ShooterHOW can you tell if an American film has political pretentions these days? Well, if images appear on the screen when light is…Fri Apr 13 2007 - 01:00
Blades of GloryTHIS FILM stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as two ice dancers - the first a womanising drunk, the second a spoilt hot-house alumnus…Fri Apr 06 2007 - 01:00
The CaimanSOME YEARS back, Nanni Moretti, the distinguished Italian director of The Son's Room and Dear Diary, publicly chastised left-…Fri Apr 06 2007 - 01:00
The Hills Have Eyes IITHERE is, perhaps, a special circle of hell devoted to the screening of sequels to horror remakesFri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
The Last MimzyWHISPER it beneath your breath: here, for once, we have a decent family film that seeks neither to patronise nor to lecture its…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Meet the RobinsonsIF THE rumour mill is accurate - and it usually isn't - then Disney Studios may be on the point of returning to the traditional…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Camera slyReviewed - Peeping Tom: "The only really satisfactory way to dispose of Peeping Tom would be to shovel it up and flush it down…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Stopping trafficReviewed - Amazing Grace: JUST in time for the 200th anniversary of the eradication of the British slave trade, Michael Apted…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Location, location, flirtation, deflationReviewed - Catch and Release: WE have, over the past year, seen a spate of films following various groups of beautiful people…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Sweet sorrowReviewed - I want Candy: 'LONDON is crammed with film companies desperate for good ideas," Joe (Tom Riley) says in the first…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Life in the Plastic FactoryReviewed - Factory Girl: I'M still not quite sure what Sienna Miller looks likeFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
Small FryReviewed - The Reef: EVERY wondered what you get from the rendered doings of fish that live off other fish? Wonder no moreFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
Well heeledReviewed - Sleeping Dogs: HERE'S a film that believes itself to be about twice as dangerous as it actually isFri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
A HOOD TO CALL HOMEA GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS: DITO Montiel, socialite, fashion model and writer of showy beat prose, has tweaked the facts…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
NOW YOU SEE IT . . .REVIEWED - THE ILLUSIONIST: A CURSORY glance at a plot synopsis of The Illusionist could suggest that Christopher Nolan's recent…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
MUST TRY HARDERREVIEWED - FREEDOM WRITERS: WITH all these Hollywood big-shots drawing inner-city youths away from violence by teaching them…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
Films of love in a damp climateAccording to last week's sports pages, Dublin was set to be transformed into a ghost town on Saturday afternoonTue Feb 27 2007 - 00:00
Bad educationReviewed - School for Scoundrels: In 1959 Robert Hamer, the man behind Kind Hearts and Coronets, took Stephen Potter's Lifemanship…Fri Feb 23 2007 - 00:00
STARTER FOR ONEREVIEWED - HANNIBAL RISING: REVIEWING Thomas Harris's Hannibal, Martin Amis famously suggested that the author seemed to have…Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
TWO NILREVIEWED - GOAL! 2: LIVING THE DREAM AN URCHIN from the slums gains fame as a pop singer, movie star or sportsmanFri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
WEE PEOPLE, TWEE MOVIEREVIEWED - ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES: BEFORE the days of Daft Punk, there always seemed something a little, well, off about…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
STICKS WITH YOUREVIEWED - RUNNING WITH SCISSORS: HEAVEN spare us from another book in which a damaged adult details the childhood traumas that…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
PIGSKIN PARADEREVIEWED - GRIDIRON GANG: PUBLIC information films detailing the documentation required for completion of US tax forms do not…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
Sundance shines on capital's biggest ever film festivalMore than 109 films will play in four city-centre cinemas during the 5th Jameson International Film Festival in Dublin.Thu Feb 01 2007 - 00:00
Rotting in RomaniaReviewed - Them/Ils: WHAT would have become of the contemporary horror film if the Berlin Wall hadn't come down? Barely a week…Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
The hunk of HollywoodReviewed - Hollywoodland: THE huge sign that still rests in the hills above California's dream factory originally read Hollywoodland…Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
Nice and EasyReviewed - Old Joy: THE news that Kelly Reichardt's second full-length(ish) feature includes original music by Yo La Tengo, …Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
Depp and Mann in Litvinenko saga duelGood grief! Poor old Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who recently succumbed to a hunk of radioactive sushi, is barely…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
A sterling stallionReviewed - Rocky Balboa: When the members of the International Coven of Film Critics heard that Sylvester Stallone was to …Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
No fun going backReviewed - The Return: ASIF Kapadia, director of the singular Anglo-Asian drama The Warrior, has launched his Hollywood career…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
Fizzling gun fest fails to igniteReviewed - Smokin' Aces: BEGINNING with frozen images of various colourfully homicidal characters accompanied by a lengthy, …Fri Jan 12 2007 - 00:00
Skint Will finds a wayReviewed - The Pursuit of Happyness: GRAB hold of the Dramamine. The following scenario may induce nausea.Fri Jan 12 2007 - 00:00
SMELL O' VISIONREVIEWED - PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER: IF ALFRED Hitchcock had made a film of Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume he would…Fri Dec 22 2006 - 00:00
DECK THE HALLS WITH PARTS OF HOLLYREVIEWED - BLACK CHRISTMAS: THE first Black Christmas, an innovative little clot of Canadian nastiness from 1974, arrived at…Fri Dec 15 2006 - 00:00
HE'S A HIGH FLYERREVIEWED - SPECIAL: OVERSTRETCHED, even at a brief 81 minutes, Special feels like a clever, low-budget exercise, rather than…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
THE DEVIL WITHIN HER?REVIEWED - REQUIEM: THE true events that inspired The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a turgid 2005 thriller with a perceptible Christian…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
BABY YOU CAN BURN MY FLAGREVIEWED - THE US VS JOHN LENNON: THE title of this diverting, if unsurprising, VH1 documentary promises the viewer ghastly …Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
THE DULLEST STORY EVER TOLDREVIEWED - THE NATIVITY STORY: CATHERINE Hardwicke, director of Thirteen, that searing investigation of teenage breakdown, has…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
Shocking fillerReviewed - Deck the Halls: IT'S THAT magical time of the year againFri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Feathers fly over pinko penguinsWHAT is it with penguins and politics? Last year, certain nuttier commentators on the American right tried to argue that March…Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
The filth and the furriesReviewed - Flushed Away: A GREAT deal of work has, I'm sure, gone into Aardman Animation's first computer-generated featureFri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Going all the wayReviewed - Shortbus: IF YOU know anything about John Cameron Mitchell's lubricious follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Itch , …Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
BETTER WATCH OUTREVIEWED - THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE AN UNLUCKY pigeon, oblivious to the gruesome vista being unveiled before the…Fri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
Reel News joins les grands fromagesWHAT do the following have in common: David Bowie, Uma Thurman, Tony Curtis, Anthony Burgess and Michael Dwyer? That's rightFri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
QUIZ KIDSREVIEWED - STARTER FOR TEN 'WHICH British comedy from 2006 features three separate actors with parents who achieved fame on …Fri Nov 10 2006 - 00:00
A TOXIC DELIGHTREVIEWED - THE HOST/GWOEMUL MEMORIES of Murder, Bong Joon-ho's singular Korean thriller from 2003, was notable for its brave…Fri Nov 10 2006 - 00:00
Final ChanceReviewed - Sixty-Six: HERE we have a gentle coming-of-age drama in which a North London boy struggles with the unhappy news …Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
Revenge is SuiteReviewed - The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages): DENIS Dercourt, a classical musician with a sideline in cinema, here delivers…Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
