Ricky's first porkyTHE INVENTION OF LYING: Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew RobinsonFri Oct 02 2009 - 01:00
CheriDirected by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates 15 cert **Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Who buried the Body?Having not yet seen Jennifer’s Body , we can’t say whether it’s any good or not, but there’s no denying that it has become one…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Guy's game's is still afootWhat do we make of the news that plans are already under way to make a sequel to Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Robert Downey Jr-Jude…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Artists have a close encounter with KubrickThe continuing significance of Stanley Kubrick as an iconic image-maker will be reflected in an intriguing exhibition set to …Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
They've some neckIT IS, TO BE sure, somewhat unconventional for The Ticket to carry reviews of species rather than of movies or records, but the…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
SurrogatesNOW, WHAT’S going on here? Just last week Gamer found poor old Gerard Butler being controlled by a couch-bound video game enthusiast…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Precious picks for Oscar picsYou may fight against the notion, but, despite there still being five months to the ceremony, Oscar-musing season properly begins…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
CreationA SLIGHT CHILL does run down your spine in the opening few minutes of this touching, disciplined study of Charles Darwin.Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
The SoloistIF YOU SET out to sketch a one-line pastiche of the sort of sentimental claptrap that studios lay before Oscar voters in late…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Pirates 4 may walk the plankLast week, we moaned about the fact that another Pirates of the Caribbean film looked set to sally forth on to the high seasFri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
Gleeson and Walsh lift Emmy awards in Los AngelesTHERE WERE two Irish winners at the primetime Emmys, television’s answer to the Oscars, in Los Angeles on Sunday night.Tue Sept 22 2009 - 01:00
Achieving victory with ChurchillBrendan Gleeson’s Emmy win for his portrayal of Winston Churchill has firmly established him as one of the most admired character…Tue Sept 22 2009 - 01:00
Angels & DemonsThe Pope is dead. Several of the main contenders for the job have been kidnapped and a potentially apocalyptic device has been…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Film treats at arts festivalOver the past few years, the Ranelagh Arts Festival, which begins on Monday, has helped liven up autumn in that leafy corner …Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Crank: high voltageStatham has an artificial heart implanted and must get it charged with electricity every few minutes.Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Oscar honours Bacall and Willis (not Bruce)Is handing out honorary Oscars really such a good idea? True, it means that disgracefully overlooked geniuses (Alfred Hitchcock…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Three miles north of MolkomIF YOU were setting out to make a drama about an annoying hippie commune in Scandinavia, what sort of character would you pick…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Disney projects in the pipelineThere was good news and bad news at the D23 Disney expo in Anaheim last week. Decide for yourself which is which.Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Away we goWE BEGIN IN that bit of contemporary America where most everything is the colour paint manufacturers (don’t really) refer to …Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
Redford’s take on Honest AbeDo you remember that year when every film was about Robin Hood? Then every movie seemed to concern Martin CahillFri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
High-end Hammer and thongsLOOKING FOR a serious engagement with Oscar Wilde’s fruitily transgressive novel The Picture of Dorian Gray? Well, there’s little…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
The Yellow Bittern: The life and times of Liam ClancyTO BE 74 years old is no longer to be ancientFri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
AdventurelandA GLANCE AT the synopsis of Adventureland might suggest that Greg Mottola, director of Superbad , has attempted a period remake…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
WhiteoutTHIS DISTINCTLY average thriller, based on some comic or other, begins in the 1950s with a Soviet plane crashing spectacularly…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Sorority RowANY FILM THAT can put a shotgun in the hands of an angry Carrie Fisher and fail to generate any significant camp energy really…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Miss March: Generation PenetrationAT THE CLOSE of a summer that brought us The Ugly Truth (bleurgh!) and Fired Up (bleurgh! bleurgh!), you’d think that there’d…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
The September IssueTHE MAKERS of this slick but unsatisfactory documentary have, it says here, gained “unprecedented access” to the activities of…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
Fish TankONCE AGAIN, Andrea Arnold delivers a superb film that, though technically brilliant and absolutely sure of its own voice, will…Fri Sept 11 2009 - 01:00
There's no Hangover for Hollywood hereREEL NEWS: Break out the party-poppers. Find a canal of champagne on which to float your gondolaFri Sept 04 2009 - 01:00
File-sharing Pirates still not brought to bayThe murky world of illegal file sharing continues to generate bewildering headlines.Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
MESRINE:PUBLIC ENEMY NO 1AT THE CLOSE of Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), France’s most notorious hoodlum, seemed to have robbed…Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
BROKEN EMBRACES/LOS ABRAZOS ROTOSTHE PREDICTABLY engaging new film from Pedro Almodóvar does not, on paper, seem to have much in common with Quentin Tarantino…Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
FUNNY PEOPLEYOU KNOW THAT a middle-aged novelist is running out of ideas – yes, I’m looking at you, Martin Amis – when his or her novels …Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
I Love You, Beth CooperA LITTLE MORE than 20 years ago, during the heyday of the late John Hughes, Chris Columbus directed a fine youth-oriented comedy…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
ShortsYOU WOULD BE more impressed by the oft-repeated fact that Robert Rodriguez directs, writes, edits, produces, scores and, for …Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Inglourious BasterdsTHE PHONEY war has given way to roaring, unfettered conflictFri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Dance FlickWHAT WOULD happen if you were force-fed manure for a decade? Maybe you’d go crazy, or maybe you’d start to like manure.Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Marty’s Sinatra will enjoy a drinkIf you believe the New York Post (and, for the purposes of this column, we do), the surviving family of Frank Sinatra – in particular…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Mamet to take on Anne FrankDavid Mamet, laureate of foul language and the creative repetition, is to tackle one of the most admired and sensitive stories…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
The summer's sleeper hitJust when it looked as if the US box office had been totally subjugated by awful, over-promoted thrillers and romcoms, a relatively…Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00
Aliens in the AtticYES, YES, I know. That title? That poster? The awful trailer? Aliens in the Attic , a family film from the director of horrors…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Imagine ThatIT’S ONE OF those films in which an overworked dad, who never has time for his adorable kid, experiences a supernatural revelation…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Mid-August Lunch/Pranzo di FerragostoJUST HOW slight can a film be without floating off the celluloid and dissipating about the auditorium? Gianni Di Gregorio’s charming…Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
Sin NombreWE COULD, if we were feeling bitter, find space for a treatise on middle-brow film audiences’ recent decision that South and …Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00
