Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking with remarkable perception and accuracy; not only perfecting those well known mannerisms and ticks but capturing his subject's idiosyncratic charm and easy half-smile with a powerful screen presence that opens multiple possibilities.
Here's one for flag-wavering, bible-bashing patriots from the 'Land of the Free' who demand that the Oscars are little more than a patronising tribute to their homeland and its ideology.
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s retelling of Job's suffering as a somber assault on post-Soviet Russia is not quite the unqualified masterpiece that some make out.
The most important documentary exposé since 'Taxi to the Dark Side', it brings a sober clarity to a scandal that governments had kept under wraps, absurdly hiding behind 9/11 intelligence activities and bestowing a traitor status on a whistleblower for spilling the beans on a new kind of tyranny for the digital age.
Lively direction and superb performances paper over the cracks in Morten Tyldum's engaging account of Alan Turing cracking the Nazi's Enigma code and suffering an appalling legitimised persecution after the war.
Celluloid Dreams have boarded international sales on Jafar Panahi’s Berlin competition title, 'Taxi', being his third feature in defiance of his twenty year filmmaking ban for supporting the Green Wave uprising.
Martin Scorsese will commence filming at the end of the month on his long gestating period drama, 'Silence', starring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver.
Clint Eastwood's controversial 'American Sniper' went from strength to strength at the North American box office with the highest ever January weekend holdover and an extraordinary $17,444 per theatre average.
