“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.
All movies are 2012 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD Robert Pattinson’s first attempt to branch out, post- Twilight , into brainier fare was a mixed bag, at best.
2013 is going to be a big one for films – not just in the movies themselves, but in the lasting impact those films will have. With that in mind, we continue our look forward to the films of 2013 we hope won’t suck.
Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid appear to be enjoying themselves immensely as former childhood sweethearts who reconnect via Facebook in this initially cosy (the series takes on a darker hue later on) comedy-drama, set in Yorkshire.
Can a movie actually convince you to support torture? Can a movie really persuade you that “fracking” — a process used to drill for natural gas — is a danger to the environment? Can a movie truly cause you to view certain minority groups in a negative light?
Dean Obeidallah says “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Promised Land” present hot button issues that fire up people from the left and right.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait, the festival winners, the indie fan favorites.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait. For the last few years, those films have had a problem.
Every year around this time, the multiplexes start filling with so-called “serious” movies — the Oscar bait, the festival winners, the indie fan favorites.