Steven Soderbergh signs off his movie-directing career with considerable panache here, with a film that starts out as an expose of big pharma and mental health before morphing into an adroit and surprising Hitchcockian thriller. Rooney Mara is compelling as troubled Emily, who after collecting her husband (Channing Tatum) from prison for insider trading crashes her car into a wall. Emily …
A souped-up car with demonic issues indiscriminately mows down the folk of a small Utah town in this daft horror from 1977. James Brolin and his gloomy set of coppers (including John Marley) are charged with taking the driverless vehicle down
Nicolas Cage can’t seem to escape the debate over the link between movies and real life murders. In his new film, Scott Walker’s The Frozen Ground , Cage plays a detective pursing serial killer Robert Hansen, who over 12 years abducted and killed at least 17 women.    Â
Richard Gere, in his best role since Internal Affairs, compels as Robert Miller, a morally bankrupt hedge-fund magnate in this refreshingly grown-up thriller. Â Â Â Â
“Has it never crossed your mind, a woman of your age in a sensitive industry?†a spook berates Helen McCrory’s aviation engineer, Frankie, who has fallen for a French-Algerian student (Najib Oudghiri), 20 years her junior.    Â
“I knew you had an off switch,†snaps Frank at his robot helper in Jake Schreier’s poignant, low-budget drama, set in the near future. Frank (Frank Langella, excellent) is a former cat burglar living in seclusion.
“We cross and re-cross our tracks like figure skaters,†claims Jim Broadbent’s bumbling publisher in this impenetrable adaptation of David Mitchell’s time-hopping bestseller. Various characters – played by Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant – are connected through the ages by a musical score and acts of violence.    Â
It lacks the wonder, vim and tunes of The Wizard of Oz, but Sam Raimi’s fantasy prequel does benefit from some arresting images and an amusing monkey (Zach Braff). Â Â Â Â
Furrowed brows and harsh whispers are the order of the day in this slick but predictable political thriller, which stars Mark Wahlberg (in one expression mode: befuddled) as Billy Taggart, a New York private eye and former cop who is taken for a ride by Russell Crowe’s corrupt mayor. Â Â Â Â
A resident poisons her neighbour’s dog, another flings herself off a balcony, a visitor’s car is broken into. It’s clear that this middle-class neighbourhood in Refice, Brazil is unravelling. Â Â Â Â