BABY YOU CAN BURN MY FLAGREVIEWED - THE US VS JOHN LENNON: THE title of this diverting, if unsurprising, VH1 documentary promises the viewer ghastly …Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
THE DULLEST STORY EVER TOLDREVIEWED - THE NATIVITY STORY: CATHERINE Hardwicke, director of Thirteen, that searing investigation of teenage breakdown, has…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
The filth and the furriesReviewed - Flushed Away: A GREAT deal of work has, I'm sure, gone into Aardman Animation's first computer-generated featureFri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Shocking fillerReviewed - Deck the Halls: IT'S THAT magical time of the year againFri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Feathers fly over pinko penguinsWHAT is it with penguins and politics? Last year, certain nuttier commentators on the American right tried to argue that March…Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Going all the wayReviewed - Shortbus: IF YOU know anything about John Cameron Mitchell's lubricious follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Itch , …Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
BETTER WATCH OUTREVIEWED - THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE AN UNLUCKY pigeon, oblivious to the gruesome vista being unveiled before the…Fri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
Reel News joins les grands fromagesWHAT do the following have in common: David Bowie, Uma Thurman, Tony Curtis, Anthony Burgess and Michael Dwyer? That's rightFri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
QUIZ KIDSREVIEWED - STARTER FOR TEN 'WHICH British comedy from 2006 features three separate actors with parents who achieved fame on …Fri Nov 10 2006 - 00:00
A TOXIC DELIGHTREVIEWED - THE HOST/GWOEMUL MEMORIES of Murder, Bong Joon-ho's singular Korean thriller from 2003, was notable for its brave…Fri Nov 10 2006 - 00:00
Final ChanceReviewed - Sixty-Six: HERE we have a gentle coming-of-age drama in which a North London boy struggles with the unhappy news …Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
Revenge is SuiteReviewed - The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages): DENIS Dercourt, a classical musician with a sideline in cinema, here delivers…Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
FLIP FLOPREVIEWED - STICK IT: LOATHE gymnastics? Then Stick It - a sub-editor's dream of a title, incidentally - may very well be the…Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
TROUBLE IN MINDREVIEWED - SNUFF-MOVIE: READERS who appreciate the ambitious, underrated cinema of Bernard Rose - his work includes mainstream…Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
RACIAL PROFILINGREVIEWED - GYPO: OVER the last two decades we have been exposed to Pauline McLynn the novelist, the radio satirist, the comical…Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
Cork festival ends with screening of 'Marie Antoinette' and awardsThe 51st Cork Film Festival ended last night with a gala screening of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a frilly, enjoyably weightless…Mon Oct 16 2006 - 01:00
Star struckFilm: David Thomson, hitherto the most distinguished film writer of his generation, has, in recent years, offered his many admirers…Sat Oct 07 2006 - 01:00
Double TroubleReviewed - Brothers of the Head: LOOK everybody, it's Ken RussellFri Oct 06 2006 - 01:00
TOO MUCH MR NICE GUYREVIEWED - LIFE & LYRICS THOSE readers unfamiliar with the South London rap scene will find many of their preconceptions…Fri Sept 29 2006 - 01:00
PITCH PERFECTREVIEWED - ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT GIVEN all the pseudo-metaphysical musings that football inspires in slumming academics…Fri Sept 29 2006 - 01:00
THE BEST PLACE TO BEREVIEWED - ECHO PARK, LA SHOT on a tiny budget, using many non-professional actors, this dramatic consideration of the changing…Fri Sept 29 2006 - 01:00
A madman in ManhattanReviewed - Keane: It's been a while since we've seen a satisfactory existentialist drama concerning a lone madman loose in the…Fri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
Teenage dirtbagsReviewed - Dirty Sanchez: the Movie: THAT this wretched thing even exists suggests we may be living in a society whose inclinations…Fri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
Smug ShotReviewed - Trust the Man: IF you want to learn why so many inhabitants of the US's less fashionable locales loathe New Yorkers…Fri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
Return of the JediReviewed - Clerks II: A FEW hundred years ago (or so it seems), Kevin Smith directed a sharp little film named ClerksFri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
NIGHTY NIGHTREVIEWED - THE NIGHT LISTENER ARMISTEAD Maupin, author of the source novel for this vaguely imagined entertainment, has referred…Fri Sept 15 2006 - 01:00
KING OF THE ROADREVIEWED - TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY 'HANG on, buddyFri Sept 15 2006 - 01:00
YOU GO, GOREREVIEWED - AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH THIS cinematic record of Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation on the dangers of climate change…Fri Sept 15 2006 - 01:00
Video nastyREVIEWED - DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE THIS unhappy adaptation of a popular video game from the director of the perfectly acceptable …Fri Sept 15 2006 - 01:00
C'mon get happyReviewed - Little Miss Sunshine: APPROPRIATELY for an entertainment that takes place largely in a Volkswagen bus, Little Miss…Fri Sept 08 2006 - 01:00
Secret spoofersReviewed - The Sentinel: Wrap it up in extra-large tinfoil and whack it in the ovenFri Sept 01 2006 - 01:00
Badly drawn boysReviewed - Terkel in Trouble: "Now here's something I haven't seen beforeFri Sept 01 2006 - 01:00
Wayans' worldReviewed - Little Man: The Wayans Brothers, whose White Chicks dealt so eloquently with contemporary race relations, have squeezed…Fri Sept 01 2006 - 01:00
Danger in DublinReviewed - The Frontline: David Gleeson, the Limerick-born director of Cowboys & Angels, has followed up that diverting …Fri Aug 25 2006 - 01:00
Guest of dishonourReviewed - You, Me and Dupree: Now, I know what you're thinkingFri Aug 25 2006 - 01:00
Oh my god! They stomped on Tokyo!The Best Film Ever has just gone into development. Think we've gone mad? Well listen to thisFri Aug 25 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
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
DUDE, WHERE'S MY AVATAR?REVIEWED - A SCANNER DARKLY: RICHARD Linklater's queasily effective adaptation of a much-puzzled-over novel by Philip K Dick…Fri Aug 18 2006 - 01:00
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
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
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
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
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
