Posts Tagged ‘Gary Oldman’

Jameson Empire Awards 2012: The Results

Jameson Empire Awards 2012: The Results
Celebrating their 17th year at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, Empire magazine’s annual awards ceremony took place last night before a star-studded crowd, which included Dexter Fletcher, Hayley Atwell and Danny DeVito. Appropriately for the first day of English Summertime, London’s...
March 26th, 2012 | Feature, News | Read More

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Based on the novel by John Le Carre, which was adapted years ago into a TV mini-series starring Sir Alec Guinness, and featuring a top notch cast of fine British actors firing on all cylinders one thing is clear from the very start – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy won’t please everyone (this is...
February 13th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Contender (2000)

The Contender (2000)
An interesting and well-acted movie, The Contender sadly lags behind other political films simply because it never really moves into the first gear that you expect it to. There’s a very enjoyable finale, admittedly, but it still leaves the whole thing just feeling a little bit unspectacular, a...
January 31st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Warning: this review contains spoilers! John le Carré knows a thing or two about spying. Between 1960 – 1964 the acclaimed author worked as an intelligence officer for MI6 (following two years service at MI5), having his career swiftly curtailed when Cambridge Five defector Kim Philby outed British...
January 30th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Air Force One (1997)

Air Force One (1997)
Well, I could push my luck here and try to label Air Force One as an entertaining political thriller but everyone already knows, I think, that it’s just an enjoyable action romp that happens to use the President Of The United States as the lead character. Yet I can’t help but point out that...
January 25th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

JFK (1991)

JFK (1991)
Judged purely on its merits as a Hollywood movie, Oliver Stone’s epic political drama JFK is an outstanding piece of work. As an historical reference point and a depiction of a pivotal moment in American history, it’s sketchy at best. Set aside the fact that JFK is based on real life events for a...
January 18th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Potty About Potter

Potty About Potter
A creation that has as much magic in the backstory behind it as it does on the page and on the screen, young Harry Potter was brought to life by J. K. Rowling in the wonderful city of Edinburgh while the woman struggled to cope with life as an unemployed, single mother (I’m not using [...]
December 1st, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Gary Oldman: A Life in Pictures

Gary Oldman: A Life in Pictures
The champagne was flowing at BAFTA earlier on this week as a celebration of the brilliant Gary Oldman in the form of A Life in Pictures talk happened. The chameleon of cinema looked suave in a stylish grey suit and sported a moustache, which we have come to associate with his character Commissioner Gordon...
September 21st, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
What are the ingredients of what could be the film of the year? You get that guy who directed that Swedish vampire movie two years ago at the helm, as well as the best British cast since Hot Fuzz. At the centre of this fine line-up is Gary Oldman who is one of our great [...]
September 17th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Riding on a wave of critical acclaim amassed at The Venice Film Festival, Tomas Alfredson’s (Let the Right One In) inventive adaptation of John Le Carre’s 1974 spy thriller, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is almost upon us. Set shortly after the infamous Watergate scandal, this intriguing tale of deception...
September 12th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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