Points for originality: the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, The Messenger, adopts a perspective toward the Iraq War – to war in general – that I can’t recall having seen before. It is the story of Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), an Army staff sergeant returned home thanks to some nasty physical damage, who is […]

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey casts a long shadow: there is probably not another philosophical, “hard” science-fiction film ever made that can’t be measured against its achievements and found wanting. And not just weaker genre films, like the resolutely scientific and hideously boring Destination Moon, but even damn good things like the recent Sunshine […]

It is not a pleasant feeling when you know before the end of a film’s opening shot that you’re not going to like it very much, and thus it was for me and the new Sherlock Holmes: beginning with the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow and Legendary Pictures logos marked out in wet cobbles (I […]