Directed by James Marsh, best known for his daring documentaries such as Man on a Wire and Project NIM, The Theory of Everything is a bit of a departure. The film tells the life story of Stephen Hawking, but unlike…
Chronicling the rise to prominence of whistle blowing website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate is told from the perspective of Daniel Dumsheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), former spokesperson for the site, a computer genius who was…
Based on the children’s novel and stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse tells the story of the special relationship between a young man and his horse. While the story of this relationship does have moments of charm, it’s…
Bernard Rose’s (Candyman, Immortal Beloved) Mr. Nice is a biopic of the infamous Welsh hashish smuggler Dennis Howard Marks. Oxford educated, Marks didn’t set out to be a drug kingpin, but he didn’t fall into a life of crime by…
Like other films by British writer-director Mike Leigh—Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Vera Drake (2004)—Naked is a tough, unflinching look at class conflict, sexual insecurity, and identity crisis in working class England. Naked is by no means…
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 146 min | PG-13 The decision to divide J.K. Rowling’s seventh novel into two separate films remains a controversial one, but director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have taken full advantage of the opportunity…
Disney/Buena Vista | 1996 | 79 mins. | Rated G Back in the mid nineties when I read that Disney would be releasing a theatrical version of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, my first thought was, “what a…