Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie triumph The Last Picture Show is an outstanding adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenager (Timothy Bottoms)’s coming of age in the 1950s. Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 movie […]
How can bereaved mum Jodie Foster’s little girl simply vanish into thin air on a plane flying at 30,000ft from Berlin to the US? Sorry, it could just never happen! And the writers Peter A […]
‘I called up Orson Welles who was in Rome and said: Hey, what do you think of this title, Paper Moon. There was a long pause and he says: That title is so good you […]
Director Susanne Bier and writer Anders Thomas Jensen craft an intriguing yet hopelessly far-fetched melodrama about a loving married couple (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Bonnevie) who tragically lose their baby but get a surprise second chance […]
Tough as nails but desperately troubled, Shailene Woodley is back as the Divergent (2014) heroine Tris in a future that separates people into factions – Abnegation for selflessness, Amity for the peaceful, Candour for the honest, […]
Director Tim Johnson’s DreamWorks family animation is likeable and modestly amusing but comes with a very thin plot that feels like it’s been hastily dreamt up in the studio but is actually based on a […]
In this extremely dark black comedy from cartoonist turned director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Ryan Reynolds plays Jerry, a deranged serial killer who listens to the voices of the women (Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick) he’s killed […]
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