BLOOD, GUTS & BALLETREVIEWED - THE TRANSPORTER 2 Here's a comedy standard I haven't seen for some timeFri 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
Foot in MouthReviewed - In Her Shoes: There is an odd moment halfway through this uncomfortable hybrid of a filmFri 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 7 2005 - 01:00
School of ScaresREVIEWED - INNOCENCE: Lucile Hadzihalilovic has hitherto been best known for collaborations with her partner Gasper Noé - she…Fri Oct 7 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 23 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 Sep 16 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 2 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 Sep 2 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 Sep 2 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
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
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
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
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
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
THE TIES THAT BINDREVIEWED - A COMMON THREAD (BORDEUSES): This perfectly lovely French yarn does all the things you expect middle-brow art films…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
FLASH IN THE PANREVIEWED - OVERNIGHT: You might describe this hugely enjoyable - if formally unremarkable - documentary as a neat complement…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
RIDE, RACE & DANCE WITH THE DEVILREVIEWED - THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: At a crucial point in Rob Zombie's raucous, nauseating follow-up to House of 1000 Corpses, as…Fri Aug 5 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 5 2005 - 01:00
STEALTH WARNINGREVIEWED - STEALTH: Contrary to promises made in the title, this psychedelically moronic action film, arguably the worst studio…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
Boy will get to eat girl after allA polite tussle between the Irish Film Censor's Office and Abbey Films, the distributor of the upcoming Irish horror comedy Boy…Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
THE GLORY OF THE GUNREVIEWED - DEAR WENDY: The latest festival of finger-wagging, Brechtian pantomime and Yank-bashing from the pen of Lars von …Fri Aug 5 2005 - 01:00
The greatest story never (yet) toldProof that Hollywood's generals are always preparing to fight the last war comes with the news that Disney has entered into a…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
DEM CREAKY OLD BONESREVIEWED - THE SKELETON KEY: I WONDER what the citizens of New Orleans will make of this fruity gumbo of shrunken heads, mad…Fri Jul 29 2005 - 01:00
Shop till you dropReviewed - Czech Dream: In the 1961 comedy Lover Come Back, Doris Day and Rock Hudson star as rival advertising executives …Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Conversation killerReviewed - 13 conversations about one thing: Some ways into this wearing compendium of things people just don't say, after it…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
A no-win situationReviewed - Kicking and screaming: By the time Bob Dylan was 38 he had recorded 20 of the epoch's most important recordsFri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00
Fantastic boresReviewed - Fantastic Four: Earlier this year, Avi Arad, the CEO of Marvel Comics' film division, persuaded Merrill Lynch, a…Fri Jul 22 2005 - 01:00