Film Review: SON OF A GUN – not terrible, but I recoiled
I had to chuckle when I came across a review of Australian director Julius Avarys Son of a Gun, that described star Ewan McGregor …
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Why Listen Up Philip should make a star of Jason Schwartzman
In years to come, when Jason Schwartzman lists the top five characters he has played on screen, Philip Lewis Friedman should be nu…
Why Eddie Redmayne shouldn’t pick up the Best Actor Academy Award this year
Im sure Eddie Redmayne is a thoroughly nice chap and that his preparation for a role is very meticulous. Nevertheless, I dont thin…
Film Review: INTO THE WOODS – leaf it out!
Any film that casts Frances de la Tour as a giant clearly has a sense of humour. Alas, Into the Woods, the big screen but mostly s…
Film Review: Les Âmes de Papier (Paper Souls): clever ideas stop you tearing into it
There are elements of Ghost Town and Three Wishes in Vincent Lannoos Paris-set romantic comedy, Paper Souls (Les mes de Papier). P…
Film Review: WILD – ‘it’s not the destination that counts but the journey’ anonymous and Cheryl Strayed
As tortured divorce Cheryl Strayed in Wild, Reese Witherspoon takes the Proclaimers lyric If I could walk 500 miles/Then I could w…
Film Review: NATIONAL GALLERY – art people, people and art
No voiceover, no talking heads, no personalities, no obvious narrative arc. Is there anything to enjoy in the documentaries of Fre…
Film Review: AMERICAN SNIPER – the movie you dare not criticise
You dont want to criticise Clint Eastwoods film of Texas-born Chris Kyles 2012 autobiography, American Sniper, on the internet no…
Film Review: BIG EYES – the eyes are a window to the plot hole
In Big Eyes, director Tim Burton returns to the west coast of America (San Francisco, rather than Burbank where he grew up) for a …
Why I stopped going to the theatre – the institutionalised ‘restricted view’
Lately I have been entering into correspondence with a writer who took South African born actress Janet Suzman to task for complai…
