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  • Fruitvale Station

    We’ve heard this story before. Debut feature does well on the festival circuit, gets lauded at Sundance, bought by the Weinsteins, tipped for Oscars. There’s always one token indie every..



  • Dallas Buyers Club

    We’re all calling it a “McConnaissance” right? You know, a kind of critical resurgence of an actor whose name has become associated with fluffy rom-coms and posters in which he’s..


  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    Ben Stiller feels a bit old-hat in Hollywood terms now. Now it’s all Gosling this and Fassbender that, the days of the Frat Pack seem a distant memory, and indeed, you’d be unlikely to see anyone getting excited over a new Stiller movie, particularly a remake of a 1947 film starring Danny Kaye. However, The…


  • American Hustle

    David O. Russell directs movies like he’s just snorted a big line of cocaine and been told the camera is a Grand Theft Auto controller – the actors in his scenes spend most of their time trying not to get run over. Intensity. That’s what Russell has in spades, and it’s again on show in…