At the start of The Fellowship of the Ring, an elderly Bilbo tells Gandalf that he feels ‘thin… stretched, like butter scraped...
Christopher Nolan’s latest epic is a captivating, spectacular and often moving piece of film-making, but its great strengths serve to accentuate its...
The shot opens with protagonist Michael Fassbender running at night through the glowing streets of Manhattan, determined yet directionless. The camera follows...
Filmed over a period of twelve years with the same actors, Boyhood is the story of Mason’s experience of life in his...
The huge critical and commercial success of the awkwardly-titled Dreamworks animation How To Train Your Dragon was quite a surprise when it...
When future generations look up the word ‘dour’, they will peruse their dictionaries only to find the directions see Russell Crowe in...
Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), Under the Skin is a psychological science-fiction art film about an inhuman predator, played by Scarlett...
The Wolf of Wall Street is the true story (now apparently a necessity in the Oscar season) of the rise and fall...
American Hustle, directed by David O’ Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), is the story of two successful con-artists Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser,...
12 Years a Slave is the true story of Solomon Northup (played with unremitting intensity by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a ‘free negro’, who...