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I Love You Phillip Morris

3:17pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Jim Carrey delivers his best dramatic performance since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the improbable and utterly incredible true story I Love You Phillip Morris. Based on a novel by investigative reporter Steve McVicker, the film charts the romance of two prison inmates and their subsequent journey of self-discovery on both sides of the bars.

Shutter island

1:22pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

The lunatics are taking over the asylum, or that’s what Martin Scorsese’s impeccably crafted psychological thriller Shutter Island would have us believe. But then perception and reality are completely blurred in this 1950s-set mystery, adapted by screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis from the best-seller by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone).

Alice in Wonderland

4:41pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Combining a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

• Timeless tale of a golden afternoon

From Paris With Love and Leap Year

6:40am Thursday 25th February 2010

Paris: the city of romantic overtures, fine cuisine, sartorial elegance, and crunching cars chases along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees. Director Pierre Morel returns to the scene of previous cinematic crimes for From Paris With Love, an explosive tour of the capital in the company of two mismatched US agents on a quest to dismantle a terrorist cell.

The Lovely Bones and The Last Station

3:42pm Wednesday 17th February 2010

There is life after death in Peter Jackson’s visually stunning interpretation of The Lovely Bones, the best-seller by Alice Sebold, which proves to be one adaptation too far for the Oscar-winning director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.

A Single man

3:14pm Wednesday 10th February 2010

If the Oscars were truly awarded on merit rather than the baubles of a popularity contest then Colin Firth would be collecting a golden statuette as Best Actor in a Leading Role on March 7. However, the British star’s mesmerising portrayal of a gay professor torn apart by grief in A Single Man will inevitably be overshadowed by Jeff Bridges’ showy portrayal of an alcoholic country and western singer in Crazy Heart. Nuance and subtlety are apparently underrated, and the aching emotion conveyed in a single silent gaze will be completely overlooked by audiences and voters, who need to be instructed how to feel every step of the way.

Invictus

3:19pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

On February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid. His release lit the touchpaper on civil unrest as he worked together with President de Klerk to end apartheid and begin the difficult healing process.

Edge of Darkness

3:51pm Wednesday 27th January 2010

Award-winning, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood. Last year, Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams headlined an accomplished distillation of the Bafta award-winning 2003 mini-series, State of Play. Now, we have more political intrigue and corporate skulduggery in Martin Campbell’s slick reduction of the 1985 BBC mini-series, Edge of Darkness.

Brothers

3:42pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama Brodre, love is war as two siblings – polar opposites – are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.

Up In The Air

10:11am Thursday 14th January 2010

DAMON SMITH says George Clooney is set for yet another Oscar nomination

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