In his latest roles, Ralph Fiennes returns to the past to play a concierge and a famous author. Helen Barlow reports.
Ralph Fiennes in Grand Budapest Hotel.It's not unusual to see Ralph Fiennes in a period setting. His characters rarely venture into contemporary times - unless they're doing franchise duty on a Bond or a Harry Potter. But two films
... Actress Mia Wasikowska tells Simmy Richman about her latest film role, the true story of one woman's epic journey across Australia.
Mia Wasikowska only had camels for company in her portrayal of solo Aussie trekker Robyn Davidson.Perhaps it is because she came to public attention playing the part of Sophie, a suicidal gymnast, in the award-winning
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Its links to the Oscar Wilde story may be tenuous, but the dramatic debut of Yorkshire-born writer-director Barnard is a drop-dead masterpiece of its kind, a brilliant, boldly cinematic tour de force that leaves the viewer gasping for breath.
As a portrait of confused and alienated youth, it stands in a long tradition of British cinema that can be
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This true story of Australian Robyn Davidson's 1975 epic 2700km trek across the Aussie desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean is hypnotic, as Mandy White's stunning cinematography allows us to become lost in the beauty of the vast, richly coloured landscape.
Complemented by John Curran's almost pedestrian pacing and the quiet determination
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The first thing to know (check the running time) about the newest film by the pranksterish Dane who enunciated an inflexible set of rules called Dogma and then routinely ignored them is that it's long. Conceived and released in the US as two separate films (volumes 1 and 2), it plays here as a two-parter with an interval, running more than four
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