DIRECTOR: Kenneth Branagh NOW FOR THE REVIEW… After reaching for the skies – literally – with his last directorial effort Thor, Kenneth Branagh is back on the ground with an action-thriller reboot that doesn’t stand out next to all the other action-thriller films...
DIRECTOR: John Wells NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Theatre and film are two very different entities. While the former must rely heavily on dialogue and performances to move the story forward, the latter has to expand to different fields such as cinematography, editing and other...
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Someone very recently made an interesting point about how, in this day and age, the biggest villains in cinema are not alien invaders, not rogue secret agents, not even terrorist cells. They’re bankers, stockbrokers,...
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Teplitzky NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The sad thing about The Railway Man, a disappointingly bland war drama, is that it so desperately desires to be the new Bridge on the River Kwai. Of course, nothing can top the Oscar-winning Alec Guinness film when...
DIRECTOR: Destin Cretton NOW FOR THE REVIEW… This is a late review, since Short Term 12 was originally released in its theatrical form back in November. If you hadn’t heard of it before, then that’s because it came and went without any buzz or word-of-mouth to ensure...
DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Put bluntly, 12 Years A Slave may be the most brutal film you’ll see in a good long while. It’s certainly excellent, and a cinematic marvel that needs to be seen by as many people as possible, but extremely brutal at the...
DIRECTOR: Justin Chadwick NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Thanks to last month’s sad passing of this biopic’s subject matter, eeriness now surrounds the long-awaited dramatization of the life of Nelson Mandela. It is as though audiences are watching a “greatest hits” album...
DIRECTOR: David O. Russell NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The casts of The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, together at last. But David O. Russell’s latest caper is not the Avengers-style crossover you’d think it might be, though seeing all these actors who have appeared in...
DIRECTOR: Adam McKay NOW FOR THE REVIEW… It’s been a long road for the Anchorman folks. Years of setbacks, budget disagreements, and even a swift cancellation of the project all soon led to Will Ferrell – in character as Ron Burgundy – formally announcing to the world...
This is it, folks: the five best films of 2013, out of everything that was released over the past twelve months in UK cinemas. The answers may surprise you (or not), but what matters is that these are what we consider to be the cream of the crop. Let’s start the final...