James Marsh

Film / Reviews Mar 11, 2015

The Theory of Everything: 'communicating emotion with the faintest of smiles or movement of the eyes'

by Giovanni Fazio

Eddie Redmayne's win of this year's best-actor Oscar for his portrayal of wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" confirms what we already know: The Academy likes nothing so much as an actor portraying physical or mental disability, from "Rain Man" and ...

Film / Reviews Mar 1, 2013

'Shadow Dancer'

by Kaori Shoji

If you'll excuse the pun, Andrea Riseborough is a star on the rise. In her home ground of Great Britain she's famed for her role in 2010's "Brighton Rock," and in the U.S. she turned heads last year with her performance in Madonna's "W.E." ...