Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman aboard for second world war film The Railway Man
Filming set to begin on adaptation of Eric Lomax's bestselling account of his experiences as a POW on the Burma railwayOn two occasions in recent months, Colin Firth has met for lunch with an elderly...
View ArticleThe Railway Man: Toronto 2013 - first look review
Colin Firth turns in a performance of immense emotional complexity in this real-life tale of a former prisoner-of-war coming to terms with his time working on the Burma railwayIf you were forced to...
View ArticleColin Firth on The Railway Man: 'a whole chapter of history not taught'
Colin Firth joins screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce and the widow of the man he plays in new film The Railway Man in calling for greater understanding of the prisoners of war forced to work on the...
View ArticleToronto film festival 2013: 12 Years a Slave adds moral fibre to feast of a...
Catherine Shoard reports on a packed weekend at the Toronto film festival. Click here for full reviews of Fading Gigolo, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Railway Man,...
View ArticleThe Railway Man: watch Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in the world exclusive...
Watch the world exclusive first trailer for The Railway Man, the true life account of a former prisoner-of-war's horrific experiences of being forced to work on the Burma railway during the second...
View ArticleNicole Kidman: 'I try never to be governed by fear'
In Kidman's latest film, The Railway Man, she plays Patti Lomax, the wife of a former prisoner of war who suffered terrible torture building the Burma railway. Here, Kidman and the real-life Patti talk...
View ArticleThe Railway Man's forgotten family: 'We were victims of torture too'
Eric Lomax's book, The Railway Man, about his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war has inspired a major new film. But his first family were written out of the story by Lomax himself. Joanna...
View ArticleThe Railway Man: watch Colin Firth in an exclusive clip - video
The Railway Man is a biopic that stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a British soldier who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during world war II and forced to help build the Burma Railway. In this clip...
View ArticleThe Railway Man review | Peter Bradshaw
A potentially powerful film about a POW reconciling with his former torturer is let down by some woeful castingHere is an intensely well-intentioned movie with an important story to tell, but also,...
View ArticleThe Guardian Film Show: 12 Years a Slave, The Railway Man, Last Vegas and...
Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard join Xan Brooks to review the big film releases out this week. Our first show of 2014 sees the team gripped by Steve McQueen's majestic slavery drama 12 Years a...
View ArticleThe Guardian Film Show: 12 Years a Slave, The Railway Man, Last Vegas and...
Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw review 12 Years a Slave, The Railway Man, Last Vegas and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Continue reading...
View Article12 Years A Slave, The Railway Man, The Square: this week's new films
12 Years A Slave | The Railway Man | Delivery Man | After Tiller | 1: Life On The Limit | Exposed: Beyond BurlesqueWhat with the acclaim, the awards buzz and the harrowing subject matter, finally...
View ArticleThe Railway Man review | Mark Kermode
Eric Lomax's story of life and death on the Burma railway gets another retelling, although it does get a little muddledThe story of Eric Lomax, a signals engineer who was forced to work on the infamous...
View Article12 Years a Slave overcomes tough subject matter to top UK box office
American Hustle pushed into second place by Steve McQueen's gritty slavery drama which has beaten Slumdog Millionaire's opening weekend, while The Railway Man surprises with £1m+ haul American Hustle...
View ArticleA torture rehabilitation expert's view on The Railway Man
The torture scenes are terrifying and completely realistic. Dick Cheney should see The Railway Man, says torture rehabilitation expert Dr William HopkinsI saw this film with a colleague who knew Eric...
View ArticleGuy Lodge's DVDs and downloads
Colin Firth is outstanding in a determinedly old-fashioned movie, while a Japanese switched-at-birth drama is mawkish and melodramaticFor a time, smart US pop culture writer Joe Reid ran an elegantly...
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 ArticleThat never happened: the biopic conundrum
The new Hendrix film, Jimi: All Is By My Side, is entertaining – but is it true? Henry Barnes talks to the friends and families of those portrayed in biopics about the line between artistic licence and...
View ArticleAactas 2015: The Water Diviner and The Babadook tie, but at least they're Aussie
Never has the Australian film industry seemed so confounded by the challenge of distinguishing great art from handsome mainstream productThe annual Aacta awards got at least one thing absolutely right....
View ArticleThe Railway Man: a tale of torture and redemption
Colin Firth stars in this adaptation of the memoirs of a POW tortured by the Japanese military during the second world war. No movie could recreate such horrors, but it’s easy to forgive this...
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