallows is is a B-movie hoot big on suspense and curiously low on gore.

Blake Lively is stranded on a rock 180 metres from shore at a secluded surfing spot that also doubles as a feeding ground for great white sharks.

If you're after a cheap laugh you'll get one here, but these fabulous ladies are better off sticking to the television screen.

The weapon in this gripping and gruesome punk rock horror-thriller are many and various.

Plopping the beloved characters from the riotous 90s British sitcom in 2016, drizzling them in Champagne and celebrity cameos, and seeing what comes out the other side.

REVIEW: Never have I sat in a movie theatre and felt more of a sense of pride than when I saw this film.

This small and absorbing Icelandic film is much more affecting than its modest ambitions may seem to promise.

Review: This latest one takes what made the original Bournetrilogy special and squanders it with a hackneyed story of revenge and cyber surveillance.

The three 20-something dudes sitting across from me on a couch in a D.C. hotel room don't look like movie stars.

Review: If you didn't know better, you might think it was a tasteless spoof.

This year Ghostbusters had to prove that they weren't just afraid of no ghosts - but no trolls either. News of the all-female reboot

Herald film critic Russell Baillie checks out the new Ghostbusters to determine if it really deserves all the flak.

Nothing says "a lovely film for kids" like a giant, crotchety old man in a cloak who peeks through windows and steals young orphans

Zac Efron continues his run of outlandish comedies in a movie that's a next-gen Wedding Crashers.

Francesca Rudkin reviews the film, "Love and Friendship".

Over 14 years the Ice Age films have consistently been feel-good fun and have given us lovable and hilarious characters.

Move over Katniss, Anne Shirley of Prince Edward Island has returned

There have been numerous memorable adaptations of Roald Dahl books, from Wes Anderson's brilliant stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr Fox to Tim Burton's excessively art-directed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Please refrain from rolling your eyes at yet another reboot that nobody asked for, but I'm here to tell you that there is a new reboot

Director David Yates now takes on a story that's already been adapted in almost every way possible, and attempts to turn it into a blockbuster that appeals to - well, it's hard to know.