Review: Senna

An incredibly powerful film that tells the story of the life and death of Ayrton Senna, considered by many to be the greatest racing car driver of all time. Anyone with even a passing interest in Formula One knows what's coming as the film reaches its end, but that doesn't make the scenes any less shocking or upsetting.

The one downside in framing the story of Senna as Ayrton the Hero and Alain (Prost) the villain is that the film is so biased towards Senna you never really feel like you get the full story at any point - any criticism of Senna is quickly shot down as being someone else's fault - be it Prost, Politics or the position of pole and whilst lip service is paid to the amount of crashes and incidents the highly competitive Brazilian was involved in, no footage is actually shown of them.

Despite not dwelling too much on Senna's darkside, the raft of never before seen footage from behind the scenes is expertly cut together to make one of the great sports film of our time.

Review: Source Code

Starring Jake Jake Gyllenhaal as a brain stored in a container, this really should've been called Jarhead - but we've seen that film before, which is also strangely apt as Source Code is based around Jake living the same 8 minutes over and over again as he tries to save the day and stop the bomber on the train.

For a film based on such repetition, Source Code never bores, the changes keep your interest throughout. Wisely short and snappy at 90 minutes, Source Code doesn't give you time to think about a plot that probably has a million holes in it if you really thought long and hard about it and instead is entertaining pop corn fare that doesn't treat its audience like idiots.

Review: X Men - First Class

The most powerful super-power on show is that of Magneto's helmet, that suddenly makes Michael Fassbender shout in an Irish accent out of nowhere for the last half an hour.

Herein lies one of the main problems of X-Men: First Class, by sticking(ish!) to the timeline of the other films, the other mutants in the film are a bit rubbish for the most part. The film is at its best whenever McAvoy and Fassbender are together, hwich makes you wish they just did X-Men Origins: Magneto and had Fassbender mess around a the Jewish Bond for the full 2 hours.

Review: Cedar Rapids

A lot have hype has gone to Clay Davis doing a fine Omar impression in the trailer. What seems to have gone unnoticed though is Anne Heche's method metamorphosis into Julianne Moore.

However John C Reilly and Ed Helms don't bother stretching themselves at all, both playing their different types of idiot, but thankfully their performances are some of their better ones, meaning Cedar Rapids has plenty of laughs within.

Review: Thor

About as subtle as a hammer to the face - and there's a fair bit of that going on from the get go. Some of the dialogue up up there with Gran Torino in the unintentional comedy stakes, but Thor remains Thor-oughly good fun throughout thanks to a great cast that dives into the material head first, embracing the campness of it all.