Tom Wilkinson

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By-the-numbers old age comedy drama

10 Feb 2012

Early in this by-the-numbers comedy drama, a young salesperson eagerly enthuses to retiring couple Douglas (Bill Nighy) and Jean (Penelope Wilton) that 'the grey pound is very strong at the moment'. We’re quite clearly supposed to see this…

The Debt

Sober-minded spy movie with Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington

14 Sep 2011

(15) 113min The Debt has languished on the distributor’s shelf for a year since screening in Toronto last September, betraying a lack of studio confidence in the commercial prospects for John Madden’s sober-minded remake of 2007 Israeli espionage…

Wetherby

Intriguing and engrossing 1984 mystery drama with to-die-for cast

12 Jan 2011

(15) 99min (Park Circus) National treasure David Hare remains best known for his award-feted plays (Plenty, The Blue Room) and his screenwriting (The Hours, The Reader), but he’s also an assured director, as is evidenced by this intriguing and…

Combat Models: Jackboots on Whitehall

2 Jun 2010

If you only see one puppet-based, all-star World War II comedy epic at this year’s EIFF, it surely has to be Jackboots on Whitehall, the long-gestated project of the McHenry brothers, Ed and Rory. Set in an alternative universe where Nazis have…

44 Inch Chest

15 Jan 2010

How many hard men does it take to catch a cuckold? Five, it would seem, and they all seem to resemble Britain’s best character actors. Step forward Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Dillane. When car-dealing old lag Colin…

44 Inch Chest

5 Jan 2010

(18) 94min Ray Winstone reteams with Sexy Beast screenwriters for gritty crime film. Also stars British favorites John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, and Ian McShane. General release from Fri 15 Jan.

Duplicity

19 Mar 2009

THRILLER Bourne trilogy scriptwriter and Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy has proved himself something of a dab hand with espionage tales. His second directorial effort, Duplicity, is his attempt at a Mr & Mrs Smith type crowd pleaser with Clive…

Valkyrie

22 Jan 2009

THRILLER Secret Germany and the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler get the 24 treatment in Bryan X-Men Singer’s engaging new thriller. Months before the end of World War II, aristocratic Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise…

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…

Woody Allen - Cassandra's Dream

Glasgow Film Festival

14 Feb 2008

With those thick-rimmed glasses, that wisp of brown hair and the deeply cut grooves in his forehead, Woody Allen owns one of the most iconic faces in American cinema. These days, at 72, it’s a little more wizened and walnut-like – presumably from all…

George Clooney in Michael Clayton

20 Sep 2007

There are two sides to George Clooney that are as bipolar as his famed salt-and-pepper hair. Although it would be fair to say that when he popped up in Venice to promote Michael Clayton, for which the former ER star is heavily tipped to be in Oscar…