Jake Gyllenhaal has found a sympathetic artistic partner in a second Quebec filmmaker, Jean-Marc Vallée, in Demolition. Gyllenhaal’s two films with Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners and Enemy) showed how far he was willing to go beyond the mainstream to find richly meaningful projects. Demolition takes him even further. It’s a stunning piece about Davis Mitchell, a
For sheer force of writing, direction acting and story, British television simply can’t be beaten. For all the slick, soon-forgotten artificial sludge including reality that dominates North American prime time TV, there are British series to be celebrated and admired. My current favourite is the BBC’s Prisoners Wives, a superior limited series that sounds like
Michael Shannon does the heavy lifting in Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi yarn of Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a child with peculiar abilities. Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Nichols is racking up an enviable record of awards with only his first four films. The smartest thing Nichols does in making this film a
Zev Guttman is a man on a mission, but suffering such severe dementia at an advanced age he can hardly remember what it is. Guided by a written letter, he relies on those around him to refresh his memory. The memories are those of his family killed by the Nazi SS in the death
Emma Thompson, an outspoken advocate for women and children’s rights is focusing on the international human trafficking crisis. As part of her campaign to end the practice of selling women and children into sexual slavery, Thompson executive produced Sold, a heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful feature film. It is based on the true story of Lakshmi
Despite it balls-out, larger-than-life, brain-burning action hero delirium, DC’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has some moments of stunning beauty that are worth the eye strain and numb bum. It’s a concept that has a real stickiness; Batman sets out to end Superman. Seems Superman (Cavill) was present when a calamity in the desert
Helen Mirren stars in director Gavin Hood’s examination of the people who fight wars and the toll the fight takes on them. Appearing to be a war thriller featuring high tech drone aircraft, Guy Hibbert’s screenplay is actually a surgically accurate examination of the toll this new brand of warfare takes on its soldiers. The
Rudyard Kipling’s Shere Khan was never a nice character — and it’s no different in this new clip from Disney’s forthcoming adaptation of The Jungle Book. In the clip the tiger, voiced by Idris Elba, comes across mancub Mowgli next to a watering hole with the pack of Indian wolves that are raising him. But Shere
The trailer for upcoming movie Special Correspondents has just dropped – featuring comedy legend Ricky Gervais alongside Eric Bana in what promises to be one of the year’s funniest films. The story focuses on Bana’s Frank Bonneville, a local radio presenter, and his sound engineer Ian Finch (Gervais), as they transmit fake war reports across
The new trailer for Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe movie The Nice Guys is out – and it’s one of the funniest you’ll see all year. The comedy, out May 20, sees Gosling play a private detective with his enforcer buddy Crowe as they try to solve a crime that turns out more complex than they could possibly