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Mississippi Grind
As the story snakes south through the United States along the Mississippi River, this movie builds up a bleak, mopey vibe that's difficult to engage with. It's the story of two gambling addicts who think...
Movie Review posted on 22nd October 2015
The Lobster
Throwing a solid Hollywood cast into a surreal arthouse satire, acclaimed Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) makes his English-language debut with a bang. This is a blackly comical parable about how it feels to be...
Movie Review posted on 22nd October 2015
Crimson Peak Takes Hiddleston And Chastain To The Dark Side
Obviously, Crimson Peak isn't the first time Tom Hiddleston has played a complex villain on-screen, having made his name as Thor's mischievous brother Loki in the Marvel movies.Hiddleston likes mixing up his roles. "It's a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th October 2015
Truth Was A "Bolt From The Blue" For Cate Blanchett
Truth is the story of American TV news producer Mary Mapes, who won a Peabody Award for breaking the Abu Ghraib story and went on to investigate President George W Bush's inconsistent service record in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th October 2015
Suffragette Turns Carey Mulligan Into An Activist
In the past year, Carey Mulligan has turned 30 and given birth to her first child, daughter Evelyn with her husband, musician Marcus Mumford. And she's also had two of the strongest roles of her...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th October 2015
The Program
A whooshing pace and snappy dialogue help bring this true story to life, tracing the triumphant and scandalous career of cyclist Lance Armstrong. And the energetic approach helps bring out several layers in Armstrong's perspective,...
Movie Review posted on 15th October 2015
Suffragette
Based on real events a century ago that still resonate loudly today, this movie takes a cleverly fictionalised angle to explore the suffrage movement, a story that astonishingly has never been put on film before....
Movie Review posted on 15th October 2015
Crimson Peak
Gifted Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) makes an odd misstep with this overwrought gothic horror thriller, which is so bloated that it's more silly than scary. At least it features a starry cast...
Movie Review posted on 15th October 2015
The Walk
After the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire told this story with such energy and suspense, it was only a matter of time until someone decided to make a full-on adventure movie. And it's no...
Movie Review posted on 9th October 2015
Pan Lets Hugh Jackman Explore His Dark Side
In the new adventure fantasy origin movie Pan, Hugh Jackman finally gets a chance to play the villain of the piece. "That nice guy stuff is boring," he laughs about his reputation as the nicest...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2015
Pan
After several high-profile grown-up movies (from Atonement to Anna Karenina), director Joe Wright aims this Peter Pan origin story squarely at children. So while it's far too manic and broad for adults, this adventure will...
Movie Review posted on 9th October 2015
Sicario
A rare film that adds up to much more than the sum of its parts, this works as both a dramatic character study and a tense thriller. The title is Mexican slang for "hitman". And...
Movie Review posted on 9th October 2015
For Michael Fassbender, Playing Steve Jobs Was A No Brainer
Since Apple founder Steve Jobs died in 2011, there have been two films about his life. First was 2011's Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher, which flopped with the critics and at the box office. And now...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2015
Beasts Of No Nation Helps Idris Elba Focus On Big Issues
At 43, London-born actor Idris Elba has a wide variety of roles under his belt, like his show-stopping character in TV's The Wire and movie roles for a range of filmmakers like Ridley Scott, Danny...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2015
Macbeth Teams Michael Fassbender And Marion Cotillard
In between his high-profile roles in Slow West, Steve Jobs and the forthcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, Michael Fassbender took time out to shoot a gritty new version of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel. "While...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd October 2015
The Martian Makes Matt Damon Think Of Life In The Stars
For his first lead role in nearly two years, Matt Damon chose to play a man stranded on Mars in the Ridley Scott sci-fi adventure The Martian. But after having shot a small role in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd October 2015
The Martian
Just as people began to write off veteran director Ridley Scott after a series of merely OK movies, the 77-year-old casually releases his most entertaining film in years. This sci-fi adventure is lithe, humorous, thrilling...
Movie Review posted on 2nd October 2015
Macbeth
Shakespeare's Scottish play returns to the big screen with earthy energy, visual style and roaring performances. Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) takes an artistic approach that makes terrific use of sweeping landscapes and harsh...
Movie Review posted on 2nd October 2015
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Really Learned Wire-Walking For The Walk
The story of Philippe Petit's astonishing high-wire walk between the still unfinished World Trade Center towers in 1974 has already been told on film in the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire. But now Robert Zemeckis...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd October 2015
The Intern
This is one of those warm, unchallenging comedies that's entertaining to watch even though something about it feels vaguely inane. Basically, nothing about it is even remotely realistic; people never actually do or say these...
Movie Review posted on 2nd October 2015
Miss You Already Bonded Drew Barrymore And Toni Collette For Life
In Catherine Hardwicke's new film Miss You Already, Toni Collette plays a lively woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer just as her lifelong best friend, played by Drew Barrymore, is starting infertility treatment. But...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th September 2015
Robert Pattinson Sees Parallels In Life
Robert Pattinson takes on one of his most complex roles in Life, based on the real-life encounter between photographer Dennis Stock and actor James Dean in 1955. And he's been getting some of his best...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th September 2015
99 Homes
This harrowing morality play is timely and riveting, but never remotely subtle. The setting is the mortgage crisis, during which savvy fast-talkers figured out how to make a fortune on the back of other people's...
Movie Review posted on 25th September 2015
The Intern Gives Anne Hathaway A Welcome Break
Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway has moved effortlessly between genres throughout her career, from comedy to drama to musical. But most of her roles have been pretty intense, and she saw The Intern as a fresh...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th September 2015
Life
Beautifully written and directed, this fact-based drama is an odd mixture of excellent acting and not-quite-right casting. Anton Corbijn clearly knows the subject, since he's a celebrity photographer making a movie about a celebrity photographer....
Movie Review posted on 25th September 2015
Miss You Already
This may be a drama about breast cancer, but it's astutely written and played with a jagged sense of humour that makes it thoroughly entertaining. Anchored by energetic, emotionally resonant performances from Drew Barrymore and...
Movie Review posted on 25th September 2015
Johnny Depp Humanises A Killer In Black Mass
On the festival circuit this autumn, Johnny Depp has been earning some of the best reviews of his career playing mobster James "Whitey" Bulger in the true drama Black Mass. But his efforts to get...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th September 2015
Sicario Further Challenges The Action Woman In Emily Blunt
After her fierce performance in Edge of Tomorrow, Emily Blunt wanted to take a break from action movies. But Canadian director Denis Villeneuve wanted her to give it another go in the drug cartel thriller...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th September 2015
Everest Pushes A-List Actors Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal And Josh Brolin To Their Limits
The new adventure epic Everest dramatises a real-life event from May 1996, when the mountain was packed with climbers just as a freak storm rolled in. Of course, even in ideal conditions, the world's tallest...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th September 2015
The D Train
A provocative drama wrapped in the skin of an adult sex comedy, this sharply written and performed movie is hugely entertaining even as it grapples with some big issues. The central themes here are notions...
Movie Review posted on 18th September 2015
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