Review: The Rocker

The Rocker is likeable enough, but is never funny enough to escape the shadow of School of Rock hanging over it.

A cast including a young Emma Stone do a good job with some pretty bland material, but the finished product does feel like a Disney TV movie that somehow made it to the silver screen. The televisual feel isn't helped by the most laughs coming from Rainn Wilson and Jane Lynch, who more funnier - and more famous for their roles in the American Office and Glee respectively.

Review: Super

Kick Ass is always a bit of a red herring when compared to a film like Super. Working outside the usual Hollywood model, Matthew Vaughn managed to bring together the money needed to make something that could stand up visually to the likes of Marvel and DC's latest action efforts - but just one look at the trailer for Super shows that despite sharing a DIY crime-fighter storyline, they really are completely different beasts.

Last year's Defendor is more suitable watermark for Super - and for me it falls short of that, opting after a promising start to just end up in a sprawl of increasingly violent deaths - so most of the impressive cast end up being wasted in more than one sense of the word.

In the end, its more average than Super.