Over the last decade, ever since Spirited Away rocked the box office and became the highest grossing Japanese film in history, the release of a new Studio Ghibli film has become something of ‘An Event’, bringing with it a whirlwind of excitement and speculation.
The director of End of Watch (an interesting take on police films that didn’t quite succeed) combining with one of two classic 80s action heroes suffering a string of mediocre...
The opening lines of Frank are a mixture of odd noises and half-formed (and utterly atrocious) lyrics, providing an amusing and wry look at the plight of the artist in search of inspiration...
Locke is an intriguing premise. Set entirely in the cabin of a BMW (bar a few brief seconds of Locke climbing into his car at the very beginning), and with only one character (the eponymous Ivan Locke) ever visible in the form of a bearded, be-cardiganed Tom Hardy.
The biography of British director Joanna Hogg is a strange one indeed: mentored by legendary avant-gardiste Derek Jarman during the 1970s, she won a scholarship to the National Film and Television School, where she took a chance on unknown actor Tilda Swinton for her graduate piece. And then?
Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen’s touching, naturalistic portrayal of family life in 1990s Singapore, has finally touched down in the UK, nearly a whole year after winning critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
It’s comedy season again, and things are kicking off in the most family-unfriendly way possible (in both a literal ‘this is a crude comedy’ and ‘this is a comedy where unfriendly acts are committed against a family’ sense)
May is the month television fans find out whether their favourite shows will be back for another season or not. So here is the rundown of some of 2013-14 season’s main primetime network shows and how well they are faring over in the States.
The announcement that a movie based around everyone’s favourite line of construction toys was met with rants about the extent of consumerism in cinema.
No one likes a know-it-all. But for Evelyn Castor (Rebecca Hall), her significant other, her partner in science and in life, Will Castor (Johnny Depp) really does know it all. This is after a deadly assassination attempt with a bullet laced in radiation slowly starts to shut down his body.
There is a line of dialogue that is rather unwisely repeated on a regular basis in The Love Punch. The film is quite insistent on telling the audience that a certain plan the characters come up with is “crazy, daft, stupid, but brilliant”.
erial-dating lawyer Carly (Cameron Diaz) finally finds someone who could potentially be “the one”. This is until she figures out that he’s a married man. Game of Thrones’ Jaime Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, has been a busy man no doubt. His wife Kate (Leslie Mann) is devastated and heart-broken. The