Paul Giamatti

The Ides of March

Clooney's effective if by-the-numbers dissection of America’s political system

17 Oct 2011

(15) 101min George Clooney – more salt than pepper, more actor than director. Like Good Night, and Good Luck, his fourth feature directorial effort dissects America’s political system and surmises that it is fuelled of corruption and greed. The…

Win Win

Tom McCarthy's sterling comedy/drama starring Paul Giamatti

18 Apr 2011

(15) 105min Like his earlier two films, The Station Agent and The Visitor, Tom McCarthy’s new film Win Win makes no grand statements and is all the better for it. An expertly shaken comedy/drama cocktail, it tells of small-town attorney Mike Flaherty…

Ironclad

Medieval seige movie starring Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy and Brian Cox

2 Mar 2011

(15) 120min If you’re partial to a bit of medieval madness, then Jonathan English’s Ironclad has it all. Set in 1215, this bawdy, bloody and brutal history lesson tells of what happened in the months following the creation of the Magna Carta, the…

Solomon Kane's James Purefoy discusses new medieval siege movie Ironclad

UK actor on upcoming role, Paul Giamatti and inclement weather

28 Feb 2011

List: Ironclad is another historical film after Solomon Kane and your role as Mark Antony in HBO’s Rome – what draws you to these parts? JP: It could just be what I’m getting offered. I try to take every script on it’s own merit, and if it happens to…

Barney's Version - Comic murder-mystery that strays into tearjerker territory

A rambling, unfocused but still enjoyable comedy-drama

18 Jan 2011

(15) 133min Memory is a tricky thing, and that appears to be the main point of this rambling, unfocused but still enjoyable comedy-drama. Paul Giamatti plays Barney Panofsky, a slightly nastier version of the cynical schlub that’s become his…

The Last Station

17 Feb 2010

(15) 112min It’s 1910 and the great Russian writer and aristocrat Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) has become a cult dissenting voice in Tsarist Russia. His writings and teachings on non violent resistance, state and property rights, chastity and…

Cold Souls

30 Oct 2009

(12A) 101min It’s not surprising that this deadpan existential comedy has been compared, favourably, to Being John Malkovich. Aside from boasting a similarly mind-bending premise (here revolving around the storage, sale and swapping of people’s…

Remote Control

2 Oct 2008

With the USA on the brink of its most epoch-making presidential election since the one four years ago, chances are that Afghan cable networks and Iraqi terrestrial channels will be doing their utmost to ignore the ensuing bunfight between Barack and…

Fred Claus

29 Nov 2007

FAMILY/COMEDY (PG) 115min In his third film with director David Dobkin (Clay Pigeons, The Wedding Crashers) Vince Vaughn trades far too heavily on his familiar wise-guy charms in this cloying Joel The Matrix Silver-produced Christmas offering.