THERE aren’t too many directors whose new releases are ‘event’ movies in their own right, never mind the intriguing coupling of two stars like Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in a 1930s’ gangster thriller.
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TWO of Mexico’s best actors, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, are reunited for the first time since the Oscar-nominated hit which shot them to fame in 2002, Y Tu Mama Tambien.
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LETTING the director of Groundhog Day loose on a film that’s been produced by Knocked Up’s Judd Apatow might have seemed like a good idea at the time, at the time, at the time.
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BY A STRANGE coincidence, I first saw this film back-to-back with British music drama Telstar – which ends in exactly the same shotgun fashion that Sunshine Cleaning begins.
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THE TRAGIC story of Britain’s equivalent to Phil Spector is the heartbeat of a 60s period movie that’s only playing at the Erdington and Dudley Showcases.
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THE 2007 mega hit Transformers bludgeoned its way to Oscar nominations for sound, sound editing and visual effects after grossing more than $700 million worldwide.
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IMAGINE a cross between French rape shocker Base-moi, Eden Lake and the (not-so) Funny Games, and you’ll get an impression of how unsettling this film is.
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AFTER a spell in Hollywood making films like Mission: Impossible II, director John Woo returns to his roots to make the most expensive Chinese language film ever.
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