It’s been a long while since a really great courtroom drama hit the big screen (Erin Brockovich in 2000 perhaps?), and this one isn’t going to change that verdict. A slick but uncharismatic cat-and-mouse game between maverick lawyer and rich client, The Lincoln Lawyer is too much courtroom and too little drama, and far too […]
You may shed tears of sadness more than once as the images wash over you, but there’s no denying the astonishing power of this intense film about death, life, living and dying. Featuring Javier Bardem in a moving role that has showered him with awards and an Oscar nomination, Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu (Amores Perros, […]
A delightful charmer of a film, Griff The Invisible is a small and touching romance between two of the most captivating space cadets you’ll ever see. Meet Griff (Ryan Kwanten), an awkward shipping clerk who believes himself a crime-fighting superhero, and Melody (Maeve Dermody) who spends most of her time in her bedroom studying physics, […]
It seems as if Matt Damon is everywhere – playing clairvoyant in Hereafter, bounty hunter in True Grit and man on the run in The Adjustment Bureau. He lends his name and a calm voiceover to Inside Job, a documentary that unravels the utterly derelict morality at the heart of the Global Financial Crisis – […]
The compelling concept - that there are grey-suited bureaucratic angels loitering with clipboards to make sure we stick to life’s preordained plan - just doesn’t translate into a compelling film, despite the attraction of A-listers Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Writer/director George Nolfi (who wrote Oceans Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum) turns a short story […]
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