In Jennifer Westfeldt’s shockingly disagreeable romantic comedy, she manages to reduce Jon Hamm (Don Draper), and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), to mere ciphers, with not one decent funny line.
Yves Montand is riveting as César, a hyperactive, wealthy scrap-metal merchant who smokes big fat cigars, drives fast and adores the exquisite, younger Rosalie (Romy Schneider).
William Friedkin’s scuzzy redneck thriller only betrays it’s theatrical roots (Killer Joe is based on Tracy Letts’s play) in the final segment, when everything unravels in suitably gruesome fashion –you’ll never view a fried chicken drumstick in the same way again.
Very polished and smart 20-minute slices of award-winning sitcom, presented in mockumentary style, featuring three well-heeled families: a gay couple (Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet), the Dunphy family (led by Julie Brown’s stoical mother) and the Pritchetts (Ed O’Neill and Sofia Vergara).
Bent spoons, country house séances, electrical storms and fraudulent healers feature in this supernatural thriller which, until it unravels halfway through, is rather gripping.
You don’t expect much from a musical built on a foundation of 1980s glam-metal anthems, but you do expect it to be fun.
You can’t accuse Ben Drew, aka Plan B, of lacking ambition. In his debut film as a writer-director, he flits between numerous overlapping stories, and jumps back and forth in time, as he chronicles the lives of the crack addicts, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes who haunt a London council estate.
After a rather protracted set-up, in which Michael Fassbender scene steals as the prim android David 8, it’s business as usual in this fifth, grandiose slice of Alien.
This year’s second live-action version of Snow White re-imagines the fairy tale as a dark, rain-lashed, mud-spattered epic, full of siege engines, burning villages, and all sorts of borrowings from the work of Tolkien and C S Lewis.
“Our daughter has been abducted by one of your beige lunatics,” maintains Bill Murray’s concerned dad in this charming tale (above) of two runaways, orphaned Sam (Jared Gilman) and cross Suzy (Kara Hayward), a pair of ostracized 12-year-olds who fall in love.