This violent actioner opens with three redneck brothers massacring 13 heavily tattooed chaps in their Alabama home. Turns out they’ve slaughtered the wrong mob.
“You look like the back end of a bus,” growls Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) to his long-suffering PA (Penelope Wilton) in this compelling portrait of the director’s sadistic relationship with his leading lady, Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller), on The Birds and Marnie.
Bart Layton’s deeply unsettling documentary centres on a Texan family grieving over the disappearance of Nicholas, a blue-eyed, fair-haired 13-year-old who went missing in 1994.
The third Harold & Kumar film is a cosy, cockle-warming comedy, which is quite an achievement, considering that it contains, to quote the parental guidelines, “strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence”.
In the first of a two-parter, we highlight the best movies we watched in 2012, both in and out of a theater. [ more › ]
“I didn’t even know who Laurence Olivier was,†admits a wonderfully entertaining Michael Gambon of his audition for the National Theatre.
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger … how can so many pensionable men be involved in a film which seems to have been written by an eight-year-old?
Netflix’s video subscription service has trumped pay-TV channels and grabbed the rights to show Disney movies shortly after they finish their runs in theaters.
Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale complete their Batman trilogy – following Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – with an ambitious, apocalyptic drama in which Tom Hardy’s musclebound Bane is planning to wipe Gotham City off the map.
Walter Hill is one of American’s most underrated action directors and this deeply unsettling 1981 thriller, set in Louisiana’s swampland, is one of the auteur’s finest. A dysfunctional group of National Guardsman (including Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine) embark on a routine weekend exercise and end up being inexplicably picked off by a group of inscrutable Cajun hunters.