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'Belle' Blends Period Drama with Politics
With a plot that feels like it comes from a Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte novel and first-rate production values, the British period drama Belle takes the genre deeper by infusing...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th June 2014
Belle
The plot feels like a Jane Austen novel infused with a hot-potato political issue, but this is actually a true story. It's been somewhat fictionalised, but the central facts are accurate, and while the production...
Movie Review posted on 13th June 2014
T.S. Spivet
As he did in Amelie, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet tells a simple fable with witty visuals, colourful characters and a warm heart. It's an utterly winning story of tenacity that will resonate with anyone who...
Movie Review posted on 13th June 2014
The Sacrament
Yet another found-footage thriller, this chilling horror film at least has some solid roots as a fictionalised version of real events. The fact that something like this actually happened (on a vastly larger scale in...
Movie Review posted on 13th June 2014
A Perfect Plan
The French don't always get the balance right in their farcical romantic comedies, but they usually win us over with goofy charm. Alas, the plan never quite comes together this time. A combination of wildly...
Movie Review posted on 12th June 2014
Oculus
While using every horror movie cliche in the book, this film cleverly tells a bracingly original story that will have genre fans squirming in their seats. It's rare that a movie can actually scare us...
Movie Review posted on 12th June 2014
Devil's Knot
Based on the events documented in West of Memphis and the Paradise Lost trilogy, this drama takes an almost clinical approach to the story. By filling in so many details and covering so many perspectives,...
Movie Review posted on 12th June 2014
'Grace of Monaco': The Curse of the Princess Biopic
After 2013's disastrous biopic Diana, starring Naomi Watts, it was something of a shock that filmmaker Olivier Dahan soldiered on to make Grace of Monaco, starring Watt's best pal Nicole Kidman. Reviews for both films...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th June 2014
'22 Jump Street': How Hollywood Sequels Can Learn From James Bond
The central joke of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum's follow-up 22 Jump Street is that sequels are by definition bigger and more complicated, but never quite as good as the original. Indeed, at every point...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th June 2014
'Edge of Tomorrow' Continues Hollywood's Dalliance With The Time-Loop
Tom Cruise's new hit Edge of Tomorrow is the latest Hollywood blockbuster to take on the theme of time travel, something that always generates extra interest for audiences. Cruise may be new to time-hopping, but...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 6th June 2014
Cheap Thrills
Comedies don't get much more pitch-black than this fiendishly clever film, which will shift into horror for everyone in the audience, although that tipping point varies for each person. In other words, this movie will...
Movie Review posted on 6th June 2014
Fruitvale Station
With his debut feature, writer-director Ryan Coogler recreates a real-life event with remarkable artistry. Even though the factual story is overwhelmed with emotion and political opinion, he never lets either swamp this film, remaining earthy...
Movie Review posted on 6th June 2014
Anna
With a premise that feels almost Inception-like, this brainy thriller plays around with memories in ways that continually shift the story and draw us in. The ending feels somewhat rushed, but the journey there is...
Movie Review posted on 5th June 2014
22 Jump Street
A consistently hilarious stream of in-jokes keeps the audience in fits of laughter even if there's virtually no plot to this follow-up to the 2012 hit 21 Jump Street. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum revive...
Movie Review posted on 5th June 2014
Grace of Monaco
While the tone is all wrong, this fantastical version of a momentous year in the life of Grace Kelly is still entertaining, and not just unintentionally. Lavishly designed and heavily fictionalised, the film is anchored...
Movie Review posted on 5th June 2014
A Week In Movies: Blockbusters Bombard Cinemas, Tom And Emily Have Three Premieres In One Day, And New Trailers Turn Up For Festival Favourites And Disney Animation
Three big films hit cinemas this weekend in the UK (one of them opens next week in America), with a fantasy blockbuster taking on a sci-fi action thriller and a Wild West comedy for box...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th May 2014
'A Million Ways to Die in the West' Is Grown-Up, Gross-Out Comedy
After Judd Apatow relaunched the adult comedy in 2005 with The 40 Year Old Virgin, he has dominated the genre by collaborating with his pals from his iconic 1999 TV series Freaks & Geeks, including...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th May 2014
In 'Edge of Tomorrow', Tom Cruise Rides Again
Very few actors have enjoyed the career trajectory of Tom Cruise. After rising to superstardom in Top Gun nearly 30 years ago, he barely seems to have aged at all. He turns 52 in July,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th May 2014
Disney Revisit 'Maleficent', But Should It Leave Its Classic Characters Alone?
With Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), James Franco in Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and now Angelina Jolie in Maleficent, Disney is clearly working to develop a new aesthetic for its fairytale franchises,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th May 2014
Edge of Tomorrow
A smarter-than-expected script turns this noisy sci-fi action movie into something remarkably entertaining. A-list stars, solid actors and whizzy effects aside, the dialogue is packed with clever observations that are both mind-bending and unexpectedly hilarious....
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
Downhill
It's extremely rare for a low-budget mock-documentary to come together as well as this scruffy little British comedy. Not only is it seamlessly made, never violating the rules of the genre, but it's genuinely hilarious...
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
Maleficent
Disney rewrites its own history again with this revisionist version of its 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. As she did with Alice in Wonderland, screenwriter Linda Woolverton uses simplistic plotting and clumsy dialogue to turn a...
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
After the success of Ted, Seth MacFarlane gives himself his first leading-man role in this hilarious but overlong comedy-Western. The film is clearly a passion project, as it reveals MacFarlane's love of the genre with...
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
The Normal Heart
It's taken nearly 30 years to bring Larry Kramer's passionate, award-winning play to the screen, but this high-calibre production is a genuine stunner. Even if it was made for television, it carries the gut-punch of...
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
Venus in Fur
Expert writing, directing and acting help this offbeat drama discover some powerful new themes in a novella that has been scandalising Western society since it was first published in 1870. The book's author Leopold von...
Movie Review posted on 30th May 2014
Omar
As in his Golden Globe-winning 2005 drama Paradise Now, Israeli filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad takes a complex, personal approach to a touchy political-religious situation in this Palestinian love story. It's not always an easy film to...
Movie Review posted on 29th May 2014
X-men: Days of Future Past
Continuing to be the most original and resonant of the Marvel superhero franchises, the X-men return in the capable hands of director Bryan Singer, who again stirs plenty of meaty subtext beneath the thrilling action....
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
The Punk Singer
With energy and insight, this documentary races through the life of one of the most influential musicians of the 1990s, feminist punk artist Kathleen Hanna. Her story is strikingly involving, as the filmmakers reveal personal...
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Despite substandard animation, this brightly coloured sequel has a strong enough sense of both its story and characters to hold the audience's attention. And kids might not mind the quality, as they are re-introduced to...
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
Beyond the Edge
With a strikingly visual mix of dramatisation and documentary, this film brings real energy to the true story of the first successful ascent of Everest. Shot in crisp, expansive 3D, it takes viewers right up...
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
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