Author: Rich Cline Page 47
Only Lovers Left Alive
It's hardly surprising that laconic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers) has created such an inventively offbeat vampire movie, helped hugely by the ace casting of Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as extremely long-term lovers. Fans...
Movie Review posted on 20th February 2014
A Week In Movies: Monuments Men Hit The Road, Ysl And Gbf Tease Their Big Screen Arrivals, And New Trailers Promise More Horror This Spring
The main global cinematic event this week is the Berlin Film Festival, which showcases high-profile films like Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac and George Clooney's The Monuments Men. After their starry New York premiere last week,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14th February 2014
'The Monuments Men' Promotional Tanks Roll Into London as Clooney Starts Debate
Travelling around Europe on the premiere circuit, the cast and crew of The Monuments Men hit London this week to talk about art history. The press conference was held, appropriately, in Britain's National Gallery, and...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14th February 2014
Dumbing Down The 80s: 'Endless Love' Is A Watered Down Remake
It's been more than 30 years since Brooke Shields hit the headlines for starring in the under-aged romance Endless Love in 1981 opposite newcomer Martin Hewitt. Director Franco Zeffirelli had a history with young love,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14th February 2014
8 Minutes Idle
British filmmaker Martin Simon Hewis uses dark humour and visual trickery to overcome what is clearly a very small budget. So even if the comedy feels low-key and uneven, it continually catches us off-guard with...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
Endless Love
This remake strips away everything that made the 1981 Brooke Shields romance so scandalous. Re-designed for 12-year-old girls, this version of Scott Spencer's novel plays like a dreamy Nicholas Sparks-style fantasy. There's no sense of...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
Cuban Fury
This is the kind of British rom-com that sneaks up on you when you least expect it and leaves you with a huge smile on your face at the end. It's not particularly clever or...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
The Monuments Men
For an amazing true story performed by such a strong A-list cast, this is an oddly uninvolving film. Fragmented and uneven, it shifts from comedy to drama to romance to adventure, never letting us get...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
Her
With only a hint of a futuristic setting, Spike Jonze takes a remarkably honest look at human emotions as a man and his computer's intelligent operating system fall madly in love with each other. Utterly...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
The Lego Movie
Inventive visuals and a seriously deranged script make this animated adventure far more enjoyable than we expect, especially as it brings out the childish creativity in everyone watching. Filmmakers Lord and Miller are experts at...
Movie Review posted on 13th February 2014
A Week In Movies: 12 Years Rules London, Stars Mourn Hoffman, New Films From Russia, Macfarlane And Gyllenhaal
Awards season finally hit London on Sunday night as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave collected three top awards at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards: Film of the Year, best actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th February 2014
Why Matthew McConaughey Was Set On Making 'Dallas Buyers Club'
When Matthew McConaughey first read the script for Dallas Buyers Club, he knew he wanted to make the film. The screenplay had been circulating for more than 15 years, and he saw it as something...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th February 2014
RoboCop Continues Hollywood's Hunger to Remake The 1980's
We've already had new versions of Footloose, The Karate Kid and Red Dawn, and the craze for remaking iconic 1980s movies seems destined to continue. This week sees the release of a RoboCop remake with...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th February 2014
RoboCop
There's a robust, intelligent tone to this action remake that makes it continually intriguing, even if it's never properly exciting. The problem is that the characters are far too simplistic for us to care about,...
Movie Review posted on 7th February 2014
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
With a constant barrage of hilarious visual and verbal gags, this riotous animated adventure might entertain adults more than kids. Although youngsters will enjoy the whizzy pace and manic 3D animation. Based on one of...
Movie Review posted on 6th February 2014
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Even without any proper dramatic scenes, this swirling collage of a movie draws us into its story and situations, revealing deep truths about relationships. With its basis in real people and events, it's technically a...
Movie Review posted on 6th February 2014
The Invisible Woman
A fascinating true story becomes a deeply repressed movie in the hands of writer Morgan (The Iron Lady) and actor-director Fiennes. It looks and feels murky and dull, and because it's trying to keep everything...
Movie Review posted on 6th February 2014
Cutie and the Boxer
Noticed by Oscar voters, this offbeat documentary explores the life of two colourful artists who have an unusual marriage. And while revealing their creative processes and the interaction between them, the film finds some potent...
Movie Review posted on 6th February 2014
Dallas Buyers Club
In telling this remarkable true story, director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) and his gifted cast keep the characters and events so grounded that we can't help but get caught up in their story. The...
Movie Review posted on 6th February 2014
'That Awkward Moment' Mauled By Critics - But Do Audiences Care?
The year is only a month old and we already have our first critically mauled A-list movie. That Awkward Moment has had some of the nastiest reviews of the year. The New York Times called...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st January 2014
Lone Survivor: Mark Wahlberg Says War Movie 'Changed Him'
Mark Wahlberg has been talking about the experience of making his thriller Lone Survivor, which currently sits atop the box office in America and opens in Britain this weekend. Mark Wahlberg [center, left] in Peter...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st January 2014
A Week In Movies: Stiller and Williams film in rainy London, while trailers debut for Brosnan, Owen, Rio and Maleficent
In the lull between big awards shows, media attention turns to Super Bowl halftime performances and adverts, while award-nominated actors and filmmakers travel around the world to squeeze in their next projects before Bafta and...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st January 2014
Jamesy Boy
While this true prison drama is sharply shot and acted, there isn't a moment we haven't seen before. Instead of drawing out the uniqueness of the real events, the filmmakers rely on the usual stereotypes,...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
That Awkward Moment
Even a strongly likeable cast can't breathe life into this ill-conceived film, which poses as a sex comedy but is ultimately timid and sappy. The premise is intriguing enough to catch our interest, but it...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
The Armstrong Lie
This biographical documentary about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong feels eerily gentle compared to filmmaker Alex Gibney's recent films, the WikiLeaks doc We Steal Secrets and the Catholic priest expose Mea Maxima Culpa. But then it...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
I, Frankenstein
Even with its relentlessly cliched production design (trenchcoats and flickering candles galore), this raucous gothic thriller deploys enough visual flash to hold our attention. The gigantic effects-heavy action sequences are eye-catching and sometimes exciting, and...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
The Act of Killing
One of the most audacious documentaries ever made, this mind-boggling film forces us to examine our opinions about human history far beyond the events covered on-screen. Filmmaker Oppenheimer and his crew attempt something seriously ingenious,...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
Out of the Furnace
Coarse and not exactly subtle, this dark drama might disappoint viewers expecting a more traditional revenge thriller, but there's something more interesting going on here. And even though it starts at full volume and only...
Movie Review posted on 30th January 2014
'The Wolf of Wall Street' Howls With British Box-Office Success
British audiences proved this past weekend that they have an appetite for serious films, putting three of the year's top awards contenders in the first three spots on the box office chart. New entry The...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th January 2014
Jack Ryan: The 'King of Reboots'?
The release this week of the latest adventure based on Tom Clancy's earnest spy Jack Ryan can hardly help but remind us of the character's previous incarnations. Before his untimely death in October 2013, Clancy...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th January 2014
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