Working on the basis that sacred cows make the juiciest steaks, Brit comedian and satirist Chris Morris applies his dark and biting humour to the topic of terrorism, in this tale of a bumbling group of Muslim suicide bombers from Sheffield. Tackling a subject as sensitive as this might seem like a dangerous mission for […]
Stanley Kubrick described Jim Thompson’s book The Killer Inside Me as ‘the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind’ he’d ever read. British film director Micheal Winterbottom, who’s just turned that book into a feature film starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, agrees. “It is a great book, a […]
There’s a well-worn complaint amongst actors that great roles for women over forty are almost impossible to find and, when they do emerge from the green-lit rooms of film production, they frequently involve the Demi Moore’s and Catherine Zeta Jones’ of this world playing women much younger than themselves. Whilst it’s not really been a […]
For much of this film, there is a naive charm that makes you want to forgive the glacial pace of the storytelling and the terribly theatrical performances (and the scratchy print that I watched, which undermined the stunning beauty of the Nepalese landscape on the big screen). What’s harder to excuse however, is the film’s […]
She has a pilot’s license, speaks German, travelled the world as a teenage model, and married a Hollywood star. It seems that life couldn’t get much sweeter for Jacinda Barrett, born and raised in Brisbane. Yet the actress, who has a house in Los Angeles and who has played opposite leading men like John Travolta, […]
After exploring life behind royal curtains in The Queen, changing-room politics in English soccer with The Damned United, and the man-to-man drama of the television interview in Frost/Nixon, screenwriter Peter Morgan has turned his attention to Anglo-American affairs in a study of Tony Blair and the way he and Bill Clinton navigated the politics of […]
When Ewan McGregor found out that Roman Polanski was interested in casting him in his new film, he was completely gobsmacked. “It was so weird, because I hadn’t ever considered I would work with him,” says the actor in voice so soft and warm that it could sell Scotch whisky by the truckload. “I had […]
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