TV Moments of 2013: Luther

The slithering serial killer under the bed from the likely to be last series of Luther still gives me the creeps

Review: Pacific Rim

If I told you this film features 2 hours of giant robots and sea monsters hitting each other with a dodgy actor in the lead role, you'd probably think it was the SyFy Channel's follow up to Sharknado - but instead this is a blockbuster from Guillermo del Toro.

The Del Toro touch means Pacific Rim is stunning too look at and the Kaiju battles are impressive at first, but at over 2 hours long they do start to drag after at bit. Things might be helped if the wooden Charlie Hunnan wasn't the centre of the story so much, as much like After Earth (A film so bad it put me off blogging for 6 months), I found myself wishing it was the lead character that was killed early on, not poor Mike from Homeland.

Review: Takers

For a film about a gang of thieves, it's kind of apt that Takers liberally steals from the Ocean's Eleven template. As Idris Elba is the only one with the acting chops to match up to Clooney's crew, Taker's wisely focuses most of the plot on his character and the usual clichéd struggle to pull off one last job.

Matt Dillon plays a cop with troubled family life and a corrupt partner, but neither story really goes anywhere - same with most of the minor members of the crew who get a small bit of back story before a couple of Heat-style shoot outs finish things off.