Film
Saoirse Ronan on playing a vampire in Byzantium
WHO is afraid of Saoirse Ronan? In the bowels of a Glasgow hotel, she looks innocent enough, sitting demurely in the manner of a 1950s model, legs crossed at the ankle and chatting about how best to drain a body of blood.
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.
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?
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: The problem is Merida has been turned into an object
AS YOU may have heard, Merida from Brave has just become an official Disney princess, and had a makeover to celebrate.
Romain Duris on his new film, a ‘Rocky with typewriters’
Having swerved some English-speaking roles, French actor Romain Duris tells Siobhan Synnot why there’s no place like home when it comes to his film choices
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.
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: In some respects American Psycho makes perfect sense as a musical
IS IT a good idea to make an all-singing, all-dancing stage version of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho?
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
The Great Gatsby kicks off Cannes Film Festival
There’s a delicious irony in Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby kicking off the star-studded celebrations at the world’s most glamorous film festival, writes Hannah McGill
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 (15)
AFTER a series of noirish, moodier films, I’m So Excited will be popular among fans of Pedro Almodóvar’s brightly coloured farces seeking rampant camp, drug-taking, inappropriate sex and lip-synched routines to a Pointer Sisters’ song.
Film reviews: In The Fog| Dead Man Down| The Eye Of The Storm| Robosapien
A roundup of the latest cinema releases
DVD review: Life Of Pi
What is it? Ang Lee’s spectacular 3D movie of Yann Martel’s bestselling story about a young man trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Film review: Iron Man 3
NOW, more than ever, we need a superhero: not someone with abs of steel and glutes of granite, but a sharp mind and a lateral wit. Oh do sit down Robert Downey Jr, we’re not talking about you. I mean the man doing the actual heavy lifting in Iron Man 3; writer-director, Shane Black.
Return to Bollywood: Indian film celebrates its centenary
A MOMENT in time in Bangalore. India’s Silicon Valley, heaving metropolis in the middle of the bottom of the sub-continent, home to the world’s best dosas, worst traffic, and until the Seventies, my parents.
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Ben Kingsley on bringing Shakespearean tricks to Iron Man 3
BEN Kingsley says he doesn’t read reviews even if he’s in a five-star hit guaranteed to have critics raving about his performance.
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Film review: The Look Of Love
ORIGINALLY titled The King Of Soho, the latest loose, louche collaboration between Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan was forced to change its title after a legal challenge from a rival movie.
Film review: Bernie
IF YOU need a masterclass in embalming, then look no further than Richard Linklater’s newish film, since it’s been on the shelf since 2011 – and yet Bernie deserves a better fate than a quick burial on DVD.
DVD review: Jack Reacher
Tom Cruise is the surprise choice to play Lee Child’s near indestructible (and famously tall) vigilante action hero, in a sturdy pulp thriller.
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