Tag Archives: New York

DVD review | New Year’s Eve – Hilary, Bobby, Zac & co ring out the same old same old

Posted on 1 December 2012 by Jason Best

Romance blossoms, reconciliations occur and resolutions are made and fulfilled as midnight approaches on New Year’s Eve in New York in this star-studded ensemble comedy-drama. Robert De Niro is the dying hospital patient hoping to see Times Square’s famed Ball … Continue reading →

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DVD review | Lola Versus – Indie favourite Greta Gerwig loses her charm in arty New York rom-com

Posted on 16 November 2012 by Jason Best

Last seen in Whit Stillman’s quirky college campus comedy Damsels in Distress and Woody Allen’s cinematic postcard To Rome with Love, Greta Gerwig is an indie film favourite but art-house rom-com Lola Versus is unlikely to win her many new … Continue reading →

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Gordon ‘Greed is good’ Gekko is back. But is he now a dinosaur?

Posted on 8 October 2010 by Jason Best

Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street wasn’t a great movie but it was uncannily timely. Appearing in cinemas a mere two months after Black Monday precipitated the decade’s financial crash, it boasted an era-defining performance from Michael Douglas as monstrous … Continue reading →

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Whatever Works – Woody Allen is back in New York; but is he back on form?

Posted on 25 June 2010 by Jason Best

After recent spells abroad in London and Barcelona, Woody Allen is back on his familiar Manhattan stamping ground with Whatever Works. This gleefully ironic comic fable feels very different in tone from the likes of Vicky Christina Barcelona and Match … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Me and Orson Welles – A young genius takes the New York stage by storm

Posted on 12 April 2010 by Jason Best

Little-known English character actor Christian McKay made a big splash last year in Richard Linklater’s entertaining coming-of-age movie Me and Orson Welles. Playing Welles at the age of 22 (despite being a decade and a half older), he gives a … Continue reading →

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 competition winners

Posted on 15 February 2010 by Jason Best

Our competition to win a Blu-ray disc of Tony Scott’s high-speed remake of classic 1970s thriller The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3  is now closed.  Thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes and well done to … Continue reading →

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Win The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 on Blu-ray

Posted on 7 January 2010 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed.  Denzel Washington and John Travolta go head to head in director Tony Scott’s high-speed remake of classic 1970s thriller The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, which comes out on Blu-ray and DVD on 11 … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Posted on 4 January 2010 by Jason Best

Tony Scott can’t wait to ramp up the action with his remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, that cracking 1974 thriller where a bunch of gunmen hijack a crowded New York subway train and hold the city … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Me and Orson Welles

Posted on 4 December 2009 by Jason Best

  Set over the course of one week in November 1937, Me and Orson Welles is a charming coming-of-age drama in which a stage-struck 17-year-old school kid – winningly played by High School Musical star Zac Efron – has a … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Julie & Julia – Savouring the joy of Streep and the tastes of France

Posted on 11 September 2009 by Jason Best

First, some advice: don’t go and see Nora Ephron’s delicious comedy Julie & Julia on an empty stomach. Inspired by the lives of two celebrated American foodies, her movie is one long feast of cooking and eating. Unless you’re a … Continue reading →

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