The CollectorTHE SAW franchise – that seemingly endless exercise in recreational disembowelment – has been conspicuous by its absence from…Fri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
Get him to the GreekTHIS intermittently amusing comedy counts as a sequel to – or spin-off from – the less entertaining Forgetting Sarah Marshall…Fri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
When in RomeWHEN IN ROME is overly sentimental, structurally dysfunctional and pathologically irritatingFri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
Our Family WeddingON ITS release in 1967, with the Black Panthers organising and Malcolm X dead, the oddly overrated Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…Fri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Wild Grass/Les Herbes FollesDOFF YOUR chapeaux to the tribunes of the Nouvelle VagueFri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Spider-Man 3 review: good, clean fun, even if the plot is a tangled webSpider-Man 3 is good, clean fun, even if the plot is a tangled webTue Jun 15 2010 - 14:38
The Cove gets into hot water in JapanLouie Psihoyos’s The Cove , an Oscar-winning documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, is kicking up serious fuss…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
What would Karla say?Look away if you’re not interested, but here’s something about which Reel News cares really, really deeply.Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
Letters to JulietIN AN early episode of The Simpsons , Homer, briefly smart, spoils the ending of a comedy called Love Is Nice by announcing that…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
MTV Awards get a load of Bullock’sOh Lord, it’s time for the awards ceremony that makes even the Oscars seem like a grown-up celebration of cinematic excellence…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
It’s all the media’s faultIt had to happen. The appalling killings in Cumbria two weeks ago are now being linked to a supposedly shocking Hollywood movie…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
Film slate for Edinburgh festGrumbles persist about the Edinburgh Film Festival’s decision to move from August (where it shared space with the main arts jamboree…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Hobbit helmer gets fed up waiting for BilboThere’s no question about the big Hollywood story this week: Guillermo del Toro has quit The Hobbit.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
4.3.2.1.NOEL CLARKE, the young British director of Adulthood , attempts to break into the mainstream with this stubbornly disorienting…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Screaming Fox transformedDo you care who gets to take over from Megan Fox in the third Transformers picture?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
O’Sullivan reeled in for festivalDonegal’s excellent Gufu Gafa International Documentary Film Festival kicks off next week.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Girl on the Train/ La Fille du RerTHE LATEST film from André Téchiné deals with a notoriously incendiary hoax from recent French historyFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
She’s Out Of My LeagueIF YOU lived through the fag end of Irish showband culture, you will recall that, right up to the early 1980s, the charts would…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Then again, she could be kiddingIs Sex and the City 2 the worst-reviewed major release in recent history?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Brothers BloomRIAN JOHNSON’S Brick , an indie hit from 2005, appeared to offer us a fresh, original cinematic talentFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Conflict irresolutionWE HAVE, over the past month, seen quite a few interesting films from IsraelFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
How to get ahead in advertisingNot too many Romanian comedies begin with a tune by the Pet Shop BoysFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
TraffickedYET MORE proof that the immigrant (rather than the emigrant) experience remains an unavoidable theme in current Irish cinemas…Fri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Streetdance 3D‘I CAN honestly say this is one of the worst films I have ever sat through. The story is awfulFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeOH, HEAVENS. Spare us another high-minded political filmFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
To Cannes for death and feudingTWO CANNES favourites made returns to La Croisette at the weekend, with new features.Mon May 17 2010 - 01:00
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsIt’s the cinematic version of the futures marketSat May 15 2010 - 01:00
Deja vu all over again in 'Wall Street' sequel as corporate decadence proves greed still rulesLAST NIGHT, 23 years after Oliver Stone’s Wall Street defined the red-braces era of capitalism, the same director unveiled a …Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
No Greater LoveBY OPENING this rigorous, respectful documentary about a Carmelite monastery hidden in London’s otherwise trendy Notting Hill…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
On Tour/TournéeThe first film to screen in competition at Cannes turns out to be a fairly humble affairFri May 14 2010 - 01:00
VincereTHIS DERANGED, operatic study of Benito Mussolini’s early life is packed full of arresting shots, each of which encapsulates …Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Eyes Wide Open/Einaym PkuhotHAIM TABAKMAN, director of this formidably controlled if somewhat suffocating drama, has, almost certainly, become used to hearing…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Still gagging for Saint BillSixteen years after his death, the cult of Bill Hicks is as strong as ever, and now two British film-makers have made a documentary…Mon May 10 2010 - 01:00
More than a film and a halfHOW PLEASING it is to come across something so wonderful – and yet so unheralded – as this intricate, moving, barmy study of …Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Does my bump look big in this?IT’S TRUE. We critics really missed having Jennifer Lopez about the placeFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Blooming hellWISEACRES used to propose a theory arguing that it required a massive leap of faith by trusting passengers to keep a plane in…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Nap time on Elm StreetTO THIS point, the horror remakes emanating from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes studio have been annoyingly bearableFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
This remake is too close for comfortIsn’t it terrible that there are so many remakes and sequels in cinemas these days? The lack of imagination in today’s Hollywood…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
NightwatchingYOU COULD be forgiven for assuming that Peter Greenaway had fled film-making for a life making cheese or designing cathedrals…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
RevanchePERHAPS THOSE Austrian film-makers whose work fails to play abroad tend towards light romcoms and kids’ films about talking rabbits…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
The Disappearance of Alice CreedWHEN film-makers place any sort of artificial restriction on themselves – no dialogue, just the one set, a single take – one …Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
