'As directors gain independence from the studios, their movies invariably became longer, looser and more insufferable'

'The recklessness of hope in a cruel and unusual world is summed up onscreen by the sight of a human being colliding with a moving vehicle'

Twilight, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games have also asked us to pay more for the same amount of story

Don Jon is yet another example of a film where the women only exist in order to teach the men a lesson

From One Direction at the O2 to live relays from the V&A, cinemas are padding out their programmes with increasingly mundane 'alternative content'

As Hit Girl swears again, Charlie Lyne remembers Hollywood's other broken taboos

'Though audiences remain uneasy with extreme violence, they're unmoved by violence on an extreme scale'

Almost as old as Hollywood itself, nepotism has had the movie industry stitched up for decades and Will Smith's family are keeping up the tradition

With a rapidly expanding cinema audience, the biggest new films are being adapted for what is now the second largest box office in the world

In the aftermath of The Expendables, Hollywood is increasingly using older actors in lead roles. But where are tomorrow's Van Dammes going to come from?

Mama's tiny terrors are the latest in a long line of murderous movie munchkins

Peter Farrelly's new film ticks every gross-out box