Amanda Seyfried

In Citizen Kane, the life of Charles Foster Kane is sought to be defined by meaning of one word, "Rosebud". David Fincher looks to understand and define the making of "the greatest film of all-time" through one word... Mank. David…

Paul Schrader's latest plays like a mix of Diary of a Country Priest and Diary of a Madman

AKA Meet The Coopers. The last Christmas movie that director Jessie Nelson was involved with, to my knowledge, was Fred Claus (which got him a story and producing credit). This is a step up from that, but only just. I struggled to put…

While We're Young is Noah Braumbach's inter-generational comedy about the allure of youth and the frustration of ageing, telling us that the adage that you are only as old as you feel really only stretches so far. Every generation must face…

For a very long time, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has hidden behind something or someone.  Whether it is in the guise of an overweight, tactless man from Rhode Island or a foul-mouthed teddy bear, it is hard to appreciate him as…

Peter Sarsgaard is Chuck, Chris Noth is Anthony Romano, Bobby Cannavale is Butchie Peraino, Hank Azaria is Gerry Damiano and Adam Brody is Harry Reems. If you don't know the names, although the last one should give it a way, then that…

Conventional wisdom has it that, now the planet has personal publishing capability, a networked universe in which to publish and a convenient means of sorting the rare grains of wheat from the deluge of chaff, there is no longer any chance…

Musical miserablism, squared Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, the Nth iteration of the long-popular 1980's English language musical stage adaptation of the French theatre piece based on the 19th-century Victor Hugo novel, may be unlike the…

Ah, another Broadway musical re-imagined for the cinema. After the lacklustre Rock of Ages in June, it was only time before a grand and beloved musical gets the cinematic treatment. Now, after almost twenty years since its initial…

If there is any good reason not to watch an Amanda Seyfried movie, please don't reveal it to me - on this particular point, I enjoy living in ignorant innocence and rapt admiration! Ahem. Oh, the movie? Right! Gone is a thriller about a…