Film
EllesMonday, 16 April 2012Latest Binocherie finds a Parisian journalist investigating student prostitution. Dir: Malgoska Szumowska. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anais Demoustier, Joanna Kulig. Trailer: Read more... |
Elfie HopkinsMonday, 16 April 2012A Winstone family affair: a young female detective stumbles into her first case when she finds out the neighbours are cannibals. Teen comedy. Sort of. Dir: Ryan Andrews. Cast: Jaime Winstone, Ray Winstone, Aneurin Barnard, Rupert Evans, Kimberley... Read more... |
BreathingMonday, 16 April 2012Low-key Austrian drama about a Viennese young offender who rehabilitates himself by taking a job in a morgue. Directorial debut from the star of The Counterfeiters. Dir: Karl Markovics. Cast: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann. Trailer: Read more... |
The Bad and the BeautifulMonday, 16 April 2012Welcome outing for Vincente Minnelli's melodramatic portrait of the sickness at the heart of Hollywood. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame. Trailer: Read more... |
Town of RunnersMonday, 16 April 2012Documentary about the long-distance world-beaters who all come from one small community in Kenya. Dir: Jerry Rothwell. Trailer: Read more... |
Salmon Fishing in the YemenMonday, 16 April 2012Paul Torday's gently comedic satirical novel adapted by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog). Romcom. Dir: Lasse Hallstrom. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas. Trailer: Read more... |
Salmon Fishing in the YemenMonday, 16 April 2012
Getting on for three decades ago Lasse Hallström was introduced to audiences outside his native Sweden with My Life As a Dog. An emotionally continent, directorially restrained picture of the pains and pleasures of a rural childhood, it was... Read more... |
theASHtray: Bruce Chatwin, The Doors, and an Easter break in the West CountrySaturday, 14 April 2012
On the tip-off of an art-loving West Country amigo, Miss April and I took a day out of our Easter hols to visit the recently re-opened Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, in Exeter.We’d missed the exhibition of French and British... Read more... |
Loach's new comedy trailerFriday, 13 April 2012Ken Loach's forthcoming film The Angels' Share follows a more comedic path than several of his recent works. Set in Scotland and involving a dram scam, it has a flavoursome whiff of Whisky Galore. The script is by Paul Laverty, and the cast... Read more... |
DVD: The Deep Blue SeaFriday, 13 April 2012
Terence Davies's screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play gets plenty of things right, not least its smoggy evocation of the seedy, exhausted London of the early 1950s, with its shabby colours, peeling paintwork and bomb damage. The piece is... Read more... |
BattleshipThursday, 12 April 2012
"Find your inner soldier and stop the alien threat before it's too late!" runs the blurb for Hasbro's Battleship computer game. The movie of the game seizes this basic idea by the scruff of the neck, and pumps it up into a cacophonous effects-... Read more... |
Opinion: Why film stars should never play film starsWednesday, 11 April 2012
News that Nicole Kidman is to play Grace Kelly in a movie called Grace of Monaco convinces me that it is foredoomed. This time Kidman won’t have any prosthetics to help her resemble Grace Kelly, such as the long nose she wore as Virginia Woolf in... Read more... |
