Terrifying and beautiful, this might well be the best film of 2012.
84 minutes of rhyming couplets? It sounds well annoying but I actually loved it.
Nice film, shame about the voiceover.
There's a mole at the top of The Circus. Can you bash its face in?
A superb anti-rom-com that breaks some cliches and obeys others, which only makes it more moving.
A devastating, magnificent film that trades almost solely in sex – and yet looks right through it.
Like Olivier and Branagh before him, Fiennes makes Shakespeare as gripping as it ever was. Verily, Voldemort did good.
Inspired by Jon Snow's role in Coriolanus, here are some other Shakespeare adaptations starring newsreaders.
After Benjamin Button and The Social Network, this feels like Fincher back in Se7en territory. Grizzled, haunting and beautiful.
As the BFI's season of Woody Allen films continues, we look back at some of the director's best (and worst) films.
A feel-good treat, pure and simple. You’ll swoon, you’ll sigh, you’ll want to tap dance.
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 Director: Duncan Jones If Hitchcock made science fiction, it would probably turn out something like this. Trains, romance, an unsuspecting male lead; it’s all delightfully North by Northwest, right up until the train goes kaboom. Eight minutes later, it happens again. And again. And again.
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the Source Code, a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life.
What would you do if you knew you had less than eight minutes to live?
Yes, it's totally that awesome - just in case anyone out there is stupid enough to doubt the combination of Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Felix Leiter (brother from Langley) and Duncan Jones. In other news, why isn't it April yet?
 Composer Clint Mansell, who enchanted everyone's eardrums with his hypnotic score for Moon, will reunite with Duncan Jones for his next project.
 Director: Jason Reitman “How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life.” With a spartan apartment and a neatly packed suitcase, Ryan Bingham’s (Clooney) life doesn’t weigh very much, which is just as well as he spends his time up in the air. He flies around the US, working for a company that fires people working for other companies.
JR: Yes and no. The book is about a man who fires people for a living, a man who obsessively collects air miles but if I had directed the book exactly as it was, these lovely ladies wouldn’t be here because they're not in the book. I use the book as a toolbox - there’s a story that I want to tell and I’m looking for the right words. In this case I took a main character, I liked his occupation, I liked his life philosophy, and from there I built a plot around it to ask the questions I wanted to ask. Director: Jason Reitman “How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life.” With a Spartan apartment and living out of a suitcase, Ryan Bingham’s (Clooney) life doesn’t weigh very much, which is just as well as he lives his life Up in the Air. He flies around the US, working for a company that fires people working for other companies. |
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How well do you know Jake Gyllenhaal? Do you know him well enough to trust him even he did something dangerous?
Director: Duncan Jones
Were you upset when George Clooney ran away from London? The bright side is that he gave us more time ask questions to some other cool people: director Jason Reitman (who did Juno and Thank You for Smoking), and Clooney's co-stars Vera Fargima and Anna Kendrick...