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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Subterranean sick bluesIngenious touches help turn Neil Marshall's The Descent into a powerful piece of genre film-making, writes Donald ClarkeSat Jul 09 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 01 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
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
MILD THINGSREVIEWED - WILD SIDE: TWO musical influences hang over this beautifully made French dramaFri 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
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 03 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 03 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 03 2005 - 01:00
