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Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are superb actors who manage, in this film, to persuade the audience that they have been together for thirty years. During a weekend in Paris to ‘celebrate’ this achievement, they go through an arc of …
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege. Alan Partridge …
The director is Pablo Berger, who created the downbeat satire Torremolinos 73. He finds new life and heart in the old Snow White tale – certainly more than the recent Hollywood retreads – and daringly locates possibilities for both evil and …
Watching Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof battle it out, in words and in a near wrestling match near the end of the film, is a supreme pleasure. Beatrice is a tough-talkin’ dame like Carole Lombard or Katharine Hepburn, and Benedick is an independent irritable guy, reminiscent of Cary Grant or William Powell …one of the best films of the year.
A believable coming-of-age comedy is a rare thing in the kaleidoscopic, pluralistic West. Even rarer is that a film that dares to be honest about the folly of our times and the superficiality and artificiality of our relationships without resorting …