Cannes 2012 Day 4: Lawless by John Hillcoat

Three bootlegging brothers. The American Dream. Prohibition. Power. Tom Hardy. Jessica Chastain. Guy Pearce. Gary Oldman. Mia Wasikowska. Er, Shia LaBeouf… it was going so well…. Tweet This Post
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CABIN IN THE WOODS Most anticipated 2012 movie (RELEASED 13th April)

Three bootlegging brothers. The American Dream. Prohibition. Power. Tom Hardy. Jessica Chastain. Guy Pearce. Gary Oldman. Mia Wasikowska. Er, Shia LaBeouf… it was going so well…. Tweet This Post

Take no notice of what the film critics say – Madagascar 3 is the one they all really want to see. They might like to ramble on about the merits of Haneke, Gondry or Cronenberg, but all they really want are some zoo animals performing zany antics. They may have banned this stuff in the [...]

Gondry himself has described ‘The We and The I’ as the story of a bus ride home at the end of school: It’s to explore the phenomenon of people, how different they are in groups and large numbers, and how they become more interesting and complex when they are in smaller groups. As they leave [...]

Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ opens the Cannes Film Festival today (May 16th). Moonrise Kingdom stars Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. [...]

Summer’s here. Honest! So that must mean it’s time for the UK’s best outdoor film festival, the Film4 Summer Screen extravaganza. Two UK premieres share top billing, with the Kristin Stewart-starring ‘On the Road’ being one, and John Hillcoat’s (‘The Proposition’) ‘Lawless’ being the other. Oh, and there’s the new Ben Stiller comedy ‘The Watch’ [...]

‘The Raid’ isn’t out ’til next Friday (18th May in the UK), but here’s the UK trailer to whet your appetite. Film Chronicles have seen the finished movie, and it features some of the most intense and impressive fighting choreography ever seen on screen. It’s also a stylish debut from Brit director Gareth Evans, and [...]

The latest Secret Cinema event promises to be the ‘bravest’ yet. Having already sold out it’s initial run of dates, more tickets are being made available today, Thursday 10th May, at 13.00 hours, 1pm GMT time. Judging from this teaser video, the next Secret Cinema promises to be something futuristic. Maybe ‘Alien’? Done that. Perhaps [...]

GOLDENEYE MGM RELEASED 24 November 1995 PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING REVIEW IS A COMPLETE, SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW OF THE FILM (hey, it came out in 1995, whaddaya mean you were watching ‘Ace Ventura’?) A plane flies over a huge dam. A bungee jump of 722 feet. Bond just gets his gun out before disappearing behind the [...]

★★★★★ AMERICAN REUNION UNIVERSAL RELEASED 2 May 2012 ‘American Pie’ is one of the defining movies of the ‘90s’. Released in ‘99, it still holds up now (in 2012) as a superb teen comedy with a heart of gold. Much like the ‘Scream’ series (which got off to an earlier start in ‘96), the first [...]

SUITS The offical line goes like this: Even the best lawyer in New York City can use some help. While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City’s best legal closers, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). Tired [...]