Opera tends to pass a large portion of the general public by completely unnoticed. I’ll let that statement shock the opera lovers among you, but it happens to be true. One of the few exceptions to this rule, however, was Luciano Pavarotti. He was no oil painting, he lacked anything resembling sex appeal, but he […]
A shortish middle-aged dentist with a bowel problem as leading man? Well, however unlikely it may seem, some wonderfully fresh comic writing and some carefully understated performances – particularly from Ricky Gervais – make the idea work wonderfully in this light but very funny romantic comedy about unfinished business.
You may have never heard of Guy Maddin. He’s one of those filmmakers who has crept round the edges of the establishment for years, delighting audiences at film festivals and building a sophisticated cult following. Heavily influenced by the filmmaking techniques of the 1920’s and 1930’s, his work is dreamy poetry, touching sensuous melodrama that’s […]
It’s preposterous, it’s over the top and it’s pure entertainment – transporting you for a couple of hours to the cheeky, attention-deficit-disordered (and very boys-only) world of French filmmaker Luc Besson. Back as the well-dressed and muscle-bound courier is Jason Statham - who seems to crank out versions of himself with great regularity – usually […]
Gritty, grim and hand-held on the outside but determined to be epic on the inside, Gavin O’Connor’s Pride & Glory combines some wonderful performances from its A-list cast with an overly long and erratic screenplay to produce a predictable cop-corruption story of brothers on either side of the law. Opening with a crime scene where […]
Great art is sometimes difficult viewing, and such is Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a film that will be remembered as Mickey Rourke’s greatest screen triumph as he suffers his way physically and emotionally through a simple story of persistence. Rourke is Randy “The Ram” Robinson – an ageing wrestler who was top of his game […]
When you have a hit film in Hollywood, the world is your oyster. Studio executives, desperate to secure your services, hoping for the taint of your success to rub off on them, bend over backwards to lure you to sign with their studios and make them rich. Nothing you want is too much. Solid gold […]
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