FILM REVIEW: La La Land
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
Writer/director Damien Chazelle’s last film Whiplash, the story of a jazz drummer and his abusive instructor, won three Oscars.
- Read on for reasons including our pick of the songs in this musical
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Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe and film review Swiss Army Man
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Picturehouse Central
WHEN: 26/9
FILM OUT: 28/9
‘It’s been described as an olive branch from the weirdos to the closet weirdos,’ says Daniel Radcliffe, talking about his new film Swiss Army Man which we’ve just seen.
- Read on for all the gossip and pictures from the Q&A with the Harry Potter star
FILM REVIEW: Bridget Jones’s Baby starring Renee Zellweger
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: now
Given that 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary earned its star one of her three Oscar nominations and both it and its sequel made over $250 million each, it seems odd that we’ve had to wait quite so long for this, the third film.
- Read on for why Bridget Jones’s Baby is very much a case of who’s-the-father?
FILM REVIEW: The Big Short
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Out in the UK: 22/1
A film about subprime loans and how a hedge fund manager (played by Christian Bale pictured) predicted the money market collapse directed by the brains behind Anchorman doesn’t sound especially Oscar-friendly.
FILM REVIEW: The Hateful Eight
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN: Out in the UK 8/1/16
When a prisoner played by Jennifer Jason Leigh is punched in the face by her captor (Kurt Russell) early on here it seems to confirm the worst fears about director Quentin Tarantino: his films are too violent and potentially misogynistic.
FILM REVIEW: The Danish Girl starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
OUT: 1/1/16
British director Tom Hooper’s last two films – The King’s Speech and Les Miserables – won seven Oscars between them and so hopes are high for this, the story of one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
FILM REVIEW: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 17/12
Are you a fan of the original Star Wars trilogy? This seventh film in the series builds on the best bits of those and gives you everything you could ever wish for.
FILM REVIEW: The Lady In The Van
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 16/11
It is hard to imagine characters more different for Dame Maggie Smith to play than Downton Abbey‘s Countess of Grantham and the titular Lady In The Van here.
FILM REVIEW: Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN: Screening nationwide from 2/10
#BestGameOfThronesEpisodeEver? Obvs – yet more beautifully shot and with greater poetry.
FILM REVIEW: 45 Years and Q&A with Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Haigh and Tom Courtenay
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 20/8 opens 28/8
Writer/director Andrew Haigh (Greek Pete, Weekend, Looking) tells us the BFI is his favourite cinema and that he used to work here as an usher.
