FIlm of the Week: A Star Is Born
"If this doesn’t win the Best Picture, there’s a glitch in the Matrix"
Well folks, get yourself down to William Hill, because if this doesn’t win the Best Picture Oscar, there’s a serious glitch in the Matrix. An epic-yet-intimate weepie of the kind we’re told They Don’t Make Any More, this is the crowd-pleaser of the autumn – and happens to be actually good, to boot. Bradley Cooper stars and directs as a good ol’ boy musician who falls in love with Lady Gaga’s bar singer, and the rest of the story is largely familiar from the three previous versions. What’s new is how this Hollywood megamovie starring two of the most famous people on the planet, half the time, feels like an improvised indie: Cooper and Gaga are genuinely superb together, and there’s not a false note as their love winds its way through fame, drugs and booze. Bring some hankies. Times & trailer
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