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Film review: The Great Gatsby

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:05:19 GMT

COMPOSED like a fashion shoot, Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby is so full of spectacle that it risks missing the point of Fitzgerald’s story.

Film reviews: Fast & Furious 6 | A Hijacking | The Liability

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:14:06 GMT

ALISTAIR Harkness reviews the week’s cinema releases.

Film review: Mud

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:41:37 GMT

BARELY a month seems to go by at the moment without Matthew McConaughey delivering a brilliant and surprising performance.

Arts blog: Hannibal taking bite out of cinema | Twitter plays

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:33:05 GMT

ALISTAIR Harkness finds further evidence that American TV is outperforming the US film industry, while Andrew Eaton-Lewis discusses the art of creating a drama in 140 characters.

JJ Abrams on controlling Star Wars and Star Trek

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:20:02 GMT

AS Star Trek Into Darkness beams into cinemas, director JJ Abrams - also the man helming Star Wars VII – tells Alistair Harkness what it’s like to be master of two universes

Ashley Jensen on new family film All Stars

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:59:18 GMT

ASHLEY Jensen is reflecting on a bizarre thought she had recently.

Film reviews: Dead Man Down | Chimpanzee | All Stars | 21 And Over

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:53:53 GMT

THIS American debut for Danish director Niels Arden Oplev (who made the soporific Swedish version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is the cinematic equivalent of wading through sludge.

Film review: I’m so excited

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:48:05 GMT

PEDRO Almodóvar’s latest begins with a disclaimer that what we’re about to see is a fantasy and bears no relation to reality.

DVD reviews: Life of Pi | The Great Gatsby (1974)

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:22:29 GMT

THERE’S no denying that Life of Pi is a marvel of modern filmmaking technology. Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yan Martel’s tale of an Indian boy adrift at sea with only a Bengal tiger for company is a reminder of how cinema can sometimes work wonders on material previously thought unfilmable.

Film reviews: The Look of Love | The Gatekeepers | The ABCs of Death | Flying Blind

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:29:13 GMT

Alistair Harkness reviews the latest releases

Film review: Iron Man 3

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:25:02 GMT

IN MARVEL’S efforts to set up last year’s Avengers Assemble, Iron Man ended up being the biggest casualty.

Film review: Bernie

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:22:59 GMT

CINEMA is littered with smooth, seductive killers whose charms belie their murderous intentions, but it’s hard to think as one as sweet or benign-seeming as the eponymous protagonist of Richard Linklater’s new film, Bernie.