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.

Alistair Harkness reviews the latest releases

IN MARVEL’S efforts to set up last year’s Avengers Assemble, Iron Man ended up being the biggest casualty.

CINEMA is littered with smooth, seductive killers whose charms belie their murderous intentions, but it’s hard to think as one as sweet or benign-seeming as the eponymous protagonist of Richard Linklater’s new film, Bernie.