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- Kerouac's road trip too far
Thu, May 24, 2012‘On The Road’ perfectly recreates the frustration of being trapped in a car with stoners, while ‘Holy Motors’ does to film what Jackson Pollock did to canvas. - Doing Cannes, Midlands style
Tue, May 22, 2012DARN YOU, Chris O’Dowd. You’ve brought the midlands weather with you. I meet the actor and comic – a native of Boyle, Co Roscommon – in a beachside tent that is struggling to resist a torrential downpour. Waves crash mean-spiritedly on the shore. Wind worries the tent-flaps. This is not how Cannes looks on the postcards. - The Dictator
Fri, May 18, 2012Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest effort is mostly misjudged, writes
DONALD CLARKE - A Kiss for Jed
Fri, May 18, 2012THE CENTRAL premise of Maurice Linnane’s tolerable Irish film strains the credulity somewhat. A girl from Antrim wins an unusual prize on a TV show: the organisers enable her to travel to New York and track down her idol, a country western star named Jed Wood. - The Raid
Fri, May 18, 2012IT’S EARLY morning when rookie cop and expectant father Rama is sent into a crumbling Jakarta apartment block as part of a 20-man Swat unit. - North Sea Texas/Noordzee Texas
Fri, May 18, 2012WE DON’T WISH to be mean. But, a few minutes into this attractive Belgian picture, cineliterate viewers are likely to find themselves thinking: “Oh, it’s one of these things.” A cynic might suggest it be subtitled Sensitive Gay Coming-of- Age Drama No 421. - Two Years at Sea
Fri, May 18, 2012GREAT GRIZZLY Wilderness, you got to see this movie. Don’t believe us? Then just ask, well, anyone else. Jonathan Romney, the critic over at the Independent, awarded this ascetic chronicle of a recluse five stars and a 950-word rave.
- 2 Days in New York/Deux Jours a New York
Fri, May 18, 2012MINGUS (CHRIS ROCK) and Marion (Julie Delpy) started out as a rebound relationship, but the alchemy they found together as colleagues at the Village Voice – he’s a good listener, she just won’t shut up – has translated into something like domestic bliss.
- The Source/La Source des Femmes
Fri, May 18, 2012AWW! LOOK at the colourful tribal people with their eccentric ways and generous, rustic senses of humour. What are they up to this week? - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Fri, May 18, 2012Proud, self-styled right-wing sociologists the Robsons condemned Michael Powell and Emric Pressburger’s 1943 masterpiece as “a flashy, flabby and costly film, the most disgraceful production that has ever emanated from a British film studio”. - Charlie Casanova
Fri, May 11, 2012This angry critique of post-Tiger Ireland fails to live up to its potential, writes
DONALD CLARKE - Dark Shadows
Fri, May 11, 2012THE TEMPTATION to indulge in sarcasm is irresistible. Oh look. Tim Burton’s made a sub-gothic comic horror starring both Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in thick, pale make-up. - All in Good Time
Fri, May 11, 2012ALL IN GOOD TIME began life as a 1963 play by Bill Naughton, the Ballyhaunis-born author of Alfie.
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Fri, May 11, 2012TO DATE, the much-feted US mumblecore movement has failed to produce a new Tarantino or a new Cassavetes.
- How I Spent my Summer Vacation
Fri, May 11, 2012HERE’S A NOTION. Perhaps Mel Gibson should try and resuscitate his career by releasing a hugely violent exploitation film featuring a racial epithet in its title. - Café de Flore
Fri, May 11, 2012JEAN-MARC Vallée, the French- Canadian director of the interesting CRAZY, returns with an undeniably beautiful, exquisitely lush problem picture. The cinematography is to die for. The double-barrelled plot demonstrates great imagination. It’s a shame that it amounts to so little. - American Reunion
Fri, May 4, 2012This underpowered effort from the Pie people will stick in your craw, writes
DONALD CLARKE - Hari-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Fri, May 4, 2012IF YOU DON’T like this Takashi Miike film, then don’t fret. Another one will be along in a moment.
- Monsieur Lazhar
Fri, May 4, 2012IN A SNOWY Montreal schoolyard, Alice (Sophie Nélisse) reminds her pal Simon (Émilien Néron) that it’s his turn to put out the milk for their fellow classmates. He drops the crate when he sees his teacher through the classroom door. She has killed herself. - Beauty and the Beast 3D
Fri, May 4, 2012HERE’S a suggestion. Might 1991’s Beauty and the Beast, now reissued in unnecessary, irritating 3D, be the best film from Disney’s period of resurgence in the 1990s?
