It's a coming-of-age movie, though not quite as we know it. Best friends Joe (Nick Robinson) and Patrick (Gabriel Basso) are 15 years old and fed up with their parents. Patrick's are invasively friendly, while Joe's widowed father has withdrawn into unreachable, sarcastic gruffness.
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How to wash a child's brain: Designer Richard Littler creates fictional world based on terrifying public service films
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Somewhere in the north-west of England a town stuck in a hellish vision of the 1970s
Michael Jackson's teenage son Prince hired as TV reporter for Entertainment Tonight
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Michael Jackson’s 16-year-old son has been hired as a reporter for American TV channel Entertainment Tonight.
First Night: Borgen, BBC4
Sunday 06 January 2013
New series of Borgen - the Scandinavian political drama - presses British buttons
Sam Mendes could make Bond film return
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Filmmaker Sam Mendes could return for a further Bond movie following the box-office success of his 007 debut Skyfall.
Mumford & Sons team up with Idris Elba for music video
Tuesday 06 November 2012
Golden Globe-winning actor Idris Elba has made his directorial debut with global folk sensation Mumford & Sons.
Phillippa Gregory: 'My husband doesn't particularly like my orphan ducklings'
Sunday 12 August 2012
All my novels are essentially about falling in love and getting a house Well, that's what my husband told me a few years ago. It sounds like a very material view of the world but the house symbolises so much of where our fortunes are sited. For me, growing up, I always wanted a safe home, which was hard for my mother to provide after she was widowed and left with two children to raise on her own.
Keeper of America's national conscience
Thursday 02 August 2012
Gore Vidal, the author and political commentator, has died aged 86. Rupert Cornwell pays tribute
DVD: The Raven
Sunday 29 July 2012
Washed up as an author, Edgar Allen Poe is forced to turn detective when a Baltimore serial killer starts lifting murder methods from his own macabre stories.
Bourne again, and again, and again
Saturday 28 July 2012
The action thriller is set to return to screens, this time without its original action man. How do you reboot a franchise with an unknown hero? Emma Jones finds out
The Hunter, Daniel Nettheim, 100 mins (15)
The Players, Various directors, 109 mins (18)
Sunday 08 July 2012
Give him a gun and a good part – at last, Willem gets his man
Filmmaker Nora Ephron dies of leukaemia
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nora Ephron, known for romantic comedies "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle" as well as books and essays, has died in New York after battling leukemia. She was 71.
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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