The Nice Guys

(MA15+) ★★★★Director: Shane Black.Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, Kim Basinger.Russell really wanted to be at home because the Rabbitohs were playing.SOMEWHERE in between writing the script for Lethal Weapon and directing Iron Man 3, Shane Black wrote and directed a film called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.Initially a flop, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang became a cult favourite because of its offbeat take...

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X-Men: Apocalypse

(M) ★★★½Director: Bryan Singer.Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Lucas Till, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee."Just because you're a mutant, it doesn't mean you're too good for a seatbelt."WHILE walking out of a cinema screening of Return Of The Jedi, a character in X-Men: Apocalypse quips that the third part of a trilogy is always the worst.It’s...

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Mother's Day

(M) ★★½Director: Garry Marshall.Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Timothy Olyphant, Héctor Elizondo, Jack Whitehall, Sarah Chalke, Aasif Mandvi.There's "agreeing to be in a bad movie", and then there's "agreeing to be in a bad movie wearing a bad wig".FIRST there was Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve, and now Happy Days creator and Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall has plucked Mother’s Day off...

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