In Conversation with Jim Broadbent
Alison Hicks shares the highlights of Jim Broadbent’s closing talk at the excellent Watersprite Film Festival.
Alison Hicks shares the highlights of Jim Broadbent’s closing talk at the excellent Watersprite Film Festival.
A fifty-something couple on a mini-break: sounds a bit beige. But LE WEEK-END moves in whimsical waves of bohemia, writes Alison Hicks.
FILTH is a superbly lurid and comedically pitch-black spiral into a man’s mental hell, with James McAvoy on perhaps his best form to date.
TIME BANDITS is the first in Gilliam’s trilogy which also includes BRAZIL and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Picturehouse’s “Culture Shock” strand brought the remastered BANDITS to Cambridge.
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present.” CLOUD ATLAS weaves together of six intertwining narratives which don’t quite tie up satisfactorily, writes Florence Smith-Nicholls.
Steve Williams reports back from the 66th Edinburgh film festival, which opened with a wipe-the-floor-with-’em red-carpet opening gala for William Friedkin’s new film KILLER JOE and its assembled firmament of stars.
Meryl Streep has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Thatch in THE IRON LADY. Better justified is the nomination for Best Makeup, says Keith Braithwaite.