Author: Rich Cline Page 65
Jackpot
Like Headhunters, which was also based on a Jo Nesbo story, this Norwegian thriller almost plays more like a black comedy than an action movie. It's packed with hilarious characters and situations, but is also...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
360
Loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, this beautifully assembled film is easy to watch. But that's the problem: the subject matter should be much more difficult than this, as it's about having the...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: Seth MacFarlane's Ted, James Bond Skyfall, Philip Seymour Hoffman's The Master, The Wachowski's Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit and Much More!
For a second week, film studios are avoiding major new releases, letting The Dark Knight Rises rule the box office. In the UK, alternative programming comes from Mark Wahlberg's comedy Ted, although pretty much everyone...
Review posted on 3rd August 2012
Sound of My Voice
Atmospheric and thought provoking, this downbeat thriller holds our attention with an offbeat story and gently shaded characters. It never really goes anywhere, but the twists and turns of the plot are cleverly unsettling.Peter and...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
A Simple Life
Based on a true story, this gently episodic drama beautifully portrays the connection between a man and his long-time family maid. It's funny, involving and so well-observed that it sticks in the mind for a...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Strikingly well-assembled to tell an important, relevant, almost too-current story, this documentary holds our interest on several levels as it explores contemporary art, political activism and the situation for dissidents in China. It also puts...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
The Flowers of War
This true story is so outrageous that we'd never believe it as a fictional tale. Especially since its big themes make it almost mythical. Yet while it's gorgeously produced on an epic scale, it also...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
Ted
Plying his trade in pop culture references and surprising punchlines, MacFarlane jumps the adult-oriented comedy bandwagon with a film that's smarter and funnier than most. It also has a surprisingly warm and serious thematic undercurrent.After...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
Leave It on the Floor
This attitude-fuelled musical is a celebration of youthful expressions of gender and sexuality that fall outside the mainstream. What the film lacks in subtlety and finesse it makes up with sparky characters and meaty songs.Brad...
Movie Review posted on 2nd August 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: Ben Stiller's The Watch, Superman: Man of Steel, Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Ang Lee's Life of Pi, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Much More
As the Olympics start in London, most film distributors are giving the next two weeks a wide berth, which will give The Dark Knight Rises that much more time to dominate the box office. As...
Review posted on 27th July 2012
I Am Bruce Lee
Comprehensively documenting Bruce Lee's life, work and philosophy, this engaging doc is packed with terrific material, including extensive film clips. It's also relentlessly positive, interviewing only family, friends and people he inspired.Born in San Francisco,...
Movie Review posted on 25th July 2012
Our Paradise
Gifted French filmmaker Morel explores fairly dark themes in his films, refusing to make things easy for his characters. And this strikingly involving film is no exception, following a relationship that starts out rather bleakly...
Movie Review posted on 24th July 2012
El Bulli: Cooking In Progress
Molecular gastronomy is a dry topic for a fly-on-the-wall doc, as it's basically watching scientists experiment with edible chemicals for nearly two hours. And filmmaker Wetzel never explains what we're seeing, so it will help...
Movie Review posted on 24th July 2012
Searching for Sugar Man
With a driving, twisty narrative, this documentary grabs hold with a thoroughly involving story that has a lot to say about the music industry and global culture. It also features vivid people whose lives and...
Movie Review posted on 24th July 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: The Dark Knight Rises videos, David Duchovny, Sam Raimi's Oz, James Franco and Much More!
It's The Dark Knight Rises week, as the most anticipated movie of the year arrives in cinemas. Nolan's final Batman movie is also thunderously complex and entertaining. The cast and crew paraded up 'red carpets'...
Review posted on 20th July 2012
Salute
Despite the ropey technical quality of the source material, this documentary tells such a powerful story that it's hugely engaging. As it progresses, we get thoroughly involved in the momentous events. And it recounts well-known...
Movie Review posted on 20th July 2012
Electrick Children
Slow and introspective, this involving drama wobbles slightly as its plot takes a few contrived turns. But the performances are excellent, and the filmmaking is mesmerising. And it's exploring some themes that are rarely addressed...
Movie Review posted on 20th July 2012
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
Fans of whimsical American indie movies will enjoy this ramshackle road comedy about a couple of losers who only come to life when they play their music. It's charming and cute, but there isn't much...
Movie Review posted on 20th July 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
When the credits roll at the end of this overlong action epic, it feels like we've just turned the final page of an immersive novel. It takes about an hour to find its stride, but...
Movie Review posted on 19th July 2012
Revenge of the Electric Car
Less thrilling than Paine's 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car, this follow-up takes a more personal approach, focussing on four key people involved in developing mass-market cars that don't require petrol.Over the last century,...
Movie Review posted on 19th July 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: Ice Age Continental Drift, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, Dark Knight Rises, Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington!
The big movie worldwide this weekend is Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth instalment in the history-bending saga, which randomly takes a wacky pirate twist. Oddly, the film has been topping the UK box office...
Review posted on 13th July 2012
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
There's a whiff of wilful quirkiness about this apocalyptic comedy-drama, but as the brittle humour quietly transforms into something remarkably emotional, the film gets under our skin in ways we never expect.With an apocalyptic asteroid...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
Strawberry Fields
Distraught drama and over-egged performances give this film a self-indulgent tone. Aside from the first-rate cinematography and editing, it's so disappointingly arch that we struggle to believe anything, even as it touches on important themes.Gillian...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
Ping Pong
Most people in the West are only barely aware of world-class table tennis, but this documentary could create a new generation of fans. Actually, three or four generations. It's about over-80s champions who turn out...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
The Hunter
Shot in the breathtaking wilds of Tasmania, this evocative dramatic thriller puts us into the head of a troubled man forced to confront uncomfortable truths about himself and the work he does. It's a riveting,...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Very early on, this series completely jettisoned any respect for science, gleefully ignoring the laws of gravity end geology to carry on the family-friendly series of dangers encountered by this growing herd of misfit semi-prehistoric...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
Detachment
An almost overpowering sense of hopelessness makes this education-system drama difficult to watch. Fortunately, it's directed and acted with enough sensitivity to stir our sympathies. Although we're not sure we want to go wherever this...
Movie Review posted on 12th July 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: The Amazing Spider-man, Jack Reacher, Blake Lively, Kevin James, Naomi Watts and The Hobbit!
The big news this week is the global release of Marc Webb's re-imagining of The Amazing Spider-man, starring Andrew Garfield, who has been on an epic tour of the planet with costar/girlfriend Emma Stone, holding...
Review posted on 6th July 2012
7 Days In Havana
There's plenty of colour and culture in this anthology, which could have been titled La Habana Te Amo, to match the similarly uneven Paris Je T'Aime and New York I Love You. It has moments...
Movie Review posted on 5th July 2012
The Amazing Spider Man
Just 10 years after Sam Raimi's now-iconic Spider-man, Marvel has decided to tell the character's origin story again, using a slightly different mythology. The main difference is the presence of appropriately named director Marc Webb,...
Movie Review posted on 5th July 2012
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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