Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
A cross between Robin Hood and Braveheart, MICHAEL KOHLHAAS is a bleak, brooding and brutal tale of 16th century feudalism.
At his most enigmatic photogenic best, Mads Mikkelsen plays Michael Kohlhaas, an honest horse trader continually cheated by a …
Apart from his Oscar winning performance in The Artist, Jean Dujardin is possibly best known for his series of spy spoofs starring as secret agent OSS117.
In MOBIUS he shrugs off the spoof and plays a spook for real, a …
A fractured fairytale is a fair way to describe UNDER THE RAINBOW, a multi layered fable interwoven with strands of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Flic opens with a dreamy blue dream sequence narrated by the dreamer, …
IT BOY, a film turning on the older woman/younger man scenario, is a fizzy, frothy confection starring the gorgeous Virginie Afira as Alice, a nearly 40 career woman, divorced single mum.
She’s been in cold blooded training to break the …
Matthew McConnaughy’s Oscar nomination for Dallas Buyers Club is not only right and just for this particular project but a fitting tribute to an actor whose past eight films show a consistently excellent body of work.
His work has often …
“What changed things forever, and most certainly for better, was the cunt.”
The pathetic epithet, malevolently and monstrously misogynist, is the catalyst for Aircraftman John Holderness to bypass basic training and be fast tracked into the secret service.
It’s just …
John Turtletaub helmer of the National Treasure series and Dan Fogelman who wrote Crazy Stupid Love have teamed to present a comedy of the aged
Four academy award winning actors make a silk purse out of a sows ear in …
Where was I?… I should know because I was there! Oh, yes, The Old Fitzroy to see John Derum strut his stuff as “Slips” Cordon in LEGEND! “Slips” Cordon – A Safe Pair of Hands.
The title is ironic as …
In 1976, ROCKY won the Oscar for Best Picture. It beat TAXI DRIVER.
Star of ROCKY, Sylvester Stallone and star of TAXI DRIVER, Robert de Niro were in contention for best actor. They were pushed out of the ring by …
“You’re an exceptional Nigger, but I fear nothing good will come of it.” quoth plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) to Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Solomon is the virtuoso violinist from upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery …