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Teaming Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda in a Meet the Parents style comedy romance would seem to be a recipe for disaster. The veteran has been enticed out of semi-retirement to play the monstrous mother-in-law-to-be cliche to good bu barely credible effect, while the far
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
James Dean's second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray's prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death,
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
John Singleton makes an urban western in this revenge thriller in which the four adopted sons of senselessly murdered Evelyn Mercer vow to avenge her death. Their common mean streets background gives them a unity of purpose and the energy they need to confront the criminal underworld of Detroit. Classic
The first of James Dean's three movies, and the one tha catapulted him to celebrity, securing his plac ein Hollywood firmament. Type-cast from the start, Dean plays the troubled adolescent, Cal Trask at odds with his father and brother in this treatment of part of John Steinbeck's
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
The romantic comedy Must Love Dogs features Miss Lonely-hearts Diane Lane set up for internet dating and looking for suitable company with a borrowed canine friend. It also has the likeable John Cusack. Unfortunately, the result is painful, especially in the script department. For masochists only.
When one considers the musical landscape that The White Stripes have jumped into, you’ve got to give them credit for doing so damn well. After five albums, they sound as fresh as ever. Offering new guitar pleasures and witty lyrics to the common folk. This recording again shows
After last year’s emotionally draining Million Dollar Baby, and the long tradition of boxing biopics that came before that (all the Rocky’s and Raging Bulls) yet another one might seem superfluous. But the first-rate teaming of Ron Howard and Russell Crowe (the second time,
Roald Dahl’s famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen a second time, and Tim Burton’s delightful version of the industrial fairy tale provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka.
A futuristic thriller warning of the dangers of human cloning and the harvesting of spare body parts, with a strong cast not quite succeeding in enlivening a structurally unsound movie of two philosophically unreconciled halves. The two attractive protagonists Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlet
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
“A useless, talentless, empty man…” Peter Sellers (an excellent Geoffrey Rush) says of himself in this hatchet-job biopic that is at pains to step out of the standard representational biographic ...
Lightning never strikes in teh same place twice. Or does it? H.G. Wells' visionary 1898 sci-fi novel has had many incarnations- famously on radio by Orson Welles, on film in 1953, on TV and in comics- and now in Steven Speilberg's contemporary American version with man of
The Gorrilaz first pounced on the world with the single “Clint Eastwood” in 2001. Some critics have labelled them unoriginal, but one thing is for certain, their dynamic is original, for the Gorrilaz are a cartoon band. Any picture you will see of the band, weather it be
From the birth of lead singer and composer Chris Martin’s daughter to headlining Live8 in London, it’s hard to escape the shine of Coldplay. In their third album, X and Y, the band savours its talent for capturing emotions so simply, easily relating to most listeners
How and why did Anakin Skywalker desert the Jedi and go over to the dark side to become Darth Vader? This is the issue central to the third prequel in the Star Wars saga, the one that links to George Lucas’ original mid-sequence space opera from 1977. And
Mid-July. Under the Tuscan sun. Probably a very good reason not to see Audrey Wells’ postcard pretty, clichéd adaptation of Frances Mayes’ bestselling novel about personal reinvention post-divorce. Therapy through scenery for rich American divorcées is ideal chick-flick material, and if
Shakespeare on film always presents difficulties, and it may come as no surprise to learn that this is the first appearance on film of one of Shakespeare’s most ‘difficult’ plays. Officially classed as a comedy, The Merchant of Venice has so many dark undercurrents, not least,
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. Or does it? H.G. Wells’ visionary 1898 sci-fi novel has had many incarnations – famously on radio by Orson Welles, on film in 1953, on TV and in comics - and now in Steven Spielberg’s contemporary American version
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. Or does it? George Orwells visionary 1898 sci-fi novel has had many incarnation famously on radio by Orson Welles, on film in 1953, and on TV and in comics- and now in Steven Spielbergs contemporary American version with man of the
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice. Or does it? George Orwells visionary 1898 sci-fi novel has had many incarnation famously on radio by Orson Welles, on film in 1953, and on TV and in comics- and now in Steven Spielbergs contemporary American version with man of the
