BEFORE THE RAINS'ONE must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it," Chekhov famously wrote to a friendFri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
ELITE SQUAD/TROPA DE ELITEWHEN news emerged that something called Elite Squad had won the top prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, more than a few…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
KILLER OF SHEEPJONATHAN Rosenbaum, the great American critic, has argued that "Charles Burnett is the most gifted and important black film-maker…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
THE FOX AND THE CHILD/LE RENARD ET L'ENFANTEVERYONE loved the nature photography in Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins , his smash documentary from 2005, but many viewers…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
Phantom du nacht haunts WaterfordThere are few events more entrancing to the serious film fan than the presentation of a classic silent movie with live musical…Fri Aug 01 2008 - 01:00
CASSDIRECTED by the producer of Green Street , this workmanlike British drama constitutes one more unwelcome addition to the perplexing…Fri Aug 01 2008 - 01:00
Noir, sub-noir and sheer magicFOLLOWING (1998) A sinuously hypnotic combination of art movie and film noir, Nolan's debut studies a strange young man who …Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Wholesome, well meaning and utterly dullJOINING BABY MAMA in the anti-Batman counter-programming slot, we find the latest film from nice old Gurinder ChadhaFri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Out of puffWHAT IS the worst film ever made by a director of genius? Francis Ford Coppola's Jack certainly takes some beating (or, rather…Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Mama mia!TINA FEY, instigator of Mean Girls and the television series 30 Rock, is rumoured to be a woman of some intelligenceFri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Music in MaliA musical road trip with a difference at Mali's Festival au Desert.Fri Jul 25 2008 - 01:00
Narcissism that leads to murderHis movies make you feel uneasy, with his treatment of sex and violence, but then that's exactly what Tom Kalin wants to do, …Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
HANCOCKWILL SMITH, everyone's favourite coil of optimism, in a biopic of the superhumanly grumpy comic Tony Hancock? Now, that would…Fri Jul 04 2008 - 01:00
FEMALE AGENTS/LES FEMMES DES OMBREJEAN-PAUL Salomé has offered us a film about women fighting the Nazis in occupied Europe. Good for himFri Jun 27 2008 - 01:00
SUPERHERO MOVIEUNLEASHED in the interregnum between the age of Iron Man and the supposed advance of The Incredible Hulk , the latest mirthless…Fri Jun 06 2008 - 01:00
PROM NIGHTTHE assorted numbskulls behind this bloodless (in every sense) remake of an obscurely remembered Canadian slasher picture would…Fri Jun 06 2008 - 01:00
WELCOME TO THE STICKS/ BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TISAPPARENTLY 18 million people have seen this broad French comedy on release in its home territoriesFri May 30 2008 - 01:00
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'PLENTY of unfinished novels - Gogol's Dead Souls , Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon - have gained some critical traction, but it …Fri May 30 2008 - 01:00
TERROR'S ADVOCATEEYEBROWS were raised recently when Michael Mansfield QC, defender of the Guilford Four and the Birmingham Six, agreed to represent…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
TRICKS/SZTUCZKIIF YOU are still looking for a reason to attend Dublin's gorgeous new Light House cinema, than you could do worse than catch …Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Brushing down those old bonesPROFILE: INDIANA JONES WHEN DID nostalgia get so complicated? Tomorrow night, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones saga will…Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00
Sayles pitchVeteran indie director John Sayles has never let Hollywood dictate what movies he makesFri May 09 2008 - 01:00
HoneydripperALL RIGHT-thinking people approve of John Sayles, writes Donald Clarke.Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Where've you Bin?Morgan Spurlock, the man who ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month in Super Size Me, is back with a new prank: a search…Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?MORGAN Spurlock's Super Size Me, in which the chirpy documentarian ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month, won its maker…Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
YOU, THE LIVING/DU LEVANDEA KEY scene in this mordant, brilliant Swedish comedy focuses on a man who has been sentenced to death for damaging valuable …Fri May 02 2008 - 01:00
NIM'S ISLANDWHAT is wrong with Jodie Foster? Ever since she acquired children she has done little else but make films in which women fret…Fri May 02 2008 - 01:00
JOY DIVISIONGROWING up, as I did, in Limerick during the Joy Division years was a curious businessFri May 02 2008 - 01:00
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOLIF YOU'RE in the mood for Generic 1970s Coming-of-Age Movie #3, then you might like to take a glance at the debut feature from…Fri Apr 18 2008 - 01:00
BOTCHEDEVEN in April, when the film industry uses our brains to scrape the filth from its boots, it's rare to come across a picture …Fri Apr 18 2008 - 01:00
STRANGE WILDERNESSTHIS recklessly stupid stoner comedy ends mid-scene - indeed, mid-syllable - with a large portion of the cast collapsing into…Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
40 years of performanceThe Stones - through soundtracks and documentaries - have created a fine cinematic legacyFri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
UNDERDOGHERE is a useful motto for today's busy production executives: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to."Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
How she moveHERE IS an odd thing. At time of writing, How She Move , a low- budget Canadian dance flick that has received decent reviews …Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
AWAKEIT'S brunchtime in the Golden Langoustine and two executives - one senior, one junior - have secured a table overlooking Rodeo…Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
Never back downI'VE SEEN some hypocritical films in my time, but this rampaging orgy of inanity achieves hitherto unimagined levels of phoniness…Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
Drillbit TaylorHAS the Judd Apatow Confederation already outstayed its welcome?Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
Comic heroes collaborateOne of the great joys of the Marvel Comics universe was the way characters would happily flit from one title to another.Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
Enough Potter for two moviesThe clamour of desperate rationalisation emanating from Castle Potter has become deafening over the past week.Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
The orphanage/El OrfanatoIT IS a measure of the brilliance of this singular Spanish horror film - a jaw-dropping feature debut from Juan Antonio Bayona…Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
