The Comedian – No Laughing Matter
If you are looking for a fun night out, you would be wise to steer clear of THE COMEDIAN, writer-director Tom Shkolniks London-set…
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All Things to All Men – Enough of the Michael Mann-erisms
You are the son of a wealthy British hairdresser. You say to your father. Pop, I wanna be a movie star. Your father might say, don…
Trance – You won’t want to snap out of it
He has won an Oscar. He has got HM the Queen to act alongside Daniel Craig. Whats next for director Danny Boyle? Answer: a remake.…
Thérèse Desqueyroux – Watch out for those drops
If you ever wanted to see Audrey Tautou play a serial killer, youll just have to wait. In the mean time, opening in UK cinemas on …
Love is all you need – no, originality helps
The estimable filmmaker Susanne Bier might have received the following memo before embarking on LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED. Dear Ms. Bie…
Spring Breakers – Spring Brechtians more like!
If I were academically inclined, I might propose a thesis describing the influence of Bertolt Brecht on the work of Harmony Korine…
The Lords of Salem – how do you direct such tripe?
The press notes for the film THE LORDS OF SALEM barely mention anyone else except writer-director Rob Zombie and his wife and lead…
Larry Oliver – Diary of a Film Reviewer - 1 to 31 March 2013
1 March The sun peeps through clouds over a North London street. In his bed, Kumar is sleeping, his chest, covered by a Darth Vade…
Hansel and Gretel: Time Wasters
I like a revisionist fairy tale as much as the next aged bus pass holder. The three little pigs recast as shoddy contractors aimin…
Stoker: what I really want to do is write – about a serial killer
Wentworth Miller apparently circulated his script for STOKER pseudonymously. Sometimes that is a wise thing to do. As an actor, wh…
