Will Smith
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
Bad Boys for Life’s plot is straightforward, the action doesn’t push any boundaries, and yet you still leave having had a pretty good time.
Spies in Disguise is an almost poetically appropriate summary of everything computer animation has become in the last ten or so years.
Gemini Man smears a lot of fancy tech all over an empty and tiresome thriller.
The Bad Boys unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
Two decades later, and Wild Wild West is still a Wild Wild Mess – but nowhere near the disaster you may remember.
While Aladdin is a fairly harmless film, it adds very little to the original and seems like just another cash grab from Disney.
In Gemini Man, an over-the-hill hitman (Will Smith) faces off against a younger clone of himself.
Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend has been adapted to the screen three times- but have any of the cinematic adaptations effectively translated the source material? Zac Hestand finds out.
Bright is a film trying too hard, with an execution that leaves something to be desired. What is good gets smothered under the excess, and while it might keep some entertained it doesn’t stick with you.
Actors often become typecast in certain roles, but here are some performances where they took a chance to do something remarkable instead.
Collateral Beauty is a messy film that is almost saved by its heartwarming theme and performance by Will Smith – though still not quite.
Concussion does to the sports film what I was sincerely hoping it would avoid: it dramatizes its subject in such an unbelievable way that it becomes nothing more than mindless propaganda. Dealing with the true subject of brain injuries within retired NFL players, the film simply floats from one cliché to the next, which left me feeling almost dazed after it had finished.
One of the worst clichés that appears in an alarmingly large number of movies is the “two kinds of people in this world” speech. In Focus, Will Smith’s suave con artist Nicky Spurgeon tells his protégé/part-time lover Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie) his version of the done-to-death cliché: there are two types of people, hammers and nails.