Right Where It Belongs

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Some of the 'kids' over at Reading Excuses (self included, not as a kid, of course!) are about to embark on a collaborative trawl ...

Guillaume Canet writes, directs and appears in 'Tell No One' from Harlan Coben's novel, a dizzyingly complex thriller that wil...

I was in a hurry to write this, but it still took three days, off and on. It appears that WE might have closed commenting on old threads, w...

In the increasingly regimented parlance of modern film criticism, Bad Neighbours might be described as a post-gross-out, frat house shock ...

I plan to start posting about writing on this blog, but first, some context. I have long been an aspiring writer of fantasy. I suppo...

Jon Favreau's film Chef is a simple joy - confirming that less is usually more effective and that it is okay to make a film that leave...

As the Marvel superhero with the richest history, and linch-pin of The Avengers, Captain America was perhaps the most eagerly-awaited of t...

Sometimes, after you've transcended the reality of physical existence; experienced two-faced deception from a companion and witnessed ...

Despite writer/director John Michael McDonagh's film being centred firmly on the relationship between Brendon Gleeson's troubled p...

With his first Monsters, Gareth Edwards proved that he is a capable and inventive film-maker, and it was very pleasing to see Hollywood re...

Film critics should no longer be talking about unfilmable books, but if any still are, they will consign that tired old epithet to the dus...

The Congress, Ari Folman's film based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (The Futurological Congress) - follows five years after Folman...

As there is nothing new in Blue Ruin (underdog, violence, revenge, crossbows), it would need to be very good to deserve your attention, an...

Actually, LFO is an acronym for Low Frequency Oscillation, but it is also the delightfully Heath-Robinson story of the excellent Patrik Ka...

The most stunning feature of How I Ended This Summer is its Arctic setting, the glorious wilderness presenting a grand, yet harsh spectacl...

Quai D'Orsay (retitled The French Minister for some markets) is a likeable and highly amusing French political farce from director Ber...

Borgman is queer piece of cinema, challenging right form the off with the opening scenes of pursuit which point in a certain direction, bu...

Up In The Air is a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking drama starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga. Clooney’s corporate ‘hit-man’ is...

The themes are familiar, the characters are interesting but not complex, the script is uncomplicated, the humour comfortable – the story i...