WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?REVIEWED - ALFIE: After de-gutting, political correction and a serious roughing-up by the style Gestapo, there is little else…Fri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
ON THE SLAG HEAPREVIEWED - FAT SLAGS: "From the director of Kevin and Perry Go Large ," the TV advertisement says by way of warningFri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
IZZARD IS A LIZARDREVIEWED - FIVE CHILDREN AND IT: Had not the solidly traditional adventures of a certain young wizard become the publishing …Fri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
LOONY TOONSREVIEWED - BOO, ZINO AND THE SNURKS: What on earth do we have here? This poorly animated German kids' movie manages to combine…Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:00
THIS FISH IS FOULREVIEWED - SHARK TALE: Though Ice Age wasn't great and A Bug's Life was only OK, Dreamworks' unsuccessful attempt to find comedy…Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:00
Puppets are doing it for themselvesTeam America: World Police , a satire on the war on terror by the makers of South Park , opens today in the US, but Trey Parker…Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:00
No snip for Farrell's eunuchIt was only a few months ago that rumours began circulating that shots of Colin Farrell's manhood had to be trimmed (ouch) from…Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:00
LOVE ON THE ROCKSREVIEWED - VODKA LEMON: Several times in Hiner Saleem's engaging Armenian drama a horseman races across the screen, his progress…Fri Oct 15 2004 - 01:00
BORED TO DEATH BY AXIS OF EVILREVIEWED - RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE: Made with zombies by zombies for zombies, this tiring thriller, the second film inspired…Fri Oct 08 2004 - 01:00
KING CRAZYREVIEWED - BUBBA HO-TEP: This singular film did sufficiently poorly at the US box-office on its release in 2002 to qualify for…Fri Oct 08 2004 - 01:00
SHATTERED GLASSREVIEWED - INTO THE MIRROR (GEOUL SOKEURO): This latest missive from the South Korean scream machine begins with a stunning scene…Fri Oct 08 2004 - 01:00
DEATH BECOMES HIMREVIEWED - DEAD MAN'S SHOES: In his last film, the under-appreciated Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Shane Meadows attempted…Fri Oct 01 2004 - 01:00
DE-SASTERREVIEWED - DE-LOVELY:Have you heard, about this flick,So blandly sung, it will make you sick?Well, did you evah?Fri Oct 01 2004 - 01:00
SMELL THE GLOVEREVIEWED - METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER: This often hilarious documentary concerning the heavy metal band Metallica accidentally…Fri Oct 01 2004 - 01:00
GONE TO THE DOGSREVIEWED - MAN ABOUT DOG: It sometimes seems as if every male Irish writer under the age of, say, 35 has written a poor film …Fri Oct 01 2004 - 01:00
DEUTSCH COURAGEREVIEWED - THE MIRACLE OF BERN (DAS WUNDER VON BERN): A not entirely dreadful film about football? A reasonably interesting …Fri Sept 24 2004 - 01:00
MARRIAGE À LA MORTEREVIEWED - RED LIGHTS (FEUX ROUGES): Further evidence of the continuing affection that French film-makers hold for Alfred Hitchcock…Fri Sept 24 2004 - 01:00
INDEPENDENCE DAZEREVIEWED - SAVE THE GREEN PLANET (JIGUREUL JIKYEORA!): You certainly get your money's worth with Korean cinemaFri Sept 24 2004 - 01:00
EAT LEAD, SCUMREVIEWED - THE PUNISHER: The latest Marvel Comics adaptation to reach our screens is, in its attitude to crime and punishment…Fri Sept 24 2004 - 01:00
HORROR STRIPPED TO THE BONEREVIEWED - SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE (HAUTE TENSION): This rather extraordinary film begins with two pretty French girls, Alexia and…Fri Sept 24 2004 - 01:00
MY HEAD IS EXPLODINGHuh? Marc Evans, director of the fine horror film My Little Eye , must surely have been intrigued by the echoes of Don't Look…Fri Sept 17 2004 - 01:00
So naughty but so niceAutobiography: Towards the close of Graham Norton's cheesily titled autobiography, So Me, the author tells us that, whenever…Sat Sept 11 2004 - 01:00
DEEP RED SEAReviewed - Open Water: Congratulations are due to director Chris Kentis who, with a budget of only $120,000 and using just his…Fri Sept 10 2004 - 01:00
HORROR RISES FROM THE LAKEReviewed - The Isle (Seom): As nothing is to be gained from delaying the inevitable, we may as well begin by considering the…Fri Sept 10 2004 - 01:00
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLESReviewed - Love Me if you Dare (Jeux D'enfants): Eugh! What a truly revolting piece of workFri Sept 03 2004 - 01:00
COPYCAT KILLERSReviewed - Infernal Affairs 2: Infernal Affairs, which every critic on the planet enjoyed more than this writer, was an annoyingly…Fri Sept 03 2004 - 01:00
HELLISHLY GOOD FUNReviewed - Hellboy: Guillermo del Toro, the talented director of Cronos and The Devil's Backbone , has done an extraordinary…Fri Sept 03 2004 - 01:00
TEX-MEX SLEEPFESTReviewed - The Alamo: Who exactly is this film for? The latest retelling of the story of the small band of patriots who died…Fri Sept 03 2004 - 01:00
Ireland gets the focus group treatmentTest screenings, the controversial process whereby producers seek to discover what it is the public thinks of their upcoming …Fri Aug 13 2004 - 01:00
Will's PowerOne of the biggest stars in Hollywood also happens to be a thoroughly nice bloke, even if he does make $28 million a movieFri Aug 06 2004 - 01:00
Losing himself in the booksFor such a prolific chronicler of other writers' lives, Peter Ackroyd can be exasperatingly reticent about his own, as Donald…Mon Jul 19 2004 - 01:00
HONEY, I CLONED THE KIDNick Hamm's shocker, just about the worst ever film in the Scary, Stary Child genre, concerns a process by which clones of living…Fri Jul 02 2004 - 01:00
Offence takenThis broad comedy from some people connected with the similarly titled and similarly empty-headed Road Trip piles up such a mass…Fri Jun 25 2004 - 01:00
Blunt talkBiography: While not carrying out his duties as professor of psychology at the University of Manchester, Geoffrey Beattie (in…Sat Jun 05 2004 - 01:00
Cantankerous adventuresMemoir: Simon Gray, the author of such well-made plays as Quartermain's Terms and The Common Pursuit, had the misfortune to …Sat May 15 2004 - 01:00
One to make a toad grinKITCHEN STORIES (SALMER FRA KJØKKENET) Directed by Bent HamerFri Jan 02 2004 - 00:00
Escape from the CloseTV Review: In 1967, The Daily Telegraph mischievously commissioned Philip Larkin, a conservative on jazz matters as on so much…Sat Nov 08 2003 - 00:00
Crisis? What crisis ?Whether Section 481 of the Finance Act is renewed or the Irish Film Board survives beyond its 10th anniversary next month will…Tue Mar 18 2003 - 00:00
It's a wrapDonald Clarke assesses the first Dublin International Film Festival, devising a few awards of his own, and right, looks at the…Tue Mar 18 2003 - 00:00
