Dir.Everardo Gout, Mexico, 2012, 90 mins, subtitled. Cast. Carlos Bardem, Kristian Ferrer, Dolores Heredia, Tenoch Huerta.
Set in Mexico City, this high-octane crime epic chaotically juggles ultraviolent action amid three televised Soccer World Cup seasons. What the sport has to do with jacked-up cops, badass crooks and a brutally pulverized hostage matters less than first-time writer-director Everardo Gout’s desire to get his kicks wherever he can. Best when it’s insanely over-the-top, Gout’s energetic film often resembles a...
Dir. Noah Baumbach, US, 2013, 86 mins. Cast. Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner.
Frances Ha initially seems like another of Greta Gerwig’s growing line of trademark, kooky twenty-something dreamers trying to make it in New York. But Mumblecore grows up in this sensitive portrait of an ordinary person struggling to pay her rent in the least humiliating manner she can manage. Told with a lightness of touch which belies its sobering heart, we watch as Gerwig’s dream career as a dancer slips from her grasp while she waits on...
Dir. Drake Doremus, US, 2013, 97 mins. Cast. Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan.
Music teacher Keith Reynolds (Pearce) privately reminisces about his days as a starving artist in the city. While his wife, Megan, and daughter, Lauren, look forward to Lauren’s final year of high school, Keith clings to the evenings he plays the cello for a prestigious Manhattan symphony. When Megan decides the family should host foreign exchange student Sophie, the British high school student rekindles an impetuous aspect of Keith’s personality...
Dir. Sophia Coppola, US, 2013, 95 mins. Cast. Katie Chang, Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga.
Sophia Coppola’s latest film portrays the real-life story of a group of Los Angeles teenagers who went on a crime spree in the Hollywood hills, robbing celebrities. Using Googlemaps, Facebook updates and Twitter the gang could find out where their targets lived, whether they were likely to be at certain celebrity parties or out of the country and could therefore work out who to target. They stole more than $3 million in...
Dir. William Wyler, US, 1953, 118 mins. Cast. Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert.
Is there a more magical, romantic, funny fairytale than this timeless 60-year-old classic? Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, the princess escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (...
Dir.Edgar Wright,UK, mins. Cast. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Rafe Spall.
Director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for the final film in their “Cornetto Trilogy” following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz . In The World's End , 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man...
Dir. Daniel Espinosa, Sweden, 2012, 122 mins, subtitled. Cast. Joel Kinnaman, Mattias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic.
Swedish thriller Easy Money is positively Dickensian in its themes and scope. JW (Kinnaman), a business student, dreams of surpassing his poor roots. From taxi driving to finishing other students’ homework, he’ll do anything for a buck. JW has a carefully calculated exterior hanging out with a crowd of beautiful, vapid rich kids who have no idea of his real life. When his boss asks him to get involved in...
A recent fine art graduate from Plymouth University will benefit from a potential springboard to promote their work this summer at Plymouth Arts Centre.
Plymouth Arts Centre has invited Hand in Glove to stage its annual PLATFORM exhibition at the centre in Looe Street, offering a fantastic opportunity for a promising local graduate.
