Film Archive

AS a general rule, actors do well to play nice with directors.

IT has taken more than two dozen films, but Aaron Eckhart has finally completed the move from hate figure to hero.

The Place Beyond the Pines (15)

l YOU may remember a certain film by the name of Brave.

The city of Columbia, scene of the action in Bioshock Infinite, will one day be listed among the most iconic game locations ever to have graced the screen.

Dark Skies (15)

WHEN the new head of MI5 was revealed last week to be Andrew Parker, the organisation's current deputy, it still seemed remarkable to see a photograph of the man and learn, among other things, that he was a keen ornithologist.

Two superb films this week have more in common than one might think given that one is, ostensibly, a thriller, the other a comedy about bourgeois intellectuals.

When he was 15 years old Danny Boyle pretended to be older so he could sneak in to see Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

In the House (15)

The thing about zombies is they make us feel better.

CERTAIN filmmakers set the gold standard in their field.

NOT many directors have their "star" go missing in the middle of a shoot only to turn up later with tales of meeting Pete Doherty (of Babyshambles and The Libertines notoriety), and nursing a broken ankle.

Reviewed by Demetrios Matheou