Martha Marcy May Marlene

Terrifying and beautiful, this might well be the best film of 2012.

Review: Acts of Godfrey

84 minutes of rhyming couplets? It sounds well annoying but I actually loved it.

Review: The Descendants

Nice film, shame about the voiceover.

Tinker Tailor Whack-a-Mole

There's a mole at the top of The Circus. Can you bash its face in?

Review: Like Crazy

A superb anti-rom-com that breaks some cliches and obeys others, which only makes it more moving.

Review: Shame

A devastating, magnificent film that trades almost solely in sex – and yet looks right through it.

Review: Coriolanus

Like Olivier and Branagh before him, Fiennes makes Shakespeare as gripping as it ever was. Verily, Voldemort did good.

If Newsreaders Did Shakespeare...

Inspired by Jon Snow's role in Coriolanus, here are some other Shakespeare adaptations starring newsreaders.

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

After Benjamin Button and The Social Network, this feels like Fincher back in Se7en territory. Grizzled, haunting and beautiful.

Woody at the BFI

As the BFI's season of Woody Allen films continues, we look back at some of the director's best (and worst) films.

The Artist

A feel-good treat, pure and simple. You’ll swoon, you’ll sigh, you’ll want to tap dance.

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Charlize Theron, Young Adult review
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser
Certificate: 15
Young Adult trailer

Mavis (Theron) is driving back to her childhood town of Minnesota. She has one aim: to win back her old flame, Buddy (Wilson). So what if he's married and he's got a kid? Everyone knows babies are boring. Mavis sticks in an old cassette tape of 90s music. The Concept by Teenage Fanclub comes on. "She wears denim wherever she goes. Says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo," she sings. "I didn't want to hurt you, ohhh yeah..." She stops. She rewinds. She listens again.

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Stalkers of Diablo Cody will recall how last year she was down to produce an adaptation of SG Browne's novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lamenth. Well, she's still doing that, but she's now got a script to look at, along with some possible stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson.


The actors are nothing more than "loosely attached" to the project, according to Pajiba, but it's a sign that another zombie movie is gathering momentum. This one will introduce the world to Andy, a dead guy who gets reanimated as a zombie, and then has to deal with living in a society that ignores his undead rights. Whoah. Deep.


Cody, meanwhile, is still moving her other project, Young Man, forwards, with Charlize Theron and Jason Reitman still attached to star and direct. But the writer of Juno and Jennifer's Body has declared herself thrilled with the Breathers screenplay.


In the face of further undead adventures, the most reassuring thing seems to be the fact that it's scribbled by Going the Distance's Geoff LaTulippe - a guy who certainly gets both emotion and humour. If Gordon-Levitt climbs onboard, then Breathers will have two good things going for it.


I'm still not sure that the world needs another zombie film, though. Even if the zombies are especially sexy ones. 

 

 

Charlize Theron has signed on to star in Young Adult, the next screenplay from Diablo Cody. And, with the talented MRF onboard, another name is circling the project: yes, it's Diablo's former film-making partner, Jason Reitman.


The pair last worked together on Juno, that indie cutesy tale of a preggo Ellen Page. Now, Diablo Cody's scribbled another story, this time about a ghost writer who realises that her pseudonym-laden life has left her unsure who she is. Cue a journey back to her home town, where she tries to get back with her old high school sweetheart. Who is now married. And a father.


Mandate Pictures are backing the picture, but are on the hunt for more funding. With an Oscar-winning actress, an Oscar-winning writer and an Oscar-nommed director fusing their talents, it's only a matter of time before someone throws money at them. Either that, or they turn into Captain Planet.


If everything stays on schedule, Young Adult will start shooting in November. But the best news of all? It sounds nothing like Jennifer's Body.

 

Ok, so we fobbed you off with that "Exclusive Interview" Twitter thing from the other day - although the answers really were revelatory for many - so here's an actual Q&A sesh for you to enjoy. What's it like working with Christopher Nolan on such a crazy project like Inception? Who better to ask than young stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page? Let's face it, they're two of Nolan's sexiest cast members.


"It felt like my 10 year old boy fantasies had come true" - Gordon-Levitt went the distance for the set pieces, shooting guns, throwing punches, running around a revolving corridor. As for the uber-talented Ellen Page? Well, she designed the dreams that dazzled your eyeballs. Yeah, she designed them. And then folded Paris in half. On top of itself. We haven't done that, so we decided to go with their accounts of filming Inception, seeing as they were actually there and everything.


Here's what they both had to say about working on the movie (hint: it was awesome). Enjoy watching their excited and happy faces. Then go read our 5 star review. Then go see the film. Preferably in that order. Simples.

 

 

 
Director: Miguel Arteta
Cast: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis
Certificate: 15 

"I want to wrap your legs around my head and wear you like the crown that you are." Hang on a minute, did Michael Cera just say that? All-round likeable, soft-spoken dweeb? That's not the Michael Cera we know. That's more like some kind of rebellious French alter-ego. And it is.


You see, Nick Twisp (Cera) is a bit of a loser. He likes Frank Sinatra. And he's a virgin. Too bad Sheeni (Doubleday), the love of his life, doesn't find that attractive. She goes for bad boys. French boys. Boys who set fire to things and smoke cigarettes. So Nick dreams up his double, Francois Dillinger. Who torches half of Denver with a caravan.

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