CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'PLENTY of unfinished novels - Gogol's Dead Souls , Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon - have gained some critical traction, but it …Fri May 30 2008 - 01:00
TERROR'S ADVOCATEEYEBROWS were raised recently when Michael Mansfield QC, defender of the Guilford Four and the Birmingham Six, agreed to represent…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
TRICKS/SZTUCZKIIF YOU are still looking for a reason to attend Dublin's gorgeous new Light House cinema, than you could do worse than catch …Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Brushing down those old bonesPROFILE: INDIANA JONES WHEN DID nostalgia get so complicated? Tomorrow night, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones saga will…Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00
Sayles pitchVeteran indie director John Sayles has never let Hollywood dictate what movies he makesFri May 09 2008 - 01:00
HoneydripperALL RIGHT-thinking people approve of John Sayles, writes Donald Clarke.Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Where've you Bin?Morgan Spurlock, the man who ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month in Super Size Me, is back with a new prank: a search…Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?MORGAN Spurlock's Super Size Me, in which the chirpy documentarian ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month, won its maker…Fri May 09 2008 - 01:00
YOU, THE LIVING/DU LEVANDEA KEY scene in this mordant, brilliant Swedish comedy focuses on a man who has been sentenced to death for damaging valuable …Fri May 02 2008 - 01:00
NIM'S ISLANDWHAT is wrong with Jodie Foster? Ever since she acquired children she has done little else but make films in which women fret…Fri May 02 2008 - 01:00
JOY DIVISIONGROWING up, as I did, in Limerick during the Joy Division years was a curious businessFri May 02 2008 - 01:00
FLASHBACKS OF A FOOLIF YOU'RE in the mood for Generic 1970s Coming-of-Age Movie #3, then you might like to take a glance at the debut feature from…Fri Apr 18 2008 - 01:00
BOTCHEDEVEN in April, when the film industry uses our brains to scrape the filth from its boots, it's rare to come across a picture …Fri Apr 18 2008 - 01:00
STRANGE WILDERNESSTHIS recklessly stupid stoner comedy ends mid-scene - indeed, mid-syllable - with a large portion of the cast collapsing into…Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
40 years of performanceThe Stones - through soundtracks and documentaries - have created a fine cinematic legacyFri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
UNDERDOGHERE is a useful motto for today's busy production executives: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to."Fri Apr 11 2008 - 01:00
How she moveHERE IS an odd thing. At time of writing, How She Move , a low- budget Canadian dance flick that has received decent reviews …Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
AWAKEIT'S brunchtime in the Golden Langoustine and two executives - one senior, one junior - have secured a table overlooking Rodeo…Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
Never back downI'VE SEEN some hypocritical films in my time, but this rampaging orgy of inanity achieves hitherto unimagined levels of phoniness…Fri Apr 04 2008 - 01:00
Drillbit TaylorHAS the Judd Apatow Confederation already outstayed its welcome?Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
Comic heroes collaborateOne of the great joys of the Marvel Comics universe was the way characters would happily flit from one title to another.Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
Enough Potter for two moviesThe clamour of desperate rationalisation emanating from Castle Potter has become deafening over the past week.Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
The orphanage/El OrfanatoIT IS a measure of the brilliance of this singular Spanish horror film - a jaw-dropping feature debut from Juan Antonio Bayona…Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
Step up 2 the StreetsTHE contemporary dance flick seems to have just one storyFri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
Love in the time of CholeraWHAT do comedies starring Nicole Kidman and mainstream adaptations of magic realist fiction have in common? SimpleFri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
The Spiderwick ChroniclesSORRY? What was that? Who's he? Why has everything gone dark? Who let Nick Nolte in the building?Fri Mar 21 2008 - 00:00
Flight of the red baloon/ Le voyage de ballon rougeREADERS who ran screaming from Wong Kar Wai's atrocious My Blueberry Nights could be forgiven for approaching the latest film…Fri Mar 14 2008 - 00:00
Horton hears a who!EVEN A cursory consideration of the philosophical subtexts and political undercurrents of Horton Hears a Who! could well send…Fri Mar 14 2008 - 00:00
The CottageIMAGINE, for a moment, that, after directing Poor Cow, his feature debut, Ken Loach embarked on a Norman Wisdom comedy or a film…Fri Mar 14 2008 - 00:00
The game planIF YOU really have to attend the latest humorous juxtaposition of action star and infant - did you learn nothing from Kindergarten…Fri Mar 14 2008 - 00:00
Don't Touch the Axe/Ne Touchez pas La HacheJACQUES Rivette, who turned 80 last Saturday, was among that august group of Cahiers du Cinéma critics at the forefront of the…Fri Mar 07 2008 - 00:00
Anna MThough Isabelle Carré's coruscating central performance has been justly praised, this interesting French film has also generated…Fri Mar 07 2008 - 00:00
Roots and bling side by sideThis year's Dublin International Film Festival got cinema talked about in corners of the city festivals don't usually reachWed Feb 27 2008 - 00:00
The edge of heaven/Auf der Anderen SeiteHEAD-ON, the last dramatic feature from Fatih Akin, gained quite a following on its release three years agoFri Feb 22 2008 - 00:00
The band's visit/Bikur ha-tizmoretONE can imagine worse things than a Middle Eastern version of Local HeroFri Feb 22 2008 - 00:00
Be Kind RewindWHEN Michel Gondry, the French director of deranged pop videos, followed up Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with the amusing…Fri Feb 22 2008 - 00:00
