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Film review | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – Dame Judi & co enjoy a geriatric jaunt full of Eastern promise
Beguiled by advertisements promising a luxurious refuge for’ the elderly and beautiful’, a motley group of British pensioners move to India for their retirement. But the ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ turns out to be a dilapidated pile that hapless but … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips 1 day ago -
Film review | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Extremely awkward and incredibly whimsical more like
After tackling the Holocaust in his last film, The Reader, director Stephen Daldry takes on the trauma of 9/11 with this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Precocious 10-year-old Oskar (newcomer Thomas Horn) lost … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 17, 2012 -
Film review | The Muppets – The green frog and his old pals show off some new tricks
For the first time since 1999’s Muppets from Space, the madcap Muppets are back on the big screen with their trademark blend of innocent wonder, gleeful musical spoofs and knowingly cheesy jokes in their new movie The Muppets. But the … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 10, 2012 -
Film review | The Woman in Black – Radcliffe strives to put Harry’s ghost to rest in this eerie Gothic chiller
Daniel Radcliffe may have put the cares of Harry Potter behind him to star in The Woman in Black, but this chilling screen adaptation of Susan Hill‘s hit ghost story finds him once more contending with supernatural evil. Again brimming … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 9, 2012 -
Film review | Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – Duck! The Rock is coming at you in 3D!
An old-fashioned adventure romp that wraps newfangled cinematic trickery around a ramshackle plot, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a knockabout sequel to 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, notable at the time for being the first feature … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 3, 2012 -
Film review | Carnage – It isn’t pretty when the mask of politeness slips
Middle-class nature red-in-tooth-and-claw is stripped bare in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s darkly comic screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s hit stage play God of Carnage, a wickedly satirical four-hander in which two ostensibly well-mannered couples meet on polite terms to patch up … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 3, 2012 -
Film review | Man on a Ledge – It’s mission: implausible for this daft but daring heist thriller
Vertigo sufferers and sticklers for plausibility will want to give Man on a Ledge a miss, but if you’ve a head for heights and a nonchalance about gimmicky plots then you’ll probably get a rush from this contrived action thriller. … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Feb 3, 2012 -
Film review | Like Crazy – Felicity Jones & Anton Yelchin are mad for each other. But will it last?
A big hit at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, bittersweet romance Like Crazy is a grown-up film about young love. As so many others have done before, 28-year-old director Drake Doremus captures the giddy excitement of courtship; what makes his … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 27, 2012 -
Film review | The Descendants – Clooney and Payne mine the human condition for tragicomic gold
A poignant, funny, warm-hearted tragicomedy set in Hawaii, The Descendants is director Alexander Payne‘s first film since the Oscar-garlanded Sideways seven years ago. He hasn’t lost his assured feel for the comedy and drama of ordinary life, and his deft … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 27, 2012 -
Film review | J Edgar – Clint and Leo’s warts’n'all study of FBI boss Hoover: one for the waxworks museum
Leonardo DiCaprio puts his pin-up days well and truly behind him to play notorious FBI chief J Edgar Hoover from youthful idealist to paranoid old age in Clint Eastwood’s solid but stodgy biopic J Edgar. It’s not a flattering portrait.Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 21, 2012 -
Film review | Haywire – Gina Carano punches above her weigh in her action debut
Betrayed by her bosses, a freelance black-ops agent goes on the run in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, a taut action thriller that is as briskly efficient and muscular as its heroine. Played by mixed martial artist Gina Carano, lean, mean ex-Marine … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 20, 2012 -
Film review | Shame – Michael Fassbender bares all in McQueen’s searing tale of sex, lies and emotional pain
Following their critically acclaimed 2008 film Hunger about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen (no relation) reunite for a project that is almost as controversial – a fearless, unblinking, full-frontal portrait of a sex addict. … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 14, 2012 -
Film review | War Horse – Spielberg gets caught in no man’s land between moving and mawkish
A huge success as a book and an even bigger hit on stage, Michael Morpurgo’s heart-rending First World War tale of a Devon farm boy and his beloved horse reaches the screen with no less a whip-hand than Steven Spielberg … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 13, 2012 -
Film review | The Iron Lady – Mettle fatigue: Meryl Streep shows Maggie in her prime and decline
Revered and reviled with equal fervour, Margaret Thatcher is easily the most divisive figure in recent British history – which makes it a certainty that this controversial biopic starring the incomparable Meryl Streep will ruffle feathers all along the political … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 6, 2012 -
Film review | The Artist – Silent is golden
A joyous cinematic valentine to the silent movie era, The Artist is the most out-and-out entertaining, purely enjoyable movie to come around in years. And, yes, I know, that’s quite a claim to make of a film that doesn’t just … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Jan 2, 2012 -
Film review | The Lady – Aung San Suu Kyi: orchids in her hair and iron in her will
A physically slight woman with a core of steel; a thorn in the side of authority; an implacable opponent of male violence: no, this is not a description of Stieg Larsson’s fantasy tattooed girl but of a heroine living in … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Dec 30, 2011 -
Film review | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Scandinavian avenger punches above her weight
With Fight Club director David Fincher at the helm, it was clear that Hollywood wasn’t going to pull any punches in bringing Stieg Larsson’s bestselling crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to the screen. Sure enough, Fincher’s film … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Dec 23, 2011 -
Film review | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – Robert Downy Jr is a handy dandy who boxes clever
Much to the dismay of Conan Doyle purists and the surprise of everyone else, Guy Ritchie’s 2009 Sherlock Holmes proved to be a surprisingly entertaining romp. Now Robert Downey Jr’s manic, mischievous, unexpectedly kick-ass hero is back for a sequel … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Dec 16, 2011 -
Film review | Puss in Boots – Antonio’s pussy galore takes centre stage
Puss in Boots, the swashbuckling feline sidekick from the Shrek films, gets his own spin-off adventure and it’s a joy, a witty, knowing animation mash-up of fairy tales and spaghetti Westerns, Zorro and Mother Goose. With his Latin suavity and … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Dec 9, 2011 -
Film review | Hugo – Scorsese turns children’s storyteller with a dash of Parisian panache
Martin Scorsese’s first ever film for children, Hugo is both a joyful and enchanting adventure tale and a loving tribute to the early days of cinema and one of its neglected pioneers. Based on the award-winning novel The Invention of … Continue reading →Collected in Movie Talk Clips Dec 2, 2011
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