SOMMER ’08 an der Wear

Published on: July 11th, 2008


WANTED   (UK release June 25th)   6/10
"we're only a step away from the Skywalker family's Midichlorian-cell magic"


HANCOCK   (July 2nd)   5/10
"Berg never really seems to get much of a handle on the tonally wayward material, concentrating on getting us as quickly as possible to the next loud, pyrotechnic sequence of destructive special effects."


THE MIST   (July 4th)   7/10
"the fog / mist / haar / fret / miasma is itself harmless, but conceals a range of unpleasant beasties - an entire alien ecosystem, in fact, which regards its new human neighbours as tasty prey."


MAMMA MIA!   (July 10th)   5/10
"seldom has Jonathan Pryce been so sorely missed."


THE DARK KNIGHT   (July 25th)   6/10
"A megalopolis like this (30m inhabitants, we're told) must rely on bottom-up solutions, which are never even considered or mentioned in the Bat-universe. And they wonder why the city is in such a mess."


THE X-FILES – I WANT TO BELIEVE   (August 1st)   4/10
"Carter and company are simply trying to gussy up a drab thriller with portentous and pretentious overtones."  

                                                             THE MUMMY – TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR   (August 8th)   5/10
                                                             "…only occasionally clicks into proper spectacular-action-romp life."


HELLBOY II – THE GOLDEN ARMY   (August 22nd)   6/10
"this being Hellboy, he isn't just a rules-ist-rules German, he's also ectoplasmic cloud of quasi-living matter walking around in what looks like an old-school diving-suit."


YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN   (August 22nd)   6/10
"the picture is so gleefully tasteless, near-relentlessly energetic and puppyishly dopey that I found my resistance crumbling into semi-guilty giggles."

full FDA list of films and scheduled UK release-dates is here