★★★☆☆ Raking in some serious dough at this summer’s box office, Paul Feig’s follow-up to his equally lucrative mega-hit Bridesmaids (2011) once again takes that riotous comedy model and captures it from a distinctly female perspective. Using the traditionally masculine and male-dominated buddy cop movie as the basis this time Continue Reading
★★★★☆ The phenomenal success of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2013) would appear to be the contributing factor behind Stefano Incerti’s 2010 drama finally seeing the distribution light of day over here in the UK. Like the former, this film also stars the great Toni Servillo, but any further similarities Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ You could be forgiven for thinking, if you hadn’t seen the first Despicable Me (2010), that the subtler nuances of Despicable Me 2 (2013) might be lost on you. Well worry not. This animated follow-up from directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Continue Reading
★★★★☆ After receiving a ten-minute standing ovation at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) arrives on DVD this week. Based on the play of the same name and co-written by actor Johan Heldenbergh, this Belgian title tells the story of a relationship from beginning to end, Continue Reading
★★★★★ *May contain spoilers* The ‘cold open’ is a tradition of American television. A brief scene that takes place before the opening credits, it offers a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come. AMC’s Breaking Bad turned the cold open into an art, with impressionistic, often obtuse images that captured the Continue Reading
★★★★★ In Indonesia between 1965 and 1966, and following a failed coup attempt against the Sukharno government, military and paramilitary groups killed over 500,000 people in a bloody purge of suspected communists and ethnic Chinese. The killings paved the way for Suharto’s thirty-year military dictatorship and are still celebrated today Continue Reading