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
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
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
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
Act of Valour‘NOW HE’S another watchman standing guard while our world sleeps..Fri Mar 23 2012 - 00:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Coming out of a screen near you . . .YOU LOVED Sequel 2: 3D – well, coming soon, from the makers of 2011’s record-breaking number of sequels and 3D films, it’s 2012…Wed Jan 11 2012 - 00:00
Mother and childKAREN (Annette Bening) was only 14 when she gave her daughter up for adoptionFri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Surviving Life / Prezít Svuj ZivotMIDDLE-AGED SALARYMAN Evzen finally meets the beautiful younger woman of his dreams. The catch? She’s in his dreams.Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
World gears up for a season of repeatsOur favourites may differ but every country celebrating Christmas has its own traditional Christmas-themed TVFri Dec 23 2011 - 00:00
Ballymun LullabyMERYL STREEP brings violins. Antonio Banderas brings ballroom dancingFri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Alvin and the Chipmunks: ChipwreckedUNLESS YOU’RE under the age of nine (in which case, welcome, this review is rated 12A), you have probably picked up this notice…Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Meet me in St LouisIn the months before the 1904 St Louis World Fair, Esther Smith (Judy Garland) and her siblings sing and fumble their way through…Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Wings of Desire/Der Himmel Über BerlinPerched high about Berlin, the angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) listen to all the sorrows and hopes of the…Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D ChristmasHUH? WHAT’S this 18 cert doing here? Sure, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas features a baby doing cocaine and scampering …Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Las AcaciasON THE BACK roads of Paraguay, grouchy middle-aged trucker Ruben picks up Jacinta, a young woman hoping to find work across the…Fri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
