The Shaolin Temple – a 5th century monastery and now world heritage site in Eastern China – has been a rich source for storytellers for 1500 years. Repeatedly destroyed by warlords and rebuilt by Buddhist monks – many of the fables that surround the Temple come from its long association with martial arts – in […]
Jim Broadbent is running late for the interview. His publicist is in a flap because he was due half an hour ago and his mobile phone is off. Not to worry I say, it will give me time to go through his incredible career again. I scan the details: born in Lincoln; both parents “artistic” […]
An intense and beguiling psychological thriller with an art-house soul, Black Swan continues director Darren Aronofsky’s obsession with characters throwing mind, soul and body on the line for the sake of their career. In his last film The Wrestler, it was Mickey Rourke who dragged himself over glass for a gruelling comeback, and here […]
Ambitious, sprawling and melodramatic, blood-and-bibles are added to a traditional sword-and-sandals epic centered on 4th century mathematician and philosopher Hypatia, a woman caught up in the religious politics of Alexandria as Greco-Roman Antiquity gives way to the force of fundamental Christianity.
Director Tony Scott must have had a lot of fun directing his last film The Taking of Pelham 123 – an action thriller about a train careering through the subways of New York. A year later and he’s back on the tracks – this time with a monster of a locomotive at the centre of […]
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