It isn’t easy to make a good film out of the pulp fiction of Jim Thompson. Burt Kennedy first tried to adapt this story in 1976 and came a cropper... more
Renée Zellweger does her best to move from nasty townie thruster to sympathetic would-be country bumpkin in New In Town. But it doesn't really work.... more
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
The crisis which has engulfed America and Britain this week is slowly but surely arriving in Paris. But for once, there is no schadenfreude about the misery Americans are suffering... more
Hollywood star Brad Pitt jetted into Italy today ahead of the opening of the Venice film festival. The star made it a family affair, bringing along his two eldest sons seven-year-old Maddox and Pax, four.... more
It was a spine tingling moment that capped an extraordinary evening for British Oscar winner Daniel-Day Lewis. Having just been announced as Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, the London-born actor was 'knighted' by last year's British success story, Dame Helen Mirren. Imitating the famous pose on stage at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, Day-Lewis joked about her performance as the Queen, saying: 'This is the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you'
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There's something about the casual offing of victims in No Country for Old Men that makes critic Liz Hoggard think of boys pulling the legs off flies for sport.... more
Javier Bardem is terrifying as the psychopath who loves blowing out people's brains in No Country for Old Men, a blood-splattered piece of classic cinema.... more
No Country for Old Men is one of the Coens' most violent films, but that won't stop it at the Oscars. It's about a man in an unforgiving world, say Joel and Ethan, it has to be brutal.... more
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