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So, Cloud Atlas is a bit of a departure for Hugh Grant
Maurice (1987) The Dawning (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) Remando al viento (1988) The Bengali Night (1988) Impromptu (1991) Bitter Moon (1992) Sirens (1993) The Remains of the Day (1993)...
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I demand to know why I didn’t see John Hawkes’s penis this morning
I went to see Sundance sensation (and plucky Oscar hopeful) The Sessions this morning, and despite my cynicism going in — it is a Fox Searchlight film after all — I was promptly won over by what is,...
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An ode to the humble video shop
I’m no technophobe when it comes to movie rental. I cherish my Netflix account and the instant access it gives me to an extensive library of HD, 5.1 surround sound films with an intensity otherwise...
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Bonkers movie tie-in of the week: Jessie J’s ‘Silver Lining’
As if the international marketing of Silver Linings Playbook hadn’t already strayed far enough from David O. Russell’s bland but nonetheless particular vision, along comes the video for Jessie J’s...
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There aren’t enough photo shoots like this one any more
It seems like every interview you read in a movie magazine nowadays is accompanied by an image of an A-list actor standing in front of a sombre grey backdrop, wearing an artfully dishevelled blue...
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The poster for Star Trek Into Darkness looks a little familiar
Q: Which of the above images is the newly-released first poster for J. J. Abram’s megabudgeted USS Enterprise romp Star Trek Into Darkness?
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Place your bets, Lincoln’s here and so is the Oscar race
A few months ago I joined the London Film Critics’ Circle, a century-old association representing more than a hundred of the UK’s most esteemed film critics, Christopher Tookey and me. Each January,...
View ArticleThe bit in Les Misérables where Anne Hathaway sings ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ is...
More and more, I’m beginning to realise that I don’t really care whether a film is wholly good. If Silver Linings Playbook is basically solid throughout but lacks a single moment as visceral, honest...
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Scum of the Middle-earth
There’s a depressing moment about six minutes into The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when the character of Smaug — the malevolent dragon antagonist of Peter Jackson’s new $450m Middle-earth trilogy —...
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When was the last time Helena Bonham Carter got out of a car?
I think we can all agree that Helena Bonham Carter’s career is not the lively array of complex and fascinating characters it once threatened to become. Over the last ten years, we’ve seen the...
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Earlier this year, 35 people decided which films it is and isn’t okay for you...
There’s been much said in the last couple of weeks about the BBFC’s announcement that they’re tightening their sexual violence policy in accordance with a study carried out on their behalf earlier...
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Five title treatments I’m liking quite a bit at the moment
With all this talk of Oscar contenders and Daniel Day-Lewis performances, it can be easy at this time of year to forget about the little things that make filmmaking great. Little things like great...
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Ten reasons why the teen movies of 1995–2004 were like, totally the best, ever.
As victims followers of the Ultra Culture twitter feed may already be aware, last weekend I launched a Kickstarter page (I know, I know) for a feature-length documentary I’m trying to make called...
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An interview with Alice Sanders, audio describer to the stars
Most people’s experience of Audio Description extends no further than glimpsing the initials AD in a cinema brochure and assuming they’re there to acknowledge the sheer quantity of adverts that now...
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Five festive treats from the warped Christmas world of ABC Family
Since its relaunch in November 2001, the ABC Family network has offered good, Christian families across the United States an embarrassment of festive viewing options each and every December, as part of...
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The Girl with the lecherous creep for a director
I can’t tell you anything about Hitchcock — the upcoming Sacha Gervasi-directed Alfred Hitchcock biopic that, whatever else, will retain the title of 2012′s Best Trailer — just yet, because it’s...
View ArticleMore hobbity antics from Elijah Wood in the new trailer for Maniac
This might not last long on YouTube (ironically because of the breasts at 0:31 rather than the scalping at 1:29) so clear a couple of minutes from your schedule today and check it out. Based on the...
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Poetic justice in action: Project X is the most pirated movie of 2012
The Cristal must have been o’erflowing the pimp cup over at Warner Brothers HQ last week as the news came through. According to a report by TorrentFreak, Project X — their anti-establishment,...
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