MarmadukeIF YOU ARE planning on adapting unlikely bits of the newspaper for the movies, then consider the death notices or the situations…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
SaltSOMEWHERE IN the fussy middle of this juiced-up thriller – halfway between a cross and a double-cross – Angelina Jolie’s CIA …Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
Pros and cons of dumping UK film councilIt’s none of our business really, but the British government’s decision to abolish the UK Film Council is kicking up a few delicious…Fri Aug 20 2010 - 01:00
So, what are pyjama girls really like?They have been caricatured much in the media in the recent past, but a new documentary film looks sympathetically at the lives…Sat Aug 14 2010 - 01:00
Promise of Eastern sequelWe tend to be a bit snitty about sequels, but now and then a film cries out for a second chapter.Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Celebs don’t exactly glitterSo what this about Mia Farrow and that Charles Taylor trial?Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
The Last AirbenderDURING THE early, gold rush years for the fantasy franchise – from 2000 to 2006 or so – it seemed as if a fortune awaited any…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Le RefugeA DECADE AGO, following successes such as Sitcom and Under the Sand , François Ozon became the latest film-maker to be identified…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Jordan eyes Skippy filmA few days after Paul Murray’s novel Skippy Dies was included on the long- list for the Man Booker Prize, it was announced that…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy RescueTHE TINKER Bell industry is such a particular thing it even boasts its very own boutique labelFri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
London calling for Knightly filmThe opening film of October’s 54th London Film Festival will be Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the tricky Kazuo Ishiguro novel …Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeIF, AFTER enduring Jerry Bruckheimer’s latest galumphing summer entertainment, you wish to get a handle on the film’s deficiencies…Fri Aug 13 2010 - 01:00
Brothers miss MiramaxThe tale of the Weinsteins’ efforts to buy back Miramax has – for them at least – ended sadly.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Undertow/ContracorrienteThis Peruvian ghost story brings washes of welcome maritime sunlight to a somewhat grey domestic summerFri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl / Singularidades de uma Rapariga LouraTHIS MODEST, intriguing film from Manoel de Oliveira, the 101-year-old Portuguese master, is bookended by a young man telling…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Light of day for dark dramaThis column has, over the past year, spurned no opportunity to detail the merits of Conor Horgan’s One Hundred Mornings.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Step Up 3DYOU KNOW what? For all the modesty of its ambition, the third film in the Step Up series – the Star Wars of street dance – might…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Byrning up in KilkennyTwo cultural icons come together tomorrow when Colm Tóibín curates a day of films featuring Gabriel Byrne at the Kilkenny Arts…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
London RiverRACHID BOUCHAREB’S drama of London life in the wake of the 7/7 bombings has been lurking around the schedules for quite some …Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Beautiful Kate‘A FILM BY Rachel Ward.” There are five words you never expected to see in these review pages.Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Coco Chanel & Igor StravinskyTHOUGH GREETED with shrugs and harrumphs on its French release, Jan Kounen’s meditation on a supposed romance between Igor Stravinsky…Fri Aug 06 2010 - 01:00
Je t'aime . . . zzzzzOVER HERE, we’ll go only so far in sopping up the more French aspects of French culture.Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Stray films for Venice festivalRemember all those films that were supposed to play at this year’s Cannes?Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Cave: something to Crow aboutA few years back, Nick Cave, top gloom-Byron, delighted fans by delivering an excellent script for John Hillcoat’s Australian…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Deep cuts in UK film fundingIrish film-makers fearful of cuts in government spending will have shivered at recent news from across the waterFri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
I can't help but pity the foolsTHE A-TEAM: THERE’S NOTHING worse than forced jollity. You know the sort of thing.Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
A film that talks the talkOf all the directors who emerged from the French New Wave (now, mon Dieu, 50 years old), none forged such a lucid, disciplined…Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Lots of big stars but little big news at Comic-ConIs it yet time to consider the rise and fall of Comic-Con?Fri Jul 30 2010 - 01:00
Gaze comes of ageGaze Film Festival turns 18 in an era when the mainstream is opening up to gay and lesbian themes - they're now spoilt for choice…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
City IslandEARLY ON in this undemanding family drama, Andy Garcia’s frustrated prison officer receives advice from an acting teacher played…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
BaariaYOU KNOW where you stand with the latest Italian epic from Giuseppe TornatoreFri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
Norton in hulking great Avengers controversyHulk mad! Hulk nothing but trouble! First, Ang Lee’s interesting – if compromised – version of the Marvel comic book underperforms…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
Lots of pieces of Joplin’s heartAmy Adams’s representatives have announced that the star is to play Janis Joplin in an upcoming biopic directed by Fernando Meirelles…Fri Jul 23 2010 - 01:00
The ConcertTHIS SAPPY but ultimately irresistible comic drama has the names of many European nations stamped on its undersideFri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
InceptionIT WOULD be easy to get distracted by the hype swelling around Christopher Nolan’s breathtakingly grandiose – Is it baroque? …Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
Swiss court lets Roman Polanski off the hookREEL NEWS: There’s no question about the identity of this week’s big movie story.Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
RaptLUCAS BELVAUX, director of an acclaimed eponymous trilogy, takes a scalpel to middle-class French society with this fascinating…Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
'The Runway' is best of Irish at film fleadhTHE 22ND Galway Film Fleadh ended last night with an awards ceremony that honoured a controversial documentary and a warmly received…Mon Jul 12 2010 - 01:00
You only live 22 times . . .Few dawns have so quickly had their falsity revealedFri Jul 09 2010 - 01:00
Social commentary with teethSUMMER DVDs: One of the many things that set George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead aside from the horror pack was its inclination…Fri Jul 09 2010 - 01:00
When You're Strange: A Film About The DoorsMAYBE WE ARE ready for a documentary on The DoorsFri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
Heartbreaker / L'AmacoeurDOES SETTING your stupid comedy on the French Riviera inevitably make it “sophisticated”? You know what I meanFri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
TetroWORD ON the street suggests that Tetro constitutes a partial return to form for the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse …Fri Jul 02 2010 - 01:00
