★★★☆☆ When gracing the cover of The Guardian’s weekend magazine recently, Nicolas Cage told the interviewer, Emma Brockes, that he would rather be considered a performer than an actor. Given some of the outlandish performances which have contributed to his reputation, it may be a slight disappointment that […]
★★★☆☆ Filmed before Danny Boyle’s celebrated opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games, yet released in cinemas earlier this year, Trance (2013) naturally arrived with high expectations. Top-lined by James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel, Boyle’s latest is the first Britain-set film the director has made […]
★★★☆☆ Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn have defied the conventional sobriety of a film about ‘the Troubles’ in their Belfast-set music biopic, Good Vibrations (2012). Without shying away from the darker aspects of the city in the 1970s, their story is concerned with one man who […]
★★★★★ The third season of Terence Winter and Timothy Van Patten’s epic Prohibition-era crime saga Boardwalk Empire heads to DVD and Blu-ray this week, picking up the narrative a whole 16 months after the cataclysmic finale of Season 2. Steve Buscemi reprises his lead role as bootlegging behemoth […]
