No laughing matterA new documentary tells the story of Mayo-reared and Jesuit-educated William Joyce - aka Nazi propagandist Lord Haw HawSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
CLIVE'S REVENGEREVIEWED - I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: About halfway through Mike Hodges's unsatisfactory follow-up to Croupier, Clive Owen - …Fri Apr 15 2005 - 01:00
SHOT THROUGH THE HEARTREVIEWED - BULLET BOY: SAUL Dibb's nervy, energetic film, which focuses on cycles of revenge within the black communities of…Fri Apr 08 2005 - 01:00
Turning JapaneseGlobetrotter turned wage slave Niall Murtagh found life in a Japanese multinational a little strangeSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
STONE COLDREVIEWED - BE COOL Edie Athens, a music producer played with scant enthusiasm by a waxy Uma Thurman, has just lost her husband…Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:00
STIFF UPPER BEAKSREVIEWED - VALIANT Appropiately for an entertainment emanating from the revived Ealing Studios, this tale of a brave pigeon'…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Kusturica's bird on a wire (honestly)A NOISY tussle between the British Board of Film Classification and director Emir Kusturica came to an intriguing conclusion …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
SLEEPY STARREVIEWED - LAURA'S STAR: JUST in time for Easter comes an excellent punishment for children who, right up until they poured …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
PASSION REPLAYREVIEWED - THE PASSION RECUT: IN THE secular world it's what we call a marketing gimmickFri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
THINGS THAT GO Zzzzzz IN THE NIGHTREVIEWED - DARKNESS: GLANCING through the notes I took during this singular Spanish horror fiasco, I found myself temporarily…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
NEW POOH A HONEYREVIEWIED - POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE: IN DISNEY'S latest low-rent addition to the chronicles of Hundred Acre Wood, the hostile…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
EURO CRUZ IN CONTROLREVIEWED - DON'T MOVE/NON TI MUOVERE: POOR, cursed Penélope Cruz, the apparent albatross to a lengthy series of US flops, has…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
IT'S TENSION CITYREVIEWED - HOSTAGE: JEFF Talley is carrying around at least three weighty psychological burdensFri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
LIMP FLICKREVIEWED - 9 SONGS: NEVER mind what the poor actors have to do. Just listen to what they have to sayFri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
WAR BABIESREVIEWED - TURTLES CAN FLY/LAKPOSHTHA HÂM PARVAZ MIKONAND: BAHMAN Ghobadi, the Kurdish director of the emotionally devastating…Fri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
A rickety remakeREVIEWED - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix, in which James Stewart and some character actors…Fri Mar 04 2005 - 00:00
Blame it on the boogeyREVIEWED - BOOGEYMAN: The only real surprise in this brain-atrophying horror film, which recently topped the US box-office during…Fri Mar 04 2005 - 00:00
Teacher's threatREVIEWED - COACH CARTER: This true story concerning a high school basketball coach, who, by insisting that his charges should…Fri Feb 25 2005 - 00:00
HELL'S HIGHWAYREVIEWED - ARE WE THERE YET?: Welcome to the world of show business young Philip Daniel BoldenFri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
SUICIDAL TENDENCIESREVIEWED - HEAD-ON/GEGEN DIE WAN: This desperate love story set amid Hamburg's Turkish community was a surprise winner of the…Fri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
CORPORATE SHENANIGANSREVIEWED - THE YES MEN: This nuts-and-bolts (or maybe just nuts) documentary about a group of merry anti-globalisation pranksters…Fri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
LITTLE MISS AMERICAREVIEWED - FIRST DAUGHTER: You can imagine the difficulties that director Forrest Whitaker and his cabal of writers must have…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
THE CARREY-ON KIDREVIEWED - SON OF THE MASK: No, not a sequel to Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 drama about a teenager learning to live with the trauma…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
STILL SWEETREVIEWED - LA DOLCE VITA: Fellini's delicious wallow in the world of celebrity journalism took over from Bergman's The Seventh…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
MY LOVELY ZEBRAREVIEWED - RACING STRIPES There may be critics capable of getting through a review of this passable kids' movie without mentioning…Fri Feb 04 2005 - 00:00
CELEBRITY SNAPSReviewed - PAPARAZZI Not since The Devil's Advocate, in which Taylor Hackford suggested that lawyers might quite literally be…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
DEAD PUNKS SOCIETYReviewed - END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES "Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee: good times!" So sang The Human…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
THE PARENT TRAPReviewed - MEET THE FOCKERS Before Jay Roach's ho-hum sequel to the not-much-funnier Meet the Parents kicks off, the director…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
Power shortageREVIEWED - ELEKTRA: An adaptation of Sophocles's great tragedy directed by the man behind Reign of Fire and starring that woman…Fri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
Eastwood's adversaries not feeling luckyGod help anyone foolish enough to get on the wrong side of Clint EastwoodFri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
Feet of flamesREVIEWED - LADDER 49: Either a heartfelt tribute to the victims of September 11th or a shameless attempt to cash in on the …Fri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
KUNG FU KICKINGReviewed - Shaolin Soccer (Siu Lam Juk Kau): Some readers may be upset to hear that Stephen Chow's extraordinary chop-socky …Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
KUNG FU KICKINGReviewed - Shaolin Soccer (Siu Lam Juk Kau): Some readers may be upset to hear that Stephen Chow's extraordinary chop-socky …Fri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
Social graces under pressureSocial Mores: Though prone to dangerous presuppositions on the subject of footwear storage - "Your shoes will, of course, already…Sat Dec 18 2004 - 00:00
NIGHTY NIGHTREVIEWED - SLEEPOVER: It wouldn't surprise me if Sleepover, the 14th high-school comedy released in the last half-hour, was …Fri Dec 17 2004 - 00:00
WINCE CHARMINGREVIEWED - ELLA ENCHANTED: This harmless fantasy comes across as the sort of film that parents would like their children to …Fri Dec 17 2004 - 00:00
Home-grown flicks reeling in the gongsIrish films continue to attract favourable attention overseasFri Dec 10 2004 - 00:00
Michael Moore feeling the big chillThat respected website Film Threat has shocked 48 per cent of the American population by placing Michael Moore at the top of …Fri Dec 03 2004 - 00:00
Beckham brand the goal of 'Goal!'Social commentators concerned about the growing cultural influence of David Beckham may be distressed to hear that Bruce Davey…Fri Nov 12 2004 - 00:00
ROYAL JELLYREVIEWED - THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT: I want to be a princessFri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
NOTHING IS CERTAINREVIEWED - CHAOS (KAOSU): Not since Akira Kurosawa's golden years has the work of a Japanese director offered as much material…Fri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?REVIEWED - ALFIE: After de-gutting, political correction and a serious roughing-up by the style Gestapo, there is little else…Fri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
ON THE SLAG HEAPREVIEWED - FAT SLAGS: "From the director of Kevin and Perry Go Large ," the TV advertisement says by way of warningFri Oct 22 2004 - 01:00
