Tag Archives: Elizabeth Banks

Film review | What to Expect When You’re Expecting – Five couples on the bumpy road to parenthood

Posted on 24 May 2012 by Jason Best

After a gestation period far outdoing anything the animal kingdom can offer, Hollywood has turned a quarter-of-a-century-old self-help guide – Heidi Murkoff’s bestselling 1984 pregnancy manual What to Expect When You’re Expecting – into a slick comedy-drama that’s strictly by … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Film review | The Hunger Games – Smile! You’re on TV in a bloodcurdling fight to the death

Posted on 22 March 2012 by Jason Best

Suzanne Collins’ best-selling Hunger Games trilogy has been seized upon by Hollywood as the next, big, teen-friendly franchise – and it’s terrific: smarter and tougher than Twilight – and with a heroine who couldn’t be further removed from drooping, love-struck … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Film review | Man on a Ledge – It’s mission: implausible for this daft but daring heist thriller

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Jason Best

Vertigo sufferers and sticklers for plausibility will want to give Man on a Ledge a miss, but if you’ve a head for heights and a nonchalance about gimmicky plots then you’ll probably get a rush from this contrived action thriller. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Next Three Days – Hollywood turns a taut French thriller into a flabby remake

Posted on 5 January 2011 by Jason Best

Hollywood remakes of foreign films don’t always turn out the way you imagine. A year ago, if you had been asked which of the following would Hollywood get right – a remake of brilliant and original Swedish vampire film Let … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Best view | Stone goes soft: a lenient portrait of George ‘Dubya’ Bush in W.

Posted on 7 November 2008 by Jason Best

As America awakes this week from the nightmare of the past eight years and the world exults in the historic election of Barack Obama, Oliver Stone delivers his biopic of the man Obama is replacing, the man who has a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment