Movies

  What do you do when your entire world spectacularly, and comprehensively, falls apart? That’s the question that Silver Linings Playbook, a muscular romantic comedy and drama hybrid by David O. Russell, and based on the book by Matthew Quick, dares to pose and to be honest, for much of Continue Reading

  Rarely does a movie transport you so completely to another place and time, and into the lives of the people who called that era home, such that you feel as if its evocation is more real than the time you inhabit, but Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg from a Continue Reading

  Disney are certainly going to a huge amount of effort to make sure that Oz: The Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, and which makes its debut on 8 March this year, is every bit as much an event release as the original Wizard of Oz was back Continue Reading

  Now this, my friends, IS A POSTER. Eye-catching, stylish and telling a powerful story all in a glance. It was released yesterday as part of Disney/Marvel’s impressively imaginary marketing for the film starring Robert Downer Jr as the titular character and Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin, in a role Continue Reading

  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