Why isn’t everyone yelling from the rooftops about this excellent Channel 4 sitcom? It starts sedately – and The Mimic’s pacing remains gentle throughout – but persist and you’ll reap rich comic rewards.    Â
Tom Cruise may seem like a curious choice to play the 6ft 5in hero of Lee Child’s vigilante novels, but, casting aside, Jack Reacher is a satisfyingly meaty whodunnit which has more in common with the private-eye thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s than it does with Mission: Impossible . Â Â Â Â
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier; sex and murder; swanky Parisian boardrooms and bedrooms. Sounds enticing, doesn’t it? Â Â Â Â
Lee Child’s popular hero, a former-soldier-turned-drifter, is famously 6’5“. So who plays him
Best not to eat anything during David Cronenberg’s queasy, exploding-heads horror from 1981. Hammy, often unsettling, performances abound (Patrick McGoohan in particular) in this wild tale of scanners, a group of psychics who can lock into a person’s nervous system and make their head pop.
When it came out at the cinema, Martin McDonagh’s postmodern crime comedy alienated those In Bruges fans who were hoping for a straightforward retread of his beloved debut film. Â Â Â Â
A comedy about an all-female student a capella group, Pitch Perfect rehashes a plot that’s older than Mickey Rooney. Â Â Â Â
Scene stealer Christopher Walken, once again, appears to be acting in an entirely different film (a better one) in Martin McDonagh’s absurd but entertaining black comedy.
“I am surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin,†maintains a haughty don in Harold Pinter’s deft adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel.    Â
What Richard Did is a small but intense piece of psychological drama about pampered teenagers from a well-heeled district of south Dublin. Â Â Â Â