Did you know that under American law a corporation has the legal rights of a person? Adapting this logic

Did you know that under American law a corporation has the legal rights of a person? Adapting this logic, the film considers what kind of “person” a corporation might be, concluding from the evidence – ruthless pursuit of profit, indifference to human wellbeing – it must be a psychopath. Abbott and Achbar’s film takes to task the behemoth of US corporatism and “the science of exploitation” it has enshrined. The Corporation (PG)
Plenty of food for thought, though served in overlarge portions. Plenty of food for thought, though served in overlarge portions. Romantic but asexual, passive but intense, he cuts an oddly disturbing figure: in him reside the pleasures, and the dangers, of innocence.. Barrie’s fantasy world is vividly portrayed, but his own life remains a shadowland of Edwardian repression.

Child-actors usually sound so over-rehearsed that a 10-year-old who can deliver lines in an unaffected voice seems a small miracle.Finding Neverland is a nicely played family entertainment with perhaps more mystery than it knows what to do with. David Magee’s script packs the margins with light theatrical comedy in the shape of Dustin Hoffman’s fretting producer and a smirking Paul Whitehouse as stage manager; Roberto Schaefer’s photography swoons adroitly between reality and scenes of make-believe.Star of the show, however, is Highmore, whose solemnity and wariness are a corrective to Hollywood’s sentimental infatuation with the cult of the child. Again, the film isn’t telling, but if their m?ge confuses us in 2004, how much more bizarre did it seem 100 years ago?Winslet and Depp (mastering a decent Scots accent) make their relationship as plausible as circumstances allow, and were it not for an impending tragedy, it is implied it might have progressed to the altar. In real life, Barrie met the family when Sylvia’s husband Arthur was still alive, and one can only guess at the irritation the latter might have felt on seeing his position usurped, however genially.In the film, the role of family killjoy goes not to the husband but to Sylvia’s mother, who asks Barrie, “Why don’t you leave her alone?” Julie Christie plays her as a controlling, gimlet-eyed presence, yet she does have a valid anxiety about what Barrie is playing at with her daughter – and what Sylvia is playing at with him. How could Barrie spend so much time with the Llewelyn Davies family and almost none at all with his wife? Given his love of children, why has he none of his own? Was Mary unable to conceive, or was Barrie simply not interested in sex? The film gives no explanation, nor are we any the wiser as to the relationship between him and Sylvia.

Barrie tells Peter that “Neverland” is a fairy-tale Elysium where the dead live on. “To die would be an awfully big adventure,” says Peter Pan – poignant, when one considers what awaited these Edwardian innocents 10 years later on the Western Front.But the question of sex refuses, as it were, to lie down. It is pretty frightening, but it makes you stronger.”She’s alluding, it seems, to the well-publicised break-up of her first marriage to Jim Threapleton, father of her oldest child, Mia (now four years old), which unfolded in the glare of the tabloid flashbulbs, and her relationship with the director Sam Mendes, whom she wed last year. Their son, Joe, was born in December 2003, and their domestic situation seems to be peachy keen “I’m very hands-on as a parent,” she says. “My daughter doesn’t even think I have a job because I’ve been so around so much this year.”Indeed, Winslet famously turned down the chance to star in Woody Allen’s newest movie which was shot in the UK this summer I gingerly ask about it, expecting her to keep schtum.

“No it’s fine,” she says, surprisingly: “Here’s what happened. Woody asked me to be in this film, and when he asked me he was going to be shooting something like six weeks later. And originally I said ‘yeah, of course, I’d love to do that.’”But the reality was he was filming right the way through the summer when I had planned to be home with my children. I woke up one morning and said, ‘My heart isn’t in this.’ And I knew that Woody Allen surely would not want me to feel like that, so I wrote him a letter explaining why I felt I couldn’t be in his film and he was incredibly gracious and sent me a letter back immediately saying ‘Dear Kate, don’t even give this a second thought.