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David Tennant, known to “Doctor Who†fans as No. 10, stars in the BBC thriller “Spies of Warsaw,†new…
April 20, 2013
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David Tennant, known to “Doctor Who†fans as No. 10, stars in the BBC thriller “Spies of Warsaw,†new…
A comedy about an all-female student a capella group, Pitch Perfect rehashes a plot that’s older than Mickey Rooney. Â Â Â Â
Scene stealer Christopher Walken, once again, appears to be acting in an entirely different film (a better one) in Martin McDonagh’s absurd but entertaining black comedy.
“I am surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin,†maintains a haughty don in Harold Pinter’s deft adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel.    Â
Midsomer Murders meets David Lynch in the BBC’s ripe, horribly compelling five-part thriller. A 15-year-old May Queen goes missing in a provincial town and three disagreeable middle-aged men – Peter Firth’s grubby property developer, Aiden Gillen’s sneering layabout and Peter McDonald’s creepy cop – are the main suspects.    Â
What Richard Did is a small but intense piece of psychological drama about pampered teenagers from a well-heeled district of south Dublin. Â Â Â Â
BBC’s wildly successful Sunday-night entertainment is certainly preferable to the cloying Lark Rise to Candleford and it doesn’t flinch at portraying domestic abuse in late 1950s Poplar.
Harold Pinter’s vicious dissection of class, sex and power still unnerves 50 years on. James Fox is exquisitely louche as the aristocratic Tony who requires a manservant to tend to his needs and Chelsea home
Tom’s always telling his siblings that he wants to meet Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich, so Kate (a journalist) and Will (a film-maker) try and make it happen, organising a trip to the US to see his hero. The real hero here, though, is sister Kate, who gains backstage access. Very lovely
David O Russell’s Oscar-winning comedy stands out from the Hollywood crowd by having a polished and punchy screenplay, rather than acres of self-indulgent improv, and a hero (Bradley Cooper) who has genuine mental-health issues, rather than simply being an arrested adolescent.