With this cloying core, coupled with its phoned in central performances, Vacation can only rest on its vignette style stop-offs to save it, and they just aren’t strong enough.
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, an adult Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to Walley World.
A film that from its outset immerses you totally in the world of city Alpha, as well as the humans and aliens that throng its crowded streets.
Two special operatives go on a mission to Alpha, where species from across the galaxy meet to share knowledge, and where an evil force is gathering its strength.
The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.
Early medieval epic about a mute warrior who escapes his captors with the slave who tends him.
This one's a little bit more for the kids, as far as funny goes, but if that's a bit of a turn off, think of it as a good way to introduce youngsters to an important part of British history.
An unlikely hero leads the way in the Allied WWII victory.
Screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie and director Bryan Singer have done a terrific job of resurrecting the Seventies style of war film spiced up with the benefits of modern editing and special effects.
The underlying implication here is that organised crime is a social phenomenon: a form of systematic opportunism, it flourishes under certain historical and political conditions.
Documentary about a family-run TV station in Sicily that has taken a stand against corruption.
Stylistically it's all over the place, combining elements of action movie, mockumentary, feminist polemic, history lesson and romance, but it has a freshness and energy that will delight genre fans.
A member of an elite squad of skilled hunters responsible for keeping the world safe from vampires finds her fate unexpectedly entwined with that of an aswang.
Cartoonish scenes of violence are fed through a deranged Manga ethos to create a film that is uber-kitsch and heavily saturated in post-modern sensibilities.
Two schoolgirls fight over a boy - using supernatural powers and extreme violence.
Such an important story cannot be squeezed into 106 minutes. The politics are complex and the religious conflict on a Syrian scale of horror
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Perhaps because of the improvisation - although surely they must have rehearsed like crazy - even when the plot threatens to become contrived, the characters remain true to themselves.
Adventures of a woman after she meets a group of young lads, over the course of a night.
Côté has always had a skill for subverting expectations and here he manages to slide his film from black comedy to outright horror with the smoothness of a snake.
A couple, one of whom is just out of prison, hide away in a house in the woods until the past comes calling for them.
