Meet Jonah Hill, the slacker BuddhaHis big break came because he knew Dustin Hoffman’s kids and he only got the role in ‘Superbad’ after a very close shave – now…Sat Jun 26 2010 - 01:00
The CollectorTHE SAW franchise – that seemingly endless exercise in recreational disembowelment – has been conspicuous by its absence from…Fri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
Get him to the GreekTHIS intermittently amusing comedy counts as a sequel to – or spin-off from – the less entertaining Forgetting Sarah Marshall…Fri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
When in RomeWHEN IN ROME is overly sentimental, structurally dysfunctional and pathologically irritatingFri Jun 25 2010 - 01:00
Our Family WeddingON ITS release in 1967, with the Black Panthers organising and Malcolm X dead, the oddly overrated Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner…Fri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Wild Grass/Les Herbes FollesDOFF YOUR chapeaux to the tribunes of the Nouvelle VagueFri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Spider-Man 3 review: good, clean fun, even if the plot is a tangled webSpider-Man 3 is good, clean fun, even if the plot is a tangled webTue Jun 15 2010 - 14:38
Letters to JulietIN AN early episode of The Simpsons , Homer, briefly smart, spoils the ending of a comedy called Love Is Nice by announcing that…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
The Cove gets into hot water in JapanLouie Psihoyos’s The Cove , an Oscar-winning documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, is kicking up serious fuss…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
What would Karla say?Look away if you’re not interested, but here’s something about which Reel News cares really, really deeply.Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
MTV Awards get a load of Bullock’sOh Lord, it’s time for the awards ceremony that makes even the Oscars seem like a grown-up celebration of cinematic excellence…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
It’s all the media’s faultIt had to happen. The appalling killings in Cumbria two weeks ago are now being linked to a supposedly shocking Hollywood movie…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
4.3.2.1.NOEL CLARKE, the young British director of Adulthood , attempts to break into the mainstream with this stubbornly disorienting…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Screaming Fox transformedDo you care who gets to take over from Megan Fox in the third Transformers picture?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
O’Sullivan reeled in for festivalDonegal’s excellent Gufu Gafa International Documentary Film Festival kicks off next week.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Girl on the Train/ La Fille du RerTHE LATEST film from André Téchiné deals with a notoriously incendiary hoax from recent French historyFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
She’s Out Of My LeagueIF YOU lived through the fag end of Irish showband culture, you will recall that, right up to the early 1980s, the charts would…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Film slate for Edinburgh festGrumbles persist about the Edinburgh Film Festival’s decision to move from August (where it shared space with the main arts jamboree…Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Hobbit helmer gets fed up waiting for BilboThere’s no question about the big Hollywood story this week: Guillermo del Toro has quit The Hobbit.Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Then again, she could be kiddingIs Sex and the City 2 the worst-reviewed major release in recent history?Fri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
The Brothers BloomRIAN JOHNSON’S Brick , an indie hit from 2005, appeared to offer us a fresh, original cinematic talentFri Jun 04 2010 - 01:00
Conflict irresolutionWE HAVE, over the past month, seen quite a few interesting films from IsraelFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
How to get ahead in advertisingNot too many Romanian comedies begin with a tune by the Pet Shop BoysFri May 28 2010 - 01:00
TraffickedYET MORE proof that the immigrant (rather than the emigrant) experience remains an unavoidable theme in current Irish cinemas…Fri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Streetdance 3D‘I CAN honestly say this is one of the worst films I have ever sat through. The story is awfulFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeOH, HEAVENS. Spare us another high-minded political filmFri May 21 2010 - 01:00
To Cannes for death and feudingTWO CANNES favourites made returns to La Croisette at the weekend, with new features.Mon May 17 2010 - 01:00
Deja vu all over again in 'Wall Street' sequel as corporate decadence proves greed still rulesLAST NIGHT, 23 years after Oliver Stone’s Wall Street defined the red-braces era of capitalism, the same director unveiled a …Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsIt’s the cinematic version of the futures marketSat May 15 2010 - 01:00
No Greater LoveBY OPENING this rigorous, respectful documentary about a Carmelite monastery hidden in London’s otherwise trendy Notting Hill…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
On Tour/TournéeThe first film to screen in competition at Cannes turns out to be a fairly humble affairFri May 14 2010 - 01:00
VincereTHIS DERANGED, operatic study of Benito Mussolini’s early life is packed full of arresting shots, each of which encapsulates …Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Eyes Wide Open/Einaym PkuhotHAIM TABAKMAN, director of this formidably controlled if somewhat suffocating drama, has, almost certainly, become used to hearing…Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
Still gagging for Saint BillSixteen years after his death, the cult of Bill Hicks is as strong as ever, and now two British film-makers have made a documentary…Mon May 10 2010 - 01:00
Blooming hellWISEACRES used to propose a theory arguing that it required a massive leap of faith by trusting passengers to keep a plane in…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Does my bump look big in this?IT’S TRUE. We critics really missed having Jennifer Lopez about the placeFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
More than a film and a halfHOW PLEASING it is to come across something so wonderful – and yet so unheralded – as this intricate, moving, barmy study of …Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Nap time on Elm StreetTO THIS point, the horror remakes emanating from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes studio have been annoyingly bearableFri May 07 2010 - 01:00
NightwatchingYOU COULD be forgiven for assuming that Peter Greenaway had fled film-making for a life making cheese or designing cathedrals…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
RevanchePERHAPS THOSE Austrian film-makers whose work fails to play abroad tend towards light romcoms and kids’ films about talking rabbits…Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
The Disappearance of Alice CreedWHEN film-makers place any sort of artificial restriction on themselves – no dialogue, just the one set, a single take – one …Fri Apr 30 2010 - 01:00
