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Out on DVD | The Reader – Oscar-winning Kate Winslet plays a woman with a...
Kate Winslet won her long-awaited Oscar for her role in The Reader, a compelling story of love and shame, guilt and reconciliation set in the shadow of the Holocaust. She plays tram conductor Hannah,...
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Couch Potato Pickings | The Duchess – and wigs
At a recent fancy dress party I sported a long blonde wig (I’m usually a brunette with a shortish do). After a few hours I really got in touch with my inner blonde, and so did everyone else. So, when a...
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News Hound | Corey Haim dead at 38
The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38 from an alleged drugs overdose. Jude Law claims that Sherlock Holmes 2 is happening sometime later this year. Scriptwriting couple Kieran and...
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At the Cinema | Cemetery Junction – Was 1973 Reading a dead end for Ricky...
Ricky Gervais’s first feature film on home soil sees him returning to the Reading suburbs of his youth. Perhaps nostalgia has rubbed off some of his edge for with Cemetery Junction he’s come up with a...
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Couch Potato Pickings: I should find Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang a real turn...
Spoilt and unruly kids screaming in their high pitched little voices is my idea of hell. So a film filled with them shouldn’t have any appeal whatsover, but strangely this one does. Here’s why: 1....
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55th BFI London Film Festival – 10 films we can’t wait to see & tips on how...
This year’s BFI London Film Festival kicks off in three weeks’ time and, as usual, there’s a staggering lineup of films and special events to choose from, including over 200 features and 110 shorts,...
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DVD review | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II – The wizarding...
After ten years and eight films, the Harry Potter saga reaches its conclusion – and it’s spellbinding. Picking up the action where the last film left off, The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 grips from the...
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Film review | Wrath of the Titans – Clashing swords and accents in an...
Back in action as strapping demigod Perseus in Wrath of the Titans, the inevitable sequel to 2010’s inane Clash of the Titans remake, Sam Worthington again struggles to convince us that he’s a bona...
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Name That Chest: In a vest and in his element
His latest movie comes out this week. Ooh, and so did his 4th child. Who is he? Now, did you identify the owner of last week’s dark and crusty-looking chest? Did I mention, he’s a god? Find out his...
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56th BFI London Film Festival comes to a glittering (& record-breaking) close
The BFI London Film Festival came to a glittering close last night with a star-studded line-up on the red carpet and on stage at the Odeon Leicester Square for the European premiere of Great...
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The Invisible Woman | Film review – Ralph Fiennes & Felicity Jones reveal...
Proving as adept behind as in front of the camera, Ralph Fiennes follows his striking adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, his 2011 directing debut, with a shrewdly intelligent and dramatically...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel | Film review – Ralph Fiennes’ dapper concierge...
Step through the doors of The Grand Budapest Hotel and you are in for a 5-star treat. Set in a deluxe spa hotel occupying an imaginary corner of Mitteleuropa between the wars, Wes Anderson’s new film...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel | DVD review – Wes Anderson’s deluxe creation...
Step through the doors of The Grand Budapest Hotel and you are in for a 5-star treat. Set in a deluxe spa hotel occupying an imaginary corner of Central Europe between the wars, Wes Anderson’s film...
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