ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies DIRECTOR Michael Mann has a special talent for tales of crime and punishment. His notable films include Heat, Manhunter and Collateral. In Public Enemies, he focuses on the life and crimes of John Dillinger, the daredevil bank robber who became something of a folk hero in the darkest years of […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies GAEL GARCIA BERNAL and Diego Luna have helped to put modern Mexican cinema on the map. The two friends have starred in such landmark films as Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien. Now they are reunited on Rudo y Cursi, a boisterous tale of two brothers given a taste […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies ANDRZEJ WAJDA has been making films for sixty years. His body of work captures the heart and soul of Poland, and includes such landmarks as Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron and Danton. His latest film, Katyn, is a heartfelt account of a World War Two massacre that remains one […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies SCOTTISH screenwriter Paul Laverty and veteran director Ken Loach have created one of the most productive partnerships in British cinema over the past fifteen years. Their list of successes includes My Name Is Joe, Sweet Sixteen and Cannes Palme D’Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Their latest collaboration, […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies AUDIENCES have grown wary of Woody Allen. They seem to have decided that the glory days of Manhattan or Hannah And Her Sisters have gone never to return. His last few films may have done nothing to shake that prejudice, but Vicky Cristina Barcelona should lift the spirits of even […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies ROMANTIC comedies are usually the preserve of young heartthrobs like Anne Hathaway or Ryan Reynolds. It is a refreshing change to see a Hollywood film in which cupid’s arrow takes aim at an older generation. Last Chance Harvey is a slight but immensely charming tale in which Dustin Hoffman and […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies DENNIS LEE’s Fireflies In The Garden is so full of big stars and good intentions that you wish it were a better film. Instead, this sentimental drama scratches at the surface wounds of a dysfunctional family, transforming their guilty secrets into bland soap-opera. Some good performances inject a spark or […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THE SPECIAL bond between a mother and a child sits at the very heart of French-language thriller Mark Of An Angel. It is that emotional tie that allows you to accept some of the more far-fetched elements of the plot. Before the intriguing storyline reaches its conclusion the audience is […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies CHARLIE KAUFMAN is the ingenious screenwriter responsible for twisted delights like Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. His directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is no less imaginative, but is also a much more ambitious and elaborate attempt to match his trademark flights of fantasy with a more realistic drama on the […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies IT IS MORE than forty years since the U.S.S. Enterprise began to boldly go where no man had gone before. The science-fiction franchise has seen better days but receives a stunning injection of fresh energy and impetus with the shiny new J J Abrams feature film. Abrams goes back to […]