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for this week’s ‘Tribune’: CARNAGE [5/10]; MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE [6/10]; BOMBAY BEACH [6/10]

The director has got plenty of ‘form’ when it comes to maximising the dramatic possibilities of uncomfortably restricted and restricting spaces – Knife in the Water’s sailing-boat, the sinister apartment-buildings of The Tenant, Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion, the dead-end Lindisfarne of Cul-de-Sac, and the huis clos country-house of Death and the Maiden…

February 2nd, 2012 more >
BERLINALE 2012 : Golden Bear odds

5/1 favourite : WAR WITCH

January 31st, 2012 more >
Jigsaw Lounge’s Performances of 2011 (UK new-releases only)

updated 24 Jan with performances from TOMBOY and LAS ACACIAS

January 24th, 2012 more >
for this week’s ‘Tribune’: CORIOLANUS [6/10]; HAYWIRE [4/10]; W.E. [2/10]

A smirking gallery of big-screen notables turn up in supporting roles, clearly in on the gag, and among these the biggest impact is made by Michael Fassbender – who gets to use his own Irish accent for once (the picture refreshingly uses Dublin as backdrop for international intrigues) and shows off his tuxedo’d suaveness in what is in effect an elaborate 007 audition.

January 19th, 2012 more >
for this week’s ‘Tribune’: SHAME [6/10]; A USEFUL LIFE [5/10]

Fassbender has been racking up critics’ awards for Shame en route to that much-predicted Oscar nod, he’s probably best known to the multiplex-going public for his turns as Magneto in X-Men – First Class and as dashing but ill-fated film-critic Archie Hicox from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Suave, heroic Hicox is that great rarity: a highbrow cinephile movie-character who isn’t a hopelessly nerdy-schlubby social outcast

January 11th, 2012 more >