Fine detail, little spark in Fiennes film
Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 16:01
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Two years after he made his directorial debut with "Coriolanus," the terrific actor Ralph Fiennes arrives with his second effort, an exploration of an illicit liaison that Charles Dickens...
CG effects do battle in 3-D 'Dinosaurs'
Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 16:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Dinosaurs rule the earth in this big-budget 3D feature update of the late '90s TV show. A supersized riff on the acclaimed BBC series of the same name, "Walking With...
Q&A: Ben Stiller dreams of a shift with 'Mitty'
Monday, 6 January 2014, 15:56
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Ben Stiller's commonality with the hero of his new film hasn't gone unnoticed. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," starring and directed by Stiller, is adapted...
Wonder Woman cast for Batman and Superman film
Sunday, 5 January 2014, 14:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Wonder Woman is finally coming to the big screen. Israel-born actress Gal Gadot has been cast as Wonder Woman in Warner Bros.' superhero team-up film with Batman and...
'The Past' unlocks a domestic puzzle
Saturday, 4 January 2014, 14:37
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Asghar Farhadi's domestic drama "The Past" follows his exceptional, Oscar-winning "A Separation" and his very fine "About Elly." Farhadi is a hugely talented...
The magical, lonely love of 'Her'
Friday, 3 January 2014, 14:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
How essential are physical and emotional connections when falling in love? What would you miss — looking into someone's eyes, caressing them, tasting them? In "Her," Spike...
Streep holds nothing back in brutal drama
Thursday, 2 January 2014, 14:35
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Planning some extended family dinners over the holidays? Worried that folks might not get along, that festering tensions might surface, that people might get tipsy and say too much? Well,...
'Saving Mr Banks' a spoonful of sugar
Wednesday, 1 January 2014, 14:34
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
For most scribes who have toiled in the movie industry, portraying Hollywood as a healing paradise is roughly equivalent to regaling a lobster of the soothing properties of a boiling pot of...
Reeves comes off bogus in 'Ronin'
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 14:33
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
In Japan, the story of the 47 ronin is so central to the country's national identity that a special word exists for the act of retelling it: Chushingura. But despite this long tradition of...
Pomp, amoral 'Wolf of Wall Street' is rich
Monday, 30 December 2013, 14:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Digging into deep-pocket gluttony, Martin Scorsese's dark comedy "The Wolf of Wall Street" highlights a world rich in drugs, fast cars and private jets. The American dream is amplified,...