The fright stuffTHEPACT, an inventive haunted house mystery lately arrived from the Sundance Film Festival, is the debut feature from writer-…Fri Jun 08 2012 - 01:00
In praise of an old Hollywood masterIN PETER BOGDANOVICH’S first feature film, Targets, a seemingly mild-mannered insurance executive, lately returned from the Vietnam…Thu Jun 07 2012 - 01:00
Twist in the taleJUST DON’T SAY anything bad about Kristen Stewart. Seriously. The first time I met Ms Stewart she was 17 years oldFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Iron SkyIt’s 2018 and African-American model James Washington (Christopher Kirby) has landed on the moon as part of a publicity stunt…Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
The Angels' ShareBACK IN THE day, rightly or wrongly, the Ken Loach brand was synonymous with council estate grit, miserabilism and getting a …Fri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
The Turin Horse/A Torinói lóIN A REMOTE windswept location, an old man and his daughter live a life composed of simple ritualsFri Jun 01 2012 - 01:00
Free Men/Les Hommes LibresTHE LATEST WORK from Le Grand Voyage director Ferroukhi seeks to uncover an untold history of North Africans in FranceFri May 25 2012 - 01:00
Moonrise KingdomAFTER THE relative misfires that were The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson has just about…Fri May 25 2012 - 01:00
She Monkeys/ApflickornaWANNABE equestrian gymnast Emma is a painfully shy adolescent when she tries out for the local vaulting teamFri May 25 2012 - 01:00
The RaidIT’S EARLY morning when rookie cop and expectant father Rama is sent into a crumbling Jakarta apartment block as part of a 20…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
Two Years at SeaGREAT GRIZZLY Wilderness, you got to see this movie. Don’t believe us? Then just ask, well, anyone elseFri May 18 2012 - 01:00
2 Days in New York/Deux Jours a New YorkMINGUS (CHRIS ROCK) and Marion (Julie Delpy) started out as a rebound relationship, but the alchemy they found together as colleagues…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpProud, self-styled right-wing sociologists the Robsons condemned Michael Powell and Emric Pressburger’s 1943 masterpiece as “…Fri May 18 2012 - 01:00
All in Good TimeALL IN GOOD TIME began life as a 1963 play by Bill Naughton, the Ballyhaunis-born author of Alfie.Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Jeff, Who Lives at HomeTO DATE, the much-feted US mumblecore movement has failed to produce a new Tarantino or a new Cassavetes.Fri May 11 2012 - 01:00
Silent HouseLA CASA MUDA – a no-fi 2010 Uruguayan horror – had a nifty enough sales pitch to warrant a place at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
Le Quai de Brumes (Port of Shadows)If you think a woman can’t look amazing in a transparent plastic mackintosh, then you haven’t seen Michèle Morgan in Marcel Carné…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
The Stifmeister is backAPPARENTLY, Seann William Scott loves my hair and my tattoos and everything about me. Oh, SWS, you old cardFri May 04 2012 - 01:00
Monsieur LazharIN A SNOWY Montreal schoolyard, Alice (Sophie Nélisse) reminds her pal Simon (Émilien Néron) that it’s his turn to put out the…Fri May 04 2012 - 01:00
The Lucky OneZAC EFRON is Logan, a damned fine Marine (stop sniggering down the back; he’s not so bad) who returns to Colorado following a…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
The Monk/Le MoineMATTHEW Gregory Lewis’s 1796 romance is acknowledged as the first horror novel to lurch unexpectedly forth from gothic literature…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
Being ElmoPUPPETEER Kevin Clash was born in Baltimore, and grew up in a suburb that, although disappointingly unlike The Wire or a John…Fri Apr 27 2012 - 01:00
Campus capersJULIE BURCHILL, during her early-1990s stint as a film critic, once offered a remarkably sage piece of movie adviceFri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Elfie HopkinsYou have to doff your cap to Elfie Hopkins, a British original and an odd mash-up of Harriet the Spy and The Wicker Man.Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
Breathing/AtmenAT 19, ROMAN (Thomas Schubert) already wears the cold stare of a lifelong repeat offenderFri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
MarleyROBERT NESTA Marley was born in the raggedy village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to a teenage Afro-Jamaican mother…Fri Apr 20 2012 - 01:00
BlackthornTWENTY YEARS have passed since 1908 when Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) changed his name to James Blackthorn and took up quiet residency…Fri Apr 13 2012 - 01:00
This Is Going To Take More Than One NightAndré Breton’s parlour game, Exquisite Corpse (cadavre exquis) was quite the thing among surrealists in the early 20th century…Fri Apr 13 2012 - 01:00
TitanicNEVER MIND the 3D makeover. Time has not been kind to James Cameron’s big-hulled monstrosityFri Apr 06 2012 - 01:00
Drawing a blankHOW DO YOU make a movie about New York’s fiercely DIY, down-and-dirty school of No Wave art? By adhering to a fiercely DIY, down…Fri Apr 06 2012 - 01:00
Tiny FurnitureAURA, a newly graduated and recently dumped “YouTube artist”, returns home to mope around her mother’s impossibly chic New York…Fri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
StreetDance 2YOU’RE FAMILIAR with the famous Lennon lyric: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”? Well StreetDance 2 …Fri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
Into the AbyssIN 2000, TWO teenage Texans were convicted of the murder of a 50-year-old nurseFri Mar 30 2012 - 01:00
Wild BillBACK IN THE DAY, Londoner Wild Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed- Miles) had a fearsome rep: “The usual?” asks a East End publican …Fri Mar 23 2012 - 00:00
Act of Valour‘NOW HE’S another watchman standing guard while our world sleeps..Fri Mar 23 2012 - 00:00
The leader of the packYOU’VE SEEN the TV show Entourage , right? The one based on Mark Wahlberg’s wild hangers-on during his early Hollywood years? …Wed Mar 14 2012 - 00:00
Bel AmiDANGEROUS LIAISONS with Twilight ’s Edward? Sadly, Bel Ami is nothing like Dangerous Liaison s with Twilight ’s EdwardFri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
ClearskinSEAN BEAN is Ewan Keane, a war veteran and secret service wonk who lost his wife in the London bombingsFri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
Stella DaysYOU WAIT FOR ages for an old-school Irish heritage picture made with the assistance of a foreign benefactor, then two come along…Fri Mar 09 2012 - 00:00
Blank City‘IT FELT LIKE our lives were movies,” says Debbie Harry of the early filthy days of No WaveFri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
KhodorkovskyMIKHAIL Khodorkovsky first came to prominence during the 1980s as part of an emerging class of Russian pro-marketeers.Fri Mar 02 2012 - 00:00
HadewijchHADEWIJCH (Julie Sokolowski) is a young 21st-century novice sister named for a 13th-century virgin mysticFri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
The Best Exotic Marigold HotelNOT TOO far into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, there’s a moment when retiring civil servants Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton…Fri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
Safe HouseTHE BEST THING bout Safe House is that it’s a safe, popcorn option. Ditto the worst thing about Safe House.Fri Feb 24 2012 - 00:00
