Festive faves
Following our take on the turkeys last week, we present a selection of ten movies without which Yuletide simply couldn’t exist. A very happy Christmas to all our readers!
Not all of them have a festive setting, but there are no apologies – in terms of mood, memories and magic, these are the [...]
[photopress:What.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Not-so picture perfect…
It’s time for Hollywood to get all introspective again – thankfully, director Barry Levinson is something of an old hand at being scurrilous about Tinseltown. His genuinely scathing and frequently hilarious Wag the Dog (1997) takes its rightful place among ‘films about filmmaking’ classics that include Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950), Robert Altman’s [...]
[photopress:diehard_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Past-it action hero
All good things…Except in Hollywood, of course, they frequently don’t come to an end, do they? With franchise ‘three-quels’ and fourth installments now all the rage, the time seems wearily appropriate for catching up with John McLane (and, this time around, his grown-up daughter) and booing and hissing at the latest evil villain, [...]
Cutting hedge humour
We at Picturenose have a mind to bring you the best in films, so I make no apology for the subject of this review. Those who complain that it doesn’t count or is not highbrow enough may not only be missing the point, but also a very good movie.