MICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET ITUntil Hayao Miyazaki's forthcoming Howl's Moving Castle reaches us, fans of the great Japanese animator will have to make do …Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
DOLL SPAWNFollowing 1998's hilarious Bride of Chucky - the greatest killer-doll film since Dead of Night - this latest episode in the notorious…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
Comic book confidentialWhen the young Frank Miller, a Vermont kid who had been drawing his own comics since the age of six, first made his way to New…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
ONLY THE STRUNG SURVIVEIn January 2004, when putting this singular entertainment before the world, the Danish director Anders Rønnow-Klarlund declared…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
MYSTIFYING MOB JOBPaolo Sorrentino's icily intoxicating second feature - the sort of film which has you reluctantly dusting off four-dollar words…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
WAXED DUMMIESWhen Robert Zemeckis helped establish Dark Castle Pictures, it appeared the aim was to transform bargain-basement 1950s mad-scientist…Fri May 27 2005 - 01:00
Weird scienceReviewed - What the bleep do we know?: What the Bleep Do We Know? (or What the #$*! Do We Know? as it is known on certain astral…Fri May 20 2005 - 01:00
Childhood's dead endReviewed - Mysterious Skin: Though based on a novel by Scott Heim, the latest creepy dispatch from the professional pessimist…Fri May 20 2005 - 01:00
Fever PitchREVIEWED - FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: FOR domestic readers who once spent the hours after school shivering on windswept, cratered …Fri May 13 2005 - 01:00
Foo FighterREVIEWED - ONG BAK: The martial arts films that make it into commercial cinemas in this country tend to feature either aerial…Fri May 13 2005 - 01:00
No laughing matterA new documentary tells the story of Mayo-reared and Jesuit-educated William Joyce - aka Nazi propagandist Lord Haw HawSat May 07 2005 - 01:00
CLIVE'S REVENGEREVIEWED - I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: About halfway through Mike Hodges's unsatisfactory follow-up to Croupier, Clive Owen - …Fri Apr 15 2005 - 01:00
SHOT THROUGH THE HEARTREVIEWED - BULLET BOY: SAUL Dibb's nervy, energetic film, which focuses on cycles of revenge within the black communities of…Fri Apr 08 2005 - 01:00
Turning JapaneseGlobetrotter turned wage slave Niall Murtagh found life in a Japanese multinational a little strangeSat Apr 02 2005 - 01:00
STONE COLDREVIEWED - BE COOL Edie Athens, a music producer played with scant enthusiasm by a waxy Uma Thurman, has just lost her husband…Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:00
STIFF UPPER BEAKSREVIEWED - VALIANT Appropiately for an entertainment emanating from the revived Ealing Studios, this tale of a brave pigeon'…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Kusturica's bird on a wire (honestly)A NOISY tussle between the British Board of Film Classification and director Emir Kusturica came to an intriguing conclusion …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
SLEEPY STARREVIEWED - LAURA'S STAR: JUST in time for Easter comes an excellent punishment for children who, right up until they poured …Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
PASSION REPLAYREVIEWED - THE PASSION RECUT: IN THE secular world it's what we call a marketing gimmickFri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
THINGS THAT GO Zzzzzz IN THE NIGHTREVIEWED - DARKNESS: GLANCING through the notes I took during this singular Spanish horror fiasco, I found myself temporarily…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
NEW POOH A HONEYREVIEWIED - POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE: IN DISNEY'S latest low-rent addition to the chronicles of Hundred Acre Wood, the hostile…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
EURO CRUZ IN CONTROLREVIEWED - DON'T MOVE/NON TI MUOVERE: POOR, cursed Penélope Cruz, the apparent albatross to a lengthy series of US flops, has…Fri Mar 18 2005 - 00:00
IT'S TENSION CITYREVIEWED - HOSTAGE: JEFF Talley is carrying around at least three weighty psychological burdensFri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
LIMP FLICKREVIEWED - 9 SONGS: NEVER mind what the poor actors have to do. Just listen to what they have to sayFri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
WAR BABIESREVIEWED - TURTLES CAN FLY/LAKPOSHTHA HÂM PARVAZ MIKONAND: BAHMAN Ghobadi, the Kurdish director of the emotionally devastating…Fri Mar 11 2005 - 00:00
A rickety remakeREVIEWED - FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix, in which James Stewart and some character actors…Fri Mar 04 2005 - 00:00
Blame it on the boogeyREVIEWED - BOOGEYMAN: The only real surprise in this brain-atrophying horror film, which recently topped the US box-office during…Fri Mar 04 2005 - 00:00
Teacher's threatREVIEWED - COACH CARTER: This true story concerning a high school basketball coach, who, by insisting that his charges should…Fri Feb 25 2005 - 00:00
HELL'S HIGHWAYREVIEWED - ARE WE THERE YET?: Welcome to the world of show business young Philip Daniel BoldenFri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
SUICIDAL TENDENCIESREVIEWED - HEAD-ON/GEGEN DIE WAN: This desperate love story set amid Hamburg's Turkish community was a surprise winner of the…Fri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
CORPORATE SHENANIGANSREVIEWED - THE YES MEN: This nuts-and-bolts (or maybe just nuts) documentary about a group of merry anti-globalisation pranksters…Fri Feb 18 2005 - 00:00
LITTLE MISS AMERICAREVIEWED - FIRST DAUGHTER: You can imagine the difficulties that director Forrest Whitaker and his cabal of writers must have…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
THE CARREY-ON KIDREVIEWED - SON OF THE MASK: No, not a sequel to Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 drama about a teenager learning to live with the trauma…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
STILL SWEETREVIEWED - LA DOLCE VITA: Fellini's delicious wallow in the world of celebrity journalism took over from Bergman's The Seventh…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
MY LOVELY ZEBRAREVIEWED - RACING STRIPES There may be critics capable of getting through a review of this passable kids' movie without mentioning…Fri Feb 04 2005 - 00:00
CELEBRITY SNAPSReviewed - PAPARAZZI Not since The Devil's Advocate, in which Taylor Hackford suggested that lawyers might quite literally be…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
DEAD PUNKS SOCIETYReviewed - END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES "Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee: good times!" So sang The Human…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
THE PARENT TRAPReviewed - MEET THE FOCKERS Before Jay Roach's ho-hum sequel to the not-much-funnier Meet the Parents kicks off, the director…Fri Jan 28 2005 - 00:00
Power shortageREVIEWED - ELEKTRA: An adaptation of Sophocles's great tragedy directed by the man behind Reign of Fire and starring that woman…Fri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
Eastwood's adversaries not feeling luckyGod help anyone foolish enough to get on the wrong side of Clint EastwoodFri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
Feet of flamesREVIEWED - LADDER 49: Either a heartfelt tribute to the victims of September 11th or a shameless attempt to cash in on the …Fri Jan 21 2005 - 00:00
KUNG FU KICKINGReviewed - Shaolin Soccer (Siu Lam Juk Kau): Some readers may be upset to hear that Stephen Chow's extraordinary chop-socky …Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
KUNG FU KICKINGReviewed - Shaolin Soccer (Siu Lam Juk Kau): Some readers may be upset to hear that Stephen Chow's extraordinary chop-socky …Fri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
