RESISTANCE IS ESSENTIALREVIEWED - SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS/ SOPHIE SCHOLL: DIE LETZEN TAGE AN ACUTELY focused study, compiled from the official…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EASTREVIEWED - THE HIDDEN BLADE/KAKUSHI-KEN: ONI NO TSUME: ASIAN cinema boffins have complained that Yôji Yamada's elegiac Twilight…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
KILL CRAZYREVIEWED - DOOM: THE video game Doom is best remembered for popularising that genre known, in the digital world's unlovely argot…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
DEMONS OVER AMERICAREVIEWED - THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE THIS strange, worrying film is, the credits assure us, based on a true storyFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
THE KIDDIE VANISHESREVIEWED - FLIGHTPLAN SO JODIE Foster, an aeronautical engineer whose husband has just died mysteriously in Berlin, boards a…Fri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
BLOOD, GUTS & BALLETREVIEWED - THE TRANSPORTER 2 Here's a comedy standard I haven't seen for some timeFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
BEAUTIFUL BOOZERSREVIEWED - FACTOTUM: IN adapting the writings of the late Charles Bukowski, film-makers can be forgiven for not concerning themselves…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
GREAT BALLS OF FIREREVIEWED - GODZILLA/GOJIRA: ISHIRÔ Honda's fabulous Gojira, a serious film in a frivolous genre, was, before the welcome release…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
A killer plotReviewed - The Constant Gardener: Fernando Meirelles' international hit City of God established the Brazilian as an extraordinary…Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Cobbled togetherReviewed - Kinky Boots: So what are plucky Britishers doing this season to regain dignity and escape exclusion? Stripping? …Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Foot in MouthReviewed - In Her Shoes: There is an odd moment halfway through this uncomfortable hybrid of a filmFri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
A MATRIX FULLY LOADEDREVIEWED - GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE/ INOSENSU: KÔ KAKU KIDÔTAI: AMORU Oshii's stunning sequel to his complex, bleak 1995…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
YOUR HEAVEN, MY HELLREVIEWED - BATTLE IN HEAVEN/BATALLA EN EL CIELO: CARLOS Reygadas, the young Mexican director of 2002's stubbornly unpacy Japón…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATHREVIEWED - INTO THE BLUE : I like all kinds of garbage. I like Big Macs. I like Rachel Stevens. I like Tunnocks TeacakesFri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
A NANNY STATEREVIEWED - NANNY MCPHEE : This Victorian children's adventure, adapted by Emma Thompson from a series of novels by Christianna…Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
SUPERDOOPERREVIEWED - SKY HIGH : After the mighty Incredibles , any comedy focusing on the suburban travails of ageing superheroes is going…Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
FLEET ST CHEATREVIEWED - RAG TALE: THE style Mary McGuckian adopts for her broad-as-the-ocean satire on the tabloid media has such a dramatic…Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00
PURE SMUTREVIEWED - THE ARISTOCRATS: THIS disgusting documentary takes as its subject an obscure tradition from the world of show business…Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00
Way... Way outREVIEWED - SERENITY: George Lucas, whose last three films showed the world that space opera could be as boring as, well, opera…Fri Oct 07 2005 - 01:00
School of ScaresREVIEWED - INNOCENCE: Lucile Hadzihalilovic has hitherto been best known for collaborations with her partner Gasper Noé - she…Fri Oct 07 2005 - 01:00
SCORELSS DRAWREVIEWED - GOAL! When Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker), a hard-working illegal immigrant with feet of gold, returns to his bedroom…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
DETROIT SINNERSREVIEWED - FOUR BROTHERS John Singleton is to be congratulated on coming up with a novel - and potentially intriguing - amalgam…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
HOW LOW CAN HE GO?REVIEWED - DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO Comedy boffins out there may wish to ponder why a joke relating to the Chernobyl disaster…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
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 Sept 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 Sept 23 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 Sept 16 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 02 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 Sept 02 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 Sept 02 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 05 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 05 2005 - 01:00
FLASH IN THE PANREVIEWED - OVERNIGHT: You might describe this hugely enjoyable - if formally unremarkable - documentary as a neat complement…Fri Aug 05 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 05 2005 - 01:00
STEALTH WARNINGREVIEWED - STEALTH: Contrary to promises made in the title, this psychedelically moronic action film, arguably the worst studio…Fri Aug 05 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 05 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 05 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
