February, 2009

It should have been called – and spelt – ‘Dubya.’ At least that title may have loosened the collar of Oliver Stone’s stiff and graceless biopic of George W. Bush, simply titled W., but then again this film should have been a lot of things – ‘entertaining’ and ‘interesting’ are words that quickly come to [...]

The International doesn’t take long to live up to its name: in the first 15 minutes of director Tom Tykwer’s hot-footed thriller the audience are whisked between America, France and Germany as the story unravels a globetrotting plot about one man’s lonely attempts to topple the world’s most powerful bank. That man is Interpol’s Louis [...]

Anne Hathaway ditches the good girl image and trades her traditional role in chick flicks for a heavy, humourless art film, Rachel Getting Married, proving that while smoking, taking drugs and crashing cars may be hazardous for your health they can be extremely good for your career. I’ve never been much of a Hathaway fan, [...]