Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]
Director John Maybury’s ambitious, eye-catching 2005 film is a stylish, arty and impenetrably baffling puzzle thriller. Adrien Brody stars as a US Gulf War soldier who is shot in the head in Iraq in 1991 […]
Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]
The ace in the modest hand of Terry Gilliam’s intriguing but rather scrappy futuristic pantomime is Christoph Waltz as bald computer hacker Qohen Leth. He works for the all-powerful Mancom corporation, whose boss is none […]
A bachelor stag party weekend in the great outdoors takes some strange but not entirely unexpected detours. Surprisingly, maybe, co-writer/director John Butler’s film comedy is very likeable and amusing, well acted by a good cast, […]
British director Jonathan Glazer’s loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 novel is a unique, difficult and quite alienating movie. It’s hard work having a good time with Under the Skin. But Scarlett Johansson impresses enormously […]
Lacking much in the way of credibility, excitement or a sense of fun, Need for Speed is shameless junk. It’s predictable, tension free and so darned boring. With all this rushing around on screen, how can that […]
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