Film
ImmortalsTuesday, 12 July 2011Action. Mythic shizzle directed by Tarsem Singh. Stars Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Freida Pinto. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVZH2UmSbg Read more... |
ContagionTuesday, 12 July 2011Airborne virus runs amok. Stephen Soderbergh directs Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Kate Winslet. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g Read more... |
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer SummerTuesday, 12 July 2011Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life. John Schultz directs Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham, Preston Bailey, Garrett Ryan. Kids stuff. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgCzBGQnchA Read more... |
Film: Spy Kids 4 - All The Time in the WorldTuesday, 12 July 2011Junior spooks are back. Still not cute. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uZYU-iDCk Read more... |
War HorseTuesday, 12 July 2011Michael Morpurgo, having conquered all before it onstage, now gets the Spielberg treatment. Will it work on film with real horses? Read more... |
DVD: Animal KingdomMonday, 11 July 2011
David Michôd’s stark, screw-tight debut is, in his own words, a “grand Melbourne crime drama”. Though it presents us with a menagerie of criminality it eschews many of the paradigms of the genre and feels courageous in its elegant, near... Read more... |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (3D)Monday, 11 July 2011
So. That’s it then. It’s taken just shy of 20 hours to work through the lot, a gestation spread across a decade. Every British actor in the firmament has visited the Leavesden set to chew on some of the computer-generated furniture. Several trillion... Read more... |
Last Year in MarienbadSunday, 10 July 2011
It is resonantly famous, picking up plaudits from the off, with one Sight & Sound commentator claiming in 1962 that it was the "greatest film ever made", for which he'd been waiting "during the last 30 years". That now seems slightly hysterical... Read more... |
SocialismeFriday, 08 July 2011
Jean-Luc Godard has lived in self-exile for most of his film-making life, a now 80-year-old enfant terrible. After the seismic ruptures to film grammar in his self-aware, playful Sixties work, he largely abandoned narrative and popularity at the... Read more... |
Holy RollersThursday, 07 July 2011
Great idea. Geeky Hasidic kid from Brooklyn's claustrophobic Jewish community finds his attention wandering during his rabbinical studies, and falls under the raffish spell of the older and wilder Yosef Zimmerman. He finds the slope is slippery... Read more... |
The Tree of LifeThursday, 07 July 2011
At the end of last week it was reported that a Connecticut cinema, besieged with requests for refunds, had posted up a sign warning punters that The Tree of Life “does not follow a traditional, linear narrative approach to storytelling”. And so what... Read more... |
SuperMonday, 04 July 2011
If you had a quid for every time a nerdy character in a contemporary comedy made reference to Star Wars, in particular to the gnomic wisdomous utterances of Yoda, you’d be richer. Maybe not as rich as George Lucas. But it happens. It happens a lot.... Read more... |
