The best of festive TV
Maciej Matuszewski reviews two highly-anticipated Christmas specials
Nebraska, Nebraska, I love you
Following on from the Oscar-nominated The Descendants (featuring George Clooney’s best performance in years, and introducing the amazing Shailene Woodley – soon to be seen in The Fault in Our Stars), Nebraska is Alexander Payne’s latest film as director, and (unsurprisingly) it’s almost everything.. Nebraska Director: Alexander Payne
Here we go again
Dwarves are useless and can’t do anything, whilst Wood Elves and their fluid, slick gymnastic movements are awesome and humans haven’t yet had the chance to shine: that’s the message to take away from Desolation of Smaug, the second entry to Peter Jackson’s overblown Hobbit trilogy.
Girls, uninterrupted
Emily Fulham celebrates the return of the most honest show on TV
From one station of life to the next
It’s an unbelievably touching story of human survival, love, and forgiveness.
Every day I’m hustlin’
“Thank god for me”, says Rosalyn Rosenfeld (Jennifer Lawrence), after setting fire to her brand new microwave, ignoring her husband’s advice to not put something metallic in there.
Director masterclass: David Lynch
Lynch is the master of creating unsettling dreamlike visions and the surreal. He has written and directed cult classics such as Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001).
Best Lead Performer
There are a many strange things about trying to decide who is the ‘best actor’ because whatever performance they give is through the lens of a director and rewritten by the editor.
Will Sweden’s Bechdel Rating Work?
The example above shows a script that is clearly not one which will stop denigration of women in films. It does however pass the Bechdel Test.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
If the single word that makes up this article’s title is the one thing you took away from watching Mary Poppins then you may be surprised to know that the jolly word would have most likely induced a deep frown of disapproval from the author of the book itself, P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson).
And may the odds be ever in your favour...again
So it’s been about a year since the first Hunger Games film made its debut, however, the second one in the series catches up with the protagonists before a whole year has passed for them.
Witches of East End: Season 1
Remember how awful it is when an American actor tries to unsuccessfully imitate an English accent? Well here is the perfect example of where the opposite has gone completely wrong.