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★★☆☆☆ Director Justin Chadwick presents his protracted and ultimately disappointing biopic portraying the life of South Africa’s first democratically elected leader with Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) – and what a trudge it is. Charting the rise of the […]
★☆☆☆☆ A quartet of venerable Hollywood greats come together to play supposed lifelong friends staging one last hurrah in Jon Turteltaub’s much delayed comedy Last Vegas (2013). Surely a modicum of enjoyment is there to be derived from this admittedly […]
★★★★☆ Amalgamating the best aspects of previous films The Fighter (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012) whilst dispensing with a lot of the emotional baggage that dragged both down after engaging first halves, David O. Russell now hits top form […]
★★☆☆☆ One of the more eyebrow-raising nominees for last year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, French director Arnaud des Pallières’ Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013) sees European cinema darling Mads Mikkelsen star as the vengeful equine breeder in […]
Happy New Year and a warm welcome to 2014! The last twelve months have offered up some mighty fine works to suit all cinematic tastes, from barn-storming Hollywood blockbusters such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Star Trek Into […]
The end is nigh! After some spectacular highs (that party scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s majestic The Great Beauty) and some ludicrous lows (Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Diana – enough said), the year that dares to call itself 2013 is swiftly drawing to […]