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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Folks presumably queued round the block last weekend to see The Adjustment Bureau, the film that suddenly EVERYONE was calling "Bourne Meets Inception!" since TotalFilm coined the phrase (which is pretty much meaningless) and someone slapped it on the poster.


Things got even worse when people started describing Liam Neeson's thriller Unknown as "Bourne Meets Taken" - presumably because it features Liam Neeson and involves someone forgetting something. In which case, you might as well call it "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Meets Memento".


But what if people don't want to see Bourne Meets Inception or Bourne Meets Taken? Never fear: you can describe literally EVERY FILM EVER MADE as "Bourne Meets" something. Just insert any word you want. Bourne Meets Casino. Bourne Meets Public Transport. Bourne Meets Cheese Sandwich. It really is that easy.


Here are a few ideas, just in case you need to describe a film to someone in the next week...

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If you like swords, castles and bloody history, Jonathan English is your man. 


Following 2006's Minotaur with a romp through 13th century England, Ironclad (out this week) tells the story of how King John, three months after signing the Magna Carta in 1215, wreaked a campaign of revenge across England with a team of 5,000 mercenaries. But he faced resistance at Rochester castle, where a group of rebels, led by Baron Albany, fought back.


It's a gory and brutal siege movie, which makes the most of its grimy location and independent budget. But amassing £20 million to blow up Rochester castle while Paul Giamatti and Brian Cox look on is no easy feat.


We chat to Jonathan about the Magna Carta, war movies and killing people with really big swords. 

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Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz
Certificate: 15

There's nothing quite like Liam Neeson killing people. From Taken to The A-Team, Liam's just really good at bumping people off. So it's great to see that, even when he suffers an identity crisis, he still remembers how to brutally pummel a man to death.

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Remember the Drive Angry teaser trailer that turned up a while back? Well, the new full theatrical trailer is online. And it's pretty much the same thing. But longer.


Everyone loves Nic Cage. Especially when's driving. And he's angry. Put the two together with some guff about the Devil, his daughter and revenge and you got yourself a solid B-movie.


Breaking out of hell to lay his vengeance upon some nasty men, Patrick Lussier directs this action-packed nonsense with all his expert 3D eye.


The only question now is how many cars will be thrown at the camera. 


Drive Angry 3D screeches into UK cinemas next February. Read on for the trailer.

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Liam Neeson has signed off Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic. The A-Team actor, who has long been linked with Lincoln, has finally drawn the line between the President and himself after years of waiting.


Lincoln has been a pet project of Spielberg for a while now, going through several script drafts (Munich's Tony Kushner recently had a go) but never gathering momentum. Mostly because Spielberg kept adding other things to his plate. And now Neeson has tired of waiting.


"I'm not actually playing Lincoln now. I was attached to it for a while, but I'm now past my sell-by date," Digital Spy reports he told GMTV. He doesn't look too old for any role (he proved his physical stamina on both Taken and Carnahan's A-Team), but Neeson has other roles lining up.


Spielberg is about to start production on War Horse, while also keeping one eye on the finishing touches being made to Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Neeson, meanwhile, has signed on to play another US president, Lyndon B Johnson, in Lee Daniels' Selma.

 

 

Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Certificate: 15
Trailers/Clips

"Every man has his vice. Mine is a royale with cheese." That's John Travolta there, in character as psycho secret agent Charlie Wax, referencing his earlier work in Pulp Fiction. It's either an audacious and brilliant in-joke, or it's just lazy. And depending on your view of that line, you'll pretty much think the same of the whole film. It's from the director of Taken, if that gives you a clue what to expect. And you wouldn't be far wrong. Except that this is far more entertaining.

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Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Certificate: 15
Release Date: Friday 26th February

From the Director of Taken comes a thriller where a government agent’s desire to shine beyond the shadows of his profession comes true when he is paired with his new partner in crime – Charlie Wax (John Travolta). As the two tear through Paris on an anti-terrorism peace mission, our young agent discovers the deadliest weapons are the one we love the most.

 

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Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Bojana Novakovic
Certificate: 15
Trailers

Tom Craven (Gibson) is a widowed Boston homicide detective. Having raised his daughter Emma (Novakovic) on his own, he thinks the world of her. When she returns home, everything is hunky dory. Until she gets blown through his front door with a shotgun. Cue gritty revenge thriller.

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A plot? Rambo? Sure, those two words don't really go together, but just when the world thought Sly Stallone was crazy, he's back-tracked on his plot idea for Rambo V.


Remember? The one with super-soldier human-monster thing? "An amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage from before Man became human", or something equally moronic. Well, it turns out that the story comes from Hunter, a novel by James Byron Higgins (a pen name if ever I've heard one). That's going to be in a different film.


John Rambo, meanwhile, is returning to the once-rumoured storyline involving a young girl kidnapped by drug trafickers in Mexico land. Like Taken, really, but with more bloody violence. Stallone's not completely back to normal, then.

 
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