The Last Stand Having ditched politics (at least officially), Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best, ludicrous, NRA-approved, gun-worshipping action movies. In The Last Stand he’s back playing a noble, heroic, skull-stomping, right-wing authority figure blowing away those evil non-Americans. He’s Sheriff Ray Owens who presides over the Arizona back blocks town of Somerton. Police work in Somerton usually
Read moreClearly encouraged by the phenomenal success of the Twilight series, writer director Richard La Grevanese tries to capture that lucrative mix of teen romance and supernatural horror in his adaptation of Kami Garcia’s novel Beautiful Creatures. For some this will be a daunting prospect as the Twilight films weren’t exactly artistic triumphs. Thankfully, Beautiful Creatures undercuts the typical tedious po-faced
Read moreCirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3d brings the famed Canadian theatre circus to the cinema screen. The film comprises a selection of segments from their various live shows which are loosely connected by the romantic story of a young woman (the pixie-like Erica Linz) entering a circus fantasy world to search for a bare-chested muscleman acrobat (Igor Zaripov). The story
Read moreMichael Hanneke’s Amour is a grim Bergmanesque story of two elderly people confronting mortality, human frailty and agonising moral choices. Emmanuel Riva and Jean Louis Trintignant play Anna and Georges an older Parisienne couple seemingly enjoying a life of financially secure retirement. When Anna begins to exhibit odd behaviour it becomes apparent she has had a stroke. As her condition
Read moreAnna Karenina is the latest production for Working Title the company who are best known for very British romantic comedies like Love Actually and Bridget Jones Diary. While more serious in tone than any of those films, this take on Leo Tolstoy’s romantic epic set in imperial Russia is still a quirky one. What first strikes us about this version
Read moreThe Academy Awards screen this Sunday and Built For Speed will give their predictions for winners in all the major categories. We’ll also take a look at some new cinema releases including the violent adaptation of 70’s Brit cop show The Sweeney and the astonishing documentary West of Memphis. There’s also plenty of new music with Abbe May, The Bronx
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