Reviews & features: Christopher Walken

Stand Up Guys

Trio of old-timers Pacino, Walken and Arkin, united in predictable yet humorous gangster drama

While Robert De Niro has been vigorously debasing his art and reputation as a Viagra-popping oldster in The Big Wedding, his Godfather co-star Al Pacino has been alternating cinematic dreck (Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes) with more interesting TV work…

A Late Quartet

Unlikable characters blight this grown-up drama starring Christopher Walken

As befits an unapologetically grown-up and classy film about posh people who have loads of money and play in a string quartet, this drama has some supremely elegant, subtle and well-turned scenes. It also has moments of preciousness choking enough to…

Seven Psychopaths

Unabashed violent comedy from director of In Bruges

Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges is as fiercely violent as its title suggests, and a whole lot funnier. Its film-within-a-film concept finds alcoholic screenwriter Marty (Colin Farrell) troubled by writer’s block; he’s got a title – Seven…

Dark Horse

Todd Solondz film is supremely dark and disturbing suburbia satire

Supremely dark and disturbing satirist of American suburbia Todd Solondz’s seventh feature is his most fully realised and mature film (in cinematic terms, if not subject matter) to date. It might not boast the jaw-dropping subversive outrageousness of…

Dennis Hopper - 1936-2010

Actor, director, writer, photographer and artist Dennis Hopper died on 29 May at the age of 74. Here, fans and old friends pay tribute