movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jun 01
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen are friskily inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey; and more…
Marion Cotillard
Allied movie review: movie spies with delicious old-fashioned mystique
An elegant potboiler that judiciously balances psychological and physical suspense, one that feels like a romantic drama from WWII only recently rediscovered.
87th Academy Awards: the Oscar nominees (and winners) for 2015
Now with winners indicated.
Two Days, One Night movie review: on the coins of a dilemma
A genuine horror story, sweaty with a palpable ring of truth about the unending fear that accompanies life on the knife edge of financial despair.
Blood Ties trailer: should I be depressed, or optimistic?
Great cast, but maybe it’s the same-old sameness that’s keep this from getting a major release? Could that be a reason to hope?
those Asylum mockbuster people have stepped on the wrong hairy hobbit toes (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) (London Film Festival review)
The rather depressingly realistic approach to adult relationships is, perhaps ironically, the best reason to see this hard-edged drama…
Rust and Bone (trailer)
I always love when trailers for non-English-language films feel like they need to distract viewers from the reality that they will have to read subtitles…
London photo of the day: cleaning up after the Batman
The aftermath of the Dark Knight Rises premiere in Leicester Square earlier this evening.
Midnight in Paris (review)
Midnight in Paris becomes the butt of its own gentle joke… perhaps the most Woody Allen joke ever, one that wraps up a paralyzing self-awareness in a redemptive self-deprecation to, finally and splendidly, laugh with great good humor at itself.
