Delayed Reaction: INTERSTELLAR - Nolan’s folly
Christopher Nolan is a one-of-a-kind cinematic talent who has directed four of the best reviewed blockbusters of all time (the Dar…
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Imagined Phone Messages: Getting Bill Murray to play St. Vincent
It takes a lot of work to have Bill Murray to appear in your movie. Although happy to help out real filmmakers like Wes Anderson o…
Film Review: Annie: the fun has gone out today
Annie? Get the gun! That was my first response to news that the popular depression set musical, featuring an impossibly optimistic…
Which Five Armies would you like to see in a fight?
I disapprove fundamentally of war but the title of the new Hobbit film got me thinking. If you could pit five movie armies against…
Film Review: The Face of Love - desire on the double
In a parallel universe, Annette Bening would be in serious award contention for her performance in The Face of Love, co-written (w…
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: few Tolkein points
Does anybody remember why Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) the titular Hobbit set off with a band of dwarves and a wizard named Gand…
Film Review: THE GRANDMASTER – kicking in the rain
In the United Kingdom, it feels like we are the last people to see The Grandmaster, director Wong Kar-Wais film about Ip Man, the …
Film Review: EASTERN BOYS – first you steal from my flat, then from my heart
Eastern Boys is, by any estimation, a tough watch. In its documentary verit opening minutes, prefaced by the caption No 1 Queen St…
Film Review: Manakamana – eight and a half minutes of a goat’s backside? Are we there yet?
You wait for one film to consist entirely of single takes and two come along at once. After Stations of the Cross comes the Nepal-…
Trailer Review: The Force Awakens – what it might mean
There are some enthusiasms one never loses even though sense tells you otherwise: searching for the longest sell-by date; newly-mi…
