The toughest cops in townReviewed - 33/36 Quai des Orfevres: OLIVIER Marchal is said to have drawn on his own experiences as a cop when preparing this…Fri Jun 02 2006 - 01:00
WILD AND WOOLLY MISADVENTUREREVIEWED - THE WILD THE COMPUTER-animated film appears to be a binary speciesFri May 26 2006 - 01:00
A breed apartThe Last Straw: There was an intriguing dispatch this week from Britney Spears's compound, which, in different circumstances…Sat May 20 2006 - 01:00
KICKING & SCREAMINGREVIEWED - ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Here's a documentary about the brief enthusiasm for professional soccer - and the New York Cosmos…Fri May 19 2006 - 01:00
DOLLY DULLREVIEWED - RUSSIAN DOLLS/LES POUPÉES RUSSES: Cédric Klapisch's meandering, cluttered sequel to 2002's Pot Luck - in which annoying…Fri May 19 2006 - 01:00
TURGID AND PREPOSTEROUSREVIEWED - THE DA VINCI CODE: In recent years, only Crazy Frog has divided critics and the public more than Dan BrownFri May 19 2006 - 01:00
HEADY CASEREVIEWED - UNKNOWN WHITE MALE: IT SEEMS fair to point out that there is what you might call a contextual spoiler in the second…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
READIN', WRITIN' AND RUBBIN' OUTREVIEWED - BRICK: WHAT might happen if you were to insinuate the language, mood and style of the noir thriller into an archetypal…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
WHEN A STRANGER NODS OFFREVIEWED - WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: THE reputation of the first When a Stranger Calls, a tolerable Halloween rip-off from 1979…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
TILL DEATH US DO PARTREVIEWED - CONFETTI: I DARE say that the people behind Confetti, a decent British comedy following the contestants in a competition…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
PSYCHO CINEMA VÉRITÉREVIEWED - THE MAGICIAN: IF YOU were searching for reasons to dislike this spirited Australian mock-documentary, you might point…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
DANIEL'S MUSICAL MADNESSREVIEWED - THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON: LIKE the comedy of Spike Milligan, the songs of Daniel Johnston, a 45- year-old West…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
THAT '70s SHOWREVIEWED - C.R.A.Z.Y : This sincerely felt French-Canadian picture, a gay coming-of-age story set largely in the 1970s, won …Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
STARZ IN THEIR EYESREVIEWED - AMERICAN DREAMZ : If you were to compile a list of contemporary American phenomena worth satirising, you might very…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
HECK BELOW ZEROREVIEWED - EIGHT BELOW : Astonishingly, the true story of the survival of some number of dogs left alone at the Antarctic for…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
THE ONLY GAME IN SPOOK TOWNREVIEWED - SILENT HILL : For the third time in the last six months, Sean Bean finds himself comforting a woman whose daughter…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
LOVERS, DREARY LOVERSREVIEWED - TRISTAN & ISOLDE : The original American title of Kevin Reynolds's dreary retelling of a story already told often…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
Hard time ahead for 'Die Hard' director?MANY of us thought that John McTiernan should have been jailed for crimes against cinema following his horrible 2002 remake of…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
FAR FROM A HEAD-TURNERREVIEWED - AN AMERICAN HAUNTING: With a few notable exceptions - The Shining, The Innocents - attempts to make something respectable…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
BALLROOM, BUT NOT STRICTLYREVIEWED - TAKE THE LEAD: Given the recent success of television shows featuring obscure weather men murdering the rumba while…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Gay cowboys not welcome in US prisonA prison officer in Massachusetts has received a telling-off for allowing Brokeback Mountain, the admired gay shepherd drama, …Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
Centenary Sam goes to the moviesSAMUEL Beckett enthusiasts unnerved by the oddly jaunty tone taken by some of the posters advertising the great man's centenary…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
LOW RENTREVIEWED - RENT: THE great wonder of this extraordinarily terrible adaptation of an already unlovely Broadway musical is that…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
DISPIRITINGREVIEWED - THE DARK: ANY punter stumbling into The Dark under the impression that it might be an adaptation of the novel by …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
OH, BOYREVIEWED - SHE'S THE MAN: GIVEN the various indignities visited upon William Shakespeare's work over the past few centuries, …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
THIN ICE INDEEDREVIEWED - ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN: IT IS some measure of the paucity of imagination on display in this sequel to 20th Century…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
BEWARE THE BIG BROODREVIEWED - YOURS, MINE AND OURS: BEWARE. There are plenty of things to fear about this bland family comedyFri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
FLACCID ROMP FAILS TO EXCITEREVIEWED - FAILURE TO LAUNCH: BY SELECTING a headline-writer's gift as the title for their film, the producers of this doctrinally…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
COOL LOVE IN A HOT CLIMATEREVIEWED - THE WHITE COUNTESS: FOLLOWING: producer Ismail Merchant's death last year, this attractive, if chilly, period romance…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
Irish flicks could do with a few laughs2000AD, the Irish production company based at Ardmore Studios, has been urged by a "well-known studio in Los Angeles" to seek…Fri Mar 24 2006 - 00:00
A SIEGE MENTALITYREVIEWED - INSIDE MAN: SO, at a time when even the cuddliest directors are making political pictures, Spike Lee, the Brecht …Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
DEAD RINGERREVIEWED - THE RINGER: THROUGH circumstances too contrived to allow repetition, an office worker, played by the reliably broad…Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
FROZEN STIFFREVIEWED - THE BIG WHITE: MARK Mylod, director of good British television and the appalling Ali G movie, was perhaps ill-advised…Fri Mar 17 2006 - 00:00
MY WORST DATEREVIEWED - DATE MOVIE : THIS unspeakably squalid parody of the contemporary romantic comedy is written by some percentage of…Fri Feb 24 2006 - 00:00
COLD STEELREVIEWED - SEVEN SWORDS/CHAT GIM: THIS bum-numbingly lengthy Asian entertainment belongs to that genre of riding, fencing and…Fri Feb 24 2006 - 00:00
A little audience participationThe committed movie-goers at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival have seen plenty to inspire feisty debate, writes…Wed Feb 22 2006 - 00:00
The gossip gathererBiography: The life of no 20th-century personality showcases the American dream in action as effectively as does that of Louella…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
Mercier's 'Studs' kicks off film festivalNearly 20 years after it first played at Dublin's SFX Theatre, Studs, Paul Mercier's much-loved play following the adventures…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
VAPID IN VENICEREVIEWED - CASANOVA: CASANOVA climbs into a gondola and travels to the crumbling pile where the Inquisition's representative…Fri Feb 17 2006 - 00:00
MUTT DRESSED AS LAMBREVIEWED - THE ADVENTURES OF GREYFRIARS BOBBY: SHOULD you wish to punish naughty children by subjecting them to a uniquely Caledonian…Fri Feb 10 2006 - 00:00
THE BOY IN THE HAIRY PAWREVIEWED - GRIZZLY MAN: MY BEST Fiend, one of Werner Herzog's most enjoyable documentaries, focused on the relationship between…Fri Feb 10 2006 - 00:00
Movie buffs prepare for visual feast in the capitalBreakfast on Pluto star Cillian Murphy launched the programme for the fourth Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last…Thu Feb 02 2006 - 00:00
Irish actor Rhys Meyers wins Globe award for 'Elvis' roleJonathan Rhys Meyers, who showed his talent nearly a decade ago in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, has been slightly overshadowed…Wed Jan 18 2006 - 00:00
KEEP YOUR CHIN UPREVIEWED - EXILES/EXILS A sceme in this enigmatic French road movie finds the female lead dancing with orgasmic fervour to the…Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:00
Studs on show at Dublin festivalFANS OF Paul Mercier's riotous play Studs will be delighted to hear that the film version, long discussed, now finally in the…Fri Jan 13 2006 - 00:00
BLEAKLY BULLET PROOFREVIEWED - 13/TZAMETI: GÉLA Babluani's debut feature, a concise monochrome thriller with existentialist leanings, re-imagines…Fri Jan 06 2006 - 00:00
