Alistair Harkness reviews the rest of this week’s film releases

Inspired partly by his own youthful idealism, Oliver Assayas’s new film is a poignant meditation on protest and disillusion

Alistair Harkness welcomes the chance to revisit an indie auteur who was as important as Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater

COMPOSED like a fashion shoot, Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is so full of spectacle that it risks missing the point of Fitzgerald’s story.

ALISTAIR Harkness reviews the week’s cinema releases.

BARELY a month seems to go by at the moment without Matthew McConaughey delivering a brilliant and surprising performance.

ALISTAIR Harkness finds further evidence that American TV is outperforming the US film industry, while Andrew Eaton-Lewis discusses the art of creating a drama in 140 characters.

AS Star Trek Into Darkness beams into cinemas, director JJ Abrams - also the man helming Star Wars VII – tells Alistair Harkness what it’s like to be master of two universes

ASHLEY Jensen is reflecting on a bizarre thought she had recently.

THIS American debut for Danish director Niels Arden Oplev (who made the soporific Swedish version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is the cinematic equivalent of wading through sludge.

PEDRO Almodóvar’s latest begins with a disclaimer that what we’re about to see is a fantasy and bears no relation to reality.

THERE’S no denying that Life of Pi is a marvel of modern filmmaking technology. Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yan Martel’s tale of an Indian boy adrift at sea with only a Bengal tiger for company is a reminder of how cinema can sometimes work wonders on material previously thought unfilmable.