Tag Archives: Marion Cotillard

DVD review | Midnight in Paris – A champagne comedy to toast Woody’s return to form

Posted on 2 February 2012 by Jason Best

Woody Allen seemed to have lost his fizz as a filmmaker of late – and then he uncorked the sparkling Midnight in Paris, a comic fantasy with all the effervescence of vintage champagne. He has a new leading man this … Continue reading →

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Film review | Contagion – An all-star disaster movie to send chills down your spine

Posted on 21 October 2011 by Jason Best

With clinical precision and chilling plausibility, Steven Soderbergh’s compelling disaster movie Contagion depicts the terrifying progress of a deadly virus as it wreaks havoc around the globe. First off, Gwyneth Paltrow’s blithe executive picks up the lurgi in Hong Kong. … Continue reading →

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Inception – Christopher Nolan’s dazzling sci-fi thriller has heart as well as brains

Posted on 22 December 2010 by Jason Best

Christopher Nolan pulled off the year’s most daring cinematic coup with his mind-boggling thriller Inception. In a summer when the big studios mostly played safe with remakes, rip-offs and sequels, Nolan somehow managed to make a dazzlingly smart, deeply personal … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Nine – great cast, shame about the songs

Posted on 20 November 2010 by Beth Williams

If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. To activate the sound in the trailer: hold your cursor over the … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Nine – Dan’s the wrong man for musical fantasy bump’n’grind

Posted on 20 May 2010 by Jason Best

What went wrong with Nine? On paper, this glossy musical looked a sure-fire hit. It’s got a starry cast headed by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz (Oscar winners all, as are co-stars Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench and Sophia … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp’s charismatic 1930s outlaw steals Michael Mann’s gangster biopic

Posted on 4 November 2009 by Jason Best

Michael Mann has produced some of Hollywood’s finest thrillers of the past couple of decades – just think back to Manhunter and Heat – but his gangster biopic Public Enemies doesn’t find him at the top of his game. The … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Coco Before Chanel

Posted on 31 July 2009 by Jason Best

Coco Before Chanel, a sumptuous period drama about the early career of legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel, owes a big debt to another recent film about an iconic Frenchwoman who rose to fame in the first half of the 20th … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Public Enemies – Johnny Depp gives Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger a dangerous glamour

Posted on 1 July 2009 by Jason Best

Michael Mann clearly thinks crooks are cool. Look at the evidence on screen: in film after film he’s drawn to bandits and outlaws, felons and fugitives, hoods and heavies. Like a hopeless recidivist, he just can’t keep away from crime. … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Nicole Kidman!

Posted on 20 June 2009 by Beth Williams

Nicole Kidman turns 42 today and is becoming more and more beautiful with every year that goes by. Back in 1989 when she had her dead curly Dead Calm hair I wouldn’t have rated her as one of cinema’s top … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings – La Vie en Rose

Posted on 13 August 2008 by Beth Williams

La Vie en Rose On Sky Movies Premiere this afternoon at 3.35 pm (and tomorrow afternoon at 5.35pm, and 5.05pm on Friday) When I first saw this film, on an overnight flight from New York to London, I gave up … Continue reading →

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