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Baadasssss! (15) ****
(Dir: Mario Van Peebles, 2005, 108 mins) More than 30 years on, Melvin van Peebles’s actor/director son Mario recreates the heady days of ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Assss Song’ – billed as the first truly revolutionary…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Babe (U) ****
Release Date: 1995 Babe is that rarest of beasts: a talking pig who appeals as much to adults as he does to children. Keen to find a useful role in life, and escape the privilege of becoming Sunday roast for Farmer…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Babe: Pig In The City (U) ****
(Dir: George Miller, 1998, 96 mins) Resignations ensued among top brass at Universal following the disastrous US box office performance of this dark and twisted sequel, which begins with Farmer Hoggett being…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Babel (15) ****
(Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2007, 142 mins) A fractured, occasionally overlapping narrative presented out of chronological sequence, with an overwhelming sense of foreboding as chance events produce unexpected…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Baby Mama (12A) ***
(Dir: Michael McCullers, 2008, 99 mins) This chalk’n’cheese gynaeo-com offers a platform for Saturday Night Live alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Both rise to the challenge, as do supporting cast veterans Steve Martin…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Babylon A.D. (12A) **
France/US 2008 90mins Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Charlotte Rampling, Gérard Depardieu (Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz, 2008, 90 mins) This disappointing post-apocalyptic action picture started out as…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Babymother (15) **
(Dir: Julian Henriques, 1998, 82 mins) This slight British offering set against the backdrop of North-West London’s dancehall scene isn’t sure whether it wants to be a sobering documentary or just go with the flow. A…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Back-Up Plan, The (12A) *
(Dir: Alan Poul, 2010, 104 mins) Jennifer Lopez returns to the screen for the first time in four years for a recycled romcom with just the one original idea. Her character is that modern romcom staple: the career woman…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Backbeat (15) ****
Release date: 1994 The tragic story of arty "fifth Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe, who became involved with existentialist photographer and moptop stylist Astrid Kirchherr in Hamburg during 1960 and died of a brain…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Behaviour (15)
Release Date: 1993 Les Blair's contemporary London slice-of-life chimes with affection for its characters as they shamble their way through middle-class mid-life crises. Even at home in Kentish Town, Belfast-born…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Boys 2 (15) **
(Dir: Michael Bay, 2003, 146 mins) Eight years on from the original cop-buddy hit ‘Bad Boys’, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reunite for a belated sequel that delivers exactly what you’d expect, being dumber, brasher,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Company (12) *
(Dir: Joel Schumacher, 2002, 116 mins) An action-comedy featuring the absurd combination of Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins which does nobody any favours - least of all audiences expecting to find anything resembling…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Education (15) *****
(Dir Pedro Almodovar, 2004, 104 mins) A sumptuous visual treat from a director at his peak, this noir thriller is stuffed with Almodovar trademarks: the comedy transvestite (Javier Camara, last seen in ‘Talk to Her’),…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (18) ****
(Dir: Werner Herzog, 2009, 122 mins) When it came to casting this cumbersomely titled and somewhat unlikely left turn into noirish cop thriller territory, Werner Herzog clearly recognised Nic Cage’s long-suppressed…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Bad News Bears (12A) ***
(Dir: Richard Linklater, 2005, 113 mins) Richard Linklater remake of the 1976 flick brings the story right up to date, while the gleefully mischievous presence of Billy Bob Thornton guarantees it sits at the edgier end…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Santa (15) ****
(Dir: Terry Zwigoff, 2004, 91 mins) Billy Bob Thornton stars in the role he was born to play, his cynical, sour-faced “eating, drinking, shitting, fucking Santa” being deliciously bereft of any Christmas spirit that…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bad Teacher (15)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Jake Kasdan Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Lucy Punch, Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins There's something rather unsatisfactory about Cameron Diaz's misbehaving…17.06.2011 READ MORE -
Baise-Moi (18) *
(Dir: Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi, 2002, 77 mins) Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's cheap and artless yet sexually explicit film, adapted from the former's novel, would have us believe that it's all…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Ballast (15)
(Dir: Lance Hammer, 2008, 96 mins) Cheap and none-too-cheerful, this US digital video indie drama succeeds in defying expectations, becoming more involving as it discloses more about its central trio of characters.…13.04.2011 READ MORE -
Ballets Russes (PG) ****
(Dir: Daniel Geller/Dayna Goldfine, 2006, 118 mins) A reverent documentary about the turbulent history of the world’s greatest ballet company, which is in many ways the story of the 20th century itself, with mass…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Balls of Fury (12A) **
(Dir: Ben Garant, 2007, 90 mins) A lame US sports comedy without Will Ferrell? Surely that’s illegal? The first ping-pong flick since Fumihiko Sori’s functionally titled 2004 Manga adaptation ‘Ping Pong’, ‘Balls of…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Balto (U) ***
Release Date: 1996 Alaskan Territory, 1925. Outcast half-husky, half-wolf Balto saves a bunch of local kids from certain death from diptheria by charging through a blizzard to collect a supply of anti-toxins . . .…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (12A) ***
(Dir: Dai Sijie, 2003, 116 mins) Dai Sijie’s adaptation of his own semi-autobiographical bestseller set in Maoist China depicts a very different rural re-education camp from the brutal regimes with which we’ve become…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bamako (PG) **
(Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006, 115 mins, subtitles) There’s no question that Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s impassioned, idiosyncratic assault on the rape of Africa by globalisation is a brave,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bamboozled (15) ****
(Dir: Spike Lee, 2001, 135 mins) This may not be Spike Lee’s most coherent offering, but for its provocation, its sincere anger and often shockingly non-PC imagery, it's a genuine talking-point movie. Lee's starting…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bandit Queen (18) ****
Release Date: 1995 Shekhar Kapur's gripping and disturbing film is based on the true story of India's legendary 'Bandit Queen', Phoolan Devi. Brutalised by her husband, stripped naked and humiliated in the village…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bandits (12) **
(Dir: Barry Levinson, 2001, 123 mins) In many ways, this feel-good variation on 'Bonnie and Clyde' is the perfect post-September 11 movie. Anodyne, non-violent and heart-warmingly loopy, it follows harmless bank robbers…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bandslam (PG) *
(Dir: Todd Graff, 2009, 111 mins) A tweenie ‘High Fidelity’, or ‘School of Rock’ for the ‘High School Musical’ crowd without the benefit of humour or Jack Black, this latest vehicle for HSM alumni Vanessa Hudgens and…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bangkok Dangerous (15) ***
(Dir: Danny and Oxide Pang, 2008, 99 mins) Hong Kong-born twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang got the chance to re-make their own hyper-kinetic 1999 crime movie in the US, though screenwriter Jason Richman wisely changed…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bano Del Papa, El (15) ****
(Dir: Cesar Charlone & Enrique Fernandez, 2007, 98 mins, subtitles) It’s 1988 and the Pope’s coming to the dirt-poor town of Melo on the Uruguayan border with Brazil. Scheming local smuggler Beto (Cesar Troncoso)…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Baraka (PG)
Release Date: 1993 Ron Fricke, who photographed Godfrey Reggio's groundbreaking 'Koyaanisqatsi', offers his own wordless jaunt round the world (or at least 24 countries on six continentsT, using state-of-the-art 70mm…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Barbershop (12A) **
(Dir Tim Story, 2003, 97 mins) This amiable if insubstantial US box office hit comedy is centred on a Chicago barbershop and unofficial community centre, which was inherited with little enthusiasm by Calvin (another…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (12A) **
(Dir: Kevin Rodney Sullivan , 2004, 106 mins) Declining to mess with a winning formula, this sequel to the surprise US hit offers little more than a straight re-run of the first film. Once again Calvin Jr’s (Ice Cube)…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Barney's Version (15)
(Dir: Richard J. Lewis, 2011, 134 mins) Despite taking many a liberty with Mordecai Richler's dense, decades-spanning satire and suffering from an odd late tonal shift, 'Barney's Version' is an enjoyably picaresque yarn…26.01.2011 READ MORE -
Barney’s Great Adventure (U) **
(Dir: Steve Gomer, 1998, 75 mins) In his first movie outing, purple-hued pre-school-targeted dinosaur Barney (big in the US, apparently) is stuck with a bunch of kids on a wholesome homestead for a week, where they…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Barnyard (PG) **
(Dir: Steve Oedekerk, 2006, 90 mins) Yet another crappy, soulless, gag-lite CGI animation about talking animals, with a big, cheesy, sub-Disney touchy-feely message that’ll have adults honking into their family-sized…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Basic (15) **
(Dir: John McTiernan, 2003, 98 mins) Sold, rather desperately, on the promise being of Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta’s first film together since ‘Pulp Fiction’, this is an absurd and needlessly convoluted…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Basic Instinct 2 (18) ***
(Dir: Michael Caton-Jones, 2006, 114 mins) Created by Paul Verhoeven and über-hack Joe Eszterhas, the original ‘Basic Instinct’ was the classic erotic thriller. ‘Scandal’ director Michael Caton-Jones’ belated sequel is…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Basquiat (15) ****
(Dir: Julian Schnabel, 1997, 106 mins) Fellow artist Julian Schnabel’s biopic of graffiti dauber-turned-art world darling Jean-Michel Basquiat, who hung out with Warhol and dropped dead of a heroin overdose at the age…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Batman And Robin (PG) ***
(Dir: Joel Schumacher, 1997, 120 mins) Given that nobody really gives a shit who’s behind the Batmask, its third incumbent George Clooney does well to introduce a modicum of the personality that was so lacking in the…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Batman Begins (12A) *****
(Dir: Christopher Nolan, 2005, 140 mins) By grounding the story of the Dark Knight’s origins in a gritty social and psychological realism, ‘Memento’ director Christopher Nolan and co-writer Davis S Goyer have created a…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Batman Returns (12)
Release Date: 1992 Tim Burton's hugely successful, incredibly grotesque sequel opens with a deformed baby being flushed down the sewers by Pee-Wee Herman and proceeds to deal with three characters so twisted and…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bats (15) **
(Dir: Louis Morneau, 2000, 91 mins) Shifty-looking government scientist Dr. Bob Gunton has been secretly fiddling about with bat DNA to turn these appealing little furry mammals into highly intelligent, malevolent flesh…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Battle For Terra (PG) **
(Dir: Aristomenis Tsirbas, 2009, 79 mins) If you’ve gorged on ‘Avatar’ and fancy another po-faced 3D eco-fable that inverts the premise of ‘War of the Worlds’ and plays rather like ‘Planet 51’ without the laughs, this…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Battle in Heaven (18) **
(Dir: Carlos Reygadas, 2005, 98 mins) The main problem with this Cannes festival cause celebre is that Carlos Reygadas is so keen on the explicit sex that he fails to give us sufficient information to empathise with his…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Battle Los Angeles (12A)
(Dir: Jonathan Liebesman, 2011, 116 mins) The aliens are back, invading coastal cities and out to steal our precious liquid resources. A platoon of grunts set out to rescue some civilians from a besieged police station…09.03.2011 READ MORE -
Battle Royale (18) ****
(Dir: Dir: Kinji Fukasaku, 2001, 114 mins) Septuagenarian yakuza flick veteran Kinji Fukasaku's controversial 60th feature taps into the mania for ever more extreme reality TV and middle-aged panics about out-of-control…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Battlefield Earth (12) *
Release Date: 2000 (Dir: Roger Christian) Thought you'd never see the likes of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' again? Well, time to reconsider, for this monument to Hollywood folly takes the howling, totally oblivious…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Be Cool (12A) **
(Dir: F. Gary Gray, 2005, 118 mins) Elmore Leonard’s ‘Get Shorty’ was a funny caper novel that poked fun at a movie industry which had been clobbering his best-known books with mediocre adaptations. A decade on, he…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Be Kind Rewind (12A) **
(Dir: Michel Gondry, 2008, 100 mins) Without screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, French director Michel Gondry seems to be floundering. This proves to be his thinnest feature to date despite attracting a strong cast and…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bean (PG) **
(Dir: Mel Smith, 1997, 97 mins) Transparently aimed at establishing Rowan Atkinson’s eponymous simpleton in America, this has him as the National Gallery’s most useless, accident-prone employee, who’s packed off to…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beau Travail (15) **
(Dir: Claire Denis, 2000, 90 mins) Relayed in flashback, 'Beau Travail' revolves around former French Foreign Legion sergeant major Galoup (Denis Lavant), who develops an unrequited emotional commitment towards his…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beaumarchais (15) ***
Release date: 1996 It’s seventeen seventy-something and Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini) is putting his actors through their paces for a production of ‘The Barber of Seville’ as ‘Beaumarchais’…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beautiful Creatures (18) **
(Dir: Bill Eagles, 2001, 87 mins) A would-be blackly comic female buddy picture, which aims for a funky blend of 'Fargo', Bill Forsyth and 'Thelma & Louise'. The catch here is that you probably have to be as gifted as…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beautiful Girls (15) ****
(Dir: Ted Demme, 1996, 100 mins) A shrewdly observed study of twentysomething angst, friendship and romance boasting sympathetic direction from Ted Demme, some outstanding ensemble acting (Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beautiful Kate (15) ****
(Dir: Rachel Ward, 2009, 101 mins) For her accomplished debut as a writer/director, actress Rachel Ward transposes a novel by Newton Thornberg from Idaho to an arid Australian bushland setting. Forty-year-old writer Ned…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Beautiful People (15) **
(Dir: Jasmin Dizdar, 1999, 107 mins) Bosnian director Jasmin Dizdar's first feature-length movie aims to say a lot about ethnic/racial/class divides. But to fully enjoy the feelgood aspects on offer here, you'll have to…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beautiful Thing (15) ****
Release Date:1996 Like a Leigh/Loach flick without all the irritating characters you’re supposed to sympathise with, Hettie Macdonald’s adaptation of Jonathan Harvey’s award-winning stage play does the great Channel…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beauty Shop (12A) **
(Dir: Bille Woodruff, 2005, 105 mins) Large and sassy rapstress Queen Latifah stars in a spin-off from the amiable if insubstantial ‘Barbershop’ franchise, which substitutes oestrogen for testosterone as it recycles the…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (12) *****
(Dir: Mike Judge, 1997, 81 mins) Mike Judge’s long-running joke on the MTV audience shouldn’t work as a movie, but then it shouldn’t work as a TV series either. Here, the shrunken universe of Beavis (blond hair,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Because I Said So (12A) **
(Dir: Michael Lehmann, 2006, 102 mins) The script for this mother-daughter rom-com could have been generated by one of those screenwriting software programs. Sixtyish ditz Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton) has…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Becoming Jane (PG) ***
(Dir: Julian Jarrold, 2007, 120 mins) There’s something awfully familiar about ‘Becoming Jane’. But that’s hardly surprising when you consider the film’s intention is to reveal, controversially, how Jane Austen’s…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bed Of Roses (PG) *
Release Date: 1996 Writer-director Michael Goldenberg can blame no one but himself for this inconsistencies and utter pointlessness of this story, which goes nowhere and takes a long time doing it. Christian Slater…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bedazzled (12) ***
(Dir: Harold Ramis, 2000, 93 mins) Harold Ramis's remake of Peter Cook's 1967 reworking of the venerable Faust legend is a great deal funnier than we dared hope, thanks almost entirely to the versatility of Brendan…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bedrooms and Hallways (12) ***
(Dir: Rose Troche, 1999, 96 mins) Leo (Kevin McKidd) is about to turn 30, and is beginning to question his life like never before. He seems to want something, but doesn't quite know what. Dragged along to a hilarious…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bedtime Stories (PG) ***
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 2008, 98 mins) OK, so this is a Disney family comedy starring Adam Sandler, but it’s surprisingly painless, has a few good jokes, an appealing premise and a generally upbeat, non-saccharine…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bee Movie (U) **
(Dir: Simon J Smith/Steve Hickner, 2007, 91 mins) Like so much second-division DreamWorks CGI animation, this film about a bee who sues humans for stealing honey is frantically paced, packed with pop culture references…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bee Season (12A) **
(Dir: Scott McGhee & David Siegel, 2006, 105 mins) As their follow-up to glacial Tilda Swinton noir thriller ‘The Deep End’, McGhee and Siegel adapt Myla Goldberg's intellectually dense novel; a sort of fictional…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beerfest (15) *
(Dir: Jay Chandrasekhar, 2006, 112 mins) As eloquent a call to swear off the booze as you could wish to see, this lame comedy comes from the Broken Lizard team that brought us ‘Super Troopers’ and ‘Club Dread’. And,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beethoven (U)
Release Date: 1992 The eponymous mutt is a St. Bernard who latches on to a middle-class suburban family as a pup and then grows into something large, loving and quite unmanageable. Pa Charles Grodin never warms to the…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Before and After (12) ***
Release Date: 1996 The prospect of director Barbet Schroeder hiring seasoned scriptwriter Ted Tally (‘Silence of the Lambs’, ‘White Palace’) to adapt a crime novel for the big screen is an attractive one. Somehow, this…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Before Night Falls (15) ***
(Dir: Julian Schnabel, 2001, 130 mins) Julian Schnabel's controversial biopic of deceased gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas certainly promised much to sink our teeth into. Shame, then, that a clumsily episodic screenplay…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Before Sunset (15) **
(Dir: Richard Linklater, 2004, 80 mins) Nine years ago, Richard Linklater took French student Julie Delpy and American backpacker Ethan Hawke on a stroll around Vienna. Nine years on, Hawke’s turned their one night into…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (15) ****
(Dir: Sidney Lumet, 2007, 117 mins) It seems like the perfect heist: knocking over a suburban mom and pop jewellery store where there’s no security guard and $600,000 in cash and valuables just waiting to be harvested.…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beginners (15)
USA 2011 104 mins Dir: Mike Mills Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic Mike Mills has said that he loathes terms like 'quirky' and 'indie' being applied to his films. Perhaps he…22.07.2011 READ MORE -
Behind Enemy Lines (15) **
(Dir: John Moore, 2002, 105 mins) A technically brilliant, politically preposterous chase movie starring Owen Wilson as a naval flyboy navigator whose pilot's plane is shot down by Serbian troops while on a routine…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Behind the Sun (12) ****
(Dir: Walter Salles, 2002, 91 mins) In his Oscar-nominated previous film, 'Central Station', Walter Salles travelled into Brazil's remote hinterlands. This time he presses further north for an adaptation of Albanian…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beijing Bicycle (PG) ***
(Dir: Wang Xiaoshuai, 2002, 113 mins) With a self-conscious nod to Vittorio de Sica’s ‘Bicycle Thieves’, sixth generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai moves away from the opulent historical fare of his immediate…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Being John Malkovich (15) *****
(Dir: Spike Jonze, 2000, 112 mins) It begins like 'Alice In Wonderland' directed by Terry Gilliam. Then it starts to get really weird. Few films could claim to be as strikingly original as pop video and commercials…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Being Julia (12A) ***
(Dir: Istvan Szabo, 2004, 105 mins) This adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s minor 1937 novel ‘Theatre’ sees Hungarian director Istvan Szabo lightening up a bit after ‘Taking Sides’ and the epic Ralph Fiennes sufferthon…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bella (PG) *
(Dir: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, 2006, 92 mins) A rather hectoring and dramatically clumsy anti-abortion ‘Christian Oscar’ winner, which opens with hunky young Mexican footballer Jose…29.09.2010 READ MORE -
Belle Epoque (15) ***
Release date: 1994 Fernando Trueba's lightweight sex comedy and surprise 1994 'Best Foreign Film' Oscar winner. Trueba wears his influences - Renoir, Billy Wilder - on his sleeve. But the storyline has more to do with…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Belle Toujours (15) ***
(Dir: Manoel De Oliveira, 2006, 69 mins) Ever wondered what happened to the characters from Bunuel’s ‘Belle De Jour’ forty years on? Centenarian Portuguese filmmaker Manoel De Oliveira has. ‘Belle Toujours’ assumes…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Belleville Rendez-Vous (12A) ****
(Dir: Sylvain Chomet, 2003, 80 mins) French comicbook artist Sylvain Chomet’s beautifully drawn, endlessly inventive feature debut is the story of a lonely, podgy orphan named Champion who lives with his club-footed old…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beloved (15) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Demme, 1999, 171 mins) It was never going to be easy adapting Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with its sparse, harrowing lyricism and vast, mythical trawling through the bad dreams of…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beloved (TBA)
France/UK/Czech Republic 2011 135 mins Subtitles Dir: Christophe Honore Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Milos Forman, Paul Schneider, Rasha Bukvic Something of a follow-up to…11.05.2012 READ MORE -
Bend It Like Beckham (12) ***
(Dir: Gurinder Chadha, 2002, 110 mins) Essentially a traditional and rather predictable British sports comedy, onto which Gurinder Chadha has grafted some sparkling dialogue and rich characterisation to provide a…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Benda Bilili! (PG)
(Dir: Renaud Barret & Florent de La Tullaye 2010, 86 mins, subtitles) A cynic might be tempted to locate Staff Benda Bilili in the ever-popular 'Show Us Your Stumps' sub-genre of world music: generally African acts who…16.03.2011 READ MORE -
Benny & Joon (12) ****
Release Date: 1993 Against the advice of her psychiatrist, smalltown mechanic Benny (Aidan Quinn) struggles to keep his artistic, mentally unbalanced sister June (Mary Stuart Masterson) at home where she's secure and…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bent (18) **
(Dir: Sean Mathias, 1998, 118 mins) In a German concentration camp, gay Clive Owen poses as a Jew to avoid the persecution meted out to “perverts” by prisoners and guards alike, but soon forms a friendship with openly…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beowulf (12A) ***
(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 2007, 112 mins) Fleshed out with speculative storylines, psychological motivations and digital ‘performance capture’ images, Robert Zemeckis’s ‘Beowulf’ takes the oldest surviving epic tale in the…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Besieged (PG) *
(Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci, 1999, 92 mins) David Thewlis and Thandie Newton are both excellent British actors who've acquired an unfortunate habit of appearing in terrible films. Together for the first time, these…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Best in Show (12) ****
(Dir: Christopher Guest, 2001, 90 mins) Inevitably dubbed, if you will, a 'dogumentary', Christopher (Nigel Tufnel) Guest's latest reunites him with fellow Spinal Tap alumnus Michael (David St. Hubbins) McKean for a…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Best Laid Plans (15) ****
(Dir: Mike Barker, 1999, 93 mins) One of those fresh, smart, stylish little gems that come along every so often to take us all by surprise, Brit director Mike Barker's first American film is a textbook lesson in how to…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Best Men (15) ***
Release Date: 1998 (Dir: Tamra Davis, 90 mins) On their way to the wedding of recently released ex-con Luke Wilson to his childhood sweetheart Drew Barrymore, Dean Cain, Andy Dick, Mitchell Whitfield and Sean Patrick…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Better Living Through Circuitry ***
(Dir: Jon Reiss, 1999, 86 mins) Director Jon Reiss doesn't attempt to sit on the fence in this documentary exploration of electronic dance: there are few voices of dissent amongst what seems like hundreds of…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Better Things (15) **
(Dir: Duane Hopkins, 2008, 93 mins) This bleak multi-narrative social realist feature debut will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who grew up in picturesque rural England. Duane Hopkins’ drama records a…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (15) ***
(Dir: Claude Miller, 2002, 101 mins) Like Pedro Almodovar’s 'Live Flesh' and Claude Chabrol’s 'La Ceremonie', Claude Miller’s adaptation of a novel by Brit crime queen Ruth Rendell retains much of her dark humour and…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (U) **
(Dir: Raja Gosnell, 2008, 91 mins) Two writers are credited with dreaming up this twee, anthropomorphic talking poch flick that merely recycles ‘Lady and the Tramp’ and ‘The Incredible Journey’ with additional canine…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bewitched (PG) **
(Dir: Nora Ephron, 2005, 102 mins) For the first ten minutes or so, this looks as though it might develop into a high concept satire on the whole depressing remake game. But meta-gags aren’t Nora Ephron’s forte any…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beyond The Clouds (18) **
(Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni, 1997, 115 mins) Wim Wenders persuaded the enfeebled 82-year-old Antonioni to come out of stroke-imposed retirement for a (final?) nostalgic, metaphysical and elliptical meditation on…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Beyond The Sea (12A) ***
(Dir: Kevin Spacey, 2004, 120 mins) Always shadowed by mortality, Bobby Darin's brief life (he died at 37) was full of professional highs and lows, while his personal life saw a fractured marriage and tangled parentage…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bhaji On The Beach (15) ***
Release Date: 1994 Three generations of Brummie Indian women head for Blackpool on a daytrip. Among those on board the minibus are Ginder, a young mother fleeing her husband Ranjit's violence; 18-year-old Hashida, who's…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bicentennial Man (PG) ***
(Dir: Christopher Columbus, 2000, 128 mins) An adaptation of the venerable old Isaac Asimov story with Robin Williams as a household robot who gradually begins to take on more recognisably human traits: creativity,…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Daddy (12) ***
(Dir: Dennis Dugan, 1999, 90 mins) Another vehicle for Adam Sandler’s unsubtle comic talents. Here he plays Sonny, a full time slob with a law degree but no desire to get a proper job. It's only when he fears losing his…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Fat Liar (PG) **
(Dir: Shawn Levy, 2002, 87 mins) It's 'Swimming With Sharks' all over again. But, you know ... for kids. Problem is that you can't really pitch a film industry satire at 12-year-olds, so all the biting humour and…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Fish (PG) ***
(Dir: Tim Burton, 2004, 124 mins) Tim Burton’s slice of semi-magical realist whimsy has been compared, unfairly, to the justly reviled ‘Forrest Gump’. It’s certainly more sentimental than the gothmeister’s finest…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Momma's House (12) **
(Dir: Raja Gosnell, 2000, 106 mins) Just as his most obvious influence Eddie Murphy recovered his career by piling on the prosthetics for 'The Nutty Professor' so Martin Lawrence follows suit with this sub-'Mrs…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (PG)
(Dir: John Whitesell, 2010, 107 mins) The laugh-free first PG-rated Big Momma movie is a calamitous failure, with transparently contrived comic situations, jokes that are flatter than a punctured fat-suit, and syrupy…16.02.2011 READ MORE -
BIg Night (15) ***
(Dir: Stanley Tucci/Campbell Scott, 1997, 108 mins) Brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (co-director Stanley Tucci) Pilaggi are a pair of Italian immigrants struggling to make a go of their New Jersey restaurant…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Big Nothing (15) ***
(Dir: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, 2006, 85 mins) An overly complicated but enjoyably cartoonish comedy noir from the director of ‘Dead End’ that surely owes a debt of influence to both ‘Blood Simple’ and ‘Small Time Crooks’.…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Biker Boyz (12A) **
(Dir: Reggie Rock Bythewood, 2003, 110 mins) A cheesy knock-off of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ with black motorcycle gangs replacing car racers, this sets up all the usual homoerotic grudge matches in which gruff manly…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (PG)
Release Date: 1992 Lovable blithely gormless cult heavy metal bozo duo Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are attacked and swiftly killed by evil robot doubles sent back from the distant future by nasty Joss…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Billy Bathgate (15)
Release Date: 1991 New York, 1935. Fading gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman) adopts impressionable kid Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean), who's set to look after Nicole Kidman, former lover of Dutch's ex-henchperson…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Billy Elliot
(Dir: Stephen Daldry, 2000, 111 mins) It's 1984 in a grim-oop-north pit village, with the miners' strike in full swing, when 11-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) decides that he wants to be a ballet dancer. Macho…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Birth (15) ****
(Dir: Jonathan Glazer, 2004, 100mins) Already burdened with a controversial reputation, this creepy tale tells of Anna (Nicole Kidman, on excellent wide-eyed form) who slowly becomes convinced that her late husband's…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Birthday Girl (15) **
(Dir: Jez Butterworth, 2002, 90 mins) A film promising Nicole Kidman in the buff and a little light bondage, which grossed a pitiful $4 million in the US. It should be acknowledged that this isn't entirely talented Ms.…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bits and Pieces (15) **
(Dir: Antonello Grimaldi, 1997, 110 mins) “The Italian ‘Short Cuts’” they’re calling it. Except that it isn’t. Antonello Grimaldi’s substantially more fractured patchwork offers 130 speaking parts, 65 substantial…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Biutiful (15)
(Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2010, 141 mins, subtitles) Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Oscar-nominated feelbad follow-up to 'Babel' treads a more linear path, but it's a long, weary trudge that would have been…26.01.2011 READ MORE -
Black Book (15) ****
(Dir: Paul Verhoeven, 2007, 145 mins) Paul Verhoeven goes home to make the most expensive film in Dutch cinema history: a slick, entertaining thriller combining edge-of-the–seat pacing and gripping action sequences with…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Cat White Cat (15) ****
(Dir: Emir Kusturica, 1999, 120 mins) An exuberant, entertaining and often slapstick gangland comedy set among Emir Kusturica's old pals in the gypsy community and their livestock, this is hardly the grim tale you might…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Christmas (15) ***
(Dir: Glen Morgan, 2006, 84 mins) Yet another remake of a 70s horror film, this gruesome effort proves that there’s at least some mileage left in Bob Clark’s tinsel-draped slasher picture from 1974. Here’s the set-up:…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Death (15) ****
(Dir: Christopher Smith, 2010, 102 mins) Bristolian director Chris Smith attempts a dark period drama in the tradition of those great British masterpieces ‘The Wicker Man’ and ‘Witchfinder General’, crossed with…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Black Gold (U) ***
(Dir: Mark & Nick Francis, 2006, 78 mins) This anti-globalisation doc has an important message to impart about the true cost of coffee. It makes much of its juxtapositions between portly Americans gulping down their…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Hawk Down (15) ***
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 2002, 144 mins) Based on Mark Bowden's non-fiction account of the US army's disastrous 1993 mission in Mogadishu, Ridley Scott's technically astonishing war movie brilliantly captures the frightening…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Knight (PG) *
(Dir:Gil Junger, 2002, 95 mins) Martin Lawrence, a lazy employee at a rundown LA medieval theme park, finds a medallion, falls in the moat and wakes up in 14th century England. He thinks it's rival new attraction Castle…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Pond (15)
UK 2011 82 mins Dir: Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe Starring: Chris Langham, Anna O'Grady, Simon Amstell, Will Sharpe, Helen Cripps, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley We get one of these every couple of years: a hugely…30.01.2012 READ MORE -
Black Rain (18)
Release Date: 1990 Hardboiled cop Michael Douglas is the archetypal he-man-with-a-sensitive-side police hero all big stars insist on playing at least once. Douglas and sidekick are in Japan to deliver a snarly Asiatic…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Sheep (15) ****
(Dir: Jonathan King, 2006, 87 mins) This Kiwi comic-horror has a one-joke premise – genetically engineered killer sheep! – and ought to be a one-note movie. But this ‘Shaun the Sheep of the Dead’ is actually a great…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Snake Moan (15) ***
(Dir: Craig Brewer, 2007, 115 mins) This is such a splendidly over-heated southern gothic melodrama – and so very wrong on so many levels – that the best way of enjoying it is to treat the whole ludicrous thing as a…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Sun ***
(Dir: Gary Tarn, 2006, 70 mins) French artist and film-maker Hugues de Montalembert’s lost his sight back in 1978, when he was attacked by two junkies seeking cash. Eighteen months later, bankrupt and alone, he hopped…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Black Swan (15)
(Dir: Darren Aronofsky, 2010, 108 mins) Darren Aronofsky's stylish yet absolutely barking mad ballet-horror is a hysterical psychological melodrama, with a highly marketable lesbian twist, whose absolute insistence on…19.01.2011 READ MORE -
Black Water (15) ***
(Dir: David Nerlich & Andrew Traucki, 2007, 90 mins) Based on a true story, this killer croc flick takes the realist approach, risking much tut-tutting from the moral high ground. The less ethically conflicted popcorn…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blackball (15) *
(Dir: Mel Smith, 2003, 100 mins) Yet another of those grim, TV-sized Britcoms at which our film industry excels. Based loosely on the true story of Griff Saunders, the self-styled ‘bad boy’ of lawn bowling, and set in…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blackboards (PG) ***
(Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000, 84 mins) This second feature from 21-year-old Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf is a somewhat laboured allegory that has once again been showered in extravagant praise. It opens with the…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blade (18) ***
(Dir: Stephen Norrington, 1998, 120 mins) Blade aka Eric Brooks (Wesley Snipes) is a half-human vigilante born of a woman bitten by a vampire when pregnant. Subsisting on an artificial blood substitute, he hunts down…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blade II (18) ****
(Dir: Guillermo del Toro, 2002, 117 mins) Stephen Norrington's original ‘Blade’ was a McDonald's movie, a tasteless fast-food product made by an instantly replaceable burger-flipper; ‘Cronos’ director Guillermo del…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blade: Trinity (15) **
(Dir: David S. Goyer, 2004, 113 mins) Somewhat ironically for a franchise that has made so much of its rejection of the trappings of classical vampirology, this third instalment in the vampire-slaying franchise opens…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blades of Glory (12A) **
(Dir: Josh Gordon and Will Speck, 2007, 93 mins) You’d have to work pretty hard to make a case that ‘Blades of Glory’ is actively homophobic rather than amiably dumb and a tad near-the-knuckle, but the central joke here…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blast From The Past (12) ****
(Dir: Hugh Wilson, 1999, 109 mins) As the Cuban Missile Crisis mounts in 1962, paranoid but brilliant Christopher Walken takes his wife Sissy Spacek and son below ground to a luxurious fall out shelter he has built,…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bleeder (18) **
(Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, 2000, 90 mins) Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn made something of a name for himself with his splendidly taut debut 'Pusher', but here he hasn't so much lost the plot as neglected to…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bless the Child (15) *
(Dir: Chuck Russell, 2001, 107 mins) When her junkie sister spawns an illegitimate spooky brat and scarpers, childless nurse Kim Basinger decides to raise the kid as her own. Fast forward six years and New York is…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blind Flight (15) ***
(Dir: John Furse, 2004, 97 mins) Chamber pieces don’t get much more chamber-like than John Furse’s feature debut, adapted from the million-plus selling memoirs of former Beirut hostages Brian Keenan (Ian Hart) and John…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blindness (18) ***
(Dir: Fernando Meirelles, 2008, 121 mins) Fernando Meirelles’ harrowing adaptation of Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s allegorical novel is a flawed yet interesting film that’s certain to disappoint those lured by the…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blink (18) ***
Release Date:1994 In this classy, intelligent suspenser, a potentially cheap thriller device is instead used to maximum effect, both technically and emotionally. Gutsy country singer Madeleine Stowe, who has been blind…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blood and Chocolate (12A) *
(Dir: Katja von Garnier, 2007, 98 mins) This risible werewolf flick is the latest in a plague of anaemic PG-13 horrors, often set against historic Eastern European backdrops. This time we’re in Bucharest, which is…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blood Car (18)
USA 2007 76 mins Dir: Alex Orr Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Mike Brune, Katie Rowlett Anyone remember the sickening pre-pubescent romance 'My Girl' starring gruesome twosome Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky? Anyone wanna…24.02.2012 READ MORE -
Blood Diamond (15) **
(Dir: Edward Zwick, 2007, 143 mins) Yet another very long, impeccably well-meaning tale of whitey’s redemption in a photogenic Africa where thousands of black people are being slaughtered, mostly by other black people,…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blood Work (15) **
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2010, 110 mins) It’s a rare thriller that can taken a novel if faintly ludicrous premise and then suck all the tension and excitement out of it to produce a tired old plod. Speaking of tired old…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blood: The Last Vampire (18) *
(Dir: Chris Nahon, 2009, 89 mins) Like ‘Blade’ never happened, this clumsy, poorly acted, Americanised live-action adaptation of a 2001 anime posits a world in which an ancient war continues to be waged between vampires…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bloody Angels (18) ***
(Dir: Karin Julsrud, 2001, 100 mins) The familiar thriller convention of the big city cop drafted in to solve a murder in an insular community where they don’t take kindly to strangers is transplanted here to the icy…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blow (18) ***
(Dir: Ted Demme, 2001, 124 mins) Perhaps because it sticks too closely to Bruce Porter’s source book, this fictionalised account of George Jung’s rise from smalltime dope dealer to major league coke player is both too…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blow Dry (12) **
(Dir: Paddy Breathnach, 2001, 95 mins) You may remember this familiar yarn from its last outing as 'Strictly Ballroom'. But instead of a ballroom dancing comedy directed with verve by Baz Luhrman, here we get yet…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Blood (15) **
(Dir: Stevan Riley, 2006, 92 mins) A moderately entertaining if somewhat superficial and conventionally structured documentary of the variety that you might expect to find popping up on telly rather than in the cinema,…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Crush (12A) ***
(Dir: John Stockwell, 2003, 104 mins) This teen surfing flick ain’t no ‘Big Wednesday’ but the producers know their target audience, serving up plenty of breathtaking surfing action and acres of teen girlflesh for the…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Gate Crossing (12A) ***
(Dir: Chin-Yen Yee, 2004, 85 mins) There’s disappointment in store for those craving hot teen lesbian love action from this Taiwanese love triangle drama, which turns out to be ever-so-slightly pink to the point of…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue in the Face (15) ***
Release Date: 1996 Director Wayne Wang, novelist Paul Auster and their cast had so much fun in Brooklyn filming ‘Smoke’ that they decided to hang around for three more days to knock out this looser “companion piece”…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Steel (18)
Release Date: 1990 Director Kathryn Bigelow teams up with 'Hitcher' writer Eric Red once again after their successful collaboration on the eighties' most biting vampire flick, 'Near Dark'. Jamie Lee Curtis gives a…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Streak (12) **
(Dir: Les Mayfield, 1999, 93 mins) Yes, it's the new film from the director of 'Flubber' starring the bloke from 'Bad Boys' who isn't Will Smith. Don't all rush at once. As lazy, preposterous and formulaic film-making…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Blue Valentine (15)
(Dir: Derek Cianfrance, 2010, 112 mins) Be warned that this indie downer is much more blue than valentine, and certainly no date movie. The central conceit of Derek Cianfrance's marital miseryflick is to cut between the…12.01.2011 READ MORE -
Blues Brothers 2000 (PG) *
(Dir: John Landis, 1998, 124 mins) ‘The Blues Are Back’ it says on the ad campaign. Well, one of them very obviously isn’t, and John Belushi can be thankful he wasn’t around to stumble through a drug-induced haze in…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boat Trip (15) *
(Dir: Mort Nathanm, 2002, 90 mins) If the prospect of a US-German comedy co-production doesn't give you fair warning, then the prospect of another Cuba Gooding comedy surely will. Mix in some crude sexual stereotypes…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bobby (15) ***
(Dir: Emilio Estevez, 2007, 111 mins) Emilio Estevez’s labour of love, for which he’s called in acting favours from the cream of liberal Hollywood (and Lindsay Lohan). One suspects he also spent a great deal of time…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bobby Fischer Against the World
USA 2011 96 mins Dir: Liz Garbus The virulently anti-Semitic son of a Jewish communist, Bobby Fischer was described by friends and foes alike as pushy, self-centred, arrogant and weird. He was also a conspiracy theorist…15.07.2011 READ MORE -
Body of Lies (15) **
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 2008, 128 mins) This typically flashy Ridley Scott flick expects our applause for its immersion in the pointy end of the ‘War on Terror’. Leonardo DiCaprio signals his serious intent with his…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boiler Room (18) ***
(Dir: Ben Younger, 2000, 119 mins) The twentysomething financial brokers in this promising but uneven first feature worship '80s icon Gordon Gekko, collectively reciting the words of his materialist doctrine while…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bola, El (15) ***
(Dir: Achero Manas, 80 mins) With a script straight out of the Ken Loach storybook and a pile of Goya awards (Spanish Oscars) to its credit, this assured first feature from Achero Manas is every bit as grim and worthy…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Bollywood Queen (PG) *
(Dir: Jeremy Wooding, 2003, 90 mins) For several years, Jeremy Wooding and co-writer Neil Spencer (not particularly Asian names) have been tossing around the idea of the first English Bollywood movie. You’d think in…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bolt (PG) ***
USA 2008 103 mins Starring (voices): John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, Greg Germann (Dir: Byron Howard & Chris Williams, 2008, 103 mins) • Disney’s first effort since Pixar’s…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bombay Beach (TBA)
USA 2011 80 mins Dir: Alma Har'el The opening crackly vintage newsreel footage informs us that the inland Salton Sea was created in 1905 when the Colorado River overflowed its banks. Perched on its eastern shore is the…17.02.2012 READ MORE -
Bombon - El Perro (15) ****
(Dir: Carlos Sorin, 2005, 98 mins) A fine specimen of the imperious Dogo Argentino breed, Bombon is a handsome, expressive, large white hunting hound who steals every scene he’s in, whether he’s regarding the human race…06.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bonfire of the Vanities (15)
Release Date: 1991 Brian DePalma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book opens brilliantly as drunken hack Peter Fallow (an Englishman in the book, now Bruce Willis) is followed in an unbroken, five-minute tracking shot as he…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bonsai (15)
Chile/Argentina/Portugal/France 2011 96 mins Subtitles Dir: Cristian Jiminez Starring: Nathalia Galgani, Diego Norguera, Trinidad Gonzalez, Hugo Medina At the end of this film, Emilia dies and Julio remains alone.…30.03.2012 READ MORE -
Boo, Zino and the Snurks (U) ***
(Dir: Lenard F. Krawinkel, 2004, 91 mins) Despite obvious borrowings from ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Toy Story’, this English-language version of Germany’s first full length computer generated feature is passable enough…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boogeyman (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Kay, 2005, 86 mins) Yet another horror flick boasting second-hand shockery borrowed from a run of Japanese ghost stories that have been getting their own Western remakes, this one also touches on many…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boogie Nights (18) ****
(Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998, 150 mins) Despite the climactic, already legendary shot of its star’s prosthetically enhanced trouser python, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film is essentially a feelgood fairy…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (18) ***
(Dir: Joe Berlinger, 2000, 90 mins) Cerebral former documentarist Joe Berlinger’s quickie sequel opens brilliantly, with a montage of news reports on the Blair Witch phenomenon intercut with the fictionalised residents…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Borat (15) *****
(Dir: Larry Charles, 2006, 84 mins) Unlike the Ali G flick, there’s no real attempt to build a story around Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Sagdiyev here. From the moment he arrives in ‘US and A’, it’s business as usual as…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Born and Bred (15) ***
(Dir: Pablo Trapero, 2006, 100 mins, subtitles) Pablo Trapero, the fast-rising star of Argentinean cinema, tackles the tricky subject of grief as prosperous interior designer Santiago (Guillermo Pfening) turns up in the…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Born Romantic (15) ***
(Dir: David Kane, 2001, 100 mins) David Kane sticks fairly closely to the winning formula of his successful debut, ‘This Year’s Love’. But although the right ingredients are all present - a strong ensemble cast (Craig…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boston Kickout (18) ****
Release Date: 1996 Directed, co-written and co-produced by twentysomething Paul Hills, this spirited first feature may remind you of ‘Trainspotting’, but it was in fact completed long before that film. Set in the…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Botched (15) ***
(Dir: Kit Ryan, 2007, 95 mins) This amiable, ramshackle, low-budget comedy-horror proves far more entertaining than it has any right to be given its unusual pedigree. An English-German co-production from first-time…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bounce (12) *
(Dir: Don Roos, 2001, 106 mins) Writer-director Don Roos's hugely disappointing follow-up to his marvellous ‘The Opposite of Sex’ has Ben Affleck as an advertising exec who passes his ticket home to LA onto Tony…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bound (18) *****
(Dir: Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1997, 108 mins) The Wachowski brothers’ magnificent, subversive Coen-esque retro-noir debut is tautly plotted, superbly acted and stylishly filmed, with a quite extraordinary suspense…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bowfinger (12) ****
(Dir: Frank Oz, 1999, 97 mins) For a long time, Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy have made films so mild, eccentric or bad that we've had to take it on trust that they were funny. This swift, sharp, semi-clever team-up…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bowling For Columbine (15) *****
(Dir: Michael Moore, 2002, 120 mins) A hugely entertaining documentary that manages to be chilling, blackly comic and intellectually provocative by turn, doesn’t even pay lip service to the lazy notion of ‘balance’, …12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Box Of Moonlight (15) ****
Release Date: 1997 (Dir: Tom DiCillo, 112 mins) The director of ‘Johnny Suede’ and ‘Living In Oblivion’ pulls off a quirky self-discovery road movie that skilfully negotiates its way round the genre’s usual pitfalls.…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boys (15) ***
Release Date: 1996 When Winona Ryder falls off her horse outside the drab, depressing, single-sex school attended by Lukas Haas, he does the decent thing and smuggles her back to his room, where he begins to realise…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Boys Don't Cry (18) ****
(Dir: Kimberly Peirce, 2004, 114 mins) Attractive young Teena Brandon (Best Actress Oscar winner Hilary Swank) has a savage DIY haircut, straps down her breasts, shoves a generously proportioned dildo into her trousers,…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bram Stoker's Dracula (18)
Release Date: 1993 15th century Vlad Dracul (Gary Oldman) returns from an impaling frenzy to find his great love Winona Ryder has topped herself. Four centuries later, Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves, adopting an…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brassed Off (15) ***
(Dir: Mark Herman, 1996, 105 mins) A Channel Four-backed Yorkshire pit village miners’ strike comedy-drama, using the local brass band as a microcosm of village life. Local lass-made-good Tara Fitzgerald returns to…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bratz: The Movie (PG) *
(Dir: Sean McNamara, 2007, 102 mins) This is pitched firmly at the eight-year-old girl and Gary Glitter demographics, with livin’, breathin’ incarnations of the pouty, slutty, heavily accessorised dolls that have…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Braveheart (15) ****
Release Date:1995 Mel Gibson co-produced, directed and stars in this stirring three-hour epic about the lowly born 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace, who leads his people in revolt against the merciless English…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breach (12A) ****
(Dir: Billy Ray, 2007, 110 mins) A fascinating, intelligent, fact-based spy thriller from the co-writer and director of the excellent ‘Shattered Glass’, this feels like a throwback to the classics of the Cold War…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bread and Roses (15) ***
(Dir: Ken Loach, 2001, 110 mins) Ken Loach’s unflashy style is just as well suited to television, which can deliver a much bigger audience than those with a burning desire to visit their nearest multiplex to see a film…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breakdown (15) ****
(Dir: Jonathan Mostow, 1998, 92 mins) A superbly judged thriller whose characters’ plight seems all too believable, this has Kurt Russell and his missus Kathleen Quinlan taking the scenic route as they drive from Boston…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breakfast of Champions (15) ***
(Dir: Alan Rudolph, 2000, 110 mins) This adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s 1973 classic falls way short of capturing the author's absurdist tone and literary tics, but it's by no means the stinker that some hacks would…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breakfast on Pluto (15) **
(Dir: Neil Jordan, 2006, 135 mins) Thirteen years on from his critical and commercial triumph with ‘The Crying Game’, Neil Jordan finds similar themes in Patrick McCabe’s 1998 novel. But despite flashes of brilliance,…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breaking and Entering (15) **
(Dir: Anthony Minghella, 2006, 118 mins) There’s something uncomfortably fake about Anthony Minghella’s liberal guiltflick. Maybe it’s down to the fact that in order to make the plot work he has to conjure up an…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Breathing (15)
Austria 2011 94 mins Subtitles Dir: Karl Markovics Starring: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lishka, Gerhard Liebmann Is Austria the new, er, whatever the last hip film-making place was? Hard on the heels of Markus Schleinzer's…20.04.2012 READ MORE -
Brick (15) ***
(Dir: Rian Johnson, 2006, 110 mins) Detractors will be quick to observe that this much-hyped indieflick is more ‘Bugsy Malone’ than ‘Donnie Darko’, since its cast of Californian high school kids converse in the dense,…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brick Lane (15) ***
(Dir: Sarah Gavron, 2007, 102 mins) Given all the controversy, it’s perhaps surprising to find that Sarah Gavron’s adaptation of Monica Ali’s Booker-shortlisted novel is a sensitive portrait of a modern immigrant…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bride and Prejudice (12A) ***
(Dir: Gurinda Chadha, 2004, 111 mins) The parallels between Jane Austen’s comic matchmaking classic and traditional Indian arranged marriage trauma are obvious, despite the cultural differences. But in turning her loose…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bride of Chucky (18) ***
(Dir: Ronny Yu, 1999, 89 mins) "If this was a movie, it would take two or three sequels to explain," quips vertically challenged serial killer Chucky (Brad Dourif) of his origins in this third sequel to crap killer doll…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bride Wars (12A) **
(Dir: Gary Winick, 2008, 90 mins) This unexceptional, if overly-decorated com-dram fits into the relatively new genre of gross-out chick flick. It also runs to a non-stop parade of designer outfits, health and beauty…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brideshead Revisited (12A) ***
(Dir: Julian Jarrold, 2008, 133 mins) Devotes of the 80s TV series and Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece alike will be disappointed by this new adaptation which features some considerable narrative changes to the novel’s tale…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bridesmaids (15)
USA 2011 125 mins Dir: Paul Feig Starring: Kirsten Wiig, Rose Byrne, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Jill Clayburgh, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Melissa McCarthy Ever watched a comedy - especially a romantic comedy -…24.06.2011 READ MORE -
Bridge to Terabithia (PG) ***
(Dir: Gabor Csupo, 2007, 95 mins) Nippers who aren’t familiar with the book on which this is based could be forgiven for feeling diddled by the trailer. That promises a CGI-heavy action-fantasy romp set in a magical…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bridget Jones's Diary (15) ****
(Dir: Sharon Maguire, 2001, 95 mins) Sharon Maguire's adaptation of Helen Fielding's bestseller gets the job done with maximum efficiency, delivering a steady stream of genuinely funny gags, Colin Firth in full-on…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (15) **
(Dir: Beeban Kidron, 2004, 108 mins) Undemanding singletons may be delighted to find that all the jokes they laughed at in the first film – TV close-ups of Bridget’s fat arse, her big pants, Darcy’s mum’s festive…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bright Star (PG) ***
(Dir: Jane Campion, 2009, 119 mins) Jane Campion returns to the trembling-flesh-beneath-bonnet’n’corset action of her Oscar-winning ‘The Piano’ with the tale of the one great love of doomed 18th century romantic poet…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bright Young Things (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Fry, 2003, 104 mins) Given his obsession with antiquated wordplay and country house toff comedy, adapting Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Vile Bodies’ was an obvious choice for Stephen Fry. Perhaps predictably, the result…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brighton Rock (15)
(Dir: Rowan Joffe, 2011, 106 mins) Rowan Joffe's new adaptation of Graham Greene's Catholic English seaside noir effectively updates the setting from the late 30s to the mods 'n' rockers mid-60s. Sam Riley (Ian Curtis…02.02.2011 READ MORE -
Bring It On (15) ***
(Dir: Peyton Reed, 2000, 98 mins) Okay, so it's still basically a movie about a cheerleader competition, but there's slightly more smarts in here than you might expect. We begin in affluent white suburban San Diego at…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis (PG) *
(Dir: John Henderson, 1998, 91 mins) Unfunny BritComedy wasting the talents of both Rik Mayall, who plays a fading record producer, and Jane Horrocks as his one remaining star client. Realising his glory days are behind…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bringing Down the House (12A) ***
(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 2000, 130 mins) Scorsese enthusiasts will be so delighted to find old Marty reunited with Paul Schrader for this return to 'Taxi Driver' territory that they'll happily overlook its many…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bringing Out the Dead (18) ***
(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 2000, 130 mins) Scorsese enthusiasts will be so delighted to find old Marty reunited with Paul Schrader for this return to 'Taxi Driver' territory that they'll happily overlook its many…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brokeback Mountain (15) *****
(Dir: Ang Lee, 2006, 134 mins) Ang Lee’s taboo-breaking modern-day Western is adapted with characteristic insight and sensitivity from Annie Proulx’s eponymous short story, which traces the twenty-year love affair…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brokedown Palace (12) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Kaplan, 1999, 100 mins) Ohio high school pals Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale are tricked by hunky young Australian Daniel Lapaine into carrying bags full of heroin to Hong Kong via a Thai airport. The…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Broken Arrow (15) ***
Release Date: 1996 ‘Speed’ screenwriter Graham Yost tweaks his one and only thick-eared script for Hong Kong grunt’n’grapplemeister John Woo. Renaissance man John Travolta gets the Dennis Hopper bad guy role. Christian…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Broken Embraces (15) ****
(Dir: Pedro Almodovar, 2009, 128 mins, subtitles) Almodovar’s densely plotted return to the melodramatic noir territory of ‘Bad Education’ repays close attention, bristling as it does with ideas, allusions and…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Broken English (18) **
(Dir: Gregor Nicholas, 1997, 93 mins) The makers of the impressive ‘Once Were Warriors’ take its formula, shove it inside a cross-cultural romance, add some fuzzy war footage and armchair philosophy, and leave you…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Broken Flowers (15) ***
(Dir: Jim Jarmusch, 2005, 106 mins) Bill Murray’s familiar, impassive, deadpan, world-weary turn is approaching zen levels of inaction and the disconnected ‘Lost in Translation’ vibe occasionally gives ‘Broken Flowers’…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Broken Wings (15) **
(Dir: Nils Bergman, 2003, 80 mins) A soapy, Hebrew-language Israeli drama which opens with dark and brooding 17-year-old schoolgirl singer/songwriter Maya rehearsing a mawkish pop song about her dead dad. Turns out that…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bronson (18) ****
(Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, 92 mins) Refreshingly, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t bother with modish psychoanalysis in his skewed, stylised biopic, which is more concerned with depicting the former…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brooklyn’s Finest (18) ***
(Dir: Antoine Fuqua, 2010, 133 mins) Director Antoine Fuqua and star Ethan Hawke return to the gritty, downbeat, morally ambiguous cop territory of ‘Training Day’ with a solid yet unremarkable and rather too lengthy…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Brother (18) ***
(Dir: Takeshi Kitano, 2001, 113 mins) Officially Takeshi Kitano's first English-language movie, though our granite-faced hero only gets a couple of fractured lines. Those who've followed his career may be disappointed…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brother Bear (U) **
(Dir: Aaron Blaise/Bob Walker, 2003, 84 mins) This is possibly the last conventionally animated film ever to be made by Disney, which is entirely the fault of the scriptwriters and nothing to do with the medium. While…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brothers (15) ***
(Dir: Susanne Bier, 2005, 110 mins) Exploring similar emotional territory to her Dogme film ‘Open Hearts’ and filmed on DV using mostly natural light, Susanne Bier’s ‘Brothers’ is not produced in accordance with the…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brothers (2009) (15) **
(Dir: Jim Sheridan, 2009, 104 mins) Jim Sheridan’s remake of Dogme alumnus Susanne Bier’s ‘Brothers’ retains all the original plot points, but like so many US remakes of foreign language films this feels like a drama…12.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brothers Bloom, The (12A) **
(Dir: Rian Johnson, 2009, 114 mins) Rian (‘Brick’) Johnson’s Difficult Second Movie is an oddly unsatisfying affair, coming across like a latterday Wes Anderson flick crossed with a twisty-turny Ocean’s-style…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Brothers In Trouble (15) ***
Release Date: 1996 Udayan Prasad’s adaptation of Abdullah Hussein’s autobiographical novel ‘The Return Journey’ is a humane, unsanitised exploration of a little-discussed corner of British history. It’s the mid-‘60s…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brothers of the Head (18) **
(Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, 2006, 93 mins) There’s something inherently risible about this period mockumentary about conjoined twin rock stars, which isn’t helped by the fact that co-directors Keith Fulton and…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Brown Sugar (12A) **
(Dir: Rick Famuyiwa, 2003, 109 mins) The odd little all-black hip-hop romcom has Sanaa Lathan as earnest hackette Sidney, who fell in love with hip-hop back in 1984 when, as a child, she first encountered an impromptu…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bruce Almighty (12A) ***
(Dir: Tom Shadyac, 2003, 101 mins) A machine-calibrated high-concept Jim Carrey comedy directed by bland efficiencymeister Tom Shadyac, who gave us Carrey’s earlier ‘Liar Liar’. You know the drill with these things:…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bruno (18) ****
(Dir: Larry Charles, 2009, 83 mins) Accusations that Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ is homophobic seem wide of the mark. Sure, the mincing, fame-obsessed, relentlessly superficial Austrian fashionista has an annoying laugh…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bubba Ho-Tep (15) ***
(Dir: Don Coscarelli, 2004, 92 mins) If this cult Elvis vs the Mummy “redemptive horror-comedy” never quite lives up to its reputation for relentless hilarity, it does at least have originality on its side and manages…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (PG) **
(Dir: Hana Makhmalbaf, 2007, 77 mins, subtitles) Another over-praised Iranian film from the prolific Makhmalbaf dynasty. This one’s directed by 19-year-old Hana, and is filled with authentically adolescent heavy-handed…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buena Vista Social Club (U) ****
(Dir: Wim Wenders, 1999, 104 mins) When Ry Cooder embarked on a personal odyssey to find and play with some of Cuba's oldest, most accomplished (and, in many cases, retired or long-forgotten) musicians, his great…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buffalo 66 (15)
(Dir: Vincent Gallo, 1998, 118 mins) Actor/writer/artist Vincent Gallo’s direcotrial debut goes for that downbeat ‘Five Easy Pieces’ vibe, with a male central character returning home after a long absence for a dark…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buffalo Soldiers (15) ****
(Dir: Gregor Jordan, 2003, 98 mins) A victim of the demise of FilmFour and September 11, after which Americans demanded unambiguous heroics from their military flicks, Gregor Jordan’s deliciously cynical adaptation of…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bullet Boy (15) **
(Dir: Saul Dibb, 2005, 91 mins) A well-meaning if heavy-handed morality tale from the BBC, which has more than a touch of the trendy vicars about it. Former gun-toting jailbird Ashley Walters plays gun-toting jailbird…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bulletproof Monk (12A) *
(Dir: Paul Hunter, 2003, 103 mins) Yet another contrived teaming of a veteran Eastern martial artist who’s desperate to break into Hollywood, but doesn’t really do dialogue, with a laidback stoner dude eager to broaden…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bully (18) *****
(Dir: Larry Clark, 2002, 111 mins) Controversial American director Larry Clark’s brilliant depiction of listless, empty smalltown privileged teen life shines like a beacon in a genre characterised by dishonesty. A…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bulworth (18) ***
(Dir: Warren Beatty, 1999, 108 mins) In a fit of suicidal depression brought on by financial ruin and the prospect of re-election to another four years of selfish duplicity as a US senator, Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty)…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bunny and the Bull (15) **
(Dir: Paul King, 2009, 101 mins) While ‘Mighty Boosh’ director Paul King has plenty of visual imagination for someone from a TV background, his feature debut offers little to justify the “new ‘Withnail and I’” tag it’s…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buried (15) ****
(Dir: Rodrigo Cortes, 2010, 95 mins) After a few minutes of breathing and shuffling about, Ryan Reynolds sparks his cigarette lighter sparks into life and we see that he’s stubbly, bloodstained and buried inside what…29.09.2010 READ MORE -
Burke and Hare (15) **
(Dir: John Landis, 2010, 91 mins) You know you’re in trouble when the biggest laughs your cameo-stuffed comedy produces are those of simple recognition: “Hey, isn’t that Bill Bailey/Christopher Lee/ Jenny…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Burlesque (12A)
(Dir: Steve Antin, 2010, 119 mins) The film of the burlesque trend only has the patience to spend a reel or so on dance numbers before it jumps the rails and becomes an orgy of self-pitying divas belting out numbers…15.12.2010 READ MORE -
Burn After Reading (15) ****
(Dir: Joel Coen, 2008, 95 mins) It’s not the brothers’ best work, but few Coen enthusiasts will emerge from this lightweight, typically convoluted concluding part of their self-styled Idiot Trilogy feeling unsatisfied.…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Burning Plain (15) ***
(Dir: Guillermo Arriaga, 2008, 106 mins) ‘Amores Perros’/‘21 Grams’ writer Guillermo Arriaga strikes out on his own with those now-familiar, time-hopping, overlapping storylines, acquitting himself well as a first-time…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Bus 174 (15) ****
(Dir: Filipe Lacerda & Jose Padilha, 2004, 119 mins) It’s June 12, 2000. Sandro do Nascimento has hijacked suburban commuter bus in Rio de Janeiro, holding all the passengers hostage. If he’s confused and disorganised,…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Butterfly's Tongue (15) **
(Dir: Jose Luis Cuerda, 2000, 95 mins) This boasts all the components that usually make for a middlebrow world cinema hit in the 'Cinema Paradiso' mould: wise old codger, cheeky brat, comfy cloak of evocative nostalgia.…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Buttoners (15) ****
(Dir: Petr Zelenka, 1997, 100 mins) Imagine Bunuel directing a hybrid of 'Short Cuts' and 'Night on Earth' and you'll have some idea whether this Czecholslovakian "film as crazy as the whole of the 20th century" is for…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A)
UK 2011 123 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup Machine-tooled for the 'Calendar Girls' mature lady audience, this…24.02.2012 READ MORE -
The Big Picture (15)
France 2010 114 mins Subtitles Dir: Eric Lartigau Starring: Romain Duris, Marina Fois, Niels Arestrup, Catherine Deneuve, Eric Ruf It's tempting to describe 'The Big Picture' as yet another of those great French…22.07.2011 READ MORE -
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (12A)
Sweden 2011 96 mins Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson A necessarily rather scrappy documentary whose natural home is on TV rather than in the cinema, 'Black Power Mixtape' is compiled from footage that reportedly languished in a…21.10.2011 READ MORE -
The British Guide to Showing Off (15)
UK 2011 97 mins Dir: Jes Benstock If you've a high tolerance of exceedingly camp middle-aged men and retina-burning primary colours, this is the outsider (performance) art documentary for you. Never knowingly…20.11.2011 READ MORE
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