Watch an Up In The Air Deleted Scene
Embedded below is a deleted scene from the Blu-Ray/DVD of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, released in the US on March 9th.
The deleted scene is a montage that focuses on the period in the film when Ryan (George Clooney) is grounded in Omaha following the implementation of Natalie’s (Anna Kendrick) new system which facilitates [...]
Review: Up In The Air
Jason Reitman’s feature follow up to the Oscar Winning Juno is many things. Up In The Air is an indictment of the economic misfortunes and the erosive nature of corporate culture, it is a road movie populated by dysfunctional family members (who are not related), it is a love story in reverse peppered with distant [...]
BFI LFF Review: Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy marks the feature debut of director Sam Taylor-Wood, from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, who wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed Ian Curtis biopic Control. The film, which closes the 53rd London Film Festival tonight, deals with the coming of age of John Lennon and the complicated domestic turbulence between his Mother [...]
BFI LFF Review: A Serious Man
A Serious Man is the Coen brothers’ darkest comedy to date and perhaps their most personal film, set as it is in the Jewish-America suburbia of Minnesota in the 1960s. Their purposefully erratic filmography is a definite advantage as with most Coen films there is no indication of which direction the wild wind will blow, [...]
BFI LFF Review: Chloe
Atom Egoyan’s remake of Anna Fontaine’s 2003 thriller Nathalie relocates the French thriller to a beautifully filmed Toronto and employs Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried as the eponymous escort in what can only be described as an ‘erotic thriller’ (I know”¦) that falls short of complete satisfaction.
The film is ostensibly a simple thriller of deception and [...]
BFI LFF Review: The Boys are Back
Scott Hicks returns to the South Australian sun for his latest film The Boys Are Back, and echos his greatest commercial triumph, the David Helfgott biopic Shine, with this family in transition drama. Clive Owen leads the film as a recently widowed sports writer and father to two boys, Artie (Nicholas McAnulty) who lives with [...]
London Film Festival Photos
It’s a slow news day today but to tide us over, The Londonist have posted a great arrangement of photos from the first week of the 53rd London Film Festival. You can view all our coverage and reviews from the festival here.
They have photos of Emily Watson, Vera Farmiga, Emma Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Sophie Dahl, [...]
BFI LFF Review: An Education
Lone Scherfig’s An Education is the surprise of the festival for me. Knowing only that Nick Hornby had adapted a journalist’s memoirs centring on her first love during the early 1960s I didn’t expect much. When the credits rolled I was certain that I’d seen perhaps the best British film of the year.
Carey Mulligan leads [...]
BFI LFF Review: Bright Star
Bright Star is a visually poetic film from Jane Campion, based on the final years of one of the most celebrated Romantic poets, John Keats, and his relationship with Fanny Brawne. Ben Wishaw follows his leading performance in Perfume as the poet and Australian actress Abbie Cornish as Keats’ muse. Based on Andrew Motion’s biography [...]
BFI LFF Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson’s investigation into the surreal and secret endeavour by the U.S. Army to use paranormal and New Age theories in the war on terror is hilarious and terrifying in equal measure; it brings together the seemingly polar opposites of war and peace and shows us that the middle ground is littered with madness and [...]
