Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to transform F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal 1925 American novel into a crowd-pleasing spectacle film is admirable if not always successful. It is
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Film review – Shame (2011)
In The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder portrayed alcoholism as a serious affliction rather than a delightful and humorous eccentricity. In The Man with the
Film review – Drive (2011)
In this unofficial prequel to Blade Runner Ryan Gosling plays an early replicant model who yearns to be human. He’s a machine programmed as part
Film review – Never Let Me Go (2010)
Early in Never Let Me Go, the seemingly privileged English boarding school children learn what it is that makes them different. It’s not a moment
Film review – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko character from Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street embodied capitalism at its worst. Gekko was a corporate raider whose desire to
Film review – An Education (2009)
Based on the autobiography of British journalist Lynn Barber and adapted by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), An Education is a coming-of-age film
