“You look like the back end of a bus,” growls Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) to his long-suffering PA (Penelope Wilton) in this compelling portrait of the director’s sadistic relationship with his leading lady, Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller), on The Birds and Marnie.
Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid appear to be enjoying themselves immensely as former childhood sweethearts who reconnect via Facebook in this initially cosy (the series takes on a darker hue later on) comedy-drama, set in Yorkshire.
Leigh Francis’s fake-tanned, sleazy northern businessman, as seen on ITV2’s Celebrity Juice , gets a feature-length caper which will please his fans while baffling and/or disgusting everyone else.
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger … how can so many pensionable men be involved in a film which seems to have been written by an eight-year-old?
The Bourne franchise continues (this is number four), with Jeremy Renner sitting in for Matt Damon and the series writer, Tony Gilroy, taking over the director’s job from Paul Greengrass, but the transition is a surprisingly smooth one.
Everything feels off in this eco-friendly fable in which a 12-year-old boy (Zac Efron) searches for a “real” tree to impress earnest Audrey (Taylor Swift). The trees were wiped out by the foolish Once-ler and a wicked capitalist has exploited the town’s lack of clean air for profit. The animation is bright and garish, the humour humourless and the romance lacks charm
Mark Wahlberg, since the splendidly silly The Other Guys, has morphed into a comic actor and it’s paying dividends – certainly better than dim actioners such as Max Payne.
Matthew McConaughey, after his louche turn in Killer Joe, once again excels as an ageing, preening stripper in Steven Soderbergh’s lightweight drama.
JC Chandor’s snappy drama, which bites like Glengarry Glen Ross , centres on Zachary Quinto’s entry-level analyst unearthing a potentially ruinous high-risk project for his wealthy Manhattan firm.