Does Guy Ritchie – audacious creator of cockney gangster films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch – have anything more to say to the world? Not much. RocknRolla is a self conscious re-working of his now familiar style and storyworld – but this time without the charm that pervaded the central characters of […]
Gary Sweet’s first film role – in a John Lamond slasher film called Nightmares is not one that “has a big asterisk next to it on my resume” says Sweet with a huge laugh. “I was diabolical.” The role came just before a stint on The Sullivans which Sweet says was more of a dare […]
Condensing Evelyn Waugh’s complex study of class, faith and the longing for grace was never going to be an easy task. In 1981, Grenada Television took a memorable 11 hours to cover Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, and it became the launching pad for a number of […]
More than ten years ago, English journalist Toby Young managed to weasel a job at New York’s Vanity Fair magazine after insulting the editor. Three years later he was let go, with little or nothing to show for what had been (in his own words) “a career cul-de-sac”. Determined to make something of his […]
Based on a Finnish shoot-em up video game, Max Payne is all style and little story, cheerless detective Max (Mark Wahlberg) drifting through a washed out and snowy New York in search of his wife’s killer. Raking over old files and long cold clues, Max is a man in an emotional coma, shunning his […]
Any film starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich is surely going to be of interest. But when you throw in written, directed and produced by Ethan and Joel Coen – well, you’ve got a smash hit before you start. After the dark and enigmatic No Country For Old Men, this is a return […]
Where would you start to explore the complexities of relations between Palestinian and Israeli people living around the occupied West Bank? Any story would surely run the risk – like the politics of the area – of getting bogged down in the trenches of history. Israeli Director Eras Riklas decided not to take sides with […]
If you’ve ever seen Dane Cook in full flight as a stand up comedian – perhaps on YouTube, his website, or on television - you’ll be surprised to know that he’s more than a tad reserved. “As a kid I would have loved to have been just shy”, says Cook. “I was way beyond that. […]
Set to become one of the least popular films of the year, Babylon A.D. is a dystopian science fiction tale based on the French cyber-punk novel Babylon Babies. The journey from page to screen – passing through the pens of four writers and a director who publicly condemned his producers for reducing the film to […]
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