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A Week In Movies: Dame Judi In Star Wars? Jack Ryan And Milla Jovovich Hit London, While Trailers Promise Vampires, Spies, Aliens And Hunks
The best rumour this week is that Judi Dench may play Mon Mothma in Star Wars Episode VII, which director JJ Abrams starts shooting in the UK this spring. The character is a rebel leader...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th January 2014
Teenage
Part documentary and part film essay, this movie mixes fact and fiction to explore the concept of the teenager, which didn't exist before World War II. It's fascinating to learn how the idea emerged, and...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
The Banshee Chapter
More unsettling than actually scary, this slow-burning horror movie is directed and acted with style even though the script feels rather under-developed. There's enough intrigue to hold our interest, even though the plot is laced...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
![The Great Beauty [La Grande Bellezza]](http://www.contactmusic.com/images/reviews2/grande-bellezza-fr.jpg "The Great Beauty [La Grande Bellezza]")
The Great Beauty [La Grande Bellezza]
It's not surprising that Oscar voters fell for the charms of this Italian odyssey, since it's essentially a love letter to Fellini and Rome. It's also completely nuts, following a man on a surreal journey...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
Grudge Match
It's a little annoying that this high-concept marketing project (Rocky vs Raging Bull!) is as entertaining as it is: we want to hate it, as tired actors are sending up their own faded images. But...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
There's nothing very original in this spy thriller, but director Branagh gives the film a weighty sense of importance that at least makes it feel important. He can't make up for the flimsy plot or...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
August: Osage County
Tracy Letts adapts his own prize-winning play into a blistering depiction of one of cinema's most dysfunctional families ever. It's still rather theatrical, throwing a mob of top actors into a room for what feels...
Movie Review posted on 23rd January 2014
Oscar Favourite '12 Years a Slave' Takes British Box-Office By Storm
Audiences are clearly in the mood for more serious movies at the moment. After lighter releases in December (from Frozen to The Hobbit), the box office shifted strongly to much more challenging fare this week...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th January 2014
'The Wolf of Wall Street': Does Controversy Help?
Martin Scorsese is no stranger to controversy (see 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ), but you'd hardly expect a 71-year-old director to be accused of glorifying sex and drugs on-screen. And yet, stories of audience...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th January 2014
A Week In Movies: Gravity And 12 Years A Slave Lead Oscar Nominations, Filming Goes To The Wire On Captain America 2
After the glamour of the essentially irrelevant Golden Globes on Sunday, the biggest movie news this week was the Oscar nominations announcement on Wednesday. As expected, 12 Years a Slave and Gravity got another big...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th January 2014
G.B.F.
Sharply important themes make this film a lot more important than its wacky style might suggest. It's essentially Mean Girls remade with a gay twist, and the smart script continually acknowledges that fact. There's also...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
Oh Boy
Even though it's perhaps a bit over-constructed, this German comedy-drama is a hugely enjoyable personal odyssey with strong echoes of Woody Allen's classic era. Shot in black and white, the film feels like a minor...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
The Devil's Bargain
Packed with groovy 1970s style, this micro-budget British horror is rough around the edges but holds our attention with its hypnotic visuals. Aside from a love-in prologue, there are only three characters on-screen, circling each...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
Tim's Vermeer
When Penn & Teller turn their hand to documentary filmmaking, we know it's going to be something playful. Indeed, this is a hugely entertaining film, gripping us with a fascinating story that has a lot...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
Crystal Fairy
Films don't get much more offbeat than this trippy comedy-drama about Americans in Chile. Thankfully there are some provocative themes gurgling under the surface - not just in the constant drug-taking but also in the...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
At age 71, Martin Scorsese proves with this riotous romp that he's one of the most energetic, audacious filmmakers working in America at the moment. And with his long-time 74-year-old editor Thelma Schoonmaker, he has...
Movie Review posted on 16th January 2014
A Week In Movies: 12 Years a Slave leads the pack, Depp is on set in L.A., plus peeks at Godzilla, romances, comedies and lemurs
The big news this week is the further escalation of awards-season fever. Steve McQueen's drama 12 Years a Slave continues to lead the field as the British Academy Film Awards announced its Bafta nominations this...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th January 2014
'12 Years a Slave': Chiwetel Ejiofor Becomes a Global Star
After dominating the critics awards and top 10 listings at the end of the year, 12 Years a Slave is the film to beat. And things got much more serious with this week's Bafta nominations,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th January 2014
Delivery Man: Do remakes really work?
Barely two years after the French-language Canadian comedy Starbuck became a sleeper hit, writer-director Ken Scott was hired by Hollywood to shoot an American remake called Delivery Man.Delivery Man hasn't proved to be Vince Vaughn's...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th January 2014
Last Week's Box Office Saw The Hobbit Dethroned - What Will This Weekend Bring?
After ruling the roost for nearly a month in both the US and UK, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug has finally fallen from its perch atop the box office charts. In the UK, American Hustle...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th January 2014
The Square
With a sharp sense of urgency, this documentary is shot by protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to give us a real sense of the revolution still playing out in Egypt three years later. And the...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
1: Life on the Limit
Essentially a feature-length In Memoriam reel, this entertaining Formula One documentary thrills us with its whizzy editing while it traces the sport's deadly legacy. It took some 45 years after F1's inception in 1950 for...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
Bounty Killer
Like a spoof mash-up of Mad Max and Machete, this nutty action movie throws us into a Wild West dystopia with enough wit and energy to overcome its clunky production values. A whiff of serious...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
The Railway Man
A terrific true story is oddly underplayed in this sober, sedate drama about reconciliation and making peace with the past. Strikingly complex performances from Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman help give the film some deeper...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
Delivery Man
In remaking his 2011 French Canadian surprise hit Starbuck, filmmaker Ken Scott doesn't really try to do anything new. Aside from transplanting the story to New York and casting Hollywood star Vince Vaughn, it's exactly...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
12 Years a Slave
Much more than a film about 19th century slavery in America, this sharply well-told true story has a lot to say about the world we live in today. And as he did in Hunger and...
Movie Review posted on 9th January 2014
New Releases Fight For Box-Office Crumbs as 'The Hobbit' Marches On
With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Disney's Frozen and Anchorman 2 continuing to dominate the box office chart in both the US and UK, new releases over the holidays had little chance of making...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd January 2014
Five Actors, Five Oscar Winners, But Is 'Last Vegas' Any Good?
It's hard to remember another film in which the five lead roles were played by Oscar winners. And the fact that all of them are over 60 might be another record. So Last Vegas couldn't...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd January 2014
A Week In Movies: Awards Season Gathers Pace, Superhero Movie Rumours Abound, Expendables 3 Drops A Teaser
Things always go quiet in the film industry over the holidays as everyone takes one last break before the full onslaught of awards season campaigning. Nominations for both Oscars and Baftas come in the next...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd January 2014
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Two Mothers [Zwei Mütter]
A sensitive approach to a timely issue makes this German drama worth a look, as its repercussions echo throughout Western society. It's the story of a lesbian couple facing a number of barriers as they...
Movie Review posted on 2nd January 2014
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