Armando Iannucci’s US version of The Thick of It isn’t as droll and caustic (it badly misses Malcolm Tucker) as the Brit version, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus is very good value as potty-mouthed Selina. Â Â Â Â
Bob Mondello says a G rating used to mean “general audiences.” Now it means a movie for kids, and that means kids are less likely to be interested in them than they once were.
This solemn look at addiction never really surpasses its terrifying plane crash in the opening sequence. However, Denzel Washington (pictured), on top form, holds it ably together with a convincing performance as a sozzled pilot, Captain Whip Whitaker. Â Â Â Â
Pixar’s underwater tale, even after multiple viewings, is still a visual delight: the animation is exquisite, the script crisp (“Fish are friends, not foodâ€) and it remains a poignant examination of “letting go†of your children.    Â
Brian De Palma is often derided for being derivative – and Blow Out is partly inspired by Blow Up – but at his best (and this is his best) the director delivers a huge emotional punch.
Roger Michell’s unofficial sequel to The King’s Speech has Bertie and the Queen Mum visiting Franklin D Roosevelt (Bill Murray) at his mother’s country mansion.
A star-studded cast grace this poorly scripted Untouchables rip-off, set in late-1940s LA.
“I’m always in somebody’s way,” laments Mark O’Brien, a California-based poet and journalist who contracted polio as a child and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of his life. Â Â Â Â
Matthias Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard’s beefy co-star in Rust and Bone , stars in a brooding rural crime saga from Belgium, playing a cattle farmer who deals in illegal growth hormones. Â Â Â Â
Gerard Butler hits rock bottom – even after the execrable The Ugly Truth – as a Scottish former footballer who is divorced from his soppy wife (Jessica Biel) and longs to connect with his son. So he agrees to coach his child’s soccer (it’s set in small-town USA) team, whereupon a legion of mothers (Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones) hit on the smirking lunk