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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.
Available in the UK after a four-year wait, this American sitcom is heavily indebted to The Office and all its mock-doc stylings – there’s a sideways glance to camera every 30 seconds – but it has a sweetness and richness all of its own.
Nine movies starring the 1930s vaudeville team of Wheeler and Woolsey arrive on DVD this week, along with a collection of…
Frustrated Alma is going through ch-ch-changes in the parochial hinterlands of Norway.
This is as rare as Javan rhinos, an absorbing, beautifully acted romantic comedy featuring recognisable humans: Bradley Cooper’s bipolar Pat, who is fixated about getting back together with his cheating wife, Jennifer Lawrence’s resentful widow whose cop husband has recently died and Robert De Niro’s volatile, OCD gambler who struggles to comprehend his son.
A muscular, tattooed Santa (Alec Baldwin) and his fellow guardians require the services of maverick Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to defeat misery guts Pitch Black (Jude Law), a bogeyman who wants to engulf the world in darkness. My children (ages three and five) were transfixed, but this weak DreamWorks animation lacks humour and wonder.
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Steven Spielberg’s masterful film about Abraham Lincoln is on DVD and Blu – ray this week and the…