Ben Barnes

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (and the use of the term) has plagued romantic films for the past decade. There are none in sight in Jackie & Ryan, but writer/director Ami Canaan Mann has gone one better by creating the Laidback Folk Dream…

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…

Arriving at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square last Sunday I was, perhaps understandably, feeling a little bit ambivalent. The Narnia books had been childhood favourites of mine and although the first couple of films had had a good stab…

The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and a wealth of Hollywood stars braved the frosty weather to attend the Royal film performance of The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (reviewed here). With the snow falling,…

Having enjoyed the first two Chronicles of Narnia instalments I must admit that I was very excited to have been invited to the CTBF Royal Film Performance premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Being based on…