Tag Archives: Christoph Waltz

Film review | Carnage – It isn’t pretty when the mask of politeness slips

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Jason Best

Human nature red-in-tooth-and-claw is stripped bare in Carnage, Roman Polanski’s darkly comic screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s hit stage play God of Carnage, a wickedly satirical four-hander in which two ostensibly well-mannered middle-class couples meet on polite terms to patch … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Three Musketeers – All for One and One for All… and All over the place

Posted on 14 October 2011 by Jason Best

With his Resident Evil series still coining it at the box-office, director Paul WS Anderson turns his attention to the swashbuckling costume adventure genre to see if his trademark brand of visually flashy, empty-headed filmmaking will still pull in the … Continue reading →

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Water for Elephants – Animal magnetism in the circus for Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon

Posted on 4 May 2011 by Jason Best

Robert Pattinson proves there’s life beyond Twilight’s vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen with this heady period romance based on the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen. He plays veterinary-school drop-out Jacob Jankowski, who takes to the road in the midst of the … Continue reading →

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The Green Hornet – Seth Rogen’s dopey superhero deserves swatting

Posted on 12 January 2011 by Jason Best

As co-writer, executive producer and star, Seth Rogen gives the superhero genre a comic spin with The Green Hornet, a goofy action comedy based on the 1960s TV series (itself derived from a 1930s radio show and its movie-serial and … Continue reading →

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Awards Season | The Oscars – Who did win!

Posted on 8 March 2010 by Jason Best

Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker made history at the Oscars last night – Bigelow by becoming the first woman in the 82 years of Academy Awards to win the Oscar for Best Director, and her movie, The Hurt Locker, … Continue reading →

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Awards Season | The Baftas – A night of surprises!

Posted on 22 February 2010 by Jason Best

Last night’s Baftas delivered a big shock, didn’t they? No, not Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker triumphing over James Cameron’s Avatar. I mean Vanessa Redgrave curtseying to Prince William! Who would have thought that lefty firebrand Vanessa would be so … Continue reading →

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Awards Season | James Cameron & Avatar rule at the Golden Globes

Posted on 18 January 2010 by Jason Best

James Cameron is King of the Globes after carrying off the prizes for Best Drama and Best Director for his 3D sci-fi epic Avatar at last night’s Golden Globe film awards. He did the same 12 years ago with Titanic … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds

Posted on 5 December 2009 by Jason Best

I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

  “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading →

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