High spirits in great God debateChristopher Hitchens and John Waters, two furiously tireless polemicists, positively thrive on spreading irritation about the…Mon Jun 18 2007 - 01:00
Paradise LostJohn Stockwell, the director of this unlovely and unlovable horror film, does have a certain diabolical talent in another disreputable…Fri Jun 01 2007 - 01:00
Wedding DazeSorry, did I miss a meeting? Someone in the Office of Comedy seems to have decided that if you insert a few indie rock songs …Fri Jun 01 2007 - 01:00
The Family Friend/L'amico di FamigliaPAOLO Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love, a sleek thriller in various shades of grey, revealed its director to have a good…Fri May 25 2007 - 01:00
JindabyneA KEY scene in Ray Lawrence's determinedly po-faced follow-up to Lantana begins with a public argument between the couple (Gabriel…Fri May 25 2007 - 01:00
Joe Strummer: The future is unwrittenPOINTING out that Julien Temple brings a punk sensibility to his study of the life and premature death of Joe Strummer, former…Fri May 18 2007 - 01:00
Black snake moanWOKE up this morning, strange film in my head/Sam Jackson got Christina Ricci all chained up to his bed.Fri May 18 2007 - 01:00
MagiciansOH DEAR. The many fans of Peep Show, Channel 4's delicious comedy of ordinary immorality, will have been looking forward to Magicians…Fri May 18 2007 - 01:00
Goodbye BafanaYET another well-meaning European liberal - one whose student days were, perhaps, taken up with demanding an end to apartheid…Fri May 11 2007 - 01:00
ShooterHOW can you tell if an American film has political pretentions these days? Well, if images appear on the screen when light is…Fri Apr 13 2007 - 01:00
Perfect StrangerSOME mole has let it be known that James Foley filmed three separate endings - a different killer in each - for this atrocious…Fri Apr 13 2007 - 01:00
Wild HogsISN'T there some federal regulation about not driving or operating heavy machinery while under sedation? If so, the authorities…Fri Apr 13 2007 - 01:00
Blades of GloryTHIS FILM stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as two ice dancers - the first a womanising drunk, the second a spoilt hot-house alumnus…Fri Apr 06 2007 - 01:00
The CaimanSOME YEARS back, Nanni Moretti, the distinguished Italian director of The Son's Room and Dear Diary, publicly chastised left-…Fri Apr 06 2007 - 01:00
The Last MimzyWHISPER it beneath your breath: here, for once, we have a decent family film that seeks neither to patronise nor to lecture its…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
The Hills Have Eyes IITHERE is, perhaps, a special circle of hell devoted to the screening of sequels to horror remakesFri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Meet the RobinsonsIF THE rumour mill is accurate - and it usually isn't - then Disney Studios may be on the point of returning to the traditional…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Location, location, flirtation, deflationReviewed - Catch and Release: WE have, over the past year, seen a spate of films following various groups of beautiful people…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Camera slyReviewed - Peeping Tom: "The only really satisfactory way to dispose of Peeping Tom would be to shovel it up and flush it down…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Stopping trafficReviewed - Amazing Grace: JUST in time for the 200th anniversary of the eradication of the British slave trade, Michael Apted…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Sweet sorrowReviewed - I want Candy: 'LONDON is crammed with film companies desperate for good ideas," Joe (Tom Riley) says in the first…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Life in the Plastic FactoryReviewed - Factory Girl: I'M still not quite sure what Sienna Miller looks likeFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
Small FryReviewed - The Reef: EVERY wondered what you get from the rendered doings of fish that live off other fish? Wonder no moreFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
Well heeledReviewed - Sleeping Dogs: HERE'S a film that believes itself to be about twice as dangerous as it actually isFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
NOW YOU SEE IT . . .REVIEWED - THE ILLUSIONIST: A CURSORY glance at a plot synopsis of The Illusionist could suggest that Christopher Nolan's recent…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
A HOOD TO CALL HOMEA GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS: DITO Montiel, socialite, fashion model and writer of showy beat prose, has tweaked the facts…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
MUST TRY HARDERREVIEWED - FREEDOM WRITERS: WITH all these Hollywood big-shots drawing inner-city youths away from violence by teaching them…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
Films of love in a damp climateAccording to last week's sports pages, Dublin was set to be transformed into a ghost town on Saturday afternoonTue Feb 27 2007 - 00:00
Bad educationReviewed - School for Scoundrels: In 1959 Robert Hamer, the man behind Kind Hearts and Coronets, took Stephen Potter's Lifemanship…Fri Feb 23 2007 - 00:00
TWO NILREVIEWED - GOAL! 2: LIVING THE DREAM AN URCHIN from the slums gains fame as a pop singer, movie star or sportsmanFri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
STARTER FOR ONEREVIEWED - HANNIBAL RISING: REVIEWING Thomas Harris's Hannibal, Martin Amis famously suggested that the author seemed to have…Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
STICKS WITH YOUREVIEWED - RUNNING WITH SCISSORS: HEAVEN spare us from another book in which a damaged adult details the childhood traumas that…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
WEE PEOPLE, TWEE MOVIEREVIEWED - ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES: BEFORE the days of Daft Punk, there always seemed something a little, well, off about…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
PIGSKIN PARADEREVIEWED - GRIDIRON GANG: PUBLIC information films detailing the documentation required for completion of US tax forms do not…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
Sundance shines on capital's biggest ever film festivalMore than 109 films will play in four city-centre cinemas during the 5th Jameson International Film Festival in Dublin.Thu Feb 01 2007 - 00:00
The hunk of HollywoodReviewed - Hollywoodland: THE huge sign that still rests in the hills above California's dream factory originally read Hollywoodland…Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
Nice and EasyReviewed - Old Joy: THE news that Kelly Reichardt's second full-length(ish) feature includes original music by Yo La Tengo, …Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
Rotting in RomaniaReviewed - Them/Ils: WHAT would have become of the contemporary horror film if the Berlin Wall hadn't come down? Barely a week…Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
Depp and Mann in Litvinenko saga duelGood grief! Poor old Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who recently succumbed to a hunk of radioactive sushi, is barely…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
A sterling stallionReviewed - Rocky Balboa: When the members of the International Coven of Film Critics heard that Sylvester Stallone was to …Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
No fun going backReviewed - The Return: ASIF Kapadia, director of the singular Anglo-Asian drama The Warrior, has launched his Hollywood career…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
Fizzling gun fest fails to igniteReviewed - Smokin' Aces: BEGINNING with frozen images of various colourfully homicidal characters accompanied by a lengthy, …Fri Jan 12 2007 - 00:00
Skint Will finds a wayReviewed - The Pursuit of Happyness: GRAB hold of the Dramamine. The following scenario may induce nausea.Fri Jan 12 2007 - 00:00
SMELL O' VISIONREVIEWED - PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER: IF ALFRED Hitchcock had made a film of Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume he would…Fri Dec 22 2006 - 00:00
DECK THE HALLS WITH PARTS OF HOLLYREVIEWED - BLACK CHRISTMAS: THE first Black Christmas, an innovative little clot of Canadian nastiness from 1974, arrived at…Fri Dec 15 2006 - 00:00
THE DEVIL WITHIN HER?REVIEWED - REQUIEM: THE true events that inspired The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a turgid 2005 thriller with a perceptible Christian…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
HE'S A HIGH FLYERREVIEWED - SPECIAL: OVERSTRETCHED, even at a brief 81 minutes, Special feels like a clever, low-budget exercise, rather than…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
