Movies

  This time The Muppets are going global. traipsing across the globe on a grand adventure evoking all the delightfully silly charm and sophistication of 60s crime and spy capers like The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967). And there will be action and intrigue and no doubt humour and Continue Reading

  My lord there are some enormously creative, visionary people out there! Take Gianmarco Milesi and Matteo Civaschi from design studio H57 in Milan, Italy and the authors of lifeinfiveseconds) who have gained themselves quite a following with their imaginative Star Wars typography posters. I discovered their work on the amazing Continue Reading

  Zero Dark Thirty, Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie since the much-acclaimed Hurt Locker (2009), is in many ways a very brave movie. In an era where fact is often obscured by rabidly-argued opinion, and everyone seems to have fractured into tribalised camps sniping and trolling each other with vengeful Continue Reading

  Anyone fancy a trippy rummage around James McAvoy’s mind? Yes? (As if you wouldn’t want to!) Well then you’re in luck! The handsome actor, who surely must have a brain worth poking around in, is starring in Danny Boyle’s new trippy psychological thriller, Trance, as Simon, a fine art Continue Reading

  I have missed Middle Earth. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a welcome return to the magical land that exists somewhere in an alternate version of medieval England, brought to life in spectacularly vivid fashion once again by director Peter Jackson, and his collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens Continue Reading

  There’s a huge amount of buzz on the interweb today about a little six minute sci-fi film from an aspiring German film director, and not without good cause. It is, quite simply, amazing. Made over seven months and drawing from established sci-fi properties like Terminator and Battlestar Galactica without Continue Reading

  Life of Pi is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Visually, and narratively, even musically, it is a wonder and a delight for the senses, a triumph for director Ang Lee who took a novel largely regarded as “unfilmable” – I am not sure by Continue Reading

  In a world where suffering accosts us around just about every corner, Les Miserables is a reminder that hope is possible, though it must be tenaciously clung to, in even the most dire of circumstances. The graphic realism of Academy-Award winning director Tom Hooper’s impressive screen adaptation of the hit Continue Reading