Month: April 2011
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SOURCE CODE
Cineworld Glasgow, 08.04.11 Duncan Jones arrived in 2009 with the sci-fi psychological drama Moon, which benefitted massively from Sam Rockwell’s brilliant portrayal of multiple versions of himself, and was a smartly, slickly directed debut. If there was one drawback to the film, it was that it took bits and pieces from several sci-fi films of the…
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LIMITLESS
Odeon East Kilbride, 02.04.11 Limitless is the story of Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), a writer struggling for inspiration, who bumps into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth) one day and is given a pill, which once taken allows him to access 100% of his brain capacity. He instantly becomes smarter, able to write his book in four days, recall…
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LE QUATRE CENTS COUPS / THE 400 BLOWS
MK2 / 2ENTERTAIN / CINEMA CLUB DVD The films of Francois Truffaut have somehow managed to evade me over the years. I can remember catching Jules et Jim on television some years ago, and I was aware he starred in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but despite studying film at university, his…