Palo Alto review: a little aimless, but then again, aren’t all teenagers?The latest member of the Coppola clan to get behind a camera delivers a debut that feels very much in the family tradition.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:54
The Babadook: a truly, madly, creepy film debutAustralian writer-director Jennifer Kent has created a truly sinister slice of cinema with her debut movie ‘The Babadook’. ‘For me, the entry point was the idea of facing the unfaceable,’ she tellsTara BradyFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Overnighters review: a compelling portrait of the best and worst of humanityThe Overnighters is a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling - and as an important snapshot of the new Great Depression.Fri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
The Battles of Coronel and Falklands Islands review: prescient naval gazingThis dramatisation of two major sea battles of the first World War uncannily prefigures the future of both cinema and conflictFri Oct 17 2014 - 00:00
Ballet at the movies: A poetic dance across the silver screenAhead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet companyWed Oct 15 2014 - 16:00
The top 50 films on Netflix, October 2014The classics section is surprisingly small, and the same schlock keeps coming up again and again, but there are plenty of movie gems lurking around NetflixFri Oct 10 2014 - 14:18
Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones fame: ‘People have a sense of ownership about you . . . And I think, how do you know? This is exactly who I am. F**k you’School’s a challenge, Twitter’s a minefield and growing up in public is no picnic. But Games of Thrones star Maisie Williams wears her adolescent fury wellFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
The Maze Runner review: A young adult epic failBuff actors? Formulaic and incomprehensible plot? Must be the the latest dystopian YA sci-fi movieFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
The Great Train Robbery’s Irish mastermindHalf a century after the famous heist, one of the two survivors has spilled the beans on Patrick McKenna, a Belfast-born postmasterSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
Sam Reid plays it posh again but has sights on less plummy partsSam Reid seems to have a monopoly on posh English parts. A soldiering stint is next for the Australian actorSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
David Fincher, the unflinching auteurNoted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’Fri Oct 03 2014 - 04:02
David Fincher, the unflinching auteurNoted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’Fri Oct 03 2014 - 00:00
Salvatore Giuliano review: a complex portrait of Sicily’s citizens, the Mafia and the governmentFri Sept 26 2014 - 03:00
Billy Connolly: he's not your average 71-year-oldThe comedian was diagnosed with prostate cancer on the same day he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but it seems nothing can stop the Big Yin laughingThu Sept 25 2014 - 01:00
Nick Cave: ‘As long as I can remember I’ve had a pre-disposition toward violent thought’On the eve of the release of the documentary ‘20,000 Days on Earth’, Nick Cave talks life, music and his Aussie sense of humourFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00
Film choice: Night Will Fall - too important to missAndre Singer film tells the remarkable story of the footage shot by the Allies of Nazi Concentration Camps in 1945, and how it took 70 years to make it to screenFri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00
Despite the homogeneous onslaught, quality can still make it at the box officeFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
A Spell to Ward off the Darkness review: a too-dreamy search for the spiritualFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Down By Law review: character, style and atmosphere from a contemporary masterFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
In Order of Disappearance review: revenge, Norwegian-style, served up ice-cold and bloodyFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Christina Noble: “We talk about abortion and there’s an uproar. But what about the billions of children that are already out there?”Christina Noble emerged from a tough upbringing and a turbulent marriage to start a foundation that works with children in southeast Asia. As a new movie about her remarkable life opens, the humanitarian worker talks to Tara BradyFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
Dan Stevens: "A lot of my school reports as a child said I should stop distracting others"You know him as the ever-so-nice Matthew on Downton Abbey, but he’s toned up and turned into an all-American bad boy for The Guest. ‘It has been nice to take the stiff collar off for a bit’Fri Sept 05 2014 - 00:00
EP14 on the box: a slightly truncating experienceThere was plenty of cheerleading and in-jokes - but omission was the central theme of Saturday night's TV coverage of Electric PicnicMon Sept 01 2014 - 06:30
A whole new pitch as Jon Hamm faces life after DonAs the end approaches for Mad Men, Hamm takes his biggest film role yet, in baseball movie Million Dollar Arm. He talks about success, his sporting life, and ‘curious’ Daniel RadcliffeFri Aug 29 2014 - 01:00
Kelly Reichardt: cinema’s slow hand lights the fuseIn her latest, America’s ‘film-maker poet laureate’ is – oh no! – having a go at eco-warriors: ‘We had to put our own political agendas aside and hunker down’Fri Aug 29 2014 - 00:00
Oh my GAD! Guardians outfoxes the big guns and the little guys – but not D'MammyFri Aug 22 2014 - 10:36
