11 Sep 2014:
Tom Waits ends up in jail for a crime he didn’t commit in this re-released comedy of 1986 – cue hypnotic score, superb cinematography and stupendous performances, writes Peter Bradshaw
11 Sep 2014:
Chris Rock is already No 1 when it comes to money at the Toronto film festival with this charming – and highly bankable – story of a stand-up struggling to reinvent himself
11 Sep 2014: Michael Hogan: The beleaguered British Rail clerk with big ambitions is a superbly nuanced creation: misanthropic but lovable, arrogant but vulnerable, slobbish but sympathetic
7 Sep 2014:
From wink-murder Hamlet to Swingball to kissing, audience participation is hard to predict. Shrinking violets beware: the joke this autumn could be you, writes Brian Logan