Film reviews
Film review: Moonrise Kingdom (12A)
Here’s another film only Wes Anderson could make, with great, against-type performances by Bruce Willis and Edward Norton
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The Scotsman’s film critics cast their eye over the latest cinematic releases
Film review: The Angels’ Share, Cannes Film Festival
Six years ago, Ken Loach won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with The Wind That Shakes the Barley – a film that stirred controversy at home with its sympathetic portrayal of the early IRA.
Cannes Film Festival review: The Angel’s Share
SIX years ago, Ken Loach won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with The Wind That Shakes the Barley – a film that stirred controversy at home with its sympathetic portrayal of the early IRA. This year, he and regular collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, have returned to the competition with a very different kind of movie, in the Glasgow-set comedy The Angels’ Share.
DVD reviews: The Descendants | Haywire
THE casting in The Descendants really shouldn’t work. It’s a film, after all, in which George Clooney plays a cuckolded husband who discovers his comatose wife was not only about to leave him for another man, but was about to leave him for another man played by a guy whose last significant role was as Shaggy in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies (Matthew Lillard).
DVD of the week: The Descendants
What is it? In Alexander Payne’s Hawaii-set comedy drama, George Clooney is a workaholic who has to face up to some difficult truths about his family when an accident leaves his wife in a coma and him in charge.
Film reviews: What To Expect When You’re Expecting | Free Men | Iron Sky |
A FACT-filled, best-selling, self-help guide to pregnancy is the basis of this new domesticated comedy, a new level of desperation in page-to-screen that should at least grab the attention of Jean Marie Stine, author of How To Write A Bestselling Self-Help Book.
Film reviews: The Raid | 2 Days in New York | Even the Rain | A Gang Story | Iron Sky
ALISTAIR HARKNESS on the rest of the week’s new releases...
DVD reviews: The Divide | ID
The Scotsman’s film critic Alistair Harkness casts his eye over recent DVDs...
Film review: The Dictator video
YOU loved him as Borat, you were OK with him as Ali G, and we don’t really talk about Bruno. Now after a three-year absence and equipped with a magnificent Edward Lear beard, Sacha Baron Cohen reunites with director Larry Charles with a new comic persona.
Film review: The Raid
IN THE exotic, blood-drenched, slice-em-up world of Indonesian martial arts mayhem, the villains of The Raid could have maybe avoided fighting a Police SWAT team in a tower block, floor by floor, by holing up in the basement rather than the penthouse – but then we might be denied snapped necks and smashed knees in our introduction to the fighting discipline of pencak silat.
Film reviews: Dark Shadows | The Source | Two Years at Sea | 2 Days in New York
Syiobhan Synnot reviews the rest of this week’s forthcoming cinema releases
Film review: Dark Shadows (12A)
WHAT a strange film Dark Shadows is. That may seem like an obvious observation to make in reference to a Tim Burton movie, but its oddness has less to do with trademark Burton tropes – kooky weirdos, Gothic settings, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter – as it does the bizarre storytelling choices he makes.
Film reviews: A roundup of the latest films in the cinemas
Jeff, Who Lives At Home (15), Cafe de Flore (15), Beauty (18), Being Elmo (U) and Two Years at Sea (U)
DVD reviews: War Horse | Four
The Scotsman film critic Alistair Harkness gives us his take on the recent films making it to DVD
Film review: Jeff Who Lives At Home (15)
Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Running time: 83 minutes
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Film Review: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (15)
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Running time: 95 minutes
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Film review: Chernozem: Kino!, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
With the mainstream movie-going experience increasingly full of hi-tech gimmickry (3-D, Imax, D-Box shaky chairs) and high-maintenance mistrust (try going to see Avengers Assemble at your local multiplex without having your bag searched or your time watching the film observed by infrared-equipped cinema staff), it feels oddly appropriate that Glasgow art collective 85A has chosen to create an interactive prison-like environment to showcase their first fully produced short film, Chernozem (the title is a Russian word for “Black Earth”).
Film review: The Lucky One
JUST in case you wondered: women still gasp when Zac Efron appears on screen, and so they might.
Film review: Monsieur Lazhar
THERE are few genres to dread more than the teaching movie. More often than not, it’s a double period on Ways to Inspire that leaves you with fresh sympathy for Mr Gradgrind’s “just the facts” despotism in Dickens’ Hard Times.
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Siobhan Synnot reviews the rest of this week’s new film releases
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