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
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
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
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
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
Campus capersJULIE BURCHILL, during her early-1990s stint as a film critic, once offered a remarkably sage piece of movie adviceFri Apr 20 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
Breathing/AtmenAT 19, ROMAN (Thomas Schubert) already wears the cold stare of a lifelong repeat offenderFri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
BlackthornTWENTY YEARS have passed since 1908 when Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) changed his name to James Blackthorn and took up quiet residency…Fri Apr 13 2012 - 01:00
This Is Going To Take More Than One NightAndré Breton’s parlour game, Exquisite Corpse (cadavre exquis) was quite the thing among surrealists in the early 20th century…Fri Apr 13 2012 - 01:00
TitanicNEVER MIND the 3D makeover. Time has not been kind to James Cameron’s big-hulled monstrosityFri Apr 06 2012 - 01:00
Drawing a blankHOW DO YOU make a movie about New York’s fiercely DIY, down-and-dirty school of No Wave art? By adhering to a fiercely DIY, down…Fri Apr 06 2012 - 01:00
Tiny FurnitureAURA, a newly graduated and recently dumped “YouTube artist”, returns home to mope around her mother’s impossibly chic New York…Fri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
StreetDance 2YOU’RE FAMILIAR with the famous Lennon lyric: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”? Well StreetDance 2 …Fri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
Into the AbyssIN 2000, TWO teenage Texans were convicted of the murder of a 50-year-old nurseFri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
Wild BillBACK IN THE DAY, Londoner Wild Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed- Miles) had a fearsome rep: “The usual?” asks a East End publican …Fri Mar 23 2012 - 00:00
Act of Valour‘NOW HE’S another watchman standing guard while our world sleeps..Fri Mar 23 2012 - 00:00
The leader of the packYOU’VE SEEN the TV show Entourage , right? The one based on Mark Wahlberg’s wild hangers-on during his early Hollywood years? …Wed Mar 14 2012 - 00:00
Bel AmiDANGEROUS LIAISONS with Twilight ’s Edward? Sadly, Bel Ami is nothing like Dangerous Liaison s with Twilight ’s EdwardFri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
Stella DaysYOU WAIT FOR ages for an old-school Irish heritage picture made with the assistance of a foreign benefactor, then two come along…Fri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
ClearskinSEAN BEAN is Ewan Keane, a war veteran and secret service wonk who lost his wife in the London bombingsFri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
Blank City‘IT FELT LIKE our lives were movies,” says Debbie Harry of the early filthy days of No WaveFri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
KhodorkovskyMIKHAIL Khodorkovsky first came to prominence during the 1980s as part of an emerging class of Russian pro-marketeers.Fri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
HadewijchHADEWIJCH (Julie Sokolowski) is a young 21st-century novice sister named for a 13th-century virgin mysticFri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
Safe HouseTHE BEST THING bout Safe House is that it’s a safe, popcorn option. Ditto the worst thing about Safe House.Fri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
The Best Exotic Marigold HotelNOT TOO far into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, there’s a moment when retiring civil servants Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton…Fri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseLAST MONTH Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close became the worst- reviewed film in the history of aggregate critique shrines Rotten…Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
The Woman in BlackIN THEORY, awards season is all about honouring craft. It’s notFri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Star Wars: Episode 1 - the Phantom Menace 3DWE MUST HAVE missed the relevant internet lobby but finally, Star Wars fans can rest easy: Jar Jar Binks is finally back on the…Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
The mad menVIGGO MORTENSEN stacks his case and suit protector neatly in the corner of the roomFri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Rotten PotatoesITS ON. THE race to the bottom to determine this island’s most low-fallutin’ region is off to a big start for 2012.Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
CarnageREGULAR readers of the more grown-up sections of this newspaper may recall Fintan O’Toole’s evaluation of God of Carnage (“among…Fri Feb 03 2012 - 00:00
IntrudersA FACELESS bogeyman called Hollow Face stalks small, impressionable children in a godawful horror from former hotshot Juan Carlos…Fri Jan 27 2012 - 00:00
HaywireILL-DEFINED freelance superspy operative Mallory Kane (mixed martial arts champ-turned-thesp Carano) is contracted by her ill…Fri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
The SitterMOVIE WATCHERS were startled when David Gordon Green, once hailed as the next Terence Malick, began directing stoner comedies…Fri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
L'AtalanteEVEN IF Jean Vigo had not bequeathed two of cinema’s least disputed masterpieces, his impossibly romantic biography would surely…Fri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
War HorseTHERE’S A lull in the fighting when soldiers on both sides see the horse tangled in barbed wire out in No Man’s LandFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
The Darkest HourTHERE’S A moment in this so-so Moscow-set alien invasion flick that hints at what might have beenFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
