Affleck carries the film – with the help of that jaw: Manchester By The Sea reviewed
Everyone in Hollywood knows that if you want some good jaw-clenching you go to an Affleck brother. To older brother…
Dull and impenetrable: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin reviewed
Fans of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon be warned: this is not that. Never have I watched a film where the…
Magic Mike XXL reviewed: stripping can be sexy – but lying on a pinned-down woman’s face is not
It’s hard to overstate how much I wanted to like Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to the 2012 Steven Soderbergh…
Entourage review: its obsession with boobs, babes and oiled up bodies continues
Look, could everyone please stop denigrating the Entourage movie for spurious reasons like ‘it feels like an extended episode of…
The Falling reviewed: a film of beauty and magic
Long live the glockenspiel, that typically dull percussion stalwart usually relegated to primary school memories, along with humdrum gym classes…
Oscars 2015: Neil Patrick Harris took it too far
Birdman soared past longtime favourite Boyhood at the 87th Academy Awards, as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s hilarious Hollywood satire unexpectedly took…
Leviathan: the anti-Putin film the Russians tried to ban that’s tipped for an Oscar
The funny thing about a film like Leviathan, which many expected to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes earlier this…