Tag Archives: Mad Men

Film review | Friends with Kids – Platonic parents deliver a rom-com with a twist

Posted on 29 June 2012 by Jason Best

Friends with Kids reunites Bridesmaids cast members Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm and Chris O’Dowd for another way-we-live-now ensemble comedy and there’s a similar mix of hilarity and insight on offer, though with less of the earlier film’s raunchiness … Continue reading →

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DVD review | X-Men: First Class – Born in the heat of the Cold War: How the Marvel mutants became X-Men

Posted on 31 October 2011 by Jason Best

X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s up there in the top rank of superhero films. With Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn at the helm, the sci-fi action series goes back to the beginning for an … 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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Boardwalk Empire – Mobsters and molls in Prohibition-era Atlantic City

Posted on 1 February 2011 by Jason Best

By trumpeting the arrival of Sky Atlantic’s flashy new Mob drama Boardwalk Empire, Movie Talk is straying into the territory of our neighbours at TV Spy, who always have the inside dope on the best US series. We don’t want … Continue reading →

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Life As We Know It – Katherine Heigl & Josh Duhamel left holding the baby as rom-com runs out of gas

Posted on 4 October 2010 by Jason Best

After such appalling recent fare as The Bounty Hunter and The Switch, the romantic comedy genre appears to be running on fumes these days, but Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel are valiantly attempting to squeeze yet another rom-com effort from … Continue reading →

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Lively satirical musical set in Mad Men’s Manhattan

Posted on 5 January 2010 by Jason Best

Are you longing for the third season of Mad Men to start? If your craving is getting too much you might like to try slick and snappy 60s musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which sets to … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Revolutionary Road

Posted on 30 January 2009 by Jason Best

This portrayal of a marriage turning sour in 1950s American suburbia sees Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunited on the big screen for the first time since Titanic launched them both to stardom in 1997. Kate and Leo’s April and … Continue reading →

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