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Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a squid, a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people's thoughts, feelings, and memories into .. Read more

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  Karaoke Cinema

  • 22 Mar 2011

  Scarlett Johansson does it. Kate Winslet does it. Gwyneth Paltrow can’t stop herself. Even Julia Roberts has done it once or twice. I’m talking about singing, and I don’t mean in the shower. In the studio system, actresses were expected to carry a tune and received singing lessons as part of their contract. We’ve all watched black and white movies of the 30s and 40s and seen them stop in their tracks at least once for a nightclub scene and the chance to hear the leading Read more

  

  The Hurt Locker

  • Tom Charity
  • 24 Aug 2009

  “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,” the Tommies used to sing when they marched off to the trenches during the Great War. “And smile, smile, smile!” The hurt locker is where the US soldiers in Iraq pack up their troubles – a private space which no one else can see. Sneak a peek into staff sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner)’s closet, you’ll find the strangest skeletons, or rather, the ghosts of skeletons: little mementoes from the bombs and... Read more

  

  Mr. Darcy! The making of Colin Firth

  • 09 Feb 2010

  “I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.” - Colin Firth, on his Oscar nomination for Best Actor for A Single Man. Colin is the sort of name you give to your goldfish as a joke. I didn’t say that, Colin Firth did. I’ve come across some fine Colins over the years – The Damned United reminds us what a fine footballer Colin Todd was – but yeah, we know... Read more

  

  A Letter from the Toronto Film Festival

  • 10 Sep 2008

  "The 80s was the best ever…" enthuses Marisa Tomei in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler . Mickey Rourke agrees: "Yeah. I hated the 90s." Sure he did. For a while there in the 80s Mickey was the coolest actor on the planet, a fashion plate Brando for the era of The Face . And in the 90s he was, what? Washed up. Well, Rourke’s drift is over. In one of the sweetest comebacks in recent memory he digs into the role of his life in The Wrestler , playing, what else? A has-been... Read more

  

  Law returns to comic roots

  • 13 Aug 2004

  He's glamorous, rich, famous and good-looking - who would have thought Jude Law was a fanboy. But the star of "Cold Mountain" and "Enemy at the Gates" spent his youth hopping from one comic store to another and still dallies with geekdom. "I still go to comic shops, [like] Forbidden Planet and look through back issues of the ones I love," he told Empire magazine. "I was a big fan of 'Johnny Nemo' and 'Strange Days', 'Parallax', you know those? But I haven't... Read more

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