Review: London Boulevard

A real mis-match of a film, half the cast give performances like they're in the gangster version of Love Actually, whilst the other half seem to think they're in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 2.

Neither half is up to much to be honest, Colin Farrell looks the part, but his London accent lets him down badly. Kiera Knightley phones it in as the reclusive young actress Charlotte and you never sense any type of chemistry between the pair that's needed to carry the story off successfully. Ray Winstone is reliably great as the threatening gangster trying to drag back Mitch to a life of crime - but the rest is just the usual British Gangster traits of violence and swearing.

Writer/Director William Monahan was involved in Scorcese's The Departed, a remake of Infernal Affairs, by the time you get to the end of this film, you'll wonder why he's decided to try and remake Layer Cake this time around.

Review: Fright Night

This remake of the 1985 original starts of a little slow, but once David Tennant drops the whole poor man's Russell Brand shtick this really comes to (after)life and packs in plenty of thrills and jumps to make one of the year's most entertaining (if not particularly scary) horrors.

All the cast play their roles well, McLovin plays McLovin and its no surprise David Tennant steals scenes when taking on a load of monsters - so Colin Farrell breaking from the leading man norm to play a sinister, sleazy vampire deserves credit alongside Anton Yelchin doing that Eisenberg/Cera thing of showing Shia Lebeouf how to do his job properly.

The 3D works well in Fright Night and the tech suits a genre where things jumping out of the screen is part of the appeal. However someone really should have pointed out that Colin Farrell morphing into a vampire monster looks a little bit too much like John Travolta to take seriously.