The Northern Echo | Reviews

Film Review: Man On A Ledge (12A)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:46 +0000

EX-COP Nick Cassidy books into the Roosevelt Hotel, orders one last meal on room service, then climbs out of the window and on to the ledge.

Carnage (15)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:23:20 +0000

APART from two scenes book-ending the film, Roman Polanski’s screen adaptation of Yasmin Reza’s play is confined to the apartment of a couple, Michael and Penelope Longstreet, whose son has been hit in the face with a stick by another boy.

Film Review: A Monster In Paris (U)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:39:07 +0000

A GIANT flea nurtures a passion for music in Bibo Bergeron’s computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, bloodsucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.

Film Review: The Descendants (15)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:30 +0000

HERE’S the film that will give George Clooney a best actor Oscar to stand beside his best supporting actor Academy Award (for political drama Syriana).

Film Review: Haywire (15)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:16:51 +0000

DIRECTOR Steven Soderbergh alternates between the sublime (Traffic, Che) and the ridiculous (Ocean’s Eleven).

Film Review: Coriolanus (15)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:06:56 +0000

NOT Shakespeare’s most famous or easiest play but, in the hands of actor-turned-director Ralph Fiennes, a gripping movie that turns the drama in a cinematic occasion and not just a filmed play.

Film Review: J Edgar (15)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:03:19 +0000

BIOPIC time again and a more conventional approach from director Clint Eastwood than The Iron Lady and W.E.

Film Review: W.E. (15)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:59:52 +0000

LIKE The Iron Lady, Madonna’s film about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor shies away from being a straightforward biopic about the love affair that caused a king to give up the throne.

Shame (18)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:32:52 +0000

ARTIST-turned-director Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender follow up Hunger, their account of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, with an equally raw and tough no-holds-barred drama about a sex addict.

War Horse (12A)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:38:15 +0000

IT began life as a book, was turned into an acclaimed stage play and now Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse gallops across the big screen as an epic Steven Spielberg movie.