Cinema

Well you can relax, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a big improvement on The Mummy Returns despite what the relentlessly negative reviews in the States would have you believe.

It’s June 2008 and Director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) is sitting in London’s Soho Hotel. And he looks tired. He is in the finishing stages of post-production supervising the scoring for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with London’s Symphony Orchestra. But he’s enjoying himself, his wife has recently given…

When the group arrive at the dig they’re confused by the hostile reactions of the locals and soon find themselves under siege at the top of the dig which seems to exist in a mobile phone blackspot conveniently (for the plot) leaving our team of friends are unable to call for help.

This is an exciting, thrilling movie which manages to banish all memory of the dire 2003 ‘Hulk’. A word of warning – if you’re planning on seeing this for the sight of the big green one smashing things up you’ll have a long wait because the film’s first priority is to develop the characters and…

This is simply the best of the all the Rambo sequels. After the comic book capers of Rambo 3 the confusingly entitled Rambo marks a welcome return to the real world and is, at the first of excessive simplicity, simply the best use of the character since First Blood. At the start of the film…