Film
MargaretMonday, 21 November 2011Anna Paquin plays a young woman who causes a fatal traffic accident. Heavyweight supporting cast includes Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon and Matthew Broderick. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJs5al-zVYs Read more... |
ResistanceMonday, 21 November 2011
What if D-Day had failed? Even at a remove of nearly 80 years, it is strangely arresting to hear a BBC radio announcer giving details of how the Nazis have taken over Oxford and Swindon but are being met with resistance in Coventry and Leicester.... Read more... |
Q&A Special: Director Mike Mills on BeginnersMonday, 21 November 2011
At Thanksgiving in 1999, a 75-year-old retired widowed museum director came out to his family. He had only recently been widowed after a marriage lasting more than four decades. One of the people to whom he broke the news was his son Mike Mills,... Read more... |
SnowtownFriday, 18 November 2011
Snowtown gets as close as a film can to making you feel serial-killing’s human cost. It’s hard to thank Australian director Justin Kurzel for his extraordinary debut, so grim is the story it tells. But he and writer Shaun Grant have done a selfless... Read more... |
DVD: BridesmaidsFriday, 18 November 2011
Like a fist to the face of the traditionally insipid, female-fronted rom-com, Bridesmaids marks a departure from the oft-derided norm, not by being brassy or crude (OK, there might be a sizeable helping of the latter) but because of its authentic... Read more... |
Beyond TimeWednesday, 16 November 2011Documentary about sculptor William Turnbull by his son Alex. At the ICA till 1 Dec: http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=30620 Read more... |
New Year's EveWednesday, 16 November 2011Follow-up to last year's Valentine's Day. What a difference another day makes, featuring absurdly long list of cameo stars: Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hilary Swank, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Biel, Halle Berry, Katharine... Read more... |
The Big YearWednesday, 16 November 2011David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley... Read more... |
WreckersWednesday, 16 November 2011Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, and Shaun Evans in intense low-budget indie drama. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9iymB6I43I Read more... |
Revenge: A Love StoryWednesday, 16 November 2011Korean serial killer fare, charmingly seen from pov of the serial killer. Trailer: http://terracottafestival.com/films/2011/revenge-a-love-story Read more... |
Welcome to the RileysWednesday, 16 November 2011
As supremely silly as they are, the Twilight movies are made watchable by Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan, whose combination of fidgetiness and aloofness puts me in mind of James Dean’s Cal Trask and Jim Stark. If not as virtuosic as Dean (... Read more... |
DVD: L’amour fouTuesday, 15 November 2011
“I tell myself that I have created the modern woman's wardrobe,” declares Yves Saint Laurent during the press conference that opens L’amour fou. Hubris, but the trouser suits, safari jackets and Mondrian dresses he created did – in other... Read more... |
