Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, James D'Arcy, Scarlett Johansson
Director: Sasha Gervasi
Running Time: 98 mins
Certificate: 12A
Release Date: February 8th 2013

Anthony Hopkins gave some amazing performances in the 1980s and 1990s, but for the last decade or so it’s seemed like he’s simply turned up for his paycheque. However it turns that to get him to give a real performance you’ve got to give him a role where he doesn’t have much choice but to act. After all, Alfred Hitchcock is far too well known for Hopkins just to have coasted it. Thankfully he doesn’t, not just doing a dead-on impersonations of the master director, but creating a fully realised character in a way Toby Jones couldn’t quite manage in the recent, The Girl. [Read more…]