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Content posted by Roger Keen
Meryl Streep gives us the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, but does it really match up to King Lear? | Posted by Roger Keen on 08-01-2012 23:20 |
Tipped as a big award winner, Colin Firth stars as a monarch with some tricky personal issues to resolve. | Posted by Roger Keen on 04-01-2011 00:00 |
Rhys Ifans stars as hash smuggler Howard Marks in a funny and unusual biopic from Immortal Beloved director Bernard Rose... | Posted by Roger Keen on 15-10-2010 18:00 |
Is greed still good? Roger Keen finds out. | Posted by Roger Keen on 08-10-2010 17:00 |
Dennis Potter’s third lip-synch serial finally gets a DVD release from Acorn Media. | Posted by Roger Keen on 02-10-2010 14:00 |
Roger Keen takes a look at Christopher Nolan’s latest—a metaphysical sci-fi actioneer no less. | Posted by Roger Keen on 20-07-2010 18:00 |
Roger Keen asks the big question: after Avatar and Alice has 3-D finally come of age? | Posted by Roger Keen on 10-04-2010 19:43 |
’70s pop legend Ian Dury is brought to life in a brilliant performance from Andy Serkis, but a question mark hangs over ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 13-01-2010 12:00 |
The Baker Street sleuth but not as we know him—stripped to the waist and leaping off buildings. What is Guy Ritchie play... | Posted by Roger Keen on 16-12-2009 18:00 |
Roger Keen watches the strange world of Charlie Kaufman get stranger still, as he intermingles life and art in ever asce... | Posted by Roger Keen on 30-10-2009 20:00 |
With a mis-spelt title and a take on World War II you won’t find in history books, Quentin Tarantino blazes back onto ci... | Posted by Roger Keen on 10-09-2009 14:00 |
Turn up your volume knobs to the maximum and more as the Spinal Tap legend celebrates its quarter century, with a three ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 04-09-2009 00:10 |
Two young women, a romantic city, the guy from No Country for Old Men and Woody Allen at the helm - what a combination! ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 10-02-2009 12:00 |
David Fincher puts Brad Pitt into reverse gear for this special effects-laden extravaganza - a strong candidate for most... | Posted by Roger Keen on 04-02-2009 12:00 |
Titanic pair Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio are on a new voyage here, through the choppy seas of a strained and angst-rid... | Posted by Roger Keen on 29-01-2009 12:00 |
Mickey Rourke stars in this portrait of an over-the-hill pugilist, whose day of reckoning is fast approaching. So is Da... | Posted by Roger Keen on 13-01-2009 18:00 |
With this second early 60s classic, Yul Brynner moves from the Russian Steppes to the arid lands of Yucatán, where Mayan... | Posted by Roger Keen on 19-10-2008 18:00 |
In the first of two Yul Brynner Classics from Optimum, the most famous bald-headed actor in history plays the eponymous ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 19-10-2008 12:00 |
Sophie Marceau stars in this terrific French World War II spy thriller about an SOE operation to preserve the secrets of... | Posted by Roger Keen on 05-10-2008 12:00 |
Woody's back in Britain with another noirish tale that evokes his 2005 Match Point. Though it has the fine talents of E... | Posted by Roger Keen on 28-09-2008 12:00 |
Keira Knightley stars as the glittering socialite, bucking the trends of patriarchal eighteenth century life. Is this ju... | Posted by Roger Keen on 19-09-2008 15:00 |
Four years after the TV show finished, Carrie and the girls finally get their act together for the chick-flick event of ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 01-06-2008 18:00 |
Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's harrowing memoir of locked-in syndrome, Julian Schnabel's film is a triumph of storytell... | Posted by Roger Keen on 13-02-2008 17:00 |
Daniel Day-Lewis and Little Miss Sunshine's Paul Dano are pitted against one another in this sprawling tale of the 1900s... | Posted by Roger Keen on 07-02-2008 21:00 |
Roger Keen reviews this latest release of archive Potter from Network, consisting of three early plays plus some South B... | Posted by Roger Keen on 27-12-2007 20:00 |
The Spanish are coming, so get your armour on quick! Shekhar Kapur's second instalment in the life of the most cinemati... | Posted by Roger Keen on 06-11-2007 23:00 |
David Cronenberg's violent history-making takes him over to our shores, to examine the Russian Mafia in London. On offe... | Posted by Roger Keen on 01-11-2007 16:00 |
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy star in this sweeping war-tinged romance from Pride and Prejudice director Joe Wright. ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 10-09-2007 17:00 |
David Lynch's latest goes even further in his quest to trace the contours of the dream in film. Is it another work of ge... | Posted by Roger Keen on 14-08-2007 12:00 |
 TwinkyA pre-Straw Dogs Susan George plays the eponymous schoolgirl in love with older man Charles Bronson in swinging sixties ... | Posted by Roger Keen on 12-02-2007 00:00 |
