jeremy irons

In Kubrick's version of Lolita, Mason is sublime. It's the sort of role that was tailor made for an actor of his talents. That playful, gorgeous voice, the way he moves, precisely, confidently. The smile that hides a thousand sins.

Lolita has been adapted twice for the big screen, once in 1962, by Stanley Kubrick and then later in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. In between, there have been plays, musicals, even operas that have taken Nabokov's prose, and moulded it to a new…

Their Finest is one of those warm, fuzzy crowd-pleasers, radiating a cosy charm as it gently unfurls towards a satisfying climax with the minimal amount of fuss, and where not having enough water to make a decent cuppa is the closest we…

Everybody knows that movies based on video games have, at best, a ropey reputation. Yet even after Warcraft became the most recent title to disappoint, all eyes immediately turned to Assassin’s Creed hoping it would be the exception to the…

The Correspondence is a film that I could easily imagine people struggling to get through. On the one hand it's almost ludicrous, focusing as it does on a sad woman (Olga Kurylenko) who so desperately craves the constant messages that she…

Times have changed for Superman. The ‘Man of Steel’ - one time hero of the people who could seemingly do no wrong - is now being considered a threat to mankind if his superpowers cannot be brought under some kind of control. Enter Batman…

After being linked to Don’t Look Now director Nicholas Roeg, a film version of J. G. Ballard’s novel High-Rise fell into financial difficulties and UK producer Jeremy Thomas put the project aside.  Now, 30 years after the novel’s original…

J.C. Chandor’s thought-provoking Wall Street Drama boasts a host of memorable performances from its ensemble cast and eschews glamorising the banker lifestyle like Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and its recent sequel. In Chandor’s movie, the…

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When entry-level…