Mademoiselle Chambon – review
Sandrine Kiberlain in Mademoiselle Chambon. Mademoiselle Chambon Production year: 2009 Country: France Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 101 mins Directors: Stephane Brize Cast: Aure Atika, Sandrine Kiberlain,...
View ArticleJolie Holland: Pint of Blood – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Jolie Holland Pint of Blood Anti 2011 Texas-born Jolie Holland has never recaptured the magic of early, trad-heavy albums, but she remains a distinctive voice in...
View ArticleDemons Never Die – review
Don't get too comfortable: Tulisa Contostavlos in slasher pic Demons Never Die. Demons Never Die Production year: 2011 Country: UK Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 93 mins Directors: Arjun Rose Cast: Ashley...
View ArticleSix Nations 2011: Ireland v France – rate the players
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View ArticleAttenberg – review
Evangelia Randou and Ariane Labed as Bella and Marina in quirky Greek comedy Attenberg. This quirky, minimalist Greek comedy looks at the world through the eyes of Marina, a part-time taxi driver in a...
View ArticleSix Nations 2011: England v Scotland player ratings
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View ArticleQueen herald the age
A still from the Pop Video for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Photograph: Channel 4 Queen's superstardom was built on a flimsy pretext: they didn't want to look foolish miming the mock operatics of...
View ArticleSuper Bowl 2011: Packers v Steelers live!
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View ArticleHoll/Schiff - review
A caprice of planning has decreed that two illustrious duos would perform Schubert's Winterreise song cycle at the Wigmore Hall within less than a fortnight. But who's complaining? The coincidence has...
View ArticleJohnny English Reborn – review
Johnny English Reborn: 'harmless and somewhat laboured'. In early autumn next year, the film industry will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr No, after which there...
View ArticleThe Dilemma – review
The Dilemma Production year: 2011 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 112 mins Directors: Ron Howard Cast: Channing Tatum, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin James, Queen Latifah, Vince Vaughn, Winona Ryder...
View ArticleBarney's Version – review
Mordecai Richler, the Canadian novelist who died 10 years ago at the age of 70, worked for many years in Britain writing screenplays and contributing to our literary life. He wrote a series of...
View ArticleHanna – review
Saoirse Ronan stars as the title character in Joe Wright's Hanna. Hanna Production year: 2011 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 111 mins Directors: Joe Wright Cast: Cate Blanchett,...
View ArticleThe best performance I've ever seen: Simon Stephens
Performed by Toneelgroep Amsterdam in Dutch, and directed by the brilliant Ivo van Hove, this was an amazing show. Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra were combined in brilliantly...
View ArticleCleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company – review
When asked what they want to be in life, most schoolchildren reportedly say that they want to be famous. Like hyper-ambitious Rachel in the TV show Glee, they think that being anonymous "is worse than...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra cannot be surpassed by Jolie
I wish Paul Greengrass well in his attempt to remake the great 1963 Cleopatra, but I doubt that he will do the theme justice. Angelina Jolie's rather one-dimensional performance in Alexander will have...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie's Cleopatra will show Egypt's queen as more than a sex kitten
Dio Cassius, the Greek historian, said Cleopatra "was a woman of surpassing beauty… and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone". So it stands to reason that the greatest Hollywood...
View ArticleJust Go With It – review
Just Go With It Production year: 2011 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 116 mins Directors: Dennis Dugan Cast: Adam Sandler, Bailee Madison, Brooklyn Decker, Griffin Gluck, Heidi Montag, Jennifer...
View ArticleBlitz – review
Jason Statham and Paddy Considine star in Blitz. Blitz Production year: 2011 Country: UK Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 97 mins Directors: Elliott Lester Cast: Aidan Gillen, David Morrissey, Jason Statham,...
View ArticleThe Resident – review
The Resident Production year: 2011 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 91 mins Directors: Antti Jokinen Cast: Aunjanue Ellis, Christopher Lee, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee...
View ArticleTurnout – review
Ophelia Lovibond and George Russo star in British lad-flick Turnout. Turnout Production year: 2011 Country: UK Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 97 mins Directors: Lee Sales Cast: Ben Drew, Francis Pope, George...
View ArticleTrespass – review
Liana Liberato, Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman in Trespass. Trespass Production year: 2011 Country: USA Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 91 mins Directors: Joel Schumacher Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Cam Gigandet,...
View ArticleSix Nations 2011: Your France v Scotland player ratings
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View ArticleEat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): PG Runtime: 140 mins Directors: Ryan Murphy Cast: Billy Crudup, Hadi Subiyanto, I Gusti Ayu Puspawati, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Julia...
View ArticleMetropolis
Fritz Lang, one of those few directors to create equally significant bodies of work both in the silent era and after the coming of sound, is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and...
View ArticleThe Wildest Dream
In 1999, American mountaineer Conrad Anker discovered the body of George Mallory, the British climber who 75 years earlier failed to return from his third assault on Everest. Geffen reconstructs the...
View ArticleEngland v Pakistan - live!
Morning everyone. England are seven wickets away. Over in the far corner of the office Barry Glendenning is doing a desperate rain-dance, trying to provoke a two-day monsoon, which is pretty much the...
View ArticleThe Seven-Ups
The New York film-maker Philip D'Antoni spent most of his career in television, but his reputation depends on the three seminal big-screen movies he produced 40 years ago: gritty police procedural...
View ArticleThe Switch
The Switch Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 101 mins Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck Cast: Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis, Patrick Wilson...
View ArticleSpiderhole – review
Spiderhole Production year: 2009 Country: Ireland Runtime: 82 mins Directors: Daniel Simpson Cast: Amy Noble, Emma Griffiths Malin, Emma Griffiths Malin, George Maguire, John Regan, Reuben-Henry Biggs...
View ArticleThe Big Sleep: No 15
Howard Hawks outdid himself in 1946 with this, the first entirely successful adaptation of a Chandler/Marlowe novel. Humphrey Bogart has since been indissolubly linked with Chandler's cynical but...
View ArticleWarpaint: The Fool – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Warpaint The Fool Rough Trade 2010 French theorist Hélène Cixous coined the term "écriture féminine" in 1975, positing a kind of writing that was uniquely female. Since then,...
View ArticleRed - review
Red Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 111 mins Directors: Robert Schwentke Cast: Brian Cox, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Mary Louise Parker,...
View ArticleVampires Suck – review
The most stylish vampire comedy is Polanski's Dance of the Vampires, though it has only one truly memorable joke that involves Alfie Bass as a Jewish vampire. To my mind, the funniest one is the...
View ArticleYou Again – review
You Again Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): U Runtime: 105 mins Directors: Andy Fickman Cast: Betty White, James Wolk, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell, Kristin Chenoweth, Odette Yustman,...
View ArticleFathers of Girls - review
Fathers Of Girls Production year: 2009 Country: UK Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 76 mins Directors: Ethem Cetintas, Karl Howman Cast: Chloe Howman, Glen Murphy, Lois Winstone, Luke Kempner, Ray Winstone More...
View ArticleLet Me In – review
Let Me In Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 111 mins Directors: Matt Reeves Cast: Chloe Moretz, Elias Koteas, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins More on this film This rather...
View ArticleTrailer Trash
Swede harmony Just to join the dots and clear things up: the director of Swedish thriller sequel The Girl Who Played with Fire is Daniel Alfredson. He's the older brother of Tomas Alfredson, who made...
View ArticleThe Be All and End All - review
The strength of this directorial debut by an experienced producer resides in the warm friendship it establishes between its central characters, the 15-year-old Liverpool schoolboys Robbie (Josh Bolt)...
View ArticleA Town Called Panic – review
A Town Called Panic Production year: 2009 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): PG Runtime: 75 mins Directors: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar Cast: Bruce Ellison, Jeanne Balibar, Stephane Aubier,...
View ArticleHas Angelina Jolie's 'Cleopatra' Found A Director In Paul Greengrass?
'Bourne' director is reportedly close to being signed for the movie. by Eric Ditzian For a hot minute, it appeared as though James Cameron would be switching up his directorial itinerary, sweeping...
View ArticleBach: Six Partitas BWV 825-830
Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Bach, J.S.: The Six Partitas Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca (UMO) 2010 After a period of purism, pianists like András Schiff, Murray Perahia and Richard Goode are...
View ArticleBack to the Future
Back To The Future Production year: 1985 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12 Runtime: 116 mins Directors: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Michael J Fox, Michael J. Fox...
View ArticleAntony and the Johnsons: Swanlights – review
Buy it from Buy the CD Antony & The Johnsons Swanlights Rough Trade 2010 The fourth album from Antony and the Johnsons, a more hopeful affair than its predecessors, opens with the declaration that...
View ArticleThe Tourist – review
The Tourist Production year: 2010 Countries: Italy, Rest of the world, USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 103 mins Directors: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Cast: Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany,...
View ArticleSalt
Salt Production year: 2010 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 100 mins Directors: Phillip Noyce Cast: Andre Braugher, Angelina Jolie, August Diehl, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Liev Schreiber More on this film...
View ArticleCleopatra? She's all woman…
Playing royalty has its perks. After Michael Boyd decided to put his RSC production of in modern dress, his leading lady Kathryn Hunter – who will be playing the Egyptian queen opposite Darrell...
View ArticleAntony and Cleopatra – review
Janet Suzman was a dazzling Cleopatra nearly four decades ago. Now she directs her own daringly intelligent, challenging and occasionally puzzling production. It starts with a great, rolling, sonorous...
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