I AM ZOMBIE, HEAR ME ROARREVIEWED - LAND OF THE DEAD: FEW entities in US popular culture provide a more comprehensive measure of the state of the nation…Fri Sep 23 2005 - 01:00
A FILM IN VERSE?/ COULD BE WORSEREVIEWED- YES: IN THE week of the release of Guy Ritchie's insufferable Revolver, it seems churlish to accuse any film, even…Fri Sep 23 2005 - 01:00
Dream a little dreamReviewed - The Intruder/L'Intrus: HOW much of the peculiar magic that surrounds Claire Denis's hypnotic films is down to the…Fri Sep 16 2005 - 01:00
Who could love this dog?Reviewed - Must love dogs: DESPERATE target audience - 16-35, white, female - seeks insufferably bland romantic comedy composed…Fri Sep 16 2005 - 01:00
It's about timeReviewed - Primer: HAVING seen Primer twice, I can say with some confidence that its frustratingly knotty plot - peppered with…Fri Sep 16 2005 - 01:00
Bum vibes in surf cityReviewed - Lords of dogtown: THIS dramatisation of the rise of skateboarding as a pastime - later sport, religion and industry…Fri Sep 16 2005 - 01:00
Ronnie Corbett: It's hello from him . . .In this interview first published in 2005, Ronnie Corbett talks to Donald Clarke about The Two Ronnies, old-fashioned humour, and being back on stageSat Sep 10 2005 - 01:00
BLUE COLLAR BUNKUMREVIEWED - THE HONEYMOONERS: THE great American sitcom on which this inexpressibly atrocious film was based had its greatest…Fri Sep 2 2005 - 01:00
FROM GOD TO MANREVIEWED - THE SUN/SOLONTSE: THE third film in Alexander Sokurov's developing tetralogy examining the miseries that accompany…Fri Sep 2 2005 - 01:00
FIRST TIME LUCKYREVIEWED - THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN: IT MAY be little more than a loose collection of comic bits, and it is certainly at least…Fri Sep 2 2005 - 01:00
RISIBLE PANTY LINESREVIEWED - THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS: The pants passed around by the four female chums in this anaemic teen weepie…Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
STILL LIFE IN JAPANREVIEWED - CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (KÔHÎ JIKÔ): Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the Taiwanese master of the static shot, was commissioned to direct this…Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
Scarlett and Ewan isolated on IslandThe hubbub surrounding the disappointing US returns for Michael Bay's The Island continued last week with the producers - husband…Fri Aug 19 2005 - 01:00
Drawn to the dark sideReviewed - The Island: Readers familiar with the law of inverse proportionality - which has hitherto governed the relationship…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
A glance at FranceReviewed - The Last Mitterand (Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars): Georges-Marc Benamou's book Le Dernier Mitterrand , a record …Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
Sony to give us back our moneyFollowing a recent court case in which Sony Pictures owned up to carrying quotes from an imaginary film critic - one "David Manning…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
There's always a catchReviewed - The Perfect Catch : Fans of Nick Hornby's memoir, Fever Pitch , may feel the need to get all hoity toity about the…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
THE TIES THAT BINDREVIEWED - A COMMON THREAD (BORDEUSES): This perfectly lovely French yarn does all the things you expect middle-brow art films…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
FLASH IN THE PANREVIEWED - OVERNIGHT: You might describe this hugely enjoyable - if formally unremarkable - documentary as a neat complement…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
RIDE, RACE & DANCE WITH THE DEVILREVIEWED - THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: At a crucial point in Rob Zombie's raucous, nauseating follow-up to House of 1000 Corpses, as…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR ISREVIEWED - 3 IRON: Whatare we to make of Kim Ki-duk? Watching his grimmest work, one is reminded of a child pulling the legs…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
STEALTH WARNINGREVIEWED - STEALTH: Contrary to promises made in the title, this psychedelically moronic action film, arguably the worst studio…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
Boy will get to eat girl after allA polite tussle between the Irish Film Censor's Office and Abbey Films, the distributor of the upcoming Irish horror comedy Boy…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
THE GLORY OF THE GUNREVIEWED - DEAR WENDY: The latest festival of finger-wagging, Brechtian pantomime and Yank-bashing from the pen of Lars von …Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
The greatest story never (yet) toldProof that Hollywood's generals are always preparing to fight the last war comes with the news that Disney has entered into a…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
DEM CREAKY OLD BONESREVIEWED - THE SKELETON KEY: I WONDER what the citizens of New Orleans will make of this fruity gumbo of shrunken heads, mad…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
Shop till you dropReviewed - Czech Dream: In the 1961 comedy Lover Come Back, Doris Day and Rock Hudson star as rival advertising executives …Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Conversation killerReviewed - 13 conversations about one thing: Some ways into this wearing compendium of things people just don't say, after it…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
A no-win situationReviewed - Kicking and screaming: By the time Bob Dylan was 38 he had recorded 20 of the epoch's most important recordsFri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Fantastic boresReviewed - Fantastic Four: Earlier this year, Avi Arad, the CEO of Marvel Comics' film division, persuaded Merrill Lynch, a…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Dumb & DummyReviewed - The Pacifier: Considering the narcoleptic torpor Vin Diesel brings to his performance as a Navy Seal entrusted with…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Subterranean sick bluesIngenious touches help turn Neil Marshall's The Descent into a powerful piece of genre film-making, writes Donald ClarkeSat Jul 9 2005 - 01:00
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYREVIEWED - DIG!: Anton Newcombe, lead singer of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, probably likes to think of the rivalry between…Fri Jul 1 2005 - 01:00
MILD THINGSREVIEWED - WILD SIDE: TWO musical influences hang over this beautifully made French dramaFri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
LOVE IS IN THE ZzzzzzREVIEWED - A LOT LIKE LOVE: AN hour or so after the credits rolled on A Lot Like Love, I found myself tempted to return to the…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
SHALLOW GRAVEMaking a film about perennial cult band The Brian Jonestown Massacre and its madman leader all but did in Ondi TimonerFri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
HOME INVADERSREVIEWED - PRIVATE: THE uncompromising agitprop energy that hangs around this tale of conflict in the occupied territories of…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
SEX AND THE SENORAREVIEWED - TORREMOLINOS 73: A crucial scene in Pablo Berger's charming first feature sees the hero, Alfredo, whose wife, Carmen…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
DOIN ME HEAD INREVIEWS - HEADRUSH: BACK in 1994, when we still ate our own young, all Irish films were about crones in shawls or IRA men falling…Fri Jun 24 2005 - 01:00
ROYSTON VASEY COMES TO LIFEREVIEWED - THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE: THIS hilarious big-screen outing for the League of Gentlemen begins with Jeremy…Fri Jun 3 2005 - 01:00
ROTTING IN DENMARKREVIEWED - IN YOUR HANDS/FORBRYDELSER: Last time I checked, there was a clause in the Dogme 95 manifesto forbidding genre pictures…Fri Jun 3 2005 - 01:00
LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELDREVIEWED - ONLY HUMAN/SERES QUERIDOS: The directors of this harmless Spanish farce, in which a Jewish girl brings a Palestinian…Fri Jun 3 2005 - 01:00
WAXED DUMMIESWhen Robert Zemeckis helped establish Dark Castle Pictures, it appeared the aim was to transform bargain-basement 1950s mad-scientist…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
MYSTIFYING MOB JOBPaolo Sorrentino's icily intoxicating second feature - the sort of film which has you reluctantly dusting off four-dollar words…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
MICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET ITUntil Hayao Miyazaki's forthcoming Howl's Moving Castle reaches us, fans of the great Japanese animator will have to make do …Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
DOLL SPAWNFollowing 1998's hilarious Bride of Chucky - the greatest killer-doll film since Dead of Night - this latest episode in the notorious…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
Comic book confidentialWhen the young Frank Miller, a Vermont kid who had been drawing his own comics since the age of six, first made his way to New…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
ONLY THE STRUNG SURVIVEIn January 2004, when putting this singular entertainment before the world, the Danish director Anders Rønnow-Klarlund declared…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00