After the intensity of Shane Meadows’ last two features, Dead Man’s Shoes and This Is England, this feels like a small holiday project. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a teen escaping a bad home life and a refugee of sorts; he meets a genuine one in Polish teen Marek (Piotr Jagiello), left to his own devices while his father works on the St Pancras redevelopment (Eurostar was the main financier). The …
If The Box seems like an extended episode from the 1960s episode of The Twilight Zone, that’s because it is If The Box seems like an extended episode from the 1960s episode of The Twilight Zone, that’s because it is. Richard Matheson, best known for The Incredible Shrinking Man, wrote it as a six-page story for Playboy. But since the director is Richard Kelly, of Donnie Darko fame, the original …
The Aboriginal Australian women whose lives inspired the acclaimed movie “The Sapphires” have protested at the film’s US DVD cover, saying its portrayal of a white male actor as the lead disrespects people of colour.
Optimum, rental and retail Has any nice couple in a film ever adopted a sweet, charming child and had everything go just swimmingly?
Jamie Campbell Bower thinks teenagers need movies they can ”identify” with.The 24-year-old actor can understand why his latest film, supernatural…
The now 97-year-old Ronald Neame worked with Alec Guinness on five important British films: as producer of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist , and director of The Card, The Horse’s Mouth and Tunes of Glory, made when we had a properly functioning film industry. The neglected Horse’s Mouth is a labour of love by Guinness. He adapted it from Joyce Cary’s rambunctious novel and himself played the …
James Cameron movie is brilliant at bringing a world to life you sometimes feel bludgeoned with his none too original green, antiwar message writ large. By Rob Mackie There is no 3D version on either DVD or Blu-ray planned for the near future but there will be a director’s cut out in the autumn. For now, a 2D version still feels like an event without that third dimension.
The original Sapphires have reached across the globe to call on race rights advocates to boycott the US DVD version of the movie made about their lives. Â Â Â Â
The original Sapphires have reached across the globe to call on race rights advocates to boycott the US DVD version of the movie made about their lives. Â Â Â Â
Universal, rental and retail Predictably outrageous, Sacha Baron ÂCohen’s latest sticks close to the Borat template without ever having quite the same impact. Partly, this is the law of Âdiminishing returns: this time our jaws drop almost by reflex