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Interview: Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is not the sort of actor you expect to be riddled with doubts.
Review: Chronicle (12A) ***
As weakling Peter Parker discovered to his cost before his transformation into web-spinning superhero Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility.
Review: Carnage (15) ****
Two couples agree to meet and sort through the issues surrounding a fight between their two sons.
How Hollywood played it safe again with Oscar line-up
I’m feeling a tad short-changed by Tuesday’s Oscar nominations. And I’m not alone.
Review: The Descendants (15) *****
The range of emotions on display in The Descendants hints at the emotional complexity of Alexander (Sideways) Payne’s engrossing script (with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings) and the adroit playing of George Clooney, surely a cert to win this year’s Oscar as best actor.
Review: Man on a Ledge (PG) ***
Unlike Snakes on a Plane, which did exactly what it said on the tin, Man on a Ledge is a quietly subversive thriller in which the main event is not the titular character threatening suicide but instead a carefully concealed robbery going on nearby.
Review: Like Crazy (12A) ****
Falling in love is just as frighteningly easy as falling out again in Drake Doremus’s low-budget romance.
Review: A Monster in Paris (U) ***
A GIANT flea nurtures a passion for music in Bibo Bergeron’s computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.
Interview: Felicity Jones
In a couple of years, Felicity Jones has travelled from Ambridge to the brink of Hollywood. Jeananne Craig meets the actress who is being touted as Britain’s next rising star.
Thatcher role puts Streep in line to bag Oscar
It was almost 30 years ago that Meryl Streep won her first Oscar for Best Actress.
Interview: Ralph Fiennes
Shakespeare meets The Hurt Locker in Ralph Fiennes’s uncompromising take on Coriolanus. He spoke to film critic Tony Earnshaw.
Review: J. Edgar (15) ****
He was the driven, single-minded mummy’s boy whose vision built the colossus that was and remains the FBI. But who was J Edgar Hoover really? An enigma and control freak throughout his 48 years in power, he remains a shadowy figure.
Review: W.E. (15) ***
Arriving so soon after the barnstorming, garlanded, multi Oscar-winning The King’s Speech, Madonna’s across-the-decades portrait of the destructive, all-consuming affair between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson is bound to emerge as a drama of lesser power, size and scope.
Review: Coriolanus (15) ****
The 15 producers’ names on the credits of Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus hint at the difficulty in funding and delivering modern-dress Shakespearian films in this age of comic book movies.
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Interview: Michael Fassbender
A staunch advocate of method acting, Michael Fassbender dropped to just nine stone to play Bobby Sands in the 2008 biopic of the IRA terrorist’s hunger strike.
Exploring the special relationship between film and music
The movie Jaws is a modern classic – but would it have had quite the same effect without the simple score, the der-der/der-der/der-der-der-der-der that announced the arrival of the Great White terror?
Review: Margin Call (15) ***
As the current financial crisis attests, money makes the world go round and when the flow of capital is restricted, the ripple effect is felt from one continent to the next.
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The Dullest Hour would be a more fitting summation of Chris Gorak’s special effects-laden thriller, which witnesses a devastating alien attack from the perspective of five young people trapped in Moscow.
Review: Shame (18) *****
A POWERFUL, cold story of obsession, Shame is the film that will propel Michael Fassbender into the big time as one of the great screen actors of his age.
Review: Haywire (15) ****
Haywire begins as it means to go on: with a teeth-rattling scrap between heroine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) and a bigger male opponent in a quiet American diner.
Review: War Horse (12A) ****
A MASTER storyteller like Steven Spielberg can nimbly skip betwixt rural Devon and the Western Front and make each panorama as vivid and authentic as the last. And War Horse is a mighty tale of tranquil peace turned cacophonous conflict with an equine hero whose story is told across multiple backdrops.
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