Robert De Niro

Limitless a fun cinematic trip with a mind-altering wonder drug

Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in entertaining action thriller

30 Mar 2011

Limitless should come subtitled ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’ as struggling writer Eddie (Bradley Cooper) dives headlong down the rabbit hole as he becomes hooked on NZT, an IQ-enhancing wonder drug that transforms you into the best version of…

Stone and Who Loves the Sun among DVD release highlights

Featuring boxsets of Akira Kurosawa, Richard Woolley and Luis Buñuel

2 Mar 2011

Here’s what may be of interest on DVD and Blu-ray that’s coming out in March. An Unflinching Eye: The Films of Richard Woolley (BFI ●●●●) brings together the almost complete short and feature work of this overlooked British filmmaker whose films were as…

Machete

16 Nov 2010

(18) 104min Originally positioned as an intermission in Grindhouse, the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino homage to 70s exploitation movies, Machete’s trailer encapsulated the Mex-ploitation genre with extra cajones, with man-mountain Danny Trejo…

Everybody's Fine

17 Feb 2010

(12A) 99min Robert De Niro drags his grumpy old man routine into this well-meaning but utterly dull remake of Giuseppe Cinema Paradiso Tornatore’s Stanno Tutti Bene (1990). De Niro has plenty of reason to put on his over-familiar raised eyebrows and…

Robert De Niro's awards honour

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7 Dec 2009

Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen and Mel Brooks have been given lifetime achievement awards. The legendary entertainers were praised by the US President Barack Obama at the Kennedy Center Honours yesterday (06.12.09), where they were presented with…

Robert De Niro ignored by kids

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6 Dec 2009

Robert De Niro says his children ignore his advice. The Hollywood actor - who has five children from three relationships - loves to have his family around but they don't listen to anything he tells them. He told an Irish newspaper: "I like to…

Robert De Niro wants 'regular' stars

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9 Nov 2009

Robert De Niro thinks actors become famous too early. The 66-year-old actor believes his struggle to find success in his early career has kept him grounded and feels modern stars need time to find their feet. He explained: "I think it's important…

Robert De Niro's indifferent kids

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8 Nov 2009

Robert De Niro's children don't care that their dad is famous. The 66-year-old actor said his children "aren't too impressed" with their Oscar-winning father and don't talk about his work. He said: "My kids aren't too impressed with me. They don't…

EIFF 2009 - Roger Corman

11 Jun 2009

The Hollywood legend Roger Corman is guest of honour at the 63rd EIFF, which is this year hosting a very welcome retrospective dedicated to the man they rightly call the king of the Bs. Given the 83-year-old auteur has written, directed and/or produced…

Also Released - Film

27 Nov 2008

Four Christmases (12A) 88min ••• Another year, another Christmas comedy starring Vince Vaughn. This time he’s teamed up with Reese Witherspoon for a likeably silly comedy about divorced parents and the pressure of yuletide family gatherings. It’s…

What Just Happened?

2 Oct 2008

Tales about the mechanics of the movie industry and the bloated egos that work within it are the stuff of fantasy to filmmakers. Robert Altman’s The Player is pretty much the definitive account of Hollywood, although that hasn’t stopped films such as…

Righteous Kill

18 Sep 2008

MURDER/MYSTERY (15) 100min When Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had one scene together in Michael Mann’s Heat, the sense of anticipation of these two legendary New York actors sparking off each other (rather than just being in the same film a la The…

Robert De Niro

Family affair

4 Sep 2008

What better way to kick off a preview of this autumn’s movie highlights than with a bona-fide legend, Robert De Niro. The two-time Oscar winner has always been notoriously reticent about his private life, but here Richard Mowe finds him playing a family…

Robert De Niro's acting advice

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26 Jul 2008

Robert De Niro says difficult actors should leave their "craziness" at home. The screen legend - who has a reputation for being a perfectionist - insists problems should not be bought to the set and actors should be fully focused when they are at…

Stardust

23 Aug 2007

This British blockbuster adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s marvellous English fantasy novel looks fantastic. It’s seriously marred, however, by a lacklustre script co-written by Jane Goldman (Mrs Jonathan Ross) and director Matthew Vaughn. Despite fine art…

The Good Shepherd

12 Feb 2007

In 1977 a US Privacy Study Commission surmised that the real danger of the Central Intelligence Agency is ‘the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems…

Arthur and the Invisibles

(U) 93min

29 Jan 2007

If Luc Besson (The Big Blue, Leon) is to be believed, this, his tenth film, will also be his last as director. In adapting his own children’s book, Besson mixes live-action and CGI animation with decidedly patchy results. It’s heavy on style but light…