Film reviews

Film review: Beware Of Mr Baker

THERE are probably more foolhardy enterprises than interviewing the aggressively venomous rock drummer Ginger Baker for a documentary, but it’s hard to think of many.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan are wafted along on a relentless wave of over-production. Picture: Contributed

Film review: The Great Gatsby

IT HAS been suggested that there’s something of the Gatsby about Baz Luhrmann, since both men are predisposed to throwing extravagantly spectacular parties, with just a hint of hollowness.

Film reviews: Fast & Furious 6 | Something In The Air | Epic

DO YOU like cars? Or do you prefer movies where bulging, baldy action heroes like Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel glower at each other like homoerotic new potatoes?

Zoe Lescaze and Ty Hickson in Gimme the Loot. Picture: Contributed

Film reviews: Fast & Furious 6 | A Hijacking | The Liability

ALISTAIR Harkness reviews the week’s cinema releases.

Carey Mulligan and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby. Picture: Warner Bros

Film review: The Great Gatsby

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

Film review: The Stoker (15)

IT’S hard to define the films of Alexei Balabanov; he’s like an angry Aki Kaurismäki, or a more impassive Gaspar Noé.

Film review: The Liability (15)

LIKE the trade itself, movies about hit men work best when they are quick, capable and thoroughly bloody.

I KNOW I’m not alone in saying that I’ve been enjoying Matthew McConaughey much more since he stopped appearing in mirthless romcoms and started subverting his son-of-Paul-Newman looks with roles in Magic Mike, Killer Joe and Bernie.

Film reviews: A Hijacking | White Elephant | Gangs of Wasseypur (Parts 1 and 2)

The rest of this week’s film releases, reviewed by Siobhan Synnot

Dark side: Benedict Cumberbatch dons the black leather and channels Shakespeare as Star Treks latest villain

Film review: Star Trek Into Darkness

FOUR years ago JJ Abrams rescued Star Trek from the Neutral Zone with an amped- up reboot which managed to channel the original characters in ways that were funny, smart and sometimes even touching.

Film review: I’m so excited

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

Film reviews: Dead Man Down | Chimpanzee | All Stars | 21 And Over

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.

Marjorie (Shirley MacLaine) gets into a dangerous situation in with Jack Blacks titular Bernie. Picture: Contributed

Film review: Bernie

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.

Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin in Iron Man 3. Picture: Contributed

Film review: Iron Man 3

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

Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) builds a massive empire by exploiting women in The Look of Love. Picture: Contributed

Film reviews: The Look of Love | The Gatekeepers | The ABCs of Death | Flying Blind

Alistair Harkness reviews the latest releases

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