Film
Jasper Rees
People tend to know three things about J.Edgar Hoover: that he was in charge of America’s internal security for four decades; that he kept secret files on the political elite; and that the most powerful unelected man in the nation's history liked to throw on ladies’ attire. Although sadly only two of the above turn out to be true, the facts have not stopped Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio from at least flirting with the elephant in the room. But we’ll cross that dress when we get to it.If this is a charmless and heavy-legged biopic, the genre itself has to take some of the rap. Fifty Read more ...
howard.male
Although Lars von Trier’s latest boasts a few mainstream stars (amonst them, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland) and the director himself has described the film as having not only having a Hollywood aesthetic but also - horror of horrors - a happy ending, everything is relative.Von Trier’s idea of a happy ending gets previewed at the beginning of the film, so it doesn't give much away by saying it consists of our snooker ball-sized Earth getting pulverised by a football-sized planet called Melancholia. As for why the director might think of the destruction of all life Read more ...