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
Drawn to the dark sideReviewed - The Island: Readers familiar with the law of inverse proportionality - which has hitherto governed the relationship…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
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
Sony to give us back our moneyFollowing a recent court case in which Sony Pictures owned up to carrying quotes from an imaginary film critic - one "David Manning…Fri Aug 12 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 5 2005 - 01:00
FLASH IN THE PANREVIEWED - OVERNIGHT: You might describe this hugely enjoyable - if formally unremarkable - documentary as a neat complement…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
STEALTH WARNINGREVIEWED - STEALTH: Contrary to promises made in the title, this psychedelically moronic action film, arguably the worst studio…Fri Aug 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Subterranean sick bluesIngenious touches help turn Neil Marshall's The Descent into a powerful piece of genre film-making, writes Donald ClarkeSat Jul 9 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 1 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
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
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
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 3 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 3 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 3 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
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
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
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
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
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
No laughing matterA new documentary tells the story of Mayo-reared and Jesuit-educated William Joyce - aka Nazi propagandist Lord Haw HawSat May 7 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 8 2005 - 01:00
Turning JapaneseGlobetrotter turned wage slave Niall Murtagh found life in a Japanese multinational a little strangeSat Apr 2 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 1 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
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
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
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