Reviews & features: Christopher Mintz-Plasse

ParaNorman

Kids’ horror story that’s funny and terrifying in equal measure

What’s the limit on the amount of fear we can responsibly allow a child to experience? Roald Dahl thought nothing of inflicting child-eating giants and malevolent witches on his junior readership; in more recent years, the makers of Monster House and…

Mark Millar's Kick-Ass get the big screen superhero treatment

How come no one has ever ‘done a Batman’? In a world full of disenfranchised youth, disillusioned loners and delusional outsiders, where superhero movies top the box office, comics sell by the bucket-load and Spider-Man is one of the biggest pop culture…

Kick-Ass

(15) 117min Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book series is a hilarious, hip twist on the superhero genre. Gone are the superpowers, the 100 inch chests and holier than thou attitude. Instead our hero is an awkward teenager, Dave…

Superbad

One would have to return to the 1980s and teen movies Risky Business and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to find a youth comedy that hits the G-spot quite like producer Judd Apatow’s Superbad. After writing and directing hits The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked…