CAST A COMFY SPELLREVIEWED - AKEELAH AND THE BEE: GIVEN the deserved success of the 2002 documentary Spellbound, it was, perhaps, inevitable that…Fri Aug 18 2006 - 01:00
Ex-junkies on Offaly small adventureLENNY Abrahamson's Adam & Paul, though released a mere two years ago, has already acquired the status of an Irish classic…Fri Aug 18 2006 - 01:00
JUST SHOOT MEREVIEWED - LOOK BOTH WAYS: EARLY on in Sara Watt's earnest Australian ensemble piece, a stereotypically cynical journalist…Fri Aug 18 2006 - 01:00
Irish gong show will go onFOR the last few years the Irish Film and Television Awards have provided newspapers with happy photographs of various celebrating…Fri Aug 11 2006 - 01:00
Game OverReviewed - Stay Alive: You'd think there were enough useless movies based on real video games without film-makers dreaming up…Fri Jul 28 2006 - 01:00
Draw me DeadlyReviewed - Renaissance: This animated French film noir, which will remind many of Sin City, begins with a familiar shot of the…Fri Jul 28 2006 - 01:00
You are what you eatReviewed - Dumplings/Gaau Ji: Fruit Chan's macabre immorality tale - as revolting as it is eerily beautiful - began life as …Fri Jul 28 2006 - 01:00
DRUGGY NIGHTSREVIEWED - LITTLE FISH ROWAN Woods's belated follow-up to his searing 1998 debut, The Boys, is certainly carried off with great…Fri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED INREVIEWED - GARFIELD: A RALE OF TWO KITTIES DESPITE the allusion in its unexpectedly witty title, the second film focusing on…Fri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
AFTER SCHOOL ACTION HEROREVIEWED - STORMBREAKER THERE are some good things in this frantic adaptation of the first of Anthony Horowitz's popular novels…Fri Jul 21 2006 - 01:00
Folk tailREVIEWED - THE CAVE OF THE YELLOW DOG: BYAMBASUREN Davaa's follow- up to her 2003 art-house hit, The Story of the Weeping Camel…Fri Jul 14 2006 - 01:00
Hedge rowsREVIEWED - OVER THE HEDGE Woodland creatures vs bulldozing developers in a wacky animated comedy that delivers good value for…Fri Jun 30 2006 - 01:00
You've got snail mailReviewed - The Lake House: Advance publicity for this stunning romantic drama - stunning in the sense that shards of it could…Fri Jun 23 2006 - 01:00
Fin de stinkoReviewed - Aquamarine: So there's, like, these two teens in Florida, right? And one's played by Julia Roberts's niece, which…Fri Jun 23 2006 - 01:00
Speed HappensReviewed - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: NOW that all the stars of The Fast and the Furious have moved on to better…Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
ENERGY CRASHERSReviewed - Enron: The smartest guys in the room: THIS splendid documentary on the fall of Enron arrives here a year after its…Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
I Spit on your LatteReviewed - Hard Candy: THIS taut, claustrophobic thriller, in which a contemporary Little Red Riding Hood fights back, has, …Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
Frankly, It's Hard to ImagineReviewed - Imagine Me & You: WHAT reasonable person would fail to welcome a romantic comedy that presents its lesbian heroines…Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:00
A great goalReviewed - Offside: THE dearth of new film releases this week speaks of the distributors' belief that nothing - neither fire…Fri Jun 09 2006 - 01:00
The toughest cops in townReviewed - 33/36 Quai des Orfevres: OLIVIER Marchal is said to have drawn on his own experiences as a cop when preparing this…Fri Jun 02 2006 - 01:00
The devil made them do itReviewed - The Omen: MAJOR motion pictures have, in the past, been commissioned to coincide with annual feast days and historical…Fri Jun 02 2006 - 01:00
Foul ballReviewed - The Benchwarmers: THERE are, I would speculate, herpetologists whose lives are taken up with comparing the gestation…Fri Jun 02 2006 - 01:00
WILD AND WOOLLY MISADVENTUREREVIEWED - THE WILD THE COMPUTER-animated film appears to be a binary speciesFri May 26 2006 - 01:00
A breed apartThe Last Straw: There was an intriguing dispatch this week from Britney Spears's compound, which, in different circumstances…Sat May 20 2006 - 01:00
KICKING & SCREAMINGREVIEWED - ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Here's a documentary about the brief enthusiasm for professional soccer - and the New York Cosmos…Fri May 19 2006 - 01:00
DOLLY DULLREVIEWED - RUSSIAN DOLLS/LES POUPÉES RUSSES: Cédric Klapisch's meandering, cluttered sequel to 2002's Pot Luck - in which annoying…Fri May 19 2006 - 01:00
TURGID AND PREPOSTEROUSREVIEWED - THE DA VINCI CODE: In recent years, only Crazy Frog has divided critics and the public more than Dan BrownFri May 19 2006 - 01:00
HEADY CASEREVIEWED - UNKNOWN WHITE MALE: IT SEEMS fair to point out that there is what you might call a contextual spoiler in the second…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
READIN', WRITIN' AND RUBBIN' OUTREVIEWED - BRICK: WHAT might happen if you were to insinuate the language, mood and style of the noir thriller into an archetypal…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
WHEN A STRANGER NODS OFFREVIEWED - WHEN A STRANGER CALLS: THE reputation of the first When a Stranger Calls, a tolerable Halloween rip-off from 1979…Fri May 12 2006 - 01:00
DANIEL'S MUSICAL MADNESSREVIEWED - THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON: LIKE the comedy of Spike Milligan, the songs of Daniel Johnston, a 45- year-old West…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
TILL DEATH US DO PARTREVIEWED - CONFETTI: I DARE say that the people behind Confetti, a decent British comedy following the contestants in a competition…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
PSYCHO CINEMA VÉRITÉREVIEWED - THE MAGICIAN: IF YOU were searching for reasons to dislike this spirited Australian mock-documentary, you might point…Fri May 05 2006 - 01:00
Hard time ahead for 'Die Hard' director?MANY of us thought that John McTiernan should have been jailed for crimes against cinema following his horrible 2002 remake of…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
THAT '70s SHOWREVIEWED - C.R.A.Z.Y : This sincerely felt French-Canadian picture, a gay coming-of-age story set largely in the 1970s, won …Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
STARZ IN THEIR EYESREVIEWED - AMERICAN DREAMZ : If you were to compile a list of contemporary American phenomena worth satirising, you might very…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
HECK BELOW ZEROREVIEWED - EIGHT BELOW : Astonishingly, the true story of the survival of some number of dogs left alone at the Antarctic for…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
THE ONLY GAME IN SPOOK TOWNREVIEWED - SILENT HILL : For the third time in the last six months, Sean Bean finds himself comforting a woman whose daughter…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
LOVERS, DREARY LOVERSREVIEWED - TRISTAN & ISOLDE : The original American title of Kevin Reynolds's dreary retelling of a story already told often…Fri Apr 14 2006 - 01:00
Gay cowboys not welcome in US prisonA prison officer in Massachusetts has received a telling-off for allowing Brokeback Mountain, the admired gay shepherd drama, …Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
FAR FROM A HEAD-TURNERREVIEWED - AN AMERICAN HAUNTING: With a few notable exceptions - The Shining, The Innocents - attempts to make something respectable…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
BALLROOM, BUT NOT STRICTLYREVIEWED - TAKE THE LEAD: Given the recent success of television shows featuring obscure weather men murdering the rumba while…Fri Apr 07 2006 - 01:00
OH, BOYREVIEWED - SHE'S THE MAN: GIVEN the various indignities visited upon William Shakespeare's work over the past few centuries, …Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
THIN ICE INDEEDREVIEWED - ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN: IT IS some measure of the paucity of imagination on display in this sequel to 20th Century…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
Centenary Sam goes to the moviesSAMUEL Beckett enthusiasts unnerved by the oddly jaunty tone taken by some of the posters advertising the great man's centenary…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
LOW RENTREVIEWED - RENT: THE great wonder of this extraordinarily terrible adaptation of an already unlovely Broadway musical is that…Fri Mar 31 2006 - 01:00
