Thor thunders in while The Book Thief makes a quieter but confident opening
The Norse god's return gives Marvel Studios the ninth biggest November opening weekend in historyThor: The Dark World reviewMore US box office analysisHe's landed in North America with a big thump....
View ArticleWho exactly is the The Book Thief aimed at?
What happens when Brian Percival, who's directed Downton Abbey, is let loose on a young-adult bestseller? An unecessarily soapy wartime saga, that's whatI spent all 130 minutes of The Book Thief...
View ArticleMarkus Zusak: The Book Thief film's biggest hurdle was Death
Markus Zusak, author of bestselling novel The Book Thief, answers questions from Guardian children's books site members about the film of his book, which is released this weekHow did you respond to the...
View ArticleThe Book Thief review 'Strange and saccharine'
Based on the bestseller by Markus Zusak, this film looks like a creepy new version of the Anne Frank storyThere's an unsettling sort of deja vu to be had in watching this strange and saccharine film,...
View ArticleWe Are What We Are, The Book Thief, Non-Stop: this week's new films
We Are What We Are | The Book Thief | Non-Stop | Ride Along | As The Palaces Burn | Unforgiven | Funny FaceThe story of an archaic backwoods family with very good reasons for their insularity, this...
View ArticleThe Book Thief review war drama comes a cropper
Mark Kermode: this child's-eye view of life under the Nazis is smothered by tasteful restraintWhile films as diverse and powerful as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Lore have offered insightful and...
View ArticleWhy are we so obsessed with films about the second world war?
The events they depict happened decades ago and they're often historically dubious. Yet second world war films are back in fashion, with Fury and Unbroken heading the pack of the autumn's awards...
View ArticleWelcome to Görlitz, the perfect German town that’s a movie star in its own right
The Grand Budapest Hotel has been nominated for nine Oscars – if only there was one for ‘best location’ so the eastern German town where it was filmed could winThere is not, as yet, any prize given for...
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