Despite the excellent cast and posh director, everyone has lost their touch in director Michael Apted’s off-key action thriller, with a topical terrorism theme. Working hard as ever, Noomi Rapace does her level best and […]
Director Lasse Hallström’s comedy drama is far fetched but quite sweet just the same, well acted and handled with conviction. It’s a cheeky sort of film that sits up and begs you to love it. […]
Julian Barratt works hard to raise laughs in this relentlessly silly spoof comedy as a has-been actor, Richard Thorncroft, who in his glory days once played Detective Mindhorn in a Bergerac-style Eighties TV detective series. Now living […]
Robert Altman’s exhilarating American 1978 panoramic satirical ensemble comedy-drama film A Wedding is one of his best movies, a dark comedy masterpiece with multiple plots, overlapping dialogue and a huge cast. Co-writer/ director Robert Altman’s […]
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are at their best as womanising John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, who sneak into weddings to find partners for short-term flings, but fall out when their carefree days change after John meets […]
Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx sleep-walks through director Baran bo Odar’s mediocre, nastily violent action thriller, based on Frédéric Jardin’s 2011 French original, Nuit blanche [Sleepless Night]. You can see what they were after, a take on a Liam Neeson-style […]
The Comedians (1967) is a distinguished and exciting film of Graham Greene’s great novel set in despotic Papa Doc Duvalier’s turbulent and violent Haiti. It’s an important serious piece of work for the Richard Burton-Elizabeth […]
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