Hurt Locker, The (2008)

A progressive parable from a rather unlikely place

Its heart is in the right place, but the inspirational uplift looks just a bit artificial

Amazon, the IMAX film now being shown at the Museum of Natural History in New York, begins with scenes from an old black and white movie of pith-helmeted explorers fighting everything from vicious natives with poison-dart blowguns, to crocodiles to piranha. The picture is a tiny keyhole in the middle of the screen. Then up…

Another weird but weirdly captivating film from the Austrian director, Michael Haneke. Is this guy for real?

Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?

A disappointing attempt to plumb the human depths of a man too shallow to have any