chris Banks

chris Banks 18 November 2012

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ealing virtuoso Alexander Mackendrick, The Man in the White Suit...

chris Banks 17 November 2012

It can be a dangerous business, you know, re-visiting old films from your childhood. You go back after a couple...

chris Banks 12 November 2012

A snapshot of post-war, working class austerity, It Always Rains on Sunday, released in 1947, makes its way back onto...

chris Banks 8 November 2012

So accomplished is director Paul Thomas Anderson’s catalogue of work, that every new film he presents is met with a...

chris Banks 7 November 2012

In bringing the recent, catastrophic global financial disaster to the screen, writer and director J C Chandor has painted his...

chris Banks 4 November 2012

You know the drill: Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) take drugs, they walk/drive/fly somewhere, they crack wise, they...

chris Banks 27 October 2012

The fifth volume of the BBC’s Christmas ghost stories, released by the BFI next week, sees the combined issue of...

chris Banks 25 October 2012

With 2012, Diamond Jubilee, Para-Olympics, Olympic Games and all, placing London under the gaze of the world’s media; London: The...

chris Banks 11 October 2012

Opening the 2012 London Film Festival, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie has a previous incarnation as a 1984 short film. The original,...

chris Banks 6 October 2012

★☆☆☆☆ Mark well the title of this film, dear reader, for therein endeth the once promising career of Bradley Cooper....

chris Banks 6 October 2012

★★1/2☆☆ Sam Riley channels Jack Kerouac in Walter Salles's adaptation of the author's cult book, On The Road, loosely based...

chris Banks 18 September 2012

Given the relatively weighty subject matter of much of director Oliver Stone's previous work (Platoon, Nixon, World Trade Centre), it's...

chris Banks 18 September 2012

★★★★☆ Ken Loach’s affable crime movie brings together a group of low-rent, ex-offenders through a community service course in Glasgow....

chris Banks 28 August 2012

★1/2☆☆☆ Backpacker David (Xavier Samuel) returns from his travels and announces to his friends that, following a whirlwind holiday romance,...