The plot is flimsy but the songs are exquisite from the one of the finest pop albums ever: “The Night Beforeâ€, “Hide Your Love Awayâ€, and “I Need Youâ€, which is played out in front of Stonehenge.    Â
“I think I need to call child services and have Leslie taken away from herself,†quips Ann (Rashida Jones) to camera. Please don’t. Amy Poehler’s confused, unlucky-in-love Leslie grows to be even more adorable in this excellent US sitcom.
Terrence Malick’s meditation on love and the disintegration of a relationship wafts along to no particular purpose. Â Â Â Â
Your weekly guide on Hollywood and Bollywood movies releasing this week.
One of the year’s most tedious films, Kathryn Bigelow’s frequently incomprehensible follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker caused some controversy by implying that CIA torture led to the finding of Osama Bin Laden. Â Â Â Â
Rather than being a cradle-to-grave biopic, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is set almost entirely in Washington DC’s parlours and debating chambers in the weeks preceding the crucial vote to abolish slavery.
“Everybody breaks bro, it’s biology,” maintains Jason Clarke’s pitiless CIA interrogator in a gruelling opening torture scene. It sets the unsentimental and discomforting tone for this look at the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden
Die Hard, possibly the most satisfying of all the Eighties actioners, is granted a fifth outing and it’s sloppy.
Spielberg’s reverential, verbose drama (pictured) expertly depicts the horse-trading, threats and charm required to persuade the House of Representatives to pass the contentious 13th Amendment. Â Â Â Â
Koichi lives in Kagoshima in the shadow of a volcano with his single mum and grandparents. He pines for his family to reunite but that’s highly unlikely, so he and his brother go on an adventure. Â Â Â Â