Seeing a heartless billionaire get his comeuppance should be enough to send you home whistling La Marseillaise. When they met, it was murder! We’ve seen plenty of mad, bad and dangerous criminal duos rampaging across the big screen, but the gender-bending… Continue Reading →
Like Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss, A Marine Story casts a highly critical eye over the US Military’s treatment of its own personnel during the Iraq War. Peirce’s film was about the practice of shipping soldiers back to Iraq against their will… Continue Reading →
The Queen is dead. Elizabeth Taylor, who died today aged 79, was officially a Dame of the British Empire. She was also Hollywood royalty. That phrase is wheeled out regularly by unimaginative broadcasters every time a Hollywood octogenarian — or… Continue Reading →
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyCtRXWz4Cs&w=640&h=390] If Little White Lies had been shorter, I could have forgiven its many flaws and remembered it like one of those so-so holidays where it rains a lot and you get bitten by mosquitoes. Guillaume Canet’s Little White… Continue Reading →
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtAwJs0uAw&w=640&h=390] [pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”#1871bf” class=”” size=””]If you like insipid performances and explosive endings, and believe that water-boarding is a legitimate interrogation technique, this might be your kind of thriller.[/pullquote] If I was in a charitable mood, I… Continue Reading →
Writer/director Joanna Hogg’s beautifully judged drama, Archipelago, will strike a chord with anyone who has endured a family dinner served with a side order of angst and simmering rage. Her first feature, Unrelated (2007), was set during a Tuscan vacation,… Continue Reading →
The day after 94-year-old Kirk Douglas tottered onstage at the Oscars, Hollywood lost another of its golden greats in the shapely person of Jane Russell. The coverage of her death has (predictably) focused on that famous cleavage and the somewhat… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyua1fBm08k&w=640&h=390] In Juan Carlos Valdivia’s Southern District/Zona Sur, a wealthy Bolivian family bicker about money, menus, and their choice of partners, as their loyal servants look on. But we rarely see the end of any of the exchanges that make… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dz8SMw3Ck&w=640&h=390] With no CGI or big-name stars to suck you in, indie movies often have to fall back on the virtues of a decent script and a well-chosen soundtrack. Matthew Bissonnette’s low-key comedy drama, Passenger Side, rides into town trailing… Continue Reading →
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