It may be an Abba-free zone, but this sweet Mediterranean romance has so much in common with Mamma Mia (Pierce Brosnan included) that it could have been marketed as a remake. Â Â Â Â
Mike Nichols’s excellent rite-of-passage drama channels Whistle Down The Wind, Stand By Me and, mainly, Huckleberry Finn. Two 14-year-olds, Ellis and Neckbone, unearth a charismatic fugitive, Mud (Matthew McConaughey), hiding out near the Mississippi river.
Nick Edmondson believes Oblivion is a sci-fi movie that doesn’t thrill
Borrowing one writer and two actors from the Danish television drama Borgen, A Hijacking is a mercilessly taut depiction of what happens when a gang of Somali pirates commandeers a Danish cargo ship, and how the bosses react in the shipping company’s swanky headquarters.    Â
“All I see out there is barbarity,” yells a gendarme at a French soldier. Â Â Â Â
An awkward but interesting mix of epic sci-fi action movie and small-scale, slow-burning indie puzzler, Oblivion stars Tom Cruise as a maintenance man on a devastated and deserted future Earth.
Richard Linklater’s true tale of the murder of a mean old lady (Shirley MacLaine) is determinedly light. However, it’s in actual fact a very sad story indeed.
(Photos: DreamWorks | Paramount | Beuna Vista) It’s mid-August, which, if you’re a teenager, translates to one sad and foreboding truth: School is just around the corner. For most of you out there, this realization comes as a bitter reminder that your freedom has an expiration date
A SOUTH Essex hospice has produced a DVD, aimed at dispel ing popular misconceptions about hospice care.