Lee Daniels' third feature looks at segregation and the postwar civil rights movement through the eyes of a black butler who spent his adult life serving presidents at the White House.
This is Paul Greengrass on familiar ground; an explosive true story, intelligent contextualisation and a turbo-charged tension that keeps us on the edge of our seats even though we know the ending.
Stephen Frears' new feature 'Philomena', is something of a rarity, based on a true story where the protagonists are still alive and, yet, it is both compassionate and intelligent without any sense of compromise.
Roger Michell's latest collaboration with writer, Hanif Kureishi, returns to their favourite subject, getting old, and portrays a married couple facing change without the usual pretension that has marred some recent British comedies in their over-enthusiasm for chasing the grey pound.
In a surprising development, Stanley Donen is coming out of retirement to make his first theatrical film since 'Blame It On Rio' almost thirty years ago.
The outlook looks bleak for Scott Cooper's 'Out of the Furnace', which opened in four theatres on Wednesday and expands to 2,102 for the weekend session.
The Goethe-Institut London, in collaboration with the Cambridge Film Festival and Berlin's Filmgalerie, is spear-heading renewed interest in Roland Klick's work.
