Film
Think Like a ManTuesday, 12 June 2012Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using a relationship advice bestseller against them. Director: Tim Story. Starring: Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart,... Read more... |
Silent SoulsTuesday, 12 June 2012After the death of his wife, a man engages a friend to travel with him across Russia and assist him with the observation of the death rites sacred to their Merja beliefs. But how real are these traditions? Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko. Starring:... Read more... |
Planet of SnailTuesday, 12 June 2012Documentary about a deaf and blind man trapped in his own private world until he meets a woman who, with her own physical disability, learns to communicate with him. Director: Yi Seung-jun. Trailer: Read more... |
Lay the FavouriteTuesday, 12 June 2012Once upon a time Stephen Frears did grifters. This time he's onto gamblers. Broad all-star comedy. Director: Stephen Frears. Starring: Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn. Trailer: Read more... |
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... |
