First-class comfortsReviewed - Tickets: A gaggle of great auteurs - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach - comes together to tell three …Fri Dec 30 2005 - 00:00
Worlds in CollisionReviewed - Live and Become/Va, Vis et Deviens: In the course of this long, deeply felt drama, the Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu…Fri Dec 30 2005 - 00:00
First-class comfortsReviewed - Tickets: A gaggle of great auteurs - Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach - comes together to tell three …Fri Dec 23 2005 - 00:00
Worlds in CollisionReviewed - Live and Become/Va, Vis et Deviens: In the course of this long, deeply felt drama, the Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu…Fri Dec 23 2005 - 00:00
THE CURSE OF THE CHATTERING CLASSREVIEWED - THE FAMILY STONE : FOLLOWING the dubious Exorcism of Emily Rose, an apology for the simple superstitions of the moral…Fri Dec 16 2005 - 00:00
And when she was bad . . .Biography: In chapter 18 of Simon Louvish's meticulously researched biography of Mae West, we discover WC Fields musing on the…Sat Dec 10 2005 - 00:00
THE CURSE OF THE CHATTERING CLASSREVIEWED - THE FAMILY STONE : FOLLOWING the dubious Exorcism of Emily Rose, an apology for the simple superstitions of the moral…Fri Dec 09 2005 - 00:00
RESISTANCE IS ESSENTIALREVIEWED - SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS/ SOPHIE SCHOLL: DIE LETZEN TAGE AN ACUTELY focused study, compiled from the official…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
KILL CRAZYREVIEWED - DOOM: THE video game Doom is best remembered for popularising that genre known, in the digital world's unlovely argot…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EASTREVIEWED - THE HIDDEN BLADE/KAKUSHI-KEN: ONI NO TSUME: ASIAN cinema boffins have complained that Yôji Yamada's elegiac Twilight…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
BLOOD, GUTS & BALLETREVIEWED - THE TRANSPORTER 2 Here's a comedy standard I haven't seen for some timeFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
DEMONS OVER AMERICAREVIEWED - THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE THIS strange, worrying film is, the credits assure us, based on a true storyFri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
THE KIDDIE VANISHESREVIEWED - FLIGHTPLAN SO JODIE Foster, an aeronautical engineer whose husband has just died mysteriously in Berlin, boards a…Fri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
BEAUTIFUL BOOZERSREVIEWED - FACTOTUM: IN adapting the writings of the late Charles Bukowski, film-makers can be forgiven for not concerning themselves…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
GREAT BALLS OF FIREREVIEWED - GODZILLA/GOJIRA: ISHIRÔ Honda's fabulous Gojira, a serious film in a frivolous genre, was, before the welcome release…Fri Nov 18 2005 - 00:00
A killer plotReviewed - The Constant Gardener: Fernando Meirelles' international hit City of God established the Brazilian as an extraordinary…Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Cobbled togetherReviewed - Kinky Boots: So what are plucky Britishers doing this season to regain dignity and escape exclusion? Stripping? …Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Foot in MouthReviewed - In Her Shoes: There is an odd moment halfway through this uncomfortable hybrid of a filmFri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
A MATRIX FULLY LOADEDREVIEWED - GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE/ INOSENSU: KÔ KAKU KIDÔTAI: AMORU Oshii's stunning sequel to his complex, bleak 1995…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
YOUR HEAVEN, MY HELLREVIEWED - BATTLE IN HEAVEN/BATALLA EN EL CIELO: CARLOS Reygadas, the young Mexican director of 2002's stubbornly unpacy Japón…Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:00
A NANNY STATEREVIEWED - NANNY MCPHEE : This Victorian children's adventure, adapted by Emma Thompson from a series of novels by Christianna…Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
SUPERDOOPERREVIEWED - SKY HIGH : After the mighty Incredibles , any comedy focusing on the suburban travails of ageing superheroes is going…Fri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATHREVIEWED - INTO THE BLUE : I like all kinds of garbage. I like Big Macs. I like Rachel Stevens. I like Tunnocks TeacakesFri Oct 21 2005 - 01:00
FLEET ST CHEATREVIEWED - RAG TALE: THE style Mary McGuckian adopts for her broad-as-the-ocean satire on the tabloid media has such a dramatic…Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00
PURE SMUTREVIEWED - THE ARISTOCRATS: THIS disgusting documentary takes as its subject an obscure tradition from the world of show business…Fri Oct 14 2005 - 01:00
Way... Way outREVIEWED - SERENITY: George Lucas, whose last three films showed the world that space opera could be as boring as, well, opera…Fri Oct 07 2005 - 01:00
School of ScaresREVIEWED - INNOCENCE: Lucile Hadzihalilovic has hitherto been best known for collaborations with her partner Gasper Noé - she…Fri Oct 07 2005 - 01:00
SCORELSS DRAWREVIEWED - GOAL! When Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker), a hard-working illegal immigrant with feet of gold, returns to his bedroom…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
DETROIT SINNERSREVIEWED - FOUR BROTHERS John Singleton is to be congratulated on coming up with a novel - and potentially intriguing - amalgam…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
HOW LOW CAN HE GO?REVIEWED - DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO Comedy boffins out there may wish to ponder why a joke relating to the Chernobyl disaster…Fri Sept 30 2005 - 01:00
I AM ZOMBIE, HEAR ME ROARREVIEWED - LAND OF THE DEAD: FEW entities in US popular culture provide a more comprehensive measure of the state of the nation…Fri Sept 23 2005 - 01:00
A FILM IN VERSE?/ COULD BE WORSEREVIEWED- YES: IN THE week of the release of Guy Ritchie's insufferable Revolver, it seems churlish to accuse any film, even…Fri Sept 23 2005 - 01:00
Who could love this dog?Reviewed - Must love dogs: DESPERATE target audience - 16-35, white, female - seeks insufferably bland romantic comedy composed…Fri Sept 16 2005 - 01:00
It's about timeReviewed - Primer: HAVING seen Primer twice, I can say with some confidence that its frustratingly knotty plot - peppered with…Fri Sept 16 2005 - 01:00
Bum vibes in surf cityReviewed - Lords of dogtown: THIS dramatisation of the rise of skateboarding as a pastime - later sport, religion and industry…Fri Sept 16 2005 - 01:00
Dream a little dreamReviewed - The Intruder/L'Intrus: HOW much of the peculiar magic that surrounds Claire Denis's hypnotic films is down to the…Fri Sept 16 2005 - 01:00
Ronnie Corbett: It's hello from him . . .In this interview first published in 2005, Ronnie Corbett talks to Donald Clarke about The Two Ronnies, old-fashioned humour, and being back on stageSat Sept 10 2005 - 01:00
BLUE COLLAR BUNKUMREVIEWED - THE HONEYMOONERS: THE great American sitcom on which this inexpressibly atrocious film was based had its greatest…Fri Sept 02 2005 - 01:00
FROM GOD TO MANREVIEWED - THE SUN/SOLONTSE: THE third film in Alexander Sokurov's developing tetralogy examining the miseries that accompany…Fri Sept 02 2005 - 01:00
FIRST TIME LUCKYREVIEWED - THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN: IT MAY be little more than a loose collection of comic bits, and it is certainly at least…Fri Sept 02 2005 - 01:00
STILL LIFE IN JAPANREVIEWED - CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (KÔHÎ JIKÔ): Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the Taiwanese master of the static shot, was commissioned to direct this…Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
RISIBLE PANTY LINESREVIEWED - THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS: The pants passed around by the four female chums in this anaemic teen weepie…Fri Aug 26 2005 - 01:00
Scarlett and Ewan isolated on IslandThe hubbub surrounding the disappointing US returns for Michael Bay's The Island continued last week with the producers - husband…Fri Aug 19 2005 - 01:00
Drawn to the dark sideReviewed - The Island: Readers familiar with the law of inverse proportionality - which has hitherto governed the relationship…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
Sony to give us back our moneyFollowing a recent court case in which Sony Pictures owned up to carrying quotes from an imaginary film critic - one "David Manning…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
A glance at FranceReviewed - The Last Mitterand (Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars): Georges-Marc Benamou's book Le Dernier Mitterrand , a record …Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
There's always a catchReviewed - The Perfect Catch : Fans of Nick Hornby's memoir, Fever Pitch , may feel the need to get all hoity toity about the…Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR ISREVIEWED - 3 IRON: Whatare we to make of Kim Ki-duk? Watching his grimmest work, one is reminded of a child pulling the legs…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
