Tag Archives: Carey Mulligan

DVD review | Drive – Ryan Gosling is the new ‘King of Cool’ in this turbo-charged noir thriller

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Jason Best

Oozing attitude and dripping with charisma, Ryan Gosling proved himself a worthy heir to Steve McQueen as the nameless hero at the wheel of this terrific, precision-tooled thriller – my top film of 2011. A laconic tough guy who is … Continue reading →

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Film review | Shame – Michael Fassbender bares all in McQueen’s searing tale of sex, lies and emotional pain

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Jason Best

Following their critically acclaimed 2008 film Hunger about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen (no relation) reunite for a project that is almost as controversial – a fearless, unblinking, full-frontal portrait of a sex addict. … Continue reading →

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Film review | Drive – Ryan Gosling gets behind the wheel in a precision-tooled new noir thriller

Posted on 24 September 2011 by Jason Best

Ryan Gosling’s nameless hero in Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish thriller Drive is a type you’ll have encountered before, in everything from Westerns to films noirs: the laconic tough guy who is calm on the surface, tightly-coiled beneath; the lone wolf … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 18 February 2011 by Dean & Ellen

Gnomeo & Juliet Wrong side of the fence… James McAvoy and Emily Blunt voice two garden gnomes in this animated spin on Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player … Continue reading →

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Love-in at the London Film Festival opening night gala screening of Never Let Me Go

Posted on 14 October 2010 by Jason Best

It was a big love-in on stage at the Odeon Leicester Square last night before the screening of Never Let Me Go, the gala opening of this year’s BFI London Film Festival. First director Mark Romanek welcomed the film’s stars … Continue reading →

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Gordon ‘Greed is good’ Gekko is back. But is he now a dinosaur?

Posted on 8 October 2010 by Jason Best

Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street wasn’t a great movie but it was uncannily timely. Appearing in cinemas a mere two months after Black Monday precipitated the decade’s financial crash, it boasted an era-defining performance from Michael Douglas as monstrous … Continue reading →

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson’s gripping crime thriller on screen

Posted on 19 July 2010 by Jason Best

Those of you with an aversion to subtitles will have to wait until 2012 for David Fincher’s Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The rest of us can meanwhile enjoy this excellent adaptation of Swedish writer Stieg … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Carey Mulligan! Does a tattooed future await?

Posted on 28 May 2010 by Jason Best

Carey Mulligan did such a good job playing a worldly teenager in An Education that it came as a shock to learn that she’s 25 today. Happy birthday Carey! I’m looking forward to seeing her as Michael (Gordon Gekko) Douglas’s … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | An Education – Carey Mulligan’s Jenny learns lessons in life & love

Posted on 8 March 2010 by Jason Best

Rising star Carey Mulligan won a well-deserved Bafta and an Oscar nomination for her pitch-perfect performance as the teenage protagonist of sharp, smart, witty coming-of-age drama An Education. Scripted by Nick Hornby from the memoir by journalist Lynn Barber, the … Continue reading →

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Awards Season | The Oscars 2010 – Who will win? Who should win?

Posted on 4 March 2010 by Jason Best

Who’s going to scoop the big prizes at this year’s Oscars? The voters’ ballots are all in and the accountants are currently doing the counting. Will James Cameron’s Avatar leave the other contenders feeling blue? Or will Kathryn Bigelow’s The … Continue reading →

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