New Release Review - Gangster Squad

Directed by: Ruben Fleischer

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Mireille Enos, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Frank Grillo, Michael Pena

Cartoonish recreation of the L.A.P.D's war on gangster Mickey Cohen during the forties.

New Release Review - Texas Chainsaw 3D

Directed by: John Luessenhop 

Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Gunnar Hansen

The popular horror franchise gets the 3D treatment.

New Release Review - The Impossible

Directed by: Juan Antonio Bayona

Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin

Reworking of the real-life experiences of a family caught up in the 2004 boxing day tsunami.

New Release Review - Quartet

Directed by: Dustin Hoffman

Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Sheridan Smith

Hoffman assembles a talented veteran British cast for his directorial debut.

New Release Reviews - The Words / The Paperboy / John Dies at the End

The Words

Directed by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Zoe Saldana

When struggling writer Cooper comes across an old novel manuscript, he retypes it and passes it off as his own. The book goes on to become a bestseller, with Cooper enjoying his fame until he is approached by the real author, Irons.

Hitchcock in Reverse - Family Plot (1976)

Hitch's final film is a convoluted and talky affair that plays more like the TV movies of its era.

New Release Review - Lincoln

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Jared Harris, Tim Blake Nelson

Biopic of America's most revered president.

The 25 Best Movies of 2012

Here are the 25 movies which had the most impact on The Waffler in 2012.

The 25 Worst Movies of 2012

It might be Christmas now, but here at The Movie Waffler, we've had our share of turkeys all year long. Here are the twenty-five worst films we had the displeasure of enduring in 2012.

New Release Review - Life of Pi

Directed by: Ang Lee

Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu, Tabu

A writer (Spall) is recounted a fantastic tale by Pi (Khan), the sole survivor of a shipwreck.

New Release Review - Love Crime

Directed by: Alain Corneau

Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille

When the head of the Paris branch of a large American firm takes credit for the work of her assistant it sparks an increasingly hostile animosity between the two women.

The 2012 Golden Waffle Awards

The Movie Waffler is proud to announce this year's recipients of the Golden Waffle awards for outstanding achievements in cinema during 2012.

The 2012 Rotten Waffle Awards

It's time once more to celebrate achievements in cinematic ineptitude. This year's winners are...

New Year Preview

Over the past few years, the strongest films have tended to come out early in the year. Here's our preview of the films whetting our appetite this coming January/February*.

The Waffler's ABCs of Cinema

This article is part of Mettelray's "My Movie Alphabet" blogathon. The rules are simple, match each letter of the alphabet with something you love about cinema. Without further ado, here are The Movie Waffler's ABC's of cinema.

New Release Review - Django Unchained

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Jonah Hill, Kerry Washington, Bruce Dern, Franco Nero

Freed slave Foxx searches for his wife (Washington) with the aid of German bounty-hunter Waltz.

New Release Review - Jack Reacher

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog

When a sniper kills five in a crowded city street, former military policeman Cruise undertakes an investigation.

New Release Review - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch 

Adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy tale.

New Release Reviews - Pitch Perfect / Night Claws / Frankie Go Boom

Pitch Perfect

Directed by: Jason Moore

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Alexis Knapp

Kendrick arrives on the college campus run by her father. To keep him happy she's agreed to put her dreams of becoming a DJ on hold while she attends classes. Reluctantly, she joins "The Bellas", an all-female acappella group who compete in regional tournaments, usually twarted by their male counterparts, "The Treblemakers".

The 5 Best Animated Films Of 2012

Our Animation correspondent Joshua Mitchell discusses his picks of 2012.