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Two Night Stand
Miles Teller and Analeigh Tipton are smart enough actors to make the most of this uneven romantic comedy, which never manages to disguise the standard formula, even with a gimmicky premise. So while the plot...
Movie Review posted on 12th February 2015
Down Dog
For what's clearly trying to be a bad-mannered sex comedy, there's nothing particularly rude or funny here. This is mainly because the central character is both unlikeable and hard to believe. And also because this...
Movie Review posted on 12th February 2015
A Week In Movies: Hollywood Women Win Awards And Trailers Arrive For Films Starring Channing Tatum, Adam Sandler, Spongebob Squarepants And Those Despicable Me Minions
She may not be up for an Oscar this year, but Jennifer Aniston was awarded the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which is currently running in California. She looked sleek and starry...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th February 2015
Bafta Is Perhaps The Best Predictor Of Oscar Night
For the last six years, a shift in the voting patterns at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has offered a striking prediction of what will happen on Oscar night.The 2015 BAFTA's will...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th February 2015
'Shaun The Sheep' Returns To The Big Screen
Last July, 'Shaun the Sheep' was voted the best BBC children's TV character of all time, beating such popular nominees as 'Postman Pat' and 'Bob the Builder'. After launching in March 2007, Shaun's TV show...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th February 2015
'Jupiter Ascending' Is More Eye-Catching Wachowski Fun
The Wachowskis aren't the most prolific filmmakers, which is perhaps why their movies feel like events. When Warner Brothers shifted the release of their new sci-fi adventure 'Jupiter Ascending' back six months from last summer...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th February 2015
The Interview
There's half of a great satire here, as Seth Rogen, James Franco and Evan Goldberg combine that freewheeling mayhem from This Is the End with some more pointed political comedy. But in its second half,...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
The Turning
Life-changing moments feature in each of the nine short films in this Australian anthology, and each is told with remarkable artistry and sensitivity. While the filmmakers use different styles of filmmaking, there's a clever connection...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
Jupiter Ascending
Filmmaking siblings Lana and Andy Wachowski never do anything by halves. The Matrix was a genre-changing blockbuster followed by two head-scratching sequels that ramped everything up a bit too much. Speed Racer was simply too...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
Selma
One of the finest biopics in recent memory, this drama manages to present someone as iconic as Martin Luther King Jr. as a normal man anyone can aspire to emulate. Anchored by an internalised performance...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
Boy Meets Girl
With a couple of big twists on the romantic-comedy genre, this gorgeous little film is almost impossible to resist. And that's precisely the point. With a topical theme, deeply likeable characters and some genuinely powerful...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Even without a single word of spoken dialogue, this film has more charm and energy than most Hollywood blockbusters. But then the voice cast supplies all manner of moans, chuckles, grunts and sighs to let...
Movie Review posted on 5th February 2015
A Week In Movies: Selma Premieres In London, Mission: Impossible 5 Shifts Its Release, New Trailers Drop For True Story, Child 44, Fantastic Four And Ted 2
David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay were on hand in London for the European premiere of Selma this week. They were joined on the red carpet by costar Colman Domingo and singer Nicole Scherzinger. Up for...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th January 2015
'Birdman' Becomes The Front-Runner In Oscar Race
Last weekend's two guild awards threw a whammy into the awards season that no one quite saw coming. While the favourite actors picked up Screen Actors' Guild prizes for their acclaimed performances - Eddie Redmayne...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th January 2015
Colin Firth's 'Kingsman' Is A Nod To James Bond
People were shocked when Matthew Vaughn abandoned work on X-Men: Days of Future Past to work on an adaptation of an unknown comic book called 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'. But with the film now in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th January 2015
'Big Hero 6' Further Merges Disney With Marvel
After Disney bought Marvel, bringing the Avengers in-house, it didn't take long before producers started going through Marvel's extensive library of comic books in search of a property to develop into an animated adventure. 'Big...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th January 2015
Big Hero 6
Fans of bright, flashy things will love this colourful, kinetic animated adventure, although anyone seeking originality or involving characters should probably look elsewhere. This is the first Disney animation based on a Marvel comic book,...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
Inherent Vice
Like the Thomas Pynchon novel it's based on, this film remains infuriatingly evasive as its central mystery deepens. Also like Pynchon, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is more interested in characters than plot, expertly orchestrating a...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
Son of a Gun
This may not be the brightest thriller in the cinema, but it's made with such a ripping sense of energy that it's thoroughly entertaining. With his first feature, Australian filmmaker Julius Avery packs the screen...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
The Devil's Violinist
Filmmaker Bernard Rose gives the period biopic a kick in the seat of the pants with this raucously creepy drama about 19th century violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini, who played so innovatively that people thought he...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
Kingsman: The Secret Service
With virtually the same tone as they used in their superhero spoof Kick-Ass, filmmakers Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman take another riotously adult approach to pastiche, this time tackling the James Bond genre. Essentially they...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
Trash
With elements of political corruption and life-threatening prejudice, this film has a rather much darker premise than the youthful Slumdog Millionaire adventure it seems to be. While much of the movie revels in teen camaraderie...
Movie Review posted on 29th January 2015
A Week In Movies: Celebrities Turn Out To Collect Awards In Los Angeles And London, Mortdecai Has Three Premieres And New Trailers For Hopkins And Hawke
A-list celebrities turned out in Hollywood for the starry Critics' Choice Movie Awards last weekend, including Julianne Moore, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Keira Knightley, Ethan Hawke, Rosamund Pike, Michael Keaton, Reese Witherspoon, Marion...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th January 2015
Johnny Depp's 'Mortdecai' Is Ravaged By Critics
Even before the movie started rolling out in press screenings last week, the new Johnny Depp action comedy 'Mortdecai' was already rumoured to be a stinker. This is probably due to fatigue over Depp's continuous...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd January 2015
Alex Garland's 'Ex_Machina' Touches A Real Nerve
'Ex Machina' is the directing debut of writer Alex Garland, who burst onto the cinematic scene in 2000 with Danny Boyle's adaptation of his novel 'The Beach'. Since then, he has explored sci-fi themes in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd January 2015
'A Most Violent Year' Misses Out On Oscar
With just three features under his belt, filmmaker J.C. Chandor has won critics over with his clever writing and directing and his ability to use a cast against expectations. After 'Margin Call' (2011) and 'All...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd January 2015
Ex Machina
Slick and seductive, this exploration of artificial intelligence may essentially only have three characters, but it's complex, provocative and thoroughly engaging. After writing screenplays for films like 28 Days Later and Never Let Me Go,...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2015
We'll Never Have Paris
Romantic comedies depend on the sympathies of an audience, but in this scruffy movie actor-filmmaker Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) plays a character so relentlessly naive and self-absorbed that it's impossible to root for...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2015
Beyond Clueless
With clips from more than 200 teen movies made in the decade after 1995's Clueless, this lively kaleidoscopic documentary entertainingly traces how America has depicted the teen experience on screen. The film's structure feels a...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2015
The Gambler
With a strangely simplistic screenplay by William Monahan (The Departed), director Rupert Wyatt and his cast struggle to dig beneath the surface in a meaningful way. Mark Wahlberg does what he can in the lead...
Movie Review posted on 22nd January 2015
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