Mademoiselle ChambonA PLEASING miniature that makes you think someone’s been in contact with Eric Rohmer on the other side, Mademoiselle Chambon …Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
30 Minutes or LessIT SPEAKS well of Jesse Eisenberg that, coming off the back of The Social Network , the actor chose to reteam with his Zombieland…Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
TomboyTEN-YEAR-OLD Laure (Zoé Héran) moves to a new town, where she introduces herself to her neighbours as a boy named MickaëlFri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Troll Hunter/TrolljegerenSEPTEMBER IS that special time of year when movie studios launch campus-friendly comedies and found-footage horrorsFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
KesTHE PHRASE “grim up north” might have been coined for Barnsley boy Billy Casper (David Bradley), a lonely little runt who lives…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Friends With BenefitsWHO KNEW that a throwaway Hollywood romcom about commitment-free thrills would turn out to be far more romantic and realistic…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Fright NightTHIS WEEK’S big 1980s remake overhauls Tom Holland’s 1985 comic-horror Fright Night , a movie that, back in the day, was big …Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Conan the BarbarianBack in 1982, right-leaning auteur John Milius brought Robert E Howard’s sword and sorcery narratives into the outsized Reaganite…Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Glee: The 3D Concert MovieIN 2011, only two films have opened Stateside on more than 2,000 screens and failed to crack the US top 10; the first was the…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
In a Better WorldVETERAN FILM fans know only too well to beware the tagline “Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards”Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Rise of the Planet of the ApesALAS, THE title Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off was already takenFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The SmurfsTHE SMURFS have been smurfing since the 1950s, when Belgian cartoonist Peyo first smurfed them into existenceFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
The Referees/Les ArbitresSWISS REFEREE Massimo Busacca is under pressure. Greece are playing Sweden and decisions must be made and quicklyFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
The TreeFILMS NEVER open with a husband tenderly taking leave of his wife unless it’s the last we’ll see of himFri Aug 05 2011 - 01:00
ZookeeperIF YOU HAD to choose the one Adam Sandler player to leave your tortoise with, odds are you’d plump for Kevin James, the cheery…Fri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
ArriettyIF YOU AREN’T already a hardcore fan of Studio Ghibli animations, you really ought to consider it as a lifestyle choiceFri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
Poetry/ShiYOU’D NEVER guess it from the neat arrangement of her hats and floral scarves, but 66-year-old Mija (Yoon Jeong-he) is a woman…Fri Jul 29 2011 - 01:00
Comic geek and sci-fi nerd nirvanaREEL NEWS: If you’re sitting at home cursing the Comic-Con ticket-holders who get to see exclusive footage from Steven Spielberg…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Just Do ItThere is a strange incongruity at the heart of Emily James’s entertaining portrait of direct environmental activism in the UK…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Chairman Mao hits the big screenREEL NEWS: No space robots until you’ve watched the tender historical portrait of MaoFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
An inconvenient superhero is backREEL NEWS: Just when you thought you’d heard the final scraping at the bottom of the superhero barrel, along comes the announcement…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
The Big PicturePEDRO ALMODÓVAR’S Live Flesh. Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One. Chris Marker’s Sans SoleilFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Lights go out on The Dark TowerREEL NEWS: Who could have guessed that Universal Pictures would finally pull the plug on Ron Howard’s bizarre and epic plans…Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Cell 211/Celda 211IT’S JUAN Oliver’s first day on the job, and he’s looking neat as a pin as he kisses his heavily pregnant wife goodbyeFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Hobo with a ShotgunIT MAY NOT have set the box office on fire, but the Tarantino-Rodriguez Grindhouse portmanteau has left an indelibly grimy imprint…Fri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Film SocialismeSLOGANS AHOY. “AIDS tool for killing blacks.” “strange thing Hollywood Jews invented it.” “nocrime, nobloodFri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
Holy RollersHEARD THE ONE about the drug-smuggling rabbi? If Holy Rollers weren’t ripped from a series of 1989 headlines, it could be the…Fri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
The ConspiratorONE OF cinema’s most mercurial and influential talents, Robert Redford is an awfully difficult fellow to pin down.Fri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Countdown to zeroIT’S A LITTLE late in the day to be manufacturing a defence of Bush and Blair’s WMD thesis but that hasn’t prevented former Oscar…Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
IncendiesIN MONTREAL, a twin brother and sister are called in to hear the reading of their mother’s last will and testamentFri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
'Less of the grand dame, please'Catherine Deneuve may had made her first film more than half a century ago, but don’t think of calling her or an ‘icon’ – and…Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
Green LanternIT’S COME to this. It took two decades of flops – The Phantom , anyone? – for the superhero movie to come good at the box office…Fri Jun 17 2011 - 01:00
PoticheIT’S 1977 and trophy wife Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve) is busy keeping house, keeping herself pretty and keeping up bourgeois appearances…Fri Jun 17 2011 - 01:00
Mother’s DayTIMES HAVE changed since Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day , a bottom-shelf slasher comedy, was first spewed out by the Troma imprint…Fri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
KaboomLESBIAN WITCHCRAFT. Nuclear apocalypse. Omnisexual humping. A doomsday cult. It can only be a Gregg Araki joint.Fri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
Point Blank / À Bout PortantPAY ATTENTION. This sleek French thriller from the team behind Anything for Her doesn’t hang aboutFri Jun 10 2011 - 01:00
Vidal Sassoon: The MovieWATCHING THIS gushing hagiography, it is impossible not to feel a little bemused when various wags and pundits describe superstar…Fri Jun 03 2011 - 01:00
The Hangover Part II‘IT’S HAPPENED again,” cries a panicked Bradley Cooper. Too right it has.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Build Something ModernSTILL FILMS, the impossibly hip Irish boutique imprint founded in 2006 by film-makers Maya Derrington, Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley…Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderic RulesFEW 10-YEAR-OLDS will need an introduction to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney’s knockabout chronicles of pre-teen angst.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Le Quattro VolteAN ELDERLY shepherd struggles with a nagging cough high in the hills of Calabria.Fri May 27 2011 - 01:00
Blitz“YOU’RE all right for a poofter,” vigilante cop Jason Statham tells his gay colleague during one of Blitz’s more pastoral moments…Fri May 20 2011 - 01:00
Red HillWILL CITY cop Shane Cooper (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten) survive the transfer to Aussie outpost Red Hill? The remote one-horse …Fri May 20 2011 - 01:00
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: a lacklustre improvementIt is far-fetched but Pirates 4 is a lacklustre improvementFri May 20 2011 - 01:00
