♦ A new poster for the US market from Yahoo: ♦ Glamour has a clip from the film with Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth here. ♦ Another clip from The Sun: ♦ Gary Oldman talks about the cast, including Tom: ♦ The official site has a new interview with the cast (not Tom) and a few flashes of new scenes. [...]

  Variety’s Joe Leydon (the important bits): An improbably effective and affecting mix of raw emotions and exciting smackdowns, “Warrior” shapes up as a pic with the potential to appeal to critics and audiences alike. … O’Connor adroitly sustains an air of kitchen-sink realism throughout the first half of “Warrior,” precisely and persuasively describing the [...]

From Cinemacon: 10 Things That Stood Out For Us, by Erik Childress Moviefone.com ” The film in question is a really terrific one called (for now) ‘Warrior.’ The last time director Gavin O’Connor did a tale of Irish brothers at odds we got the not-so-good, ‘Pride and Glory.’ The last time he did an underdog [...]

September 26, 2003 Nicholas de Jongh London Evening Standard You cannot miss the disturbing, erotic frisson when Francesca Annis, with the airs and enigmatic graces of a Harold Pinter femme fatale, arrives at the apartment of Luca, a temperamental medical student she has recently met. Having barely exchanged a few, correct pleasantries, Miss Annis’s Rosa, [...]

April 23, 2003 Nicholas de Jongh London Evening Standard There is a pungent whiff of familiarity about Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play, in which low-life losers drift around a Manhattan bar. Hell’s Kitchen, otherwise known as Times Square, is the location where these life-casualties gather in the 1990s. Mayor Giuliani, Guirgis reminds us, was then gentrifying [...]

December 14, 2010 Bilge Ebiri and Logan Hill New York Magazine Oscar buzz rarely surprises: Inevitably, the nominees are Hollywood stars in upper-middlebrow prestige pictures, with a couple of British stage actors thrown in to class up the joint. And as a result, many great-but-unconventional performances are overlooked, and this year there seem to be more [...]

March 29, 2004 Paul Taylor The Independent 5 stars The sound of a gushing tap and the escalation of a girl’s laughter into something more disturbing haunt this phenomenal stage version of the Dogme film, Festen. The sound of a gushing tap and the escalation of a girl’s laughter into something more disturbing haunt this phenomenal [...]

Septembe 26, 2003 Michael Billington The Guardian Pity the poor critic! The more one describes of this compelling 1995 play by the Swedish dramatist Lars Noren, the more one subverts its narrative tension; yet it is virtually impossible to discuss its central idea without revealing something of its story. It starts with a Parisian TV [...]

December 13, 2009 Katherine Flett The Guardian While talent shows provided national talking points, it was a slew of dramas that really gripped this viewer This year I’m devoting the top 10 to drama, partly because it feels as though the genre is having a harder time of television’s indisputable Hard Times than, for example, [...]

April 6, 2004 Dennis Harvey Variety Animal rights activists are trapped in an underground research facility by an unseen nemesis in “LD 50,” an attempted horror/sci-fi/psychological thriller that goes from obvious to garbled to ludicrous. Poor first-film-project choice for Brit stage director Simon De Selva is slick enough, but devoid of the high style or [...]

November 3, 2003 Matt Wolf Variety (Royal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs, London; 376 Seats; &Pound;26 ($43.50) Top) A Royal Court Theater presentation of a play in one act by Lars Noren, translated by Maja Zade. Directed by James Macdonald. Rosa – Francesca Annis Madeleine – Ingrid Lacey Eric – Nicholas Le Prevost Luca – Tom [...]

June 16, 2009 Catherine Gee The Telegraph Martina Cole’s The Take (Sky1/Sky1HD) – Tom Hardy stars in a four-part adaptation of the hit novel by crime writer Martina Cole. This is Sky’s big-budget shot at being taken seriously in TV drama: a home-grown, four-part adaptation of The Take, the 2005 hit novel by Britain’s best-selling crime [...]

March 12, 2009 Tim Robey The Telegraph Tom Hardy’s titular performance in Bronson, as Britain’s most notorious long-term prisoner, is a piece of all-stops-out showboating – the vaudeville routine of a nutcase. Bulked up to the dimensions of a circus strongman, complete with shaven skull and pointy mustache, he smirks in face-paint, howling bloody arias [...]

July 15, 2010 Tim Robey The Telegraph Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Christopher Nolan’s unmissable and maddening thriller about dream invasion. Dir: Christopher Nolan; Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite; Rating: * * * * Much as he did with The Dark Knight in 2008 (getting a little help from Pixar’s Wall-E), the pressure is [...]

December 19, 2007 James Walton The Telegraph Around 45 minutes into the first episode of Oliver Twist (BBC1), something deeply unexpected happened. Oliver met some people who were nice to him. Up to that point, he’d had the kind of childhood which these days he’d be able to turn into a bestselling memoir. His unmarried mum [...]

June 17, 2009 Andrew Pettie The Telegraph Thanks to Ashes to Ashes, most TV crime dramas now burst at the seams with wryly observed period detail. The opening episode of The Take, Sky1’s glossy plotted-by-numbers adaptation of Martina Cole’s glossy plotted-by-numbers gangster novel, was set in 1984. This meant a retro-chic field day for the props [...]

September 5, 2008 Tim Robey The Telegraph Guy Ritchie’s latest thriller is loud and brash but goes nowhere You can say this much for Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla: it isn’t as bad as his last two films. Then again, these were the Madge-on-a-beach catastrophe Swept Away and the certifiably insane Revolver, topping either of which for perversity [...]

December 2, 2007 The Telegraph Oliver Twist BBC1, Tuesday, 18 December, 8pm. This serial of pithy half-hour episodes launches with a feature-length hour. The script is by ballsy writer Sarah Phelps, long-term scribbler for EastEnders. Fagin will be played by a simpering, sinister Timothy Spall; while the frenetic and very talented Tom Hardy does a [...]

September 24, 2007 James Walton The Telegraph Comparatively few TV dramas have a main character who’s homeless, alcoholic, violent and addicted to heroin. Of the ones that do, even fewer are inclined to provide many laughs. Yet, for much of the time, Stuart: a Life Backwards (BBC2, Sun) was almost a comedy – and not always [...]

September 22, 2007 Tessa Gibbs The Telegraph Stuart: a Life Backwards BBC2, 9.00pm; N Ireland, 11.50pm Tom Hardy (The Virgin Queen) stars as Stuart Shorter alongside Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking) in this adaptation of Alexander Masters’s critically-acclaimed memoir about a violent, homeless alcoholic with muscular dystrophy. As the title suggests, the structure is intriguing, as more [...]

March 17, 2007 Toby Clements The Telegraph Scenes of a Sexual Nature 15, Sony, £19.99 Despite the racy title, there is little or no sex in this delightful British romantic comedy from first-time director Ed Blume. It follows the intimate relationships of seven couples of various age, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation on a late-summer’s [...]