The resurrected Dallas is riddled with far too many pretty people (Jesse Metcalfe, Julie Gonzalo) but it’s still the old stagers – Sue Ellen, Bobby Ewing, and, of course, the reptilian JR Ewing (Larry Hagman, still wonderful) – who make these slickly packaged episodes of oil skullduggery compelling.
JC Chandor’s snappy drama, which bites like Glengarry Glen Ross , centres on Zachary Quinto’s entry-level analyst unearthing a potentially ruinous high-risk project for his wealthy Manhattan firm.
Yves Montand is riveting as César, a hyperactive, wealthy scrap-metal merchant who smokes big fat cigars, drives fast and adores the exquisite, younger Rosalie (Romy Schneider).
William Friedkin’s scuzzy redneck thriller only betrays it’s theatrical roots (Killer Joe is based on Tracy Letts’s play) in the final segment, when everything unravels in suitably gruesome fashion –you’ll never view a fried chicken drumstick in the same way again.
This rich, intelligent and moving Danish period drama tells the incredible true story of a German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen) who ministers to the mentally fragile King Frederick VI (Mikkel Boe Foelsgaard) and has an affair with Queen Caroline (Alicia Vikander) in late 18th-century Copenhagen.
“Shut up, you soppy tart, those things are zombies,†barks Alan Ford’s pensioner, Ray, in this vigorous slasher, which lampoons and lionises London’s East End in equal measure.
Vampires are so ubiquitous at the moment, you half expect one to emerge in Emmerdale.
Very polished and smart 20-minute slices of award-winning sitcom, presented in mockumentary style, featuring three well-heeled families: a gay couple (Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet), the Dunphy family (led by Julie Brown’s stoical mother) and the Pritchetts (Ed O’Neill and Sofia Vergara).
“He was so complex, and people didn’t know that about him,” said Alexandria Hammond, who directed Jay Reatard documentary Better Than Something with Ian Markiewicz,
You can’t accuse Ben Drew, aka Plan B, of lacking ambition. In his debut film as a writer-director, he flits between numerous overlapping stories, and jumps back and forth in time, as he chronicles the lives of the crack addicts, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes who haunt a London council estate.