★★★★★ Award-winning Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a Cannes favourite since his debut film Koza won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film in 1995, so it came as little surprise when his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), walked away with Grand Jury Prize Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Mark Wahlberg returns to UK screens this week in Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s US box office-topping action thriller Contraband (2012) (a loose remake of 2008 film Reykjavík-Rotterdam), which also stars British actress Kate Beckinsale – star of the forthcoming 2012 Total Recall remake – and journeyman Ben Foster.Contraband tells Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ US director Cameron Crowe returns to narrative filmmaking this week with We Bought a Zoo (2012), giving the Hollywood treatment to the true story of British former Guardian journalist Benjamin Mee, who purchased a dilapidated zoo (in reality, Dartmoor Zoo, in the movie, Rosemoor Wildlife Park) with his family in Continue Reading
The word that would best describe new action comedy 21 Jump Street (2012) (released in UK cinemas this Friday) seems to be ‘unexpected’. From the R-rated comedy take on the original 1980s TV show premise to Channing Tatum’s hilarious deadpan comic performance, it’s a movie that constantly surprises. Who better, Continue Reading
★★★★☆ “They’re revamping a program from the eighties because they’ve got no creativity and they’re really fucking lazy.” Those are the words of an angry commissioner when he assigns rookie cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) to 21 Jump Street, the police force’s undercover unit for infiltrating high Continue Reading
