The rapping Proclaimers? No, but this hip-hop hoax is the real deal, BRIAN VINER reviews California Schemin' ○
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4 days ago
California Schemin' - a tremendously assured directing debut by James McAvoy - is based on a true story: that of a Scottish hip-hop duo who called themselves Silibil N' Brains.
18 days ago
BRIAN VINER on The Magic Faraway Tree: Blyton's magical tale is a ripping treat for Easter ⊕
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BRIAN VINER: A tip-top cast, led by Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield, is the icing on the cake.
32 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews How To Make A Killing: This remake of the greatest of all Ealing comedies is a deadly dud ⊕⊕
The greatest of all Ealing comedies, the 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts And Coronets, really should be left to rest in eternal peace and everlasting appreciation.
33 days ago
BRIAN ACHESON opens up on his beloved 'third child' Bob Olinger: How the comeback horse changed his life and charmed racing fans across the nation - as gelding targets a FOURTH Cheltenham Festival triumph ⊕⊕
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DOMINIC KING: It's a couple of hours before racing but Cheltenham's Guinness Village is already jumping and the song the band are playing is wholly appropriate.
39 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Peaky Blinders The Immortal Man: I doff my cap to this gripping, high-octane film where Cillian Murphy is more than matched by Barry Keoghan ⊕
The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has excelled himself - and that's a high bar of excellence - with this gripping, high-octane story set during World War Two.
42 days ago
'You've got my chin': That was the moment BRIAN VINER knew this woman was the birth mother who gave him away as a baby. Hearing about her bohemian life of poets, jail and a smitten Soviet colonel, perhaps life had dealt him a lucky break... ⊕
A woman I'd never met, or even heard of, wrote me a letter in November 1997 that actually made my knees buckle. It felt like being hit by a car.
46 days ago
BRIAN VINER: Yes Seyfried shines, but these Shaking Quakers didn't stir me ⊕
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The last film co-written by Mona Fastvold and her husband was The Brutalist (2024), the epic about a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust to become a celebrated architect.
50 days ago
Film reviews: Wasteman and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You both get FOUR STARS for brutal brilliance - but prepare to feel exhausted, warns BRIAN VINER ⊖⊖
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BRUTAL and harrowing, the gripping prison thriller Wasteman shows us both that British film-making is in good shape - and that the British penal system is not.
52 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Baz Luhrmann's 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert': Extravagant, exuberant... this is archive Elvis at his most riveting ○
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It's rather glorious to find that another audience, 49 years after his death, can still be electrified by the king of rock 'n' roll. The film is riveting, and won't leave only diehard Elvis fans all …
53 days ago
BRIAN VINER reviews Wasteman: A gut-punching prison thriller every minister should see ⊖⊖
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Brutal and harrowing, the gripping prison thriller Wasteman shows us both that British film-making is in good shape - and that the British penal system is not.