Tom Evans developed this pretty sensational, not to say useful, data visualisation to show the profitability and Rating of a slew of Hollywood films made between 2007 and 2001. It’s a lot of fun to play around with it and see how many giant budget flick only just bring home the bacon....

So this is officially The Summer of the Sequel. As many as 27 being released by the combined might of the major studios according to these guys. Now, while the likes of Transformers redux and The Hangover reheated hold no particular artistic merit, the sequel is not always such a bad thing....

The usual disclaimers: there are still some potential releases that could have made the list that I just did not get around to seeing – Four Lions, Another Year, Mother, Restrepo, Waiting for Superman. An overall poor year for film that had me scraping the barrel somewhat. Still, a...

I’ve just glanced at my ‘movies of the year 2007’ email which reads like a jeremiad lamenting the lack of decent flicks over the qualifying twelve months. Jeez, viewed with hindsight ’07 looks like a golden age compared with the junk coming to a screen near you in the...