Tagged Romance

2014 is a damned fine year for Daniel Radcliffe, and Horns a damned fine outing (“witty” emphasis on "damned"). Initially playing as a cross between The Invention of Lying and Bill’s New Frock, as...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them has the makings of a stellar offbeat romance: confidence, intrigue, pathos and a dream cast in Chastain and McAvoy. However this undoubtedly accomplished and artistic...

Is it possible to love not too little but too well? This is the question posed by Saverio Costanzo’s incisive and inquisitive script that follows the battle of wills as Jude (Driver) and Mina (Rohrwacher)...

Last Love begins with Michael Caine attempting an American accent and wandering the streets of a rose-tinted Paris, in mourning. Having fallen in with Poésy, herself nursing issues - “I like your beard,...

Scene Stealers is a new feature exploring supporting characters, smaller roles or particularly memorable cameos that either stick with you more than their screen time would warrant, or steal the whole show...

Hayao Miyazaki’s films have always been bathwater cinema; warm and comforting and so enchantingly illustrated that we never truly want to leave them. The grief of being hoisted out of The Wind Rises,...

While Gladiator was a modernised and engaging pastiche of the ancient historical epic, Pompeii is written and delivered with the soulless hum of a photocopier. Things heat up around the midway point,...

The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...

Whether you view Her as a vision of dystopia or utopia rather depends on your relationship with technology. To Theodore (Phoenix) it is at once the reason and remedy for his loneliness. He is struggling to...

Jim Jarmusch is a wonderfully original filmmaker, but in a market saturated with vampire love stories like Twilight and True Blood, does Only Lovers Left Alive offer anything new? Sadly, it never quite...

Actor, singer and professional handsome man Joseph Gordon-Levitt can now add writer and director to his list of accolades thanks to one of the year’s finest comedies. JGL ensures his eponymous narcissist...

Blue is the Warmest Color’s reputation precedes it, for its graphic depiction of lesbian sex if not its Palme d’Or win earlier this year. But step over the controversy, and what you’ll find is a very...

Based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, Labor Day is a moving drama from Jason Reitman. Told as an extended flashback, the film is a mixture of coming-of-age drama and mature romance. Darker and more...