Film Review: THE MOTH DIARIES: my best friend is wasting away and all I get is a razor blade
Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), the heroine of THE MOTH DIARIES adapted by director Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO, THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAG…
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Film Review: THE BIG WEDDING: here comes the chide
Does anyone want to see Robert de Niro doing slapstick; raging bull becoming whinging fool? Not many Americans went for his turn i…
Film Review: THE HANGOVER PART III: the tee-total version
In a mainstream movie comedy there is usually sixty minutes of zany shenanigans which I actually thought was an Irish bar until t…
Film Review: Cannes 2013: Paul Wright’s FOR THOSE IN PERIL
There is something about waves on film that is a crashing bore. When a movie opens with a shot of the tide coming in, my eyes sta…
Cannes 2013: BLIND DETECTIVE - Do I look like I enjoyed it?
This is me at 2:45am on Monday 20 Mayinside the Grand Palais having justwatched the World Premiere screening ofJohnnie To's BLIND …
Film Review: THE GREAT GATSBY – beating unceasingly and grand for it
Literary adaptations have no obligation to be slavishly faithful to their source. Rather, they simply need to work on their own te…
Film Review: DEADFALL: The Characters Meet Ricky Cringe
DEADFALL is a thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (THE COUNTERFEITERS) about a brother (Eric Bana) and sister (Olivia Wilde) wh…
Film Review: Iron Man Three: We create our own demons; but ought to do our own paperwork
A famous guy once said, we create our own demons. So says Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) in the opening monologue of IRON MAN THREE…
If I had known they were shooting Mr Selfridge, I'd have brought my suit
If I had known they were shooting series two of MR SELFRIDGE in Bloomsbury in Central London I'd have brought my suit. As it was m…
Larry Oliver – Diary of a Film Reviewer - 1 to 30 April 2013
Monday 1 April This cold weather is no joke. Global warming? Global freezing more like! Stroud Green must be the twin town of Reyk…
