Under The Skin
Glasgow goes bizarro in Under The Skin, an arthouse sci-fi starring Scarlett Johansson as some sort of predatory alien disguised as a woman, driving round Scotland in search of men […]
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Big Eyes
Tim Burton’s new movie Big Eyes comes with a twist – it doesn’t feature a dead thing, a gnarly tree or Johnny Depp. That happens to be the only twist, and the […]
Citizenfour
Following last year’s revelations about the extent of the US and other governments’ spying on all communications, this insider documentary shows the process of Snowden going public, with footage of […]
Interstellar
Cooper (Matthew McCounaughey) and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy then Jessica Chastain) live in a dystopian future where proper first names have gone extinct. Also extinct are most crops, forcing […]
Get On Up
Produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Tate Taylor, Get On Up is the new biopic of James Brown (Chadwick Boseman). As in the Minister of New New Super Heavy […]
The Homesman
Tommy Lee Jones directs, co-writes and co-stars in pseudo-feminist Western The Homesman. The twist is that the Homesman is a woman. Hilary Swank plays Mary Bee Cuddy, a capable pioneer […]
Life Itself
Life Itself is an informative and moving documentary about Roger Ebert, the great film critic who died from cancer in April 2013. Based on and featuring excerpts from Ebert’s memoir of […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1
A bit after the events of Catching Fire, Catnip (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the hands of a rebel group, fighting President Snow (Donald Sutherland), ensconced deep in the Capitol of District 1. […]
The Imitation Game
I love Benedict Cumberbatch, because I’m a human and alive now – the two prerequisites for loving Benedict Cumberbatch. Once he was just a funny name, but now he’s the go-to […]
The Drop
The late James Gandolfini stars alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, in this engaging crime drama about a Brooklyn bartender (Hardy) whose bar is robbed and also finds a beaten dog […]
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