Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl / Singularidades de uma Rapariga LouraTHIS MODEST, intriguing film from Manoel de Oliveira, the 101-year-old Portuguese master, is bookended by a young man telling…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Light of day for dark dramaThis column has, over the past year, spurned no opportunity to detail the merits of Conor Horgan’s One Hundred Mornings.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Byrning up in KilkennyTwo cultural icons come together tomorrow when Colm Tóibín curates a day of films featuring Gabriel Byrne at the Kilkenny Arts…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Step Up 3DYOU KNOW what? For all the modesty of its ambition, the third film in the Step Up series – the Star Wars of street dance – might…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
London RiverRACHID BOUCHAREB’S drama of London life in the wake of the 7/7 bombings has been lurking around the schedules for quite some …Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Beautiful Kate‘A FILM BY Rachel Ward.” There are five words you never expected to see in these review pages.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Coco Chanel & Igor StravinskyTHOUGH GREETED with shrugs and harrumphs on its French release, Jan Kounen’s meditation on a supposed romance between Igor Stravinsky…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Je t'aime . . . zzzzzOVER HERE, we’ll go only so far in sopping up the more French aspects of French culture.Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Stray films for Venice festivalRemember all those films that were supposed to play at this year’s Cannes?Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Cave: something to Crow aboutA few years back, Nick Cave, top gloom-Byron, delighted fans by delivering an excellent script for John Hillcoat’s Australian…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Deep cuts in UK film fundingIrish film-makers fearful of cuts in government spending will have shivered at recent news from across the waterFri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
I can't help but pity the foolsTHE A-TEAM: THERE’S NOTHING worse than forced jollity. You know the sort of thing.Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
A film that talks the talkOf all the directors who emerged from the French New Wave (now, mon Dieu, 50 years old), none forged such a lucid, disciplined…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Lots of big stars but little big news at Comic-ConIs it yet time to consider the rise and fall of Comic-Con?Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Gaze comes of ageGaze Film Festival turns 18 in an era when the mainstream is opening up to gay and lesbian themes - they're now spoilt for choice…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
City IslandEARLY ON in this undemanding family drama, Andy Garcia’s frustrated prison officer receives advice from an acting teacher played…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
BaariaYOU KNOW where you stand with the latest Italian epic from Giuseppe TornatoreFri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
Norton in hulking great Avengers controversyHulk mad! Hulk nothing but trouble! First, Ang Lee’s interesting – if compromised – version of the Marvel comic book underperforms…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
Lots of pieces of Joplin’s heartAmy Adams’s representatives have announced that the star is to play Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic directed by Fernando Meirelles…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
The ConcertTHIS SAPPY but ultimately irresistible comic drama has the names of many European nations stamped on its undersideFri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
InceptionIT WOULD be easy to get distracted by the hype swelling around Christopher Nolan’s breathtakingly grandiose – Is it baroque? …Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
Swiss court lets Roman Polanski off the hookREEL NEWS: There’s no question about the identity of this week’s big movie story.Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
RaptLUCAS BELVAUX, director of an acclaimed eponymous trilogy, takes a scalpel to middle-class French society with this fascinating…Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
'The Runway' is best of Irish at film fleadhTHE 22ND Galway Film Fleadh ended last night with an awards ceremony that honoured a controversial documentary and a warmly received…Mon Jul 12 2010 - 01:00
You only live 22 times . . .Few dawns have so quickly had their falsity revealedFri Jul 09 2010 - 01:00
Social commentary with teethSUMMER DVDs: One of the many things that set George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead aside from the horror pack was its inclination…Fri Jul 09 2010 - 01:00
When You're Strange: A Film About The DoorsMAYBE WE ARE ready for a documentary on The DoorsFri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
TetroWORD ON the street suggests that Tetro constitutes a partial return to form for the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse …Fri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
Heartbreaker / L'AmacoeurDOES SETTING your stupid comedy on the French Riviera inevitably make it “sophisticated”? You know what I meanFri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
White materialNOW 62, Claire Denis has, over the last two decades, established a formidable reputation as a film-maker of unshakable seriousness…Fri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
Meet Jonah Hill, the slacker BuddhaHis big break came because he knew Dustin Hoffman’s kids and he only got the role in ‘Superbad’ after a very close shave – now…Sat Jun 26 2010 - 01:00
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
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
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
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
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
