Lines of Wellington, 2012. Directed by Valeria Sarmiento. Starring Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich, Carloto Cotta, Marcello Urgeghe, Victória Guerra, Jemima West, José Afonso Pimentel and Miguel Borges. SYNOPSIS:Napoleon Bonaparte invades Portugal in 1810 where he encounters resistance from the Anglo-Portuguese army led by General Wellington. After defeating the French troops in […]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Starring Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman, Dylan McDermott, Mae Whitman, Ezra Miller, Melanie Lynskey and Kate Walsh. SYNOPSIS: A freshman haunted by the suicide of his best friend begins to look at life differently with the help of two high school […]

Midnight’s Children, 2012. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Starring Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy. Siddharth, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. SYNOPSIS: A child born at the exact moment India gains its independence from Britain finds his life becoming as fractured as his homeland.   Often there is a complaint that scenes depicting the rituals of human life are lacking in […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: The CIA orchestrates a Hollywood rouse in order to rescue Americans sheltered by the Canadian embassy during the Iranian revolution. When the Americans assist in bringing […]

Looper, 2012.Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt and Tracie Thoms. SYNOPSIS: A mob hitman runs afoul with his employer when he has to assassinate an older version of himself. When the killing of targets in the future gets impossible, mobsters send their […]

Looper, 2012. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt and Tracie Thoms. SYNOPSIS: In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), […]

Looper, 2012. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt and Tracie Thoms. SYNOPSIS: In the future time travel exists, but is illegal, and is used only by criminal organisations to send people back 30 years to be killed by “Loopers”. When one such […]

Liam Trim reviews Episode 2 of the BBC’s hit new costume drama, Parade’s End… Warning: Spoilers! After only two episodes Parade’s End looks set to be one of the critical hits of 2012. Despite the fact that Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel lost almost a million viewers last Friday, with many tempted […]

The Central Park Five, 2012. Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. Starring Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Ed Koch, Jim Dwyer, and Calvin O. Butts III. SYNOPSIS: When a twenty-eight year old female jogger is physically assaulted and raped in New York City’s Central Park, five juvenile black […]

Perhaps I’m imaging things but there seems to be a theme developing in both the live-action and animated versions of Gotham City. On the big screen Bane breaks the back of the Caped Crusader in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Michael McKean, a band member of Spinal Tap, provides the voice of egomaniacal Arkham […]