Anthony Carew, Journalist

"I don’t know how much I ever really understood the weight of my family background."

Film Carew rates the two current movie blockbusters

"That’s why I think samurai cinema has so long been appropriated by Western cinema, because the core of the stories is so strong, so true to so many."

"Bad Neighbours grants empathy to its fratboys: Efron, a beefcake sucking the marrow out of his College Years’ dying glory days; Franco, an ambitious careerist for whom fraternal larks are big-picture small change."

“That’s what’s amazing about being with adolescents: their hearts weren’t yet broken."

"It’s impossible to watch the film and not imagine that so much of it is drawn from their real life relationship"

"Teenagers are famous for their out-of-control hormones, but the heroine of Young & Beautiful seems impossibly cold, unbearably practical."

"Young & Beautiful is, instead, a portrait of the hyper-capitalist, forever-online now – of youth and beauty as cultural currency."

Richard Ayoade won't make "epic" films - he reckons that's boring.

Depp radiates cheque-cashing tedium... If the acting is awful, then the dialogue sure ain’t better.