Andrew White

Ellen Page is Super

Super is everything Scott Pilgrim was not. And it’s all the better for it. It’s the anti comic book hero film that takes events to black comedy extremes. It’s somehow manages to take a...

The opening sequence of A Matter of Life and Death is immediate in telegraphing quite clearly that nothing like it came before it, and little in the 60-odd years since. WW2. A flaming bomber going down. David Niven...

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: Enabling Woody

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is infinitely better than Woody Allen's last entry to his yearly conveyer belt cycle of feature films. But then it should be, as that Larry David starrer was one of the...

Why Unstoppable Works, While it Doesn't

Unstoppable is fine entertainment. We, the audience, can all share a collective sigh of relief that Tony Scott has finally done away with the camera that made Domino unpalatable unless accompanied by three Excedrin, and has embraced an eye&rsquo...

Against All Odds, or Why an Ending Matters

The final few frames of a feature film can be indelible. They can mark a picture as art. They can linger with you, they can irrevocably change your perception of what happened in the 90 minutes prior.Think Rosebud...

Wall Street 2: Gekko's Return

The last time we saw Michael Douglas on-screen was in one of the worst feature films in recent memory: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. From that absolute nadir he does the unthinkable and turns in what may end up doing...

Cyrus doesn't need Cyrus

Cyrus, the titular character played by Jonah Hill is, as you’d no doubt guess, a featured player and significant plot element of a feature film entitled ‘Cyrus’. He is also, however, the film’s major...

Caine shines in exacting, tight thriller

Harry Brown does the unimaginable: it turns the 21st Century, post Tony Blair, post new Labour, bright new day, cosmopolitan London into an urban hellhole, replete with savage thugs that would not be out of place on Rikers Island. In...

Midnight Run 2: Why a sequel to one of the '80s very best is a risky proposition

When Nikki Fink revealed last month, almost in passing, that Robert De Niro and Universal were developing a sequel to Midnight Run, it at first felt like huge news. A sequel to a film that almost defines underrated. A sequel...

Polanski proves himself, again

Knife in the Water. Repulsion. Rosemary's Baby. Frantic. Roman Polanski has proven himself for over 40 years to be one of the absolute masters of the thriller. And not just the thriller genre, but masterfully paced, wrought, measured...

Ellen Page is Super

A Matter of Life and Death

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: Enabling Woody

Why Unstoppable Works, While it Doesn't

Against All Odds, or Why an Ending Matters

Wall Street 2: Gekko's Return

Cyrus doesn't need Cyrus

Caine shines in exacting, tight thriller

Midnight Run 2: Why a sequel to one of the '80s very best is a risky proposition

Polanski proves himself, again

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