OH, BOYREVIEWED - SHE'S THE MAN: GIVEN the various indignities visited upon William Shakespeare's work over the past few centuries, …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
THIN ICE INDEEDREVIEWED - ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN: IT IS some measure of the paucity of imagination on display in this sequel to 20th Century…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
DISPIRITINGREVIEWED - THE DARK: ANY punter stumbling into The Dark under the impression that it might be an adaptation of the novel by …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Centenary Sam goes to the moviesSAMUEL Beckett enthusiasts unnerved by the oddly jaunty tone taken by some of the posters advertising the great man's centenary…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
LOW RENTREVIEWED - RENT: THE great wonder of this extraordinarily terrible adaptation of an already unlovely Broadway musical is that…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Irish flicks could do with a few laughs2000AD, the Irish production company based at Ardmore Studios, has been urged by a "well-known studio in Los Angeles" to seek…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
BEWARE THE BIG BROODREVIEWED - YOURS, MINE AND OURS: BEWARE. There are plenty of things to fear about this bland family comedyFri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
FLACCID ROMP FAILS TO EXCITEREVIEWED - FAILURE TO LAUNCH: BY SELECTING a headline-writer's gift as the title for their film, the producers of this doctrinally…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
COOL LOVE IN A HOT CLIMATEREVIEWED - THE WHITE COUNTESS: FOLLOWING: producer Ismail Merchant's death last year, this attractive, if chilly, period romance…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
FROZEN STIFFREVIEWED - THE BIG WHITE: MARK Mylod, director of good British television and the appalling Ali G movie, was perhaps ill-advised…Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
DEAD RINGERREVIEWED - THE RINGER: THROUGH circumstances too contrived to allow repetition, an office worker, played by the reliably broad…Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
A SIEGE MENTALITYREVIEWED - INSIDE MAN: SO, at a time when even the cuddliest directors are making political pictures, Spike Lee, the Brecht …Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
MY WORST DATEREVIEWED - DATE MOVIE : THIS unspeakably squalid parody of the contemporary romantic comedy is written by some percentage of…Fri Feb 24 2006 - 00:00
COLD STEELREVIEWED - SEVEN SWORDS/CHAT GIM: THIS bum-numbingly lengthy Asian entertainment belongs to that genre of riding, fencing and…Fri Feb 24 2006 - 00:00
A little audience participationThe committed movie-goers at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival have seen plenty to inspire feisty debate, writes…Wed Feb 22 2006 - 00:00
The gossip gathererBiography: The life of no 20th-century personality showcases the American dream in action as effectively as does that of Louella…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
Mercier's 'Studs' kicks off film festivalNearly 20 years after it first played at Dublin's SFX Theatre, Studs, Paul Mercier's much-loved play following the adventures…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
VAPID IN VENICEREVIEWED - CASANOVA: CASANOVA climbs into a gondola and travels to the crumbling pile where the Inquisition's representative…Fri Feb 17 2006 - 00:00
THE BOY IN THE HAIRY PAWREVIEWED - GRIZZLY MAN: MY BEST Fiend, one of Werner Herzog's most enjoyable documentaries, focused on the relationship between…Fri Feb 10 2006 - 00:00
MUTT DRESSED AS LAMBREVIEWED - THE ADVENTURES OF GREYFRIARS BOBBY: SHOULD you wish to punish naughty children by subjecting them to a uniquely Caledonian…Fri Feb 10 2006 - 00:00
Movie buffs prepare for visual feast in the capitalBreakfast on Pluto star Cillian Murphy launched the programme for the fourth Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last…Thu Feb 02 2006 - 00:00
Irish actor Rhys Meyers wins Globe award for 'Elvis' roleJonathan Rhys Meyers, who showed his talent nearly a decade ago in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, has been slightly overshadowed…Wed Jan 18 2006 - 00:00
Studs on show at Dublin festivalFANS OF Paul Mercier's riotous play Studs will be delighted to hear that the film version, long discussed, now finally in the…Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:00
KEEP YOUR CHIN UPREVIEWED - EXILES/EXILS A sceme in this enigmatic French road movie finds the female lead dancing with orgasmic fervour to the…Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:00
BLEAKLY BULLET PROOFREVIEWED - 13/TZAMETI: GÉLA Babluani's debut feature, a concise monochrome thriller with existentialist leanings, re-imagines…Fri Jan 06 2006 - 00:00
First-class comfortsReviewed - Tickets: A gaggle of great auteurs - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach - comes together to tell three …Fri Dec 30 2005 - 00:00
Worlds in CollisionReviewed - Live and Become/Va, Vis et Deviens: In the course of this long, deeply felt drama, the Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu…Fri Dec 30 2005 - 00:00
First-class comfortsReviewed - Tickets: A gaggle of great auteurs - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach - comes together to tell three …Fri Dec 23 2005 - 00:00
Worlds in CollisionReviewed - Live and Become/Va, Vis et Deviens: In the course of this long, deeply felt drama, the Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu…Fri Dec 23 2005 - 00:00
THE CURSE OF THE CHATTERING CLASSREVIEWED - THE FAMILY STONE : FOLLOWING the dubious Exorcism of Emily Rose, an apology for the simple superstitions of the moral…Fri Dec 16 2005 - 00:00
And when she was bad . . .Biography: In chapter 18 of Simon Louvish's meticulously researched biography of Mae West, we discover WC Fields musing on the…Sat Dec 10 2005 - 00:00
THE CURSE OF THE CHATTERING CLASSREVIEWED - THE FAMILY STONE : FOLLOWING the dubious Exorcism of Emily Rose, an apology for the simple superstitions of the moral…Fri Dec 09 2005 - 00:00
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EASTREVIEWED - THE HIDDEN BLADE/KAKUSHI-KEN: ONI NO TSUME: ASIAN cinema boffins have complained that Yôji Yamada's elegiac Twilight…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
KILL CRAZYREVIEWED - DOOM: THE video game Doom is best remembered for popularising that genre known, in the digital world's unlovely argot…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
RESISTANCE IS ESSENTIALREVIEWED - SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS/ SOPHIE SCHOLL: DIE LETZEN TAGE AN ACUTELY focused study, compiled from the official…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
DEMONS OVER AMERICAREVIEWED - THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE THIS strange, worrying film is, the credits assure us, based on a true storyFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
THE KIDDIE VANISHESREVIEWED - FLIGHTPLAN SO JODIE Foster, an aeronautical engineer whose husband has just died mysteriously in Berlin, boards a…Fri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
BLOOD, GUTS & BALLETREVIEWED - THE TRANSPORTER 2 Here's a comedy standard I haven't seen for some timeFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
GREAT BALLS OF FIREREVIEWED - GODZILLA/GOJIRA: ISHIRÔ Honda's fabulous Gojira, a serious film in a frivolous genre, was, before the welcome release…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
BEAUTIFUL BOOZERSREVIEWED - FACTOTUM: IN adapting the writings of the late Charles Bukowski, film-makers can be forgiven for not concerning themselves…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
Foot in MouthReviewed - In Her Shoes: There is an odd moment halfway through this uncomfortable hybrid of a filmFri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
A killer plotReviewed - The Constant Gardener: Fernando Meirelles' international hit City of God established the Brazilian as an extraordinary…Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Cobbled togetherReviewed - Kinky Boots: So what are plucky Britishers doing this season to regain dignity and escape exclusion? Stripping? …Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
A MATRIX FULLY LOADEDREVIEWED - GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE/ INOSENSU: KÔ KAKU KIDÔTAI: AMORU Oshii's stunning sequel to his complex, bleak 1995…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
YOUR HEAVEN, MY HELLREVIEWED - BATTLE IN HEAVEN/BATALLA EN EL CIELO: CARLOS Reygadas, the young Mexican director of 2002's stubbornly unpacy Japón…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATHREVIEWED - INTO THE BLUE : I like all kinds of garbage. I like Big Macs. I like Rachel Stevens. I like Tunnocks TeacakesFri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
A NANNY STATEREVIEWED - NANNY MCPHEE : This Victorian children's adventure, adapted by Emma Thompson from a series of novels by Christianna…Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
