Film
The Five-Year EngagementTuesday, 12 June 2012Wedding postponement comedy. Will she, won't she, will Ms Blunt finally get to be in a hit? Director: Nicholas Stoller. Starring: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans. Trailer: Read more... |
ClocloTuesday, 12 June 2012Claude Francois biopic. You know, the chap who wrote "My Way". Francais. Director: Florent-Emillio Siri. Starring: Jeremie Renier, Benoit Magimel, Monica Scattini. Trailer: Read more... |
Chernobyl DiariesTuesday, 12 June 2012Six go on extreme adventure hol you know where. In a nuclear reactor no one can hear you scream. Director: Oren Peli. Starring: Devin Kelley, Jonathan Sadowski, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney. Trailer: Read more... |
A Thousand Kisses DeepTuesday, 12 June 2012
The wish to go back into your past, and change things with the knowledge you have in the present, must be a universal one. It’s the subject of Israeli-US director Dana Lustig’s A Thousand Kisses Deep, which manages to make fantasy come alive for its... Read more... |
Fast GirlsTuesday, 12 June 2012
Nicely timed to coincide with London 2012, Fast Girls is a kind of athletic Bend It Like Beckham, although I doubt it will have that film's impact, either at the box office or on the careers of its stars. While the leads, playing a group of young... Read more... |
DVD: Mother Joan of the AngelsTuesday, 12 June 2012
In the English-speaking world we know most about France's Ursuline possessions of the 1630s through Aldous Huxley’s 1952 The Devils of Loudun, and of course through Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils. But a decade before Russell’s scandalous work,... Read more... |
The ApartmentSaturday, 09 June 2012
“A dirty fairy tale” was one of the encomiums lobbed at The Apartment in June 1960, nine months before it won Billy Wilder and I A L Diamond the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Wilder the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.... Read more... |
DVD: Roll Out The Barrel - The British Pub on FilmFriday, 08 June 2012
Five and a half hours of documentaries about beer and pubs. The temptation is to stock up on pork scratchings and consume the whole lot in one session, but this wonderful, handsomely-restored two-disc set is best savoured in several sittings. There’... Read more... |
Sing Your SongFriday, 08 June 2012
Sing Your Song isn’t a showbiz biopic of the actor and singer, it’s a history lesson that revolves around Harry Belafonte and his tireless, long-term espousal of civil rights and socio-political causes. Belafonte is an incredibly important figure, a... Read more... |
Casa de mi PadreThursday, 07 June 2012
Comedic curio Casa de mi Padre features Will Ferrell in his most surprising role yet – that of a Mexican rancher who “no habla inglés”. This Spanish-language film is a tongue-in-cheek thriller featuring Ferrell alongside Mexican stars Gael García... Read more... |
DVD: Classic BergmanThursday, 07 June 2012
Only one of the five films in Artificial Eye’s selection is palpably a classic, a turning point in Ingmar Bergman’s early career. It’s flanked by curiosities spanning 11 of the master’s 59 years as a film-maker – two of them flaunting the beginner’s... Read more... |
iLL ManorsWednesday, 06 June 2012
There was a strange sense of ghosts, or rather absent presences, in the screening room where I saw Ben Drew’s iLL Manors (that orthography reflects the chosen spelling of the film’s title, and Drew is also as well known as Plan B, from his rapper... Read more... |
