The ThingIT’S 1982 and right before Kurt Russell gets busy with a flame- thrower and learns to kick extra- terrestrial arse, an unfortunate…Fri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
Dream HouseWILL ATENTON (Daniel Craig) quits his job at a swish New York publishing firm so that he might spend more time with his wife …Fri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
My Week With MarilynIN THE SUMMER of 1956, a young toff called Colin Clark (brother of Alan, son of Sir Kenneth) landed a job as third assistant …Fri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
The Deep Blue SeaAS T HE Deep Blue Sea opens, Hester Page (Rachel Weisz), formerly Lady Collyer, knocks back more aspirin than they advise on …Fri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
SnowtownIN 2004, THREE men were convicted following the discovery of eight dismembered bodies in barrels at Snowtown in south Australia…Fri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
WeekendTHE MOVIEVERSE is all a-flutter over Andrew Haigh’s remarkable debut featureFri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
TrespassIF BOX-OFFICE tallies are to be believed, Nicole Kidman falls somewhere between pestilence and the financial sector in the popularity…Fri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
The Silence/Das Letzie SchweigenTHIS GRIPPING and chilly German drama begins with the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girlFri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
The Rum DiaryJOHNNY DEPP must look in the mirror every day and thank the Great Spirit for those Cherokee cheekbonesFri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
Jack Goes BoatingCONNIE (Ryan), a lonely, frigid mortician’s secretary, lies beside Jack (Hoffman), a lonely limousine driverFri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
InniAT A TIME when the concert film has become increasingly wed to 3D verisimilitude, Vincent Morriset’s Sigur Rós documentary strikes…Fri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
Tower HeistTHE feature-length adaptation of the wildly popular trailer is finally upon us. And it’s a shockerFri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
In TimeIN RECENT years it’s become easier to list the films that haven’t been subjected to a frivolous it-was-my-idea lawsuit than the…Fri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
Diving for treasurePROFILE THE OCTONAUTS: THE REST of the country may be queuing up for a financial haircut, but life in Irish animation couldn…Sat Oct 29 2011 - 01:00
AnonymousSO ROLAND Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and 10,000 BC , has made a film attacking ShakespeareFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
'To hell with it'WE’VE ALWAYS KNOWN Michael Biehn was cut out for barking ordersFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Monte CarloLONG BEFORE it became a shiny star vehicle for tween queen Selena Gomez, Monte Carlo was Headhunters , a debut novel from Jules…Fri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
The Green WaveTHIS YEAR Panavision, Aaton and ARRI have all ceased production of film cameras in order to focus on the digital sectorFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
The Greatest Movie Ever SoldMORGAN SPURLOCK, the ringmaster documentarian behind Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? , returns with …Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
First NightMEGA-INDUSTRIALIST Richard E Grant assembles a crack team of opera singers at his lavish country estateFri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
FootlooseTHE LATEST IN an ongoing sequence of pointless 1980s makeovers marks an unholy union of nostalgia fetish and post- High School…Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
'I'm not haughty. . . but when you have a big nose, they have to call you something'FOR MANY Irishmen and women, an encounter with a British monarch might inspire a complicated internal dialecticFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Guilty Of Romance/ Ko No TsumiKAZUKO, A TOP-ranking lady cop, is called in to investigate a murder in what the Japanese call “the love hotel district”Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Cane Toads: The Conquest 3DBY JUNE 1935, the Australian Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations had had quite enough of the native cane beetleFri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Mademoiselle ChambonA PLEASING miniature that makes you think someone’s been in contact with Eric Rohmer on the other side, Mademoiselle Chambon …Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
TomboyTEN-YEAR-OLD Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a new town, where she introduces herself to her neighbours as a boy named MickaëlFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
30 Minutes or LessIT SPEAKS well of Jesse Eisenberg that, coming off the back of The Social Network , the actor chose to reteam with his Zombieland…Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
KesTHE PHRASE “grim up north” might have been coined for Barnsley boy Billy Casper (David Bradley), a lonely little runt who lives…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Troll Hunter/TrolljegerenSEPTEMBER IS that special time of year when movie studios launch campus-friendly comedies and found-footage horrorsFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Friends With BenefitsWHO KNEW that a throwaway Hollywood romcom about commitment-free thrills would turn out to be far more romantic and realistic…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Fright NightTHIS WEEK’S big 1980s remake overhauls Tom Holland’s 1985 comic-horror Fright Night , a movie that, back in the day, was big …Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Conan the BarbarianBack in 1982, right-leaning auteur John Milius brought Robert E Howard’s sword and sorcery narratives into the outsized Reaganite…Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Glee: The 3D Concert MovieIN 2011, only two films have opened Stateside on more than 2,000 screens and failed to crack the US top 10; the first was the…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
In a Better WorldVETERAN FILM fans know only too well to beware the tagline “Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards”Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Rise of the Planet of the ApesALAS, THE title Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off was already takenFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The SmurfsTHE SMURFS have been smurfing since the 1950s, when Belgian cartoonist Peyo first smurfed them into existenceFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The Referees/Les ArbitresSWISS REFEREE Massimo Busacca is under pressure. Greece are playing Sweden and decisions must be made and quicklyFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
The TreeFILMS NEVER open with a husband tenderly taking leave of his wife unless it’s the last we’ll see of himFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
ZookeeperIF YOU HAD to choose the one Adam Sandler player to leave your tortoise with, odds are you’d plump for Kevin James, the cheery…Fri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
ArriettyIF YOU AREN’T already a hardcore fan of Studio Ghibli animations, you really ought to consider it as a lifestyle choiceFri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
Poetry/ShiYOU’D NEVER guess it from the neat arrangement of her hats and floral scarves, but 66-year-old Mija (Yoon Jeong-he) is a woman…Fri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
Chairman Mao hits the big screenREEL NEWS: No space robots until you’ve watched the tender historical portrait of MaoFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
An inconvenient superhero is backREEL NEWS: Just when you thought you’d heard the final scraping at the bottom of the superhero barrel, along comes the announcement…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Comic geek and sci-fi nerd nirvanaREEL NEWS: If you’re sitting at home cursing the Comic-Con ticket-holders who get to see exclusive footage from Steven Spielberg…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
