Mission to LarsTOM SPICER has Fragile X syndrome, a condition his sister describes as “autism with bells on”Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
God Bless AmericaFRANK MURDOCH (Joel Murray) is a sad-sack, divorced insurance salesman suffering from migraine and noisy neighbours when a double…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
A Simple Life/ Tao JieCHUNG CHUN-TAO (Deanie Ip) has worked as a maid for the Leung family for 60 yearsFri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
The Flowers of War/ Jin Líng Shí ChaiMORTICIAN John Miller (Christian Bale) arrives in Nanjing to bury a Catholic priest just as invading Japanese forces are locking…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
SwandownJUST WHAT is the relevant collective noun for a swan pedalo of English eccentrics? We’re uncertain of the terminology but we …Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
The Players/ les InfidèlesTHE PLAYERS arrives having hit the headlines in France for a gruesome poster campaign in which the film’s stars posed between…Fri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
This love has a namePOUTFEST 2012 Triskel Christchurch, Cork Sun-Wed http://triskelarts centre.ie/cinemaFri Jul 27 2012 - 01:00
Something From Nothing: The Art Of RapFOR VIEWERS of a certain age, Ice-T’s directorial debut heralds the mother of all Proustian rushesFri Jul 20 2012 - 01:00
The Women on the 6th Floor / Les Femmes du 6ème ÉtageMONSIEUR JOUBERT (Fabrice Luchini) is a middle-aged stockbroker in the firm grip of male menopauseFri Jul 13 2012 - 01:00
Nostalgia for the Light / Nostalgia de la LuzYOU CAN’T HELP but admire Patricio Guzmán’s audacity in seeking to bolt together two apparently incompatible themes in this striking…Fri Jul 13 2012 - 01:00
The HunterMERCENARY AND loner Martin (Willem Dafoe) is hired by a sinister biotech company to travel to Tasmania in search of a tigerFri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
7 Days in Havana/La Días en la HabanaTHERE OUGHT to be a support group for this sort of thing, a place for scarred movie punters to gather and exchange tales of woe…Fri Jul 06 2012 - 01:00
Sing Your SongBorn in Harlem to Martiniquan immigrants in 1927 and raised between New York and Jamaica, Harry Belafonte grew up during the …Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie/ le Charme Discret De La BourgeoisiePossible tagline: Four dreams, three Oedipal adventures and absolutely no dinner parties.Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
Your Sister's SisterIT’S AS PLAIN as the scowl on his face: Jack (Mark Duplass), a year on, has unresolved issues relating to his brother’s death…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00
On The Sly/à Pas De LoupIT’S FRIDAY and, as ever, six-year-old Cathy (Wynona Ringer, daughter of writer/director/star Olivier) is buckled into the backseat…Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
The Five Year EngagementTHEY MEET at a New Year’s party themed around fake superheroes. She’s Lady Di; he’s a giant pink bunnyFri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Silent Souls/ OvsyankiTHE MERYA PEOPLE were a Finno-Ugric tribe that, prior to the Middle Ages, occupied a vast wintry territory stretching from Moscow…Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
Chernobyl DiariesWOW, OREN PELI, the creator-director of Paranormal Activity, is a freaking genius.Fri Jun 22 2012 - 01:00
The DeadTHE OMENS WERE not altogether positive when, in 1987, John Huston set out to make James Joyce’s most famous short story into …Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Death WatchIT SEEMS astonishing that it has taken so long for somebody to re-release Bertrand Tavernier’s wonderful science-fiction curio…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
PolisseYOU HAVE TO admire the ambition on display in the third feature by the French director, formerly a model, who calls herself Maïwenn…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
Fast GirlsHMMM. THE MAKERS of Fast Girls are likely hoping that international viewers will see past the movie’s promiscuous use of Union…Fri Jun 15 2012 - 01:00
The fright stuffTHEPACT, an inventive haunted house mystery lately arrived from the Sundance Film Festival, is the debut feature from writer-…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
In praise of an old Hollywood masterIN PETER BOGDANOVICH’S first feature film, Targets, a seemingly mild-mannered insurance executive, lately returned from the Vietnam…Thu Jun 07 2012 - 01:00
Iron SkyIt’s 2018 and African-American model James Washington (Christopher Kirby) has landed on the moon as part of a publicity stunt…Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
The Angels' ShareBACK IN THE day, rightly or wrongly, the Ken Loach brand was synonymous with council estate grit, miserabilism and getting a …Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
The Turin Horse/A Torinói lóIN A REMOTE windswept location, an old man and his daughter live a life composed of simple ritualsFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Twist in the taleJUST DON’T SAY anything bad about Kristen Stewart. Seriously. The first time I met Ms Stewart she was 17 years oldFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Free Men/Les Hommes LibresTHE LATEST WORK from Le Grand Voyage director Ferroukhi seeks to uncover an untold history of North Africans in FranceFri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Moonrise KingdomAFTER THE relative misfires that were The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson has just about…Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
She Monkeys/ApflickornaWANNABE equestrian gymnast Emma is a painfully shy adolescent when she tries out for the local vaulting teamFri May 25 2012 - 01:00
2 Days in New York/Deux Jours a New YorkMINGUS (CHRIS ROCK) and Marion (Julie Delpy) started out as a rebound relationship, but the alchemy they found together as colleagues…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpProud, self-styled right-wing sociologists the Robsons condemned Michael Powell and Emric Pressburger’s 1943 masterpiece as “…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
Two Years at SeaGREAT GRIZZLY Wilderness, you got to see this movie. Don’t believe us? Then just ask, well, anyone elseFri May 18 2012 - 01:00
The RaidIT’S EARLY morning when rookie cop and expectant father Rama is sent into a crumbling Jakarta apartment block as part of a 20…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
All in Good TimeALL IN GOOD TIME began life as a 1963 play by Bill Naughton, the Ballyhaunis-born author of Alfie.Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Jeff, Who Lives at HomeTO DATE, the much-feted US mumblecore movement has failed to produce a new Tarantino or a new Cassavetes.Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Monsieur LazharIN A SNOWY Montreal schoolyard, Alice (Sophie Nélisse) reminds her pal Simon (Émilien Néron) that it’s his turn to put out the…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
The Stifmeister is backAPPARENTLY, Seann William Scott loves my hair and my tattoos and everything about me. Oh, SWS, you old cardFri May 04 2012 - 01:00
Silent HouseLA CASA MUDA – a no-fi 2010 Uruguayan horror – had a nifty enough sales pitch to warrant a place at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
Le Quai de Brumes (Port of Shadows)If you think a woman can’t look amazing in a transparent plastic mackintosh, then you haven’t seen Michèle Morgan in Marcel Carné…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
The Lucky OneZAC EFRON is Logan, a damned fine Marine (stop sniggering down the back; he’s not so bad) who returns to Colorado following a…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
The Monk/Le MoineMATTHEW Gregory Lewis’s 1796 romance is acknowledged as the first horror novel to lurch unexpectedly forth from gothic literature…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
Being ElmoPUPPETEER Kevin Clash was born in Baltimore, and grew up in a suburb that, although disappointingly unlike The Wire or a John…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
MarleyROBERT NESTA Marley was born in the raggedy village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to a teenage Afro-Jamaican mother…Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Elfie HopkinsYou have to doff your cap to Elfie Hopkins, a British original and an odd mash-up of Harriet the Spy and The Wicker Man.Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
