DANE DEHAAN

Internet critics have exaggerated: Tulip Fever is not a lifeless flop. It is imperfect, occasionally uncomfortable, but not disastrous. Although the film does not reach its full potential, its qualities, which consist of that potential,…

You will not be shocked to read that at the heart of Kim Nguyen’s interesting if inconsistent new film is a story involving two lovers, and a bear. But you might be surprised to discover what form that story takes. Despite its small-town…

Life After Beth is a film that very much feels as if it wants to have its cake and eat it. Or, perhaps, replace cake with brains. It will end up tagged as yet another zom-rom-com when it doesn't really deserve to be lumped in with others of…

As a fan of horror cinema there’s only so many independent genre parodies with witty title puns you can take before you garner the desire to drive a stake through your own heart – especially when the ‘zom – rom – com’ has unfortunately…

It is hard to make a film truly engaging when faced with bringing true life to the big screen.  The idea of murdering a spurned lover is such a common plot device, it is now overly used in bad ‘obsessive/doomed’ relationship stories that…

If anyone needs further proof that Daniel Radcliffe is actually a decent actor, Kill Your Darlings is the film to watch. Chronicling the rise of the Beat generation, it counts Dane DeHaan, Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael C Hall among…

Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) is a charismatic and rebellious student at Columbia University who draws the attention of new literature student Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe). Ginsberg isn’t afraid to challenge his lecturer on great writing…

Epic noir Derk Cianfrance, whose Blue Valentine (2010) featured unusually impressive acting by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, works with Gosling again in The Place Beyond the Pines, but the material is completely different. The first…