A glance at FranceReviewed - The Last Mitterand (Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars): Georges-Marc Benamou's book Le Dernier Mitterrand , a record …Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
There's always a catchReviewed - The Perfect Catch : Fans of Nick Hornby's memoir, Fever Pitch , may feel the need to get all hoity toity about the…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR ISREVIEWED - 3 IRON: Whatare we to make of Kim Ki-duk? Watching his grimmest work, one is reminded of a child pulling the legs…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
RIDE, RACE & DANCE WITH THE DEVILREVIEWED - THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: At a crucial point in Rob Zombie's raucous, nauseating follow-up to House of 1000 Corpses, as…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
STEALTH WARNINGREVIEWED - STEALTH: Contrary to promises made in the title, this psychedelically moronic action film, arguably the worst studio…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
THE GLORY OF THE GUNREVIEWED - DEAR WENDY: The latest festival of finger-wagging, Brechtian pantomime and Yank-bashing from the pen of Lars von …Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
Boy will get to eat girl after allA polite tussle between the Irish Film Censor's Office and Abbey Films, the distributor of the upcoming Irish horror comedy Boy…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
FLASH IN THE PANREVIEWED - OVERNIGHT: You might describe this hugely enjoyable - if formally unremarkable - documentary as a neat complement…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
THE TIES THAT BINDREVIEWED - A COMMON THREAD (BORDEUSES): This perfectly lovely French yarn does all the things you expect middle-brow art films…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
The greatest story never (yet) toldProof that Hollywood's generals are always preparing to fight the last war comes with the news that Disney has entered into a…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
DEM CREAKY OLD BONESREVIEWED - THE SKELETON KEY: I WONDER what the citizens of New Orleans will make of this fruity gumbo of shrunken heads, mad…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
Shop till you dropReviewed - Czech Dream: In the 1961 comedy Lover Come Back, Doris Day and Rock Hudson star as rival advertising executives …Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Conversation killerReviewed - 13 conversations about one thing: Some ways into this wearing compendium of things people just don't say, after it…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Fantastic boresReviewed - Fantastic Four: Earlier this year, Avi Arad, the CEO of Marvel Comics' film division, persuaded Merrill Lynch, a…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
A no-win situationReviewed - Kicking and screaming: By the time Bob Dylan was 38 he had recorded 20 of the epoch's most important recordsFri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Dumb & DummyReviewed - The Pacifier: Considering the narcoleptic torpor Vin Diesel brings to his performance as a Navy Seal entrusted with…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Subterranean sick bluesIngenious touches help turn Neil Marshall's The Descent into a powerful piece of genre film-making, writes Donald ClarkeSat Jul 09 2005 - 01:00
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYREVIEWED - DIG!: Anton Newcombe, lead singer of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, probably likes to think of the rivalry between…Fri Jul 01 2005 - 01:00
SEX AND THE SENORAREVIEWED - TORREMOLINOS 73: A crucial scene in Pablo Berger's charming first feature sees the hero, Alfredo, whose wife, Carmen…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
DOIN ME HEAD INREVIEWS - HEADRUSH: BACK in 1994, when we still ate our own young, all Irish films were about crones in shawls or IRA men falling…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
LOVE IS IN THE ZzzzzzREVIEWED - A LOT LIKE LOVE: AN hour or so after the credits rolled on A Lot Like Love, I found myself tempted to return to the…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
SHALLOW GRAVEMaking a film about perennial cult band The Brian Jonestown Massacre and its madman leader all but did in Ondi TimonerFri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
HOME INVADERSREVIEWED - PRIVATE: THE uncompromising agitprop energy that hangs around this tale of conflict in the occupied territories of…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
MILD THINGSREVIEWED - WILD SIDE: TWO musical influences hang over this beautifully made French dramaFri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
ROYSTON VASEY COMES TO LIFEREVIEWED - THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE: THIS hilarious big-screen outing for the League of Gentlemen begins with Jeremy…Fri Jun 03 2005 - 01:00
ROTTING IN DENMARKREVIEWED - IN YOUR HANDS/FORBRYDELSER: Last time I checked, there was a clause in the Dogme 95 manifesto forbidding genre pictures…Fri Jun 03 2005 - 01:00
LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELDREVIEWED - ONLY HUMAN/SERES QUERIDOS: The directors of this harmless Spanish farce, in which a Jewish girl brings a Palestinian…Fri Jun 03 2005 - 01:00
MICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET ITUntil Hayao Miyazaki's forthcoming Howl's Moving Castle reaches us, fans of the great Japanese animator will have to make do …Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
DOLL SPAWNFollowing 1998's hilarious Bride of Chucky - the greatest killer-doll film since Dead of Night - this latest episode in the notorious…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
Comic book confidentialWhen the young Frank Miller, a Vermont kid who had been drawing his own comics since the age of six, first made his way to New…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
ONLY THE STRUNG SURVIVEIn January 2004, when putting this singular entertainment before the world, the Danish director Anders Rønnow-Klarlund declared…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
MYSTIFYING MOB JOBPaolo Sorrentino's icily intoxicating second feature - the sort of film which has you reluctantly dusting off four-dollar words…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
WAXED DUMMIESWhen Robert Zemeckis helped establish Dark Castle Pictures, it appeared the aim was to transform bargain-basement 1950s mad-scientist…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
Weird scienceReviewed - What the bleep do we know?: What the Bleep Do We Know? (or What the #$*! Do We Know? as it is known on certain astral…Fri May 20 2005 - 01:00
Childhood's dead endReviewed - Mysterious Skin: Though based on a novel by Scott Heim, the latest creepy dispatch from the professional pessimist…Fri May 20 2005 - 01:00
Fever PitchREVIEWED - FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: FOR domestic readers who once spent the hours after school shivering on windswept, cratered …Fri May 13 2005 - 01:00
Foo FighterREVIEWED - ONG BAK: The martial arts films that make it into commercial cinemas in this country tend to feature either aerial…Fri May 13 2005 - 01:00
No laughing matterA new documentary tells the story of Mayo-reared and Jesuit-educated William Joyce - aka Nazi propagandist Lord Haw HawSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
CLIVE'S REVENGEREVIEWED - I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: About halfway through Mike Hodges's unsatisfactory follow-up to Croupier, Clive Owen - …Fri Apr 15 2005 - 01:00
SHOT THROUGH THE HEARTREVIEWED - BULLET BOY: SAUL Dibb's nervy, energetic film, which focuses on cycles of revenge within the black communities of…Fri Apr 08 2005 - 01:00
Turning JapaneseGlobetrotter turned wage slave Niall Murtagh found life in a Japanese multinational a little strangeSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
STONE COLDREVIEWED - BE COOL Edie Athens, a music producer played with scant enthusiasm by a waxy Uma Thurman, has just lost her husband…Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:00
STIFF UPPER BEAKSREVIEWED - VALIANT Appropiately for an entertainment emanating from the revived Ealing Studios, this tale of a brave pigeon'…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
NEW POOH A HONEYREVIEWIED - POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE: IN DISNEY'S latest low-rent addition to the chronicles of Hundred Acre Wood, the hostile…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
Kusturica's bird on a wire (honestly)A NOISY tussle between the British Board of Film Classification and director Emir Kusturica came to an intriguing conclusion …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
SLEEPY STARREVIEWED - LAURA'S STAR: JUST in time for Easter comes an excellent punishment for children who, right up until they poured …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
PASSION REPLAYREVIEWED - THE PASSION RECUT: IN THE secular world it's what we call a marketing gimmickFri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
THINGS THAT GO Zzzzzz IN THE NIGHTREVIEWED - DARKNESS: GLANCING through the notes I took during this singular Spanish horror fiasco, I found myself temporarily…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
EURO CRUZ IN CONTROLREVIEWED - DON'T MOVE/NON TI MUOVERE: POOR, cursed Penélope Cruz, the apparent albatross to a lengthy series of US flops, has…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
