An intensely moving documentary, set in the extraordinary lunar terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert, where the “translucency of the sky” was ideal for the country’s impressive, 1970s astronomy programme.
Joss Whedon’s witty superhero blockbuster was a colossal hit, but did it deserve to be? It has lots of cracking screwball banter between Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), and the rest.
Nine years since the last one, this fourth slice of American Pie is filled to the crust with affection for its characters – but it relies on the audience having that same affection.
If not quite at the level of Wallace and Gromit’s were-rabbit adventure, Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature has its own charm, not least in the figure of its leading man, the Pirate Captain.
Breathing (Verve, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD) The corpses look real in this film about a juvenile offender who goes to work at a morgue. Pared back to its essentials, this well-observed Austrian drama is unusual, powerful and wonderful.
There might be a decent comedy to be made about an absurd, middle-aged goth star tracking down a Nazi, but Paolo Sorrentino’s tedious, unfunny film isn’t it.
Robert Shaw’s unhinged sea dog scratching a blackboard and informing Amity folk that “I’ll catch this bird for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy.
A piece of the film world is about to become extinct, by some estimates, by the end of this year: film itself.
After the Colorado massacre, film contributor Milos Stehlik asks: What is the responsibility of our blood-soaked movie culture for consuming – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars – such violent scenarios on film?