Tag Archives: Emily Watson

Film review | War Horse – Spielberg gets caught in no man’s land between moving and mawkish

Posted on 13 January 2012 by Jason Best

A huge success as a book and an even bigger hit on stage, Michael Morpurgo’s heart-rending First World War tale of a Devon farm boy and his beloved horse reaches the screen with no less a whip-hand than Steven Spielberg … Continue reading →

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Oranges and Sunshine – Child deportees to Australia get handed a lemon

Posted on 3 April 2011 by Jason Best

Jim Loach, son of legendary director Ken Loach, proves a chip off the old block with his feature-film debut Oranges and Sunshine. Clearly as socially committed as dad, his film tells the true story of Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD |Punch-Drunk Love leaves Adam Sandler & Emily Watson reeling

Posted on 10 May 2010 by Jason Best

Five years before his Oscar-winning triumph with 2007’s remarkable There Will Be Blood, director Paul Thomas Anderson pulled off what I reckon is an equally remarkable coup – he coaxed a decent performance from Adam Sandler in his offbeat romantic … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman’s new movie: self-indulgent twaddle or surreal masterpiece?

Posted on 15 May 2009 by Jason Best

As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has become a byword for cinematic jiggery-pokery, a master of tricky, self-reflexive storytelling who has bamboozled viewers with his scripts for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless … Continue reading →

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