A film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis and featuring lashings of Beatles music seems like a failsafe recipe and while musical rom-com Yesterday has some fine moments, it never quite lives up to its promise. In a scenario that sees speculative history meet Sliding Doors-style ‘what if’ urban fantasy, failed British singer-song writer Jack Malik (Himesh Patel)
Read moreTrainspotting (1996) was, for many, the defining film of Generation X, a hedonistic high-energy, cocktail of heroin addiction, pop-cultural critique and violent dysfunctional mateship. Filled with smart, lacerating dialogue and propelled by one of the best and most cleverly deployed soundtracks in movie history it was a ferocious statement of a youth culture questioning the consumerism, conservatism and political passivity
Read moreTrance, the latest film from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is a brain-boggling psychological thriller with more than a passing resemblance to Chris Nolan’s Inception. James McEvoy plays art auctioneer, con-artist and gambling addict, Simon, who steals a priceless painting, Goya’s “Witches Flight”, hoping it will pay off a gambling debt owed to gangster Franck (Vincent Cassel). When the heist goes
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