The Book of Genesis has been crowbarred into a couple of high-profile cinema releases of late. In Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Fountain’, we were reminded of the story of Adam and Eve, but with an eye on a relatively under-publicised aspect of that story, namely the Tree of Life. In ‘Babel’, Alejandro Go…

Now, it might be a cliche to start with a cliche, but there’s an old axiom which describes the scenario of two opposites coming together: “when an irresistible force meets an immovable object.” An illustration of that expression might be, say, Jennifer Connelly meeting Marlon Brando. Put more accura…

When Kate Winslet presented in ‘Extras’, she turned in a delightfully wicked performance, but in one of her more despicably prescient observations, she conspiratorially points out to jobbing actor Ricky Gervais that the surest way to win an oscar is to “play a mental.” The words of Stephen Merchant …

Will Smith has something in common with Martin Scorcese, a nagging feeling of insecurity in relation to their work. They feel that, even though they are rich and successful beyond their wildest dreams, there is still something for them to prove before they can say: “Hollywood, I’ve arrived!”. That ‘…

Where movies and music are concerned, I have a real soft spot for artists that demonstrate the capacity to improve, to develop and to produce something better each instance they manufacture the decision to sit at the drawing-board. There is a reason for that, and it is the fact that that type of art…

Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen extensive media coverage of a number of quite public celebrity meltdowns. The Tom Cruise Is Nuts website was in existence enlarged before the man jumped up and down on Oprah’s sofa, but that episode prompted worldwide questioning of whether Cruise really was…