http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air--french-salad-days-of-music-gauloises-and-a-revolution-that-never-came-8632215.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air--french-salad-days-of-music-gauloises-and-a-revolution-that-never-came-8632215.html ]]> <p>Despite the title <em>Something in the Air</em>, the 1969 Thunderclap Newman hit of the same title doesn't feature in the new film from French writer-director Olivier Assayas.</p> Reviews Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:22 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cannes-roundup-and-the-gong-for-best-clinch-goes-to-8632199.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cannes-roundup-and-the-gong-for-best-clinch-goes-to-8632199.html ]]> <p>Cannes 2013 won't be remembered for the films, in all honesty. This will be the Year of the Great Damp, when the Croisette was subjected to an almost unceasing battery of torrential rain: even the finest films in the world must struggle to help you forget your sodden socks. A few titles, though, cheered the shivering soul and got me over the chagrin of waiting in long queues and of my neighbour's umbrella dripping down my collar. Here's what got my attention in the second week:</p> Features Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/walt-disney-one-man-and-his-mouse-and-how-they-blighted-our-world-8632200.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/walt-disney-one-man-and-his-mouse-and-how-they-blighted-our-world-8632200.html ]]> <p>What is a "perfect American"? Where might he be hiding? Is he a saint or a sinner? Can't he be both? In Philip Glass's new opera, the title is loaded with irony and foreboding, and it settles on a candidate you might not think of straight away. It's your Uncle Walt.</p> Features Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-hyde-park-on-hudson-8632108.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-hyde-park-on-hudson-8632108.html <p>Roger Michell's unofficial sequel to <i>The King's Speech</i> has Bertie and the Queen Mum visiting Franklin D Roosevelt (Bill Murray) at his mother's country mansion.</p> Reviews Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-the-last-stand-8632112.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-the-last-stand-8632112.html <p>In Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback vehicle, Arnie is miscast as an Arizona sheriff who has to stop an escaped drugs baron (Eduardo Noriega) racing through his small town in a souped-up Corvette.</p> Reviews Sat, 25 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/crash-course-actor-al-pacino-8627563.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/crash-course-actor-al-pacino-8627563.html ]]> <p><strong>1. TIMELINE</strong></p> Features Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-hangover-part-iii--it-tries-hard-to-be-funny-but-fails-to-raise-a-solitary-guffaw-despite-zach-galifianakis-borderline-sociopath-alan-8630065.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-hangover-part-iii--it-tries-hard-to-be-funny-but-fails-to-raise-a-solitary-guffaw-despite-zach-galifianakis-borderline-sociopath-alan-8630065.html ]]> <p>Before the lights went down at the press show of <em>The Hangover Part III </em>the PR person told the assembled it was "worth staying for the credits at the end".</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 20:10:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cannes-film-festival-2013-behind-the-candelabra-jewelheists-heli-and-torrential-rain-8629359.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/cannes-film-festival-2013-behind-the-candelabra-jewelheists-heli-and-torrential-rain-8629359.html ]]> <p>Cannes is the world's most prestigious film festival but, earlier this week, as media attention was hijacked by jewellery thefts and security scares, the movies themselves risked being eclipsed.</p> Features Fri, 24 May 2013 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/screen-talk-wakeup-call-for-horror-star-olivia-wilde-in-reawakening-8629756.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/screen-talk-wakeup-call-for-horror-star-olivia-wilde-in-reawakening-8629756.html ]]> <p>David Gelb is to direct horror-thriller Reawakening with Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass to star. It centres on a research team that discovers a way to bring the dead to life. After the lead doctor's daughter dies she is given the serum leading to what can only be described as horrifying results.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:18 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-my-neighbour-totoro-8629603.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-my-neighbour-totoro-8629603.html <p>Two young girls move house after their mother is hospitalised, and make the acquaintance of the wood sprites and the cat- bus who live at the bottom of their garden.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/television-films-of-the-week-mike-leigh-goes-back-to-bleak-in-richly-humane-detail-in-another-year-8629605.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/television-films-of-the-week-mike-leigh-goes-back-to-bleak-in-richly-humane-detail-in-another-year-8629605.html <p><u><strong>Another Year</strong></u></p> Features Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-sessions-15-8629352.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-sessions-15-8629352.html ]]> <p>"I'm always in somebody's way," laments Mark O'Brien, a California-based poet and journalist who contracted polio as a child and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of his life.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-gangster-squad-15-8629353.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-gangster-squad-15-8629353.html <p>A star-studded cast grace this poorly scripted Untouchables rip-off, set in late-1940s LA.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-last-stand-15-8629355.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-last-stand-15-8629355.html <p>"I'm not going to let that guy go through our town without a fight," Arnold Schwarzenegger maintains in his inimitable monotone.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-daleks-invasion-earth-2150ad-on-bluray-u-8629356.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-daleks-invasion-earth-2150ad-on-bluray-u-8629356.html <p>"Look doc, I don't understand this at all, all this moving forwards in time," Bernard Cribbins's copper clunkily moans to Peter Cushing's avuncular Doctor in this messy big-screen outing from 1966.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-fringe-15-8629357.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-fringe-15-8629357.html <p>Craving your next box-set? Time for a Fringe binge. J J Abrams' unhinged sci-fi starts out as a slick police procedural, with hints of The X-Files, before morphing into something very unusual indeed.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air--an-evocative-tale-of-rebellion-and-romance-8629596.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air--an-evocative-tale-of-rebellion-and-romance-8629596.html ]]> <p>Entitled "Après Mai" in its original French, Olivier Assayas's nostalgic but jaundiced semi-autobiographical film is about the initial fervency and eventual dissipation of student radicalism in the aftermath of the May '68 uprisings.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-hangover-part-iii-8629597.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-hangover-part-iii-8629597.html <p>There's a new writing team behind this second sequel to the 2009 one-crazy-night comedy.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-epic-8629598.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-epic-8629598.html <p>In the frantic new digital animation from Blue Sky studios, which also produced Ice Age and Rio, an American teenager is miniaturised and becomes involved in an age-old battle for the life of a forest waged between the "Leafmen" – warriors small enough to ride on the backs of kingfishers – and the goblin-like "Boggans".</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-king-of-marvin-gardens-8629599.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-king-of-marvin-gardens-8629599.html <p>Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson's next film after Five Easy Pieces was another downbeat character piece, and the latter's performance as a depressive talk-radio DJ is one of his most interior and restrained; it's Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn who are the wild-eyed dreamers and dangerous self-deceivers of the piece. </p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-big-wedding-15-8629600.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-big-wedding-15-8629600.html <p>The combined talents of Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams are wasted in this painfully unfunny, vulgar wedding farce. </p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-benjamin-britten-peace-and-conflict-8629601.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-benjamin-britten-peace-and-conflict-8629601.html <p>This beginner's guide to Benjamin Britten is a well-meant but awkward cinematic tribute to Britain's most performed composer in his centenary year.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-grave-of-the--fireflies-8629602.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-grave-of-the--fireflies-8629602.html <p>The second Studio Ghibli film getting a 25th-anniversary re-release this week is another beautifully drawn animation about childhood, but in a very different register.</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/michael-douglas-hollywood-studios-didnt--believe-he-could-impersonate-the-outrageously-camp-liberace-in-behind-the-candelabra-they-were-wrong-8631594.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/michael-douglas-hollywood-studios-didnt--believe-he-could-impersonate-the-outrageously-camp-liberace-in-behind-the-candelabra-they-were-wrong-8631594.html ]]> <p>When the American film director Steven Soderbergh approached Hollywood studios in 2011, asking them for $5m to finance Behind the Candelabra, his film about Liberace and his five-year affair with Scott Thorson, he was startled by their reaction. They all turned him down flat. Although the cast featured two Oscar-winning actors, the film would, they said, appeal only to a gay audience.</p> Profiles Fri, 24 May 2013 18:14:38 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/psy-of-disappointment-gangnam-style-imposter-caught-living-the-high-life-at-cannes-film-festival-8631433.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/psy-of-disappointment-gangnam-style-imposter-caught-living-the-high-life-at-cannes-film-festival-8631433.html ]]> <p>A man pretending to be South Korean rapper Psy talked his way into glitzy parties at the Cannes film festival and posed with fans until he was spotted drinking champagne by the real Psy's manager.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 16:09:44 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/having-a-blastoff-at-cannes-russian-businessman-pays-1m-to-fly-into-space-with-leonardo-dicaprio-8630445.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/having-a-blastoff-at-cannes-russian-businessman-pays-1m-to-fly-into-space-with-leonardo-dicaprio-8630445.html ]]> <p>A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised €1.2 million (£1.03 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival last night.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 15:23:51 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/television-wins-new-respect-from-movie-elite-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-as-hbo-moves-in-8631334.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/television-wins-new-respect-from-movie-elite-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-as-hbo-moves-in-8631334.html ]]> <p>Actors and directors gathered for the world's leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 15:17:31 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-2013-lesbian-love-story-blue-is-the-warmest-colour-emerges-as-surprise-palme-dor-favourite-8631299.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-2013-lesbian-love-story-blue-is-the-warmest-colour-emerges-as-surprise-palme-dor-favourite-8631299.html ]]> <p>A three-hour long film containing explicit lesbian sex scenes has emerged as the surprise favourite for the Palme d'Or prize after winning rave reviews following its screening at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 last night. </p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 15:07:43 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/rocky-horror-star-tim-curry-suffers-major-stroke-8631263.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/rocky-horror-star-tim-curry-suffers-major-stroke-8631263.html ]]> <p><em>Rocky Horror Picture Show </em>star Tim Curry is recovering at home following a major stroke, according to reports.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 14:29:42 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shes-the-man-actress-amanda-bynes-arrested-after-throwing-marijuana-bong-out-of-window-8630969.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shes-the-man-actress-amanda-bynes-arrested-after-throwing-marijuana-bong-out-of-window-8630969.html ]]> <p>American actress Amanda Bynes, star of 2006 film <em>She's The Man</em>, has been arrested in New York City after she threw a marijuana bong out of a window.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:23 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/after-61-films-including-the-hangover-part-iii-heather-graham-admits-she-still-likes-to-boogie-8629358.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/after-61-films-including-the-hangover-part-iii-heather-graham-admits-she-still-likes-to-boogie-8629358.html ]]> <p>By rights, Heather Graham should have been a bona fide Hollywood A-list movie star long ago. She has flirted with the status certainly, but the career momentum so often provided by that elusive amalgam of critical and public acclaim has not to date been her destiny, at least not with any longevity. Mention her name to most men and it is slinky, curvaceous porn star Roller Girl in 1997's <em>Boogie Nights </em>who comes most readily to mind. Or Felicity Shagwell, the first and surely the best of Mike Myers' Austin Powers' terribly British bits of cinematic crumpet. Or again, Jade, the stripper with a heart of gold in that surprisingly successful 2009 comedy starring three ostensibly unknown male leads, <em>The Hangover</em>. </p> Features Fri, 24 May 2013 11:18:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/lord-of-the-sings-sir-christopher-lee-91-to-release-heavy-metal-album-8629876.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/lord-of-the-sings-sir-christopher-lee-91-to-release-heavy-metal-album-8629876.html ]]> <p>He has played Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the evil wizard Saruman, but the actor Sir Christopher Lee is only now fully exploring his dark side, when releases his first heavy<em> </em>metal album next week.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 10:11:16 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air-starring-clment-mtayer-and-lola-crton-8630067.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-something-in-the-air-starring-clment-mtayer-and-lola-crton-8630067.html ]]> <p>Director Olivier Assayas flicks through his own back pages in Something in the Air, a fictionalised memoir of youth in revolt. Clément Métayer plays 16-year-old Gilles, a highschooler in suburban Paris who's just catching on to the spirit of an age reverberating from les evenements of spring 1968 (Après Mai is its original title).</p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jerry-lewis-women-doing-comedy-bothers-me-8630459.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jerry-lewis-women-doing-comedy-bothers-me-8630459.html ]]> <p>Ladies? Don't make Jerry Lewis laugh. </p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 09:36:49 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shirley-bassey-urges-cannes-festival-luminaries-to-pull-out-their-goldfingers-at-aids-fundraiser-8630427.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/shirley-bassey-urges-cannes-festival-luminaries-to-pull-out-their-goldfingers-at-aids-fundraiser-8630427.html ]]> <p>With an apt rendition of "Goldfinger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for Aids research.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 09:16:05 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-hit-by-second-suspected-jewellery-heist-as-17m-diamond-necklace-stolen-8630026.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-hit-by-second-suspected-jewellery-heist-as-17m-diamond-necklace-stolen-8630026.html <p>The Cannes film festival was hit by a second suspected jewellery heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth €2 million (£1.7 million) disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweller De Grisogono.</p> News Fri, 24 May 2013 09:08:21 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-big-wedding-15-8630072.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-big-wedding-15-8630072.html ]]> <p>A wedding comedy called The Big Wedding doesn't look likely to prize the virtues of wit or invention, though somehow it has managed to bolster its puny credentials with a top-drawer cast. </p> Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-cannes-festival-diary-sex-scenes-getting-real-8630102.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-cannes-festival-diary-sex-scenes-getting-real-8630102.html <p>Lars Von Trier’s upcoming porno Nymphomania may not have been ready for Cannes, but “real sex” has surfaced in two of the best-received films at the festival. </p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:33 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-epic-3d-u-8630063.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-epic-3d-u-8630063.html ]]> <p>From the creators of Ice Age and Rio comes this ecotastic fairytale about nature's balance, bucolic renewal and, er, tiny green warriors called "leafmen". </p> Reviews Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-my-neighbour-totoro-u-grave-of-the-fireflies-12a-8630070.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-my-neighbour-totoro-u-grave-of-the-fireflies-12a-8630070.html <p>Marking the 25th anniversary of their release, two anime features from Japan's Studio Ghibli offer a chance to reappraise the house style. </p> Reviews Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/being-robin-wright-the-actress-career-plight-plays-out-both-animated-and-liveaction-in-the-congress-8629645.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/being-robin-wright-the-actress-career-plight-plays-out-both-animated-and-liveaction-in-the-congress-8629645.html ]]> <p>John Malkovich and Joaquin Phoenix did it. Now Robin Wright joins the ranks of stars who have played themselves  – to bold, if confusing effect. The actress plays “Robin Wright” in <em>The Congress</em>, a dystopian satire on Hollywood and the plight of ageing actresses. </p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 15:38:34 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/banned-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-attend-cannes-film-festival-2013-his-first-public-appearance-since-prison-8629416.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/banned-iranian-director-mohammad-rasoulof-to-attend-cannes-film-festival-2013-his-first-public-appearance-since-prison-8629416.html ]]> <p>An Iranian director not seen in public since being sentenced to six years in prison for alleged anti-regime propaganda is to make a triumphant return at the Cannes film festival tomorrow.</p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 14:19:22 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-nebraska--alexander-paynes-new-film-starring-bruce-dern-8629388.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-nebraska--alexander-paynes-new-film-starring-bruce-dern-8629388.html ]]> <p>8.44 a.m., 28 degrees Fahrenheit: Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) is picked-up by police walking along a snow-lined freeway in Montana. In the aged American’s pocket is a piece of junk mail that he believes holds the promise of a $1 million prize, if only he can get to Lincoln, Nebraska to pick the cash up.</p> Reviews Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:34 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-only-god-forgives-review--ryan-gosling-and-nicolas-winding-refn-reunite-for-this-bangkok-revenge-thriller-8627248.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-only-god-forgives-review--ryan-gosling-and-nicolas-winding-refn-reunite-for-this-bangkok-revenge-thriller-8627248.html ]]> <p>Watching Nicolas Winding Refn’s lurid, ultra-violent and frequently preposterous Bangkok-set revenge thriller, you can’t quite believe that he once directed an episode of <em>Miss Marple</em> for British television. <em>Only God Forgives</em> is stylised, Grand Guignol filmmaking, as far removed from the world of <em>Agatha Christie</em> as you can imagine.</p> Reviews Thu, 23 May 2013 10:27:58 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-and-why-exactly-are-vous-here-8628007.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-and-why-exactly-are-vous-here-8628007.html ]]> <p>The Cannes Film Festival has long been a magnet for the A-List of world cinema, who flock to show off (and be part of) some of the most culturally important films.</p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 10:11:38 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-hangover-iii-star-heather-graham-ill-miss-playing-a-sexy-stripper-because-my-real-life-is-pretty-boring-8628509.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-hangover-iii-star-heather-graham-ill-miss-playing-a-sexy-stripper-because-my-real-life-is-pretty-boring-8628509.html ]]> <p><em>The Hangover III </em>star Heather Graham says she will miss playing sexy stripper Jade because the excitement makes up for her "boring" real life. </p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 09:07:25 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hollywood-practices-random-acts-of-redcarpet-kindness-8628016.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hollywood-practices-random-acts-of-redcarpet-kindness-8628016.html ]]> <p>A welcome new exhibit in the case for men occasionally being good people: Zach Galifianakis. It emerged this week that the bearded American comedian has an unlikely friendship with an elderly former laundrette employee whom he rescued from financial ruin with the help of Renée Zellweger.</p> News Thu, 23 May 2013 09:01:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-all-is-lost-starring-robert-redford-is-almost-dialoguefree-but-exceptionally-compelling-nevertheless-8627372.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-all-is-lost-starring-robert-redford-is-almost-dialoguefree-but-exceptionally-compelling-nevertheless-8627372.html ]]> <p>JC Chandor’s remarkable second feature (after 2011’s <em>Margin Call</em>) is a story of a man lost at sea. There is only one actor (Robert Redford as the sailor) and no dialogue at all outside the short voice-over at the beginning of the film and the expletive that Redford yells in the depths of his despair. </p> Reviews Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:11 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/steven-spielberg-to-produce-halo-tv-series-with-exclusive-content-for-xbox-one-8627350.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/steven-spielberg-to-produce-halo-tv-series-with-exclusive-content-for-xbox-one-8627350.html ]]> <p>Steven Spielberg will produce a television series based on the game “Halo”, Microsoft has announced.</p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:18 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/french-director-guillaume-canet-had-to-make-new-york-dirtier-for-blood-ties-8627344.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/french-director-guillaume-canet-had-to-make-new-york-dirtier-for-blood-ties-8627344.html ]]> <p>The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own rubbish to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language film <em>Blood Ties</em>. </p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:34 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/fast--furious-6-speeds-past-the-great-gatsby-at-the-british-box-office-8627009.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/fast--furious-6-speeds-past-the-great-gatsby-at-the-british-box-office-8627009.html ]]> <p>It may contain a crucial car crash scene but Baz Luhrmann’s <em>The Great Gatsby </em>couldn’t rival the automotive power of action sequel <em>Fast &amp; Furious 6</em> which sped past it at the British box office.</p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 12:08:37 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/man-of-tai-chi-keanu-reeves-directorial-debut-a-contemporary-kung-fu-film-snapped-up-at-cannes-8626761.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/man-of-tai-chi-keanu-reeves-directorial-debut-a-contemporary-kung-fu-film-snapped-up-at-cannes-8626761.html ]]> <p>The rights to Keanu Reeves' directorial debut <em>Man Of Tai Chi</em> have been snapped up by Radius-TWC at Cannes 2013, according to Deadline.</p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 10:47:30 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/man-of-steel-general-zod-threatens-earth-to-return-superman-in-new-trailer-8626651.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/man-of-steel-general-zod-threatens-earth-to-return-superman-in-new-trailer-8626651.html ]]> <p>A new trailer for the Superman reboot Man of Steel has been released today.</p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 10:22:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/behind-the-candelabra-liberace-biopic-throws-spotlight-on-gay-marriage-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-8626669.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/behind-the-candelabra-liberace-biopic-throws-spotlight-on-gay-marriage-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-8626669.html ]]> <p>The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival yesterday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering.</p> News Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:45 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dont-mention-the-human-rights-abuses-when-grard-depardieu-and-liz-hurley-went-to-chechnya-8626389.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dont-mention-the-human-rights-abuses-when-grard-depardieu-and-liz-hurley-went-to-chechnya-8626389.html ]]> <p>In Russia, Gerard Depardieu is treated as something of a prince these days. Yesterday morning, he was delivered to the airport in the provincial city of Saransk in a limousine bedecked with flashing blue lights, enabling him to ignore all traffic regulations. There, the “Russian actor of French origin” as he is now sometimes referred to in local media, stepped on to a private jet bound for Grozny.</p> Europe Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:44 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/star-wars-tv-series-to-hit-screens-in-2014-8626039.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/star-wars-tv-series-to-hit-screens-in-2014-8626039.html ]]> <p>Disney is set to launch an animated <em>Star Wars </em>TV series, it has announced today. </p> News Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:53 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ooh-aah-eric-cantona-shows-off-prosthetic-penis-in-new-film-you-and-the-night-at-cannes-8625985.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ooh-aah-eric-cantona-shows-off-prosthetic-penis-in-new-film-you-and-the-night-at-cannes-8625985.html ]]> <p>If you thought Eric Cantona couldn’t do anything more outrageous than kung-fu kicking a football spectator, in <em>You and The Night</em>, the ex-footballer plays a character known as ‘The Stud’ who has a prosthetic penis so long that it would provide shade over Old Trafford. </p> Features Tue, 21 May 2013 17:10:52 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-michael-douglas-breaks-down-in-tears-about-cancer-during-behind-the-candelabra-press-conference-8625899.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-michael-douglas-breaks-down-in-tears-about-cancer-during-behind-the-candelabra-press-conference-8625899.html ]]> <p>Michael Douglas broke down in tears while talking about his recent bout of throat cancer during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival.</p> News Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-behind-the-candelabra--michael-douglas-brilliantly-captures-liberaces-showmanship-8625760.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-behind-the-candelabra--michael-douglas-brilliantly-captures-liberaces-showmanship-8625760.html ]]> <p>Anyone who knows Michael Douglas best as the predatory, macho Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s<em> Wall St</em> movies will be startled by his transformation in Steven Soderbergh’s <em>Behind The Candelabra.</em></p> Reviews Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gordon-ramsay-goes-from-kitchen-nightmare-to-hollywood-he-will-teach-bradley-cooper-to-cook-for-upcoming-film-chef-and-will-make-a-cameo-8625113.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gordon-ramsay-goes-from-kitchen-nightmare-to-hollywood-he-will-teach-bradley-cooper-to-cook-for-upcoming-film-chef-and-will-make-a-cameo-8625113.html ]]> <p>Gordon Ramsay will reportedly give Hollywood star Bradley Cooper a “crash course in cookery” for his role in the upcoming film <em>Chef</em>.</p> News Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:49 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mr-selfridge-actress-amanda-abbington-brands-bankruptcy-publicity-mean-and-upsetting-8624858.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mr-selfridge-actress-amanda-abbington-brands-bankruptcy-publicity-mean-and-upsetting-8624858.html ]]> <p>Actress Amanda Abbington - the long-term partner of Hollywood star Martin Freeman - has called it "mean" and upsetting that her bankruptcy woes went public.</p> News Tue, 21 May 2013 08:43:50 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/winona-ryder-bring-on-ageing-and-wrinkles-the-roles-are-better-8624077.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/winona-ryder-bring-on-ageing-and-wrinkles-the-roles-are-better-8624077.html ]]> <p>Masking the ageing process is a full-time job for some film stars. But Winona Ryder has said that she welcomes wrinkles because visible signs of maturity will bring her more interesting roles.</p> News Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:47 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-as-i-lay-dying-directed-by-and-starring-james-franco-is-a-solemn-uneven-affair-8624315.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-as-i-lay-dying-directed-by-and-starring-james-franco-is-a-solemn-uneven-affair-8624315.html ]]> <p><em>The Great Gatsby</em> isn’t the only adaptation of a classic American novel screening in Cannes this year. Also premiering is a film version of William Faulkner’s 1930 novel <em>As I Lay Dying</em> directed by and starring the prolific James Franco.</p> Reviews Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:46 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/james-bonds-geigercounter-thunderball-wristwatch-turns-up-at-car-boot-sale-8623593.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/james-bonds-geigercounter-thunderball-wristwatch-turns-up-at-car-boot-sale-8623593.html ]]> <p>James Bond's geiger-counter wristwatch from hit movie Thunderball has turned up following years of mystery about its whereabouts after it was found at a car boot sale.</p> News Mon, 20 May 2013 11:14:40 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-inside-llewyn-davies-starring-carey-mulligan-and-justin-timberlake-8622949.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/cannes-film-festival-2013-review-inside-llewyn-davies-starring-carey-mulligan-and-justin-timberlake-8622949.html ]]> <p>The Coen brothers are in vintage form in their new feature <em>Inside Llewyn Davies</em>. What is most impressive about the film (a premiere in the Cannes competition at the weekend) is the sure-footed way the Coens combine comedy, music and brooding film noir elements. This is ostensibly a film about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the early 1960s, just before the coming of Bob Dylan, but it is far richer than such a description might suggest.</p> Reviews Mon, 20 May 2013 10:16:05 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/seduced-and-abandoned-cannes-film-festival--where-celebrity-sells-and-celebrities-sell-themselves-8623423.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/seduced-and-abandoned-cannes-film-festival--where-celebrity-sells-and-celebrities-sell-themselves-8623423.html ]]> <p>Film stars come to Cannes to promote themselves and their projects - so where better to launch a wry documentary bemoaning the seeming dominance of celebrity pulling-power over content?</p> Features Mon, 20 May 2013 09:57:46 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-british-filmmaker-paul-wright-makes-waves-with-directorial-debut-for-those-in-peril-8622956.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-british-filmmaker-paul-wright-makes-waves-with-directorial-debut-for-those-in-peril-8622956.html ]]> <p>British talent is thin on the ground at this year’s Cannes festival, but one first-time feature film director, from a small village in Scotland, has been making waves.</p> News Mon, 20 May 2013 09:23:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-jackie-stewart-backs-roman-polanski-saying-he-will-always-be-a-friend-8622939.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-film-festival-2013-jackie-stewart-backs-roman-polanski-saying-he-will-always-be-a-friend-8622939.html ]]> <p>Sir Jackie Stewart has defended his long-standing friendship with Roman Polanski ahead of the controversial director’s appearance at the Cannes Film Festival this week. In an interview with <em>The Independent</em>, the Scottish Formula One racing champion told how he had stood by the film-maker throughout his court cases concerning his unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.</p> News Sun, 19 May 2013 20:57:58 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lets-go-bulworth-if-barack-obama-wants-to-act-like-a-cinema-president-which-films-should-he-copy-8622899.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lets-go-bulworth-if-barack-obama-wants-to-act-like-a-cinema-president-which-films-should-he-copy-8622899.html ]]> <p>In the 1998 movie Bulworth Warren Beatty played a senator who, about to lose an election, arranges – or tries to – his own assassination. Then, knowing he was soon to be dead both politically and physically, Beatty’s character begins to do the last thing you’re supposed to do in politics: speak his mind, often in raps.</p> Features Sun, 19 May 2013 19:35:28 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/coming-soon-3d-film-reaches-new-heights-as-latest-technology-brings-sir-edmund-and-tenzing-norgays-historic-1953-everest-ascent-to-life-8622286.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/coming-soon-3d-film-reaches-new-heights-as-latest-technology-brings-sir-edmund-and-tenzing-norgays-historic-1953-everest-ascent-to-life-8622286.html ]]> <p>As extreme film shoots go, Beyond the Edge takes the Kendal mint cake. A crew is hanging off the Lhotse Face of the world's highest mountain, filming a 3D thriller re-creating Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 ascent of Mount Everest.</p> News Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/sex-drugs-and-fast-cars-the-legend-of-james-hunt-has-set-hollywood-hearts-racing-8618054.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/sex-drugs-and-fast-cars-the-legend-of-james-hunt-has-set-hollywood-hearts-racing-8618054.html ]]> <p>Even if you have not the faintest interest in motorsport, or Formula One – that shiny Babylon of sponsors and sleaze – the lure of James Hunt is hard to resist. Handsome, brave, articulate, he had a reputation for living as fast off the track as on. For a film director, there could be no better sporting hero. No wonder, then, that Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director of Frost/Nixon and Apollo 13, has chosen Hunt as the subject of his new film, Rush. To be released in September, it will tell the story of the 1976 F1 season, which was dominated by the electric rivalry between Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda.</p> Features Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-beware-of-mr-baker-and-fast-and-furious-6--furious-ginger-packs-a-punch-but-vin-diesel-is-out-of-gas-8622262.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-beware-of-mr-baker-and-fast-and-furious-6--furious-ginger-packs-a-punch-but-vin-diesel-is-out-of-gas-8622262.html ]]> <p>A documentary about a rock drummer might seem more suited to BBC4 than to your local cinema, but most rock-docs don't open with their subject – in this case, Ginger Baker – cracking the director across the nose with his walking stick. Not a man who has ever needed an excuse to assault someone, Baker is incensed to learn that said director, Jay Bulger, is planning to interview some of his old associates, but in the event he had nothing to worry about.</p> Reviews Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jonathan-romney-on-luhrmanns-the-great-gatsby-leonardo-dicaprio-gets-lost-in-bazs-jazz-8622264.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jonathan-romney-on-luhrmanns-the-great-gatsby-leonardo-dicaprio-gets-lost-in-bazs-jazz-8622264.html ]]> <p>Like it or not, there couldn't be a more appropriate opening attraction for the Cannes Film Festival than Baz Luhrmann's 3D <em>The Great Gatsby</em>. The extravagant Jazz Age festivities that Luhrmann organises embody exactly the glamorous image that Cannes likes to project, while, conversely, the movie's sparkling soirées owe less to actual 1920s America than to a platonic fantasy of an eternal, orgiastic Cannes gala – palm trees, red carpets and all.</p> Reviews Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/also-showing-the-liability-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-deadfall-8622265.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/also-showing-the-liability-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-deadfall-8622265.html <p><b>The Liability</b> (95 mins, 15) </p> Reviews Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-django-unchained-8622214.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-django-unchained-8622214.html <p>Quentin Tarantino is back on top form with this bold, bloody and frequently laugh-out-loud funny "deep southern western", the tale of a freed slave, Jamie Foxx, who teams up with a loquacious bounty hunter, Christoph Waltz, to take on a flamboyantly loathsome plantation owner, Leonardo DiCaprio.</p> Reviews Sat, 18 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-bulhead-8622215.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-review-bulhead-8622215.html <p>Matthias Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard's beefy co-star in <i>Rust and Bone</i>, stars in a brooding rural crime saga from Belgium, playing a cattle farmer who deals in illegal growth hormones.</p> Reviews Sat, 18 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christoph-waltz-among-stars-rushed-to-safety-as-man-with-gun-and-grenade-opens-fire-in-cannes-8622122.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christoph-waltz-among-stars-rushed-to-safety-as-man-with-gun-and-grenade-opens-fire-in-cannes-8622122.html ]]> <p>A day after a daring heist was carried out in Cannes, more drama hit the Croisette after what sounded like gunshots were fired near two of the film festival judges.</p> Europe Sat, 18 May 2013 17:14:12 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-weekend-one-roundup-benicio-del-toros-new-film-jimmy-p-emerges-as-palme-dor-frontrunner-as-the-bling-ring-proves-as-hollow-as-its-title-suggests-8622047.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cannes-weekend-one-roundup-benicio-del-toros-new-film-jimmy-p-emerges-as-palme-dor-frontrunner-as-the-bling-ring-proves-as-hollow-as-its-title-suggests-8622047.html ]]> <p>With the Cannes Film Festival into its first weekend, festivalgoers continue to endure torrential rain - but we haven't yet been showered with masterpieces. Still, the weekend has brought one major discovery, a new film starring Benicio del Toro. The film is <em>Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian</em>, and is the first US-set feature by French director Arnaud Desplechin, whose previous work has been in an unrepentently Gallic art-house vein.</p> News Sat, 18 May 2013 14:24:21 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/crash-course-summer-blockbusters-from-star-trek-into-darkness-to-the-hangover-part-iii-8617978.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/crash-course-summer-blockbusters-from-star-trek-into-darkness-to-the-hangover-part-iii-8617978.html ]]> <p><strong>Star Trek Into Darkness</strong></p> Features Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/screen-talk-clive-could-be-king-of-cannes-8619725.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/screen-talk-clive-could-be-king-of-cannes-8619725.html ]]> <p>King of the Castle, a comedy starring Clive Owen (pictured) and Jacki Weaver about a philanderer who is blackmailed by a teenager is being sold at the Marché du Film. The market runs amid the Festival de Cannes. Companies gather to tout films to buyers who seal deals to put them in front of viewers on the big, little or electronic screens.</p> News Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:49 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-playing-for-keeps-12a-8619769.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-playing-for-keeps-12a-8619769.html <p>Gerard Butler hits rock bottom – even after the execrable The Ugly Truth – as a Scottish former footballer who is divorced from his soppy wife (Jessica Biel) and longs to connect with his son. So he agrees to coach his child's soccer (it's set in small-town USA) team, whereupon a legion of mothers (Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones) hit on the smirking lunk. Quite possibly the worst film of the decade thus far.</p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:15 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-unbelievable-truth-15-8619766.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-the-unbelievable-truth-15-8619766.html <p>Back in 1989, Hal Hartley's highly stylised brand of independent US cinema looked and sounded like nothing else. Does this auteur's droll drama hold up now? Unexpectedly, yes. </p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:13 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-trouble-with-the-curve-12-8619770.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-trouble-with-the-curve-12-8619770.html <p>"Anyone who uses computers doesn't know a damn thing about this game.” Clint Eastwood plays another grouchy octogenarian in this hokey baseball drama. </p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:09 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-django-unchained-18-8619756.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-django-unchained-18-8619756.html ]]> <p>“His name is Django, he's a free man, and he can ride what he pleases...” Tarantino, like Spielberg and Billy Wilder before him, is in the business of entertainment and this lurid, frequently funny pre-Civil War Western is wildly entertaining. Christoph Waltz bagged the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but he's a leading man as the empathetic bounty hunter Dr King Schultz.</p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:07 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-billy-liar-pg-8619767.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd--bluray-review-billy-liar-pg-8619767.html <p>“Today is a day of big decisions,” Billy keeps claiming. Except it isn't. The 19-year-old fantasist (Tom Courtenay, perfectly cast) is incapable of making big decisions. </p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:03 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/films-of-the-week-scenes-from-a-rock-marriage-in-tragic-decline-8619004.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/films-of-the-week-scenes-from-a-rock-marriage-in-tragic-decline-8619004.html <p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p> Features Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-great-gatsby-12a-8619005.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-great-gatsby-12a-8619005.html ]]> <p>F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is an American masterpiece characterised by its concision, subtlety and undercurrents of meaning. Baz Luhrmann's most decidedly is not. It is characterised by cinematic bombast and digital fireworks; Busby Berkeley choreography and head-on collisions between the aesthetics of the 1920s and the 2010s.</p> Reviews Fri, 17 May 2013 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sequel-announced-over-a-decade-since-original-8621619.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sequel-announced-over-a-decade-since-original-8621619.html ]]> <p>A sequel to <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</em> is be made over a decade since the original film. </p> News Fri, 17 May 2013 18:21:32 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dan-stevens-after-downton-abbey-the-erstwhile-matthew-crawley-is-back-in-period-costume-8619626.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dan-stevens-after-downton-abbey-the-erstwhile-matthew-crawley-is-back-in-period-costume-8619626.html ]]> <p>The pavement in front of the Athenaeum gentlemen's club in Pall Mall is scattered with dirt and gravel, a horse and carriage is parked at the entrance and sophisticated ladies and gentlemen attired in Edwardian finery mill about, occasionally posing for photos at the behest of passing tourists. “Ooh, is it <em>Downton Abbey</em> that they're filming?” one excited passer-by inquires to a trio of costumed young women, who giggle in unison and reply in the negative. But the actor who's sprung from that series's stuffy parlours to become a fully-formed member of the global fame academy is close at hand for this Sunday morning shoot of period drama <em>Summer in February.</em> Dan Stevens is in the house.</p> Features Fri, 17 May 2013 10:55:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-bling-ring-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-sofia-coppolas-movie-about-celebrity-starring-emma-watson-opens-8620319.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-bling-ring-at-cannes-film-festival-2013-sofia-coppolas-movie-about-celebrity-starring-emma-watson-opens-8620319.html ]]> <p>Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: <em>Apocalypse Now</em>.</p> News Fri, 17 May 2013 09:17:41 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bollywood-actor-sanjay-dutt-back-in-jail-8620299.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bollywood-actor-sanjay-dutt-back-in-jail-8620299.html ]]> <p>Actor Sanjay Dutt, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a five-year sentence for firearms offences during the Mumbai bombings 20 years ago, forcing at least one film onto the back burner.</p> News Fri, 17 May 2013 09:04:12 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-cannes-festival-diary-putting-sexual-rumours-to-bed-8619889.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-cannes-festival-diary-putting-sexual-rumours-to-bed-8619889.html <p>One of the films in competition at Cannes has sparked the question of which nationality is worse in the sack: the Germans or the British? Jeune et Jolie is the story of a girl's (Marine Vacth) sexual awakenings before she decides to become a prostitute. </p> News Thu, 16 May 2013 20:28:47 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-beware-of-mr-baker-15-8619797.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-beware-of-mr-baker-15-8619797.html ]]> <p>Drummers are axiomatically the madmen of rock, but there's never been a mad drummer quite like Ginger Baker, subject of this hugely enjoyable documentary profile. It gets off to a magnificent start, with a scene of the 73-year-old Baker attacking the film's director, Jay Bulger, with his walking stick – and just gets better.</p> Reviews Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-fast--furious-6-12a-8619803.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-fast--furious-6-12a-8619803.html <p>More musclebound meatheads in their mean machines: here's a franchise that shows every sign of living forever, or at least of remaining undead. This sixth instalment cares so little about realism that it brings back to life a character who was murdered before our very eyes in the last one. </p> Reviews Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-great-gatsby-12a-8619804.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-great-gatsby-12a-8619804.html ]]> <p>The novelist Jay McInerney has observed that, "It's possible we Americans are not entirely rational about The Great Gatsby." Make that Australians, too, if Baz Luhrmann's garish, hyperbolic movie adaptation is anything to go by. </p> Reviews Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-liability-15-8619809.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-the-liability-15-8619809.html <p>There's a wild touch of the Coen brothers in this tale of murder and misadventure, though its north-east England setting would like to encourage memories of a thriller closer to home. Jack O'Connell plays Adam, a teen joyrider who's just crashed the Beamer belonging to his scary stepfather (Peter Mullan). </p> Reviews Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/in-pictures-cannes-2013--on-the-red-carpet-at-the-great-gatsby-premiere-8618666.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/in-pictures-cannes-2013--on-the-red-carpet-at-the-great-gatsby-premiere-8618666.html ]]> <p>The stars were out in force last night at the opening of the 66th Cannes Film Festival and the premiere of 'The Great Gatsby', which was the first film to be shown at the event this year.</p><p><em><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/in-pictures-cannes-2013--on-the-red-carpet-at-the-great-gatsby-premiere-8618666.html?action=gallery" target="_blank" title="Click here or on 'view gallery' to see more images">Click here or on 'view gallery' to see more images</a></em></p> News Thu, 16 May 2013 11:52:43 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/it-was-important-to-her-to-share-the-story--it-doesnt-have-to-be-scary-brad-pitt-explains-why-angelina-jolie-spoke-out-about-her-double-mastectomy-8618584.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/it-was-important-to-her-to-share-the-story--it-doesnt-have-to-be-scary-brad-pitt-explains-why-angelina-jolie-spoke-out-about-her-double-mastectomy-8618584.html ]]> <p>Brad Pitt has praised partner Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy, adding he has been “quite emotional” throughout the procedure.</p> News Thu, 16 May 2013 11:05:04 +0100