Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
Oliver Stone's Wall Street defined the 80s culture of greed, but the sequel fails to the examine the calamity that followedThe record for the gap between an original film and its sequel is probably...
View ArticleIt's a blond man's world: Thor v Masters of the Universe
How will shiny new Thor shape up against the old muscle of Masters of the Universe? Watch both trailers and you decideKenneth Branagh's Thor is already shaping up to be one of 2011's must-see movies....
View ArticleFrank Langella: 'I'd rather make love in reality than on a machine'
The Oscar-nominated star of Robot & Frank on how new technology affects our attitudes towards love and sexHey Frank. In Robot & Frank (1)you play a forgetful retired cat burglar whose kids hire...
View ArticleRobot & Frank: watch the trailer - video
Watch the UK exclusive trailer for Jake Schreier's comedy drama, in which Frank Langella plays an elderly man who convinces his robot care assistant to take part in a jewel heist• Robot & Frank is...
View ArticleRobot & Frank – review
A semi-retired burglar with a failing memory trains his robot butler to help him with new heists in this engaging, humane fantasyUnclassifiable and unpredictable, this interesting movie scripted by...
View ArticleRobot & Frank: vision of the future?
Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which explores the relationship of an elderly man with a robot hired to care for him, and wonders if such interactions could become the normFrank...
View ArticleRobot & Frank - video review
In an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver review a comedy drama about an elderly cat-burglar suffering from dementia who recruits an unusual...
View ArticleThe Guardian Film Show: Oz The Great and Powerful, Side Effects, Broken and...
Xan Brooks and the gang return, biffed and battered from the Oscar season, to review the big cinema releases. This week we're over the rainbow with Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel Oz the Great and...
View ArticleRobot & Frank – review
This affecting comedy about getting old and out of touch is set in the near future and finds Frank Langella in good form as an elderly former cat burglar of legendary reputation, long-divorced and...
View ArticleFrank Langella to take on role of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre
Festival theatre's Angus Jackson to direct Langella in role often called the Ever~est of acting at Minerva theatre in NovemberFrank Langella, the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorably portrayed...
View ArticleMark Kermode's DVD round-up
Robot and Frank; Identity Thief; Red Dawn; Fire in the Night; A Field in EnglandWhat a strange little movie is Robot and Frank (2012, EOne, 12). Set in the near future, this gentle, sci-fi-inflected...
View ArticleFrank Langella: legend of the fall
As a young man Frank Langella worked with Laurence Olivier, partied with Noël Coward and seduced Rita Hayworth. Then his career fell apart. He tells Simon Hattenstone about losing everything and what...
View ArticleKing Lear – review
Minerva, ChichesterThis return to star-driven Shakespeare has in Frank Langella a commanding Lear still driven by a craving for loveWe are used to director’s Shakespeare. This production, which plays...
View ArticleHammy baddies on film: the joys of overacting
Kiefer Sutherland's Roman baddie in Pompeii is a classic ham turn, but which other actors ham it up on screen? Here are eight of the bestYou might come to Paul WS Anderson's Pompeii for the volcano,...
View ArticleGrace of Monaco review: Cannes opens with a royal biopic worse than Diana
Naomi Watts set the bar high with last year's Princess-Di disaster. But Nicole Kidman has outdone her: this Grace Kelly film, which kicks off Cannes 2014, is a breathtaking catastrophe• Why the Grace...
View ArticleGrace of Monaco review – not Nicole Kidman's finest hour
Olivier Dahan plays fast and loose with the facts in this controversial, self-regarding take on the life of Grace KellyOn Broadway, the phrase "not since Carrie" once served as searing shorthand for a...
View Article5 to 7 review – Woody Allen-tinged love story worth two hours of your time
A naive American starts an affair with a sophisticated Frenchwoman in New York in a sweet take on un liaison that emulates the auteur without totally aping himThere is a certain type of romantic that...
View ArticleThe Father review – Frank Langella devastates in study of dementia
Manhattan Theatre ClubWith elements of a thriller and absurdist comedy, the play takes us into the experience of a man losing his grip – though some very English slang ranklesAndré (Frank Langella), a...
View ArticleCaptain Fantastic review – Viggo Mortensen doesn't earn his stripes
Mortensen stars as a survivalist dad who takes his kids to the woods to teach them authenticity in this low-cal take on The Mosquito CoastThere’s a meaty whiff of phoney-baloney in this fatuous and...
View ArticleFrank Langella leaves Netflix show after misconduct investigation
The Oscar-nominated actor will no longer star in The Fall of the House of Usher after he was accused of inappropriate behaviourOscar-nominated actor Frank Langella has exited Netflix series The Fall of...
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