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Despite all its crazy plotting, frantic direction and overwrought music, Angels & Demons (2009) is mostly dull and dreary, with little grip on its story and characters and hardly any first-rate performances, even from Tom Hanks, Stellan […]
In writer-director David Mackenzie’s 2003 film Young Adam, Ewan McGregor gives his best, most convincing performance in ages, back in his native Scottish accent and setting, and truly inhabiting his character as a young drifter […]
Gwyneth Paltrow as the endlessly interfering Emma Woodhouse and Jeremy Northam as her eventual true love Mr Knightley are splendid in what had been the long awaited film of Jane Austen’s dazzlingly brilliant novel. The […]
Fancy a musical? Come to that, fancy Ewan McGregor or Nicole Kidman? All three are here in this 2001 firecracker as you’ve never seen them before, all-singing, all-dancing in an outrageously flamboyant show set in […]
Writer-director Mark Herman’s 1996 British comedy drama is thoughtful and amusing and was deservedly highly popular. It follows the fortunes of a Yorkshire colliery brass band as its members struggle for both musical and personal […]
Written and directed by Mark Herman, this is an uneasy transfer to film of a great night out at London’s National Film Theatre – Jim Cartwright’s musical play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. […]
That old cynic, director Tim Burton, gets in touch with his sentimental inner self in this posh, stylish, and marvellous-looking fantasy heart-warmer from 2003. It’s a quirky winner, but, oh, how you miss the really […]