Film Reviews: Brosnon stars in Love is all You Need

In her recent films, Oscar-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has meditated on the ability of the human spirit to endure all-consuming grief.Read

The Place beyond the Pines

The sins of fathers are revisited upon the sons in Derek Cianfrance’s doom-laden triptych, which reunites the award-winning writer-director with his Blue Valentine star, Ryan Gosling.Read

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

The Odd Life Of Timothy Green is a heartfelt and occasionally cloying fable that asks you to buy into its fantastical premise without any intention of tethering the underlying themes of parenthood and selflessness to reality.Read

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Any film which tantalises audiences with a superlative in the title needs to deliver on the promise. It’s A Wonderful Life was sublime and Pixar met expectations with the computer-animated antics of The Incredibles.Read

Oz: The Great and Powerful

Made in 1939 for the then staggering sum of $3.7m, The Wizard Of Oz failed to cast a spell over audiences on its initial release. More than 70 years later, Victor Fleming’s fantastical yarn is one of the most beloved family films in the cinematic pantheon and a staple of the Christmas television schedules.Read

Cloud Atlas

Big has always been beautiful to Lana and Andy Wachowski, writer-directors of the visually stunning Matrix trilogy. The first instalment of their epic science-fiction saga pushed the boundaries of digital trickery and introduced the slow-motion ‘bullet time’ effect, which has been copied countless times.Read

This is 40

Since the release of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, in which Steve Carell famously had his chest waxed on camera, writer-director Judd Apatow has become synonymous with rumbustious yet touching comedies which explore the foibles of the human condition.Read

Wreck-It Ralph

Video games based on films allow audiences to put themselves in the thick of the action from their favourite Hollywood blockbusters and animated features. It’s a marriage made in merchandising heaven.Read

Flight

Denzel Washington soars to career highs in Robert Zemeckis’s emotionally-wrought character study of an airplane pilot wrestling with alcohol dependency.Read

Les Miserables

Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, dreamed a dream of immortalising Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil’s powerhouse musical without the conventional safety net of lip-synching.Read

Chronicle film critic Flossie Topping.

Flossie's films: Epic Les Mis delivers an emotional hit

At last, Les Mis, the wildly successful stage show seen by over 60 million people comes to the big screen, ready to take the Oscars by storm.Read

Chronicle film critic Flossie Topping.

Flossie's Films: Life of Pi is Ang Lee's visual masterpiece

This week Flossie Topping previews Ang Lee's Life Of Pi which will be in cinemas on December 20.Read

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

There is a moment early in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when Gandalf The Grey (Sir Ian McKellen) turns to diminutive hero Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and counsels: “All good stories deserve embellishment.”Read

Seven psychopaths

A Hollywood screenwriter with crippling creative block finds inspiration in the most unlikely places in Martin McDonagh’s twisted black comedy that builds on the promise of In Bruges. Like that impressive 2008 debut, Seven Psychopaths balances giggles, gore and giddiness, spattering the screen with lashings of crimson blood.Read

Chronicle film critic Flossie Topping.

Flossie's Films: Brit flick Sightseers is one of a kind

Some have described him as the lovechild of Quentin Tarantino and Mike Leigh.Read

Chronicle film critic Flossie Topping.

Flossies Films: Pitch Perfect may not be music to your ears

Having sprung from a fan base of Gleeks and High School Musical groupies, a musical about a college freshman joining an a cappella group to improve her social standing (and pick up cute guys) is a sure-fire hit.Read

Rise of the Guardians

Many of the benevolent icons of childhood innocence are the universally adored faces of capitalism and greed. Father Christmas rewards well-behaved children with expensive gifts, the Tooth Fairy marks the loss of an incisor with money under the pillow and the Easter Bunny reduces an important Christian festival to a carnival of cocoa-smothered excess.Read

Gambit

Michael Hoffman’s remake of the 1966 screwball caper about a cat burglar and showgirl who plan an elaborate heist has impeccable credentials. Screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen have Oscars on the mantelpiece for Fargo and No Country For Old Men, while leading man Colin Firth deservedly collected a golden statuette for his exemplary work in The King’s Speech.Read

Rust and Bone is powerful film about love and disability

Marion Cotillard excels in this passionate love story as a whale trainer who loses her legs in an accident, and meets the bare-knuckle fighter who teaches her how to live again.Read

Argo - Stanger than fiction

Fiction could not be any stranger than the truth in Argo, based on real-life events following the 1979 storming of the US Embassy in Tehran.Read

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