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A Cat in Paris (PG)
France 2010 62 mins Dir: Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol Starring (voices): Sara Vertongen, Mark Irons, Jerry Killick, Jasmine Avlonitis-Perrin Ever wondered what Tiddles gets up to during his nocturnal…06.04.2012 READ MORE -
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (18) **
(Dir: Chris Waitt, 2008, 93 mins) Chris Waitt’s navel-gazer is arguably the ne plus ultra of the embarrassing personal disclosure genre, laying bare his sexual dysfunction, minimal social skills, poor personal hygiene,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
C'est La Vie
Release Date: 1991 Just what the world needs - another French film about "a young girl's sexual awakening." This being a Diane Kurys movie, it's also an autobiographical tale about the effects of her parents' divorce on…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
C.R.A.Z.Y. (15) ***
(Dir: Jean-Marc Vallee, 2005, 127 mins) Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee’s 70s-set coming-of-age tale is overlong, somewhat familiar and a little lumpy in places, but is at its best in some striking sequences cut to…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cabin Fever (15) ****
(Dir: Eli Roth, 2002, 92 mins) A cabin in the woods, gratuitous teen nudity and a flesh-eating virus – what’s not to like? The best of the recent glut of back-to-basics, refreshingly irony-free horror flicks, in which…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cadillac Man (15)
Release Date: 1990 New York car salesman Robin Williams is a high-flying huckster with a problem. Business has entered a negative growth phase and he must shift 12 cars on sales day just to keep his job. He's also being…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cadillac Records (15) ***
(Dir: Darnell Martin, 2008, 108 mins) There’s some great music and terrific ensemble performances in ‘Cadillac Records’, notably ever-excellent Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, Eamonn Walter as Howlin’ Wolf, Mos Def as…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Café de Flore (TBA)
Canada/France 2011 120 mins Subtitles Dir: Jean-Marc Vallee Starring: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Helene Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier, Alice Dubois If you saw French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee's…11.05.2012 READ MORE -
Calendar Girls (12A) ***
(Dir: Nigel Cole, 2003, 108 mins) Based on a jolly enough true story, with a mildly progressive if unthreatening Mature Lady Power message and a cast of the nation’s leading over-50 actresses headed by the…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
California Dreamin’ (Endless) (15) ****
(Dir: Cristian Nemescu, 2007, 154 mins, subtitles) Twenty-seven year-old Romanian director Cristian Nemescu was tragically killed in a car accident before he’d finished editing ‘California Dreamin’’, but no special…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
California Man (PG)
Release Date: 1992 First of a wave of feeble Bill & Ted/Wayne & Garth cash-ins. Desperate high school loser Sean Astin unearths a frozen cro-magnon man (Brendan Fraser), who thaws out and returns to life. Astin and his…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Camp (12A) ***
(Dir: Todd Graff, 2003, 115 mins) A Stephen Sondheim wet dream of a film which takes the plot of ‘Fame’ and sticks it in an upstate New York summer camp where a whole bunch of multi-ethnic students with identity issues…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Candy (15) ***
(Dir: Neil Armfield, 2006, 108 mins) Adapted by Luke Davies from his own novel, this is a tale of self-destructive Art Junkies from down under. Assuming doleful voiceover duties is Dan (Heath Ledger) the poet. His young…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cape Fear (18)
Release Date: 1991 Fourteen years after Nick Nolte suppressed evidence about a rape victim's promiscuity which might have saved his client Max Cady (a formidably tattooed Bob De Niro) from prison, the old sleaze shows…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Capitalism: A Love Story (12A) ***
(Dir: Michael Moore, 2009, 127 mins) Perhaps it’s because anything to the left of the flag-salutin’ patriotic Christian right is branded ‘communist’ in large swathes of the US that burly, baseball cap-wearing…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Capote (15) ****
(Dir: Bennett Miller, 2005, 114 mins) Films that are completely dominated by one performance tend to fall short in other departments as everyone stands aside to make room for the thespian grandstanding. Here’s an…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (15) ***
(Dir: John Madden, 2001, 128 mins) John Madden's version of the cult novel is a handsomely staged if overlong and occasionally rather dull wartime romantic epic very much in the familiar 'English Patient' mode, which…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Captives (18) ****
Release Date: 1994 An intense love story with dark thriller overtones, this debut feature from British director Angela Pope displays an assurance that reflects her years of experience as a maker of documentaries and…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Captivity (18) **
(Dir: Roland Joffé, 2007, 84 mins) A belated entry in the torture smut cycle with Elisha Cuthbert as a blonde supermodel with an empty lifestyle and only a pampered poodle for a friend. Considering the kind of film…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Capturing the Friedmans (15) *****
(Dir: Andrew Jarecki, 2003, 107 mins) Despite focussing on a case that involves the most emotive issues of our time - child pornography and paedophilia – Andrew Jarecki’s extraordinary documentary debut resists the…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Caramel (PG) ***
(Dir: Nadine Labaki, 2007, 95 mins, subtitles) The beauty salon as meeting point for a disparate variety of characters is hardly a novel device. But writer/director/star Nadine Labaki’s rather amorphous feature debut…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Carancho (TBA)
Argentina/Chile/France 2010 107 mins Subtitles Dir: Pablo Trapero Starring: Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber How come no Lottery-funded Brit has thought of making a gritty, brutal, noir-ish drama about…02.03.2012 READ MORE -
Carandiru (18) ****
(Dir: Hector Babenco, 2003, 146 mins) Between 1980 and 1992, Drauzio Varella was a visiting doctor at the squalid, over-crowded Carandiru prison in Sao Paolo, a volatile community of 7,000 inmates. Ostensibly there to…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Career Girls (15) **
(Dir: Mike Leigh, 1997, 89 mins) If French and Saunders were ever to make a Mike Leigh spoof, it would probably wind up looking something like this oddly episodic, poorly constructed backward step from the sublime…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Carla's Song (15) ***
(Dir: Ken Loach, 1996, 127 mins) After doing the Spanish Civil War in ‘Land and Freedom’, Ken Loach tackles the great British lefty romantic overseas adventure of the ‘80s by sending salt-of-the earth Glaswegian bus…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Carlos (15) ****
(Dir: Olivier Assayas,2010, 158 mins, subtitles) Say what you like about 70s revolutionary terrorists, but three decades on they’re giving us some great films. Anyone who enjoyed ‘Munich’ or ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
Carmen (15) **
(Dir: Vicente Aranda, 2003, 119 mins) Already the subject of some two dozen screen adaptations, most of which are based on Bizet’s opera, Prosper Merimee’s original mid-19th century novel is the launching point for…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Carmen 3D (PG)
(Dir: Julian Napier, 2010, 150 mins) To say that this is a documentary record of Francesca Zambella's production of George Bizet's 1875 opera ignores the fact that director Julian Napier’s skilfully choreographed camera…02.03.2011 READ MORE -
Carnage (15)
France/Germany/Poland/Spain 2011 80 mins Dir: Roman Polanski Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly Set in Brooklyn but shot entirely in France for, ahem, legal reasons, Roman Polanski's…03.02.2012 READ MORE -
Carriers (15) **
(Dir: Alex & David Pastor, 2009, 84 mins) With no CGI eye-candy to distract viewers from hackneyed plots, film-makers pursuing the increasingly popular viral pandemic variation on the end-of-mankind genre need original…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Carrington (18) ***
Release Date: 1995 First-time director Christopher Hampton's tale of the bizarre 17-year romance between eccentric Bloomsbury set painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson, pageboy haircut) and gay bohemian critic Lytton…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cars (PG) ***
(Dir: John Lasseter, 2006, 121 mins) Right now, this is the cutting edge in computer animation. Reflections bounce off gleaming chrome, idyllic countryside appears almost photo-realistic, and the Pixar animators have…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cars 2 (U)
USA 2011 112 mins Dir: John Lasseter Starring (voices): Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Larry the Cable Guy, Emily Mortimer, Eddie Izzard, John Turturro Even an enviable winning streak can suffer the occasional glitch. For…22.07.2011 READ MORE -
Casanova (12A) ***
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2006, 112 mins) After cavorting with chaps in ‘Brokeback Mountain’, Heath Ledger takes the most vigorously heterosexual role imaginable in Scandoplodder Lasse Hallstrom’s handsomely staged period…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Case 39 (15) *
(Dir: Christian Alvart, 2009, 109 mins) German director Christian Alvart’s troubled English-language debut is an undistinguished contribution to the Spooky Child genre, being heavily reliant on cheap jolts and dumb plot…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Casino (18) ****
Release Date: 1995 Set in the Las Vegas of the 1970s, this is a long, rich Martin Scorsese movie chronicling a precise period in the history of American organised crime, which is also the history of American money and…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Casino Royale (12A) ****
(Dir: Martin Campbell, 2006, 144 mins) This is almost as radical a make-over as ‘Batman Begins’, with a younger actor taking seriously a part that almost everyone else has sent up in one way or another. Daniel Craig’s…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cass (18) **
(Dir: Jon S. Baird, 2008, 108 mins) Carol ‘Cass’ Pennant (Nonzo Anozie), a black boy adopted by a white working class couple, was a leading figure in football hooliganism in the 1980s as part of West Ham’s Inter City…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cassandra’s Dream (12A) **
(Dir: Woody Allen, 2007, 108 mins) Even the giveaway references to Greek mythology and Dostoyevsky are uncharacteristically clumsy in this atypical Woody Allen flick whose floundering stars – Irishman Colin Farrell and…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Cast Away (12) ***
(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 151 mins) Shot in two blocks a year apart, so Tom Hanks could pull off a convincing transformation from chubbily slack to sleekly muscled, this sets up busy FedEx troubleshooter Chuck Noland…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Catch a Fire (12A) ***
(Dir: Philip Noyce, 2006, 101 mins) Adapted from a mostly true story by Joe Slovo’s daughter Shawn, this is a political thriller that Hollywood would never have made in the apartheid era. Not that Patrick Chamusso, on…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Catch and Release (12A) **
(Dir: Susannah Grant, 2006, 111 mins) ‘Erin Brockovich’ screenwriter Susannah Grant’s directorial debut plays it safe by sticking to chick flick formula, deploying wisecracks to lighten the load of a long, weary…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Catch Me If You Can (12A) ****
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 2002, 141 mins) Before he was 19, Frank Abagnale Jr had posed as a pilot, worked as a doctor and practised law, all without a single qualification, achieving the distinction of being the youngest…19.05.2010 READ MORE -
Catfish (12A)
(Dir: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2010, 84 mins) This 'documentary' has been accused of being a complete fabrication from start to finish. Audiences are promised a jaw-dropping twist which reviewers have been implored…15.12.2010 READ MORE -
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (U) **
(Dir: Brad Peyton, 2010, 82 mins) Not for the first time, the question arises: who is this shit aimed at? The plot of this belated sequel takes the form of a laboured James Bond parody, with an extended send-up of the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Cats and Dogs (PG) ***
(Dir: Lawrence Guterman, 2001, 87 mins) Nobody ever lost money with a talking animal flick, but Warners have chosen to squander a great idea on a lowest-common-denominator plot that wimps out with a lot of sickly cute…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Catwoman (12A) *
(Dir: Pitof, 2004, 100 mins) This isn’t just bad: it’s embarrassing in its awfulness. Even those for whom Halle Berry’s magnificent cleavage holds a hypnotic attraction will struggle to resist the urge to wince or look…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Caught in the Act (15) **
(Dir: Matt Lipsey, 2008, 92 mins) ‘Little Britain’ director Matt Lipsey makes his feature debut with this pet project of likeable Welsh actor Steve Speirs, whose hit-and-miss script sets out to put a modern black comic…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (U)
(Dir: Werner Herzog, 2010, 90 mins) If you saw Herzog's 'Encounters at the End of the World', you'll know pretty much what to expect from his idiosyncratic approach to boffinry. For this fascinating film, he negotiated…23.03.2011 READ MORE -
Cecil B. Demented (18) ****
Cecil B. Demented (18) **** (Dir: John Waters, 2000, 88 mins) The Pope of Trash returns to his roots with a deliciously bad-taste satire modelled on the case of Patricia Hearst (who cameos) and starring notoriously,…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Celebrity (18) ***
(Dir: Woody Allen, 1998, 113 mins) How you’ll react to this year’s Woody Allen will depend on your tolerance for Kenneth Branagh in the leading role, playing, well, Woody Allen. For the purposes of the plot, the central…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cellular (15) ****
(Dir: David R Ellis, 2004, 94 mins) Like some atavistic throwback to the bad old days of straight-to-video movies, this enjoyably preposterous suspense thriller has enough ‘B’ movie chutzpah, reckless energy and…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cemetery Junction (15) ****
(Dir: Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais, 2010, 95 mins) Merchant and Gervais’s confident, enjoyable debut feature translates the duo’s trademark emotional and warm-hearted yet unsentimental approach to the big screen…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Central Station (15) ***
(Dir: Walter Salles, 1999, 110 mins) An upmarket arthouse oldster/nipper bonding weepie in the 'Kolya' vein, this stars Oscar-nominated 69-year-old Fernanda Montenegro as a cynical former schoolteacher who writes…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Centre Stage (12) ***
(Dir: Nicholas Hytner, 2000, 115 mins) A spot of light relief for Nicholas Hytner after 'The Madness of King George' and 'The Crucible', this is no more or less than a rework of 'Fame' with tutus. Relocating the story…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Centurion (15) ***
(Dir: Neil Marshall, 2010, 97 mins) Though he makes films all over the genre map, Neil Marshall is consistent in his use of the ‘lost patrol’ premise. This time its Roman soldiers pursued by Picts. The historical…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Century (15) ***
Release Date: 1993 The turn of the century looms. There's a heightened sense of anticipation about scientific developments, an ugly social undercurrent of xenophobia, and a burgeoning, sickly urban underclass begging in…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Certified Copy (12A) **
(Dir: Abbas Kiarostami, 2009, 107 mins, subtitles) Abbas Kiarostami shoots outside his native Iran for the first time with this Tuscan-set drama. But you won’t have long to wait for that signature Kiarostami set-piece:…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Chain Reaction (12) **
Release Date: 1996 The problem with this sci-fi tinged action picture is not so much the usual imbalance between science and fiction as the triumph of daft plot contrivance over narrative plausibility. It’s hard enough…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chalet Girl (12A)
(Dir: Phil Traill, 2011, 97 mins) Putative star of the future Felicity Jones gets her first leading role in a throwaway piece of Cinderella fluff whose title holds all the promise of a cheap 70s porno. The film's clumsy…16.03.2011 READ MORE -
Changeling (15) ****
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2008, 142 mins) A long, powerful, slightly overblown Oscar bait-type true story directed by Clint Eastwood and built around a strong Angelina Jolie performance. In 1928, single mother Christine…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Changing Lanes (15) ****
(Dir: Roger Michell, 2002, 99 mins) ‘Notting Hill’ director Roger Michell’s first American film promises a standard-issue tit-for-tat revenge plot but develops into something rather more thoughtful and character-driven…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Character (15) ****
(Dir: Mike Van Diem, 1998, 125 mins) Last year's Best Foreign Language Oscar winner is a real treat if you've got a taste for stylised, Freudian melodrama. In '20s Rotterdam, a young lawyer named Katadreuffe is arrested…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) ****
(Dir: Tim Burton, 2005, 115 mins) In a perfect match of director and author, Tim Burton delivers eye candy every bit as sweet as the dentist-horrifying lagoons of chocolate and forests of candy trees in the fantastic…24.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlie Bartlett (15) **
(Dir: Jon Poll, 2007, 97 mins) The increasingly annoying ‘Charlie Bartlett’ aspires to the ‘Rushmore’ gold standard of smart teen comedy and family dysfunction but is, alas, nowhere near as clever as it imagines.…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlie Wilson’s War (15) ***
(Dir: Mike Nichols, 2007, 102 mins) If you can swallow a film that neglects to tell its audience that the weapons supplied to the mujahedeen by America during the 80s eventually fell into the hands of the Taliban then…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlie's Angels (12) **
(Dir: McG, 2000, 90 mins) The good news is that this is nothing like as bad as 'The Avengers' or 'Lost in Space'. But unless you’re an arrested adolescent who drools over pictures of scantily-clad 'girls' in wank mags…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (12A) *
(Dir: McG, 2003, 105 mins) As soulless, plot-less, brainless, under-written blockbusters go, this is right up there with ‘Batman and Robin’ and ‘Wild Wild West’. Director McG is a veteran of pop videos, and boy does it…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlotte Gray (15) **
(Dir: John Madden, 2002, 121 mins) Take a much-loved middlebrow WWII novel, strip out the complexity that appealed to readers in the first place, and you're left with a dull, boring plod like 'Captain Corelli's…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Charlotte’s Web (U) ***
(Dir: Gary Winick, 2007, 97 mins) If there’s room in your heart for just the one film about an adorable talking porker who’s eager to avoid becoming sausages, go for ‘Babe’. But if you can’t get enough of our loquacious…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chasing Amy (18) ****
(Dir: Kevin Smith, 1997, 113 mins) Who’d have thought the director of ‘Clerks’ would make a romantic comedy with real emotional depth? Comic artist Ben Affleck falls for lesbian Joey Lauren Adams, his relentless…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chatroom (15)
(Dir: Hideo Nakata, 2010, 97 mins) A strikingly awful out-of-control teens flick that taps in to Mail-reading parents' fears about that scary interweb (paedos, cyber-bullying, suicide cults), 'Chatroom' belongs to an…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Che: The Argentine (15) ***
(Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 2008, 126 mins) Part one of Steven Soderbergh’s epic mostly Spanish-language Che Guevara biopic, with an outstanding, unshowy performance by Benicio Del Toro as the man in the iconic beret. The…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Che: The Guerilla (15) ***
(Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 2008, 127 mins, subtitles) If part one of Steven Soderbergh’s epic Che Guevara biopic was choppily edited and frequently unsatisfying, showing us what Guevara did but offering little insight…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cheaper by the Dozen (PG) *
Cheaper by the Dozen (PG) * (Dir: Shawn Levy, 2004, 97 mins) Mild and lazy guy Steve Martin reprises the Wacky Dad routine that earned him so much money in ‘Parenthood’ and the ‘Father of the Bride’ flicks for this…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (PG) *
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 2005, 94 mins) The laid back attitude of the Baker brats, led by good-guy dad Tom (Steve Martin) is starkly at odds with the highly structured upbringing planned by his old foe Jimmy Murtaugh…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chemical Wedding (18) ***
(Dir: Julian Doyle, 2008, 107 mins) It’s absolutely bonkers, supporting cast performances are decidedly uneven, and much of the exposition seems to have wound up on the cutting room floor. That said, this enjoyable,…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cheri (15) ***
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 2009, 92 mins) Twenty years after ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, director Stephen Frears, writer Christopher Hampton and star Michelle Pfeiffer reunite for another handsomely staged period tale of sexual…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cherry Falls (18) **
(Dir: Geoffrey Wright, 2000, 100 mins) A fixed convention of teen 'slasher' movies is that sexually active girls and boys get sliced and diced while good little virgins escape the killer's knife. So what if there were a…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chicago (12A) ***
(Dir: Rob Marshall, 2002, 113 mins) Rob Marshall’s enjoyable adaptation of the Broadway hit fillets out all its non-narrative elements to leave a strong if somewhat simplistic storyline. But despite these liberties and…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chicken Little (U) ***
(Dir: Mark Dindal, 2005, 81 mins) The first fruit of Disney’s in-house CGI animation department, this moderately entertaining film’s clumsily-structured, cut’n’shunt plot begins with the familiar fable of the diminutive…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chicken Run (U) *****
(Dir: Nick Park/Peter Lord, 84 mins) Aardman Animation’s debut feature is ‘The Great Escape’ with plasticine chickens! Down on a grim '50s egg farm, the hens face certain doom when Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) takes…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chico & Rita (15) ***
(Dir: Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba 2010, 93 mins, subtitles) Fans of Latin jazz are likely to get the most out of this animated love letter to an exoticised late '40s Havana, charting an on-again, off-again romance…17.11.2010 READ MORE -
Chiko (18) ***
(Dir: Ozgur Yildirim, 2008, 92 mins, subtitles) All your favourite gangster movie clichés are present and correct in what young German director Ozgur Yildirim describes rather grandly as “my ‘Scarface’”: the ruthless Mr…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Children of Men ***
(Dir: Alfonso Cuaron, 109 mins) Britain, 2027. An oppressive government is ineptly but brutally cracking down on a violent rebel faction, the Fishes. And no babies have been born for eighteen years. …30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chill Factor (15) **
(Dir: Hugh Johnson, 1999, 101 mins) First-time director Hugh Johnson shamelessly rips off and stitches together elements of ‘Speed’, ‘Broken Arrow’ and ‘The Rock’ for this astonishingly stupid yet strangely agreeable…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chloe (15) ***
(Dir: Atom Egoyan, 2009, 96 mins) Atom Egoyan’s superior remake of Anne Fontaine’s risible French art movie ‘Nathalie’, this is best known as the one where sultry, doe-eyed hottie du jour Amanda (‘Mamma Mia’,…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Choke (18) **
(Dir: Clark Gregg, 2008, 92 mins) A Fox-backed ‘indie’ flick that seems machine-tooled for the hipster Sundance audience, this pushes all the appropriate buttons from fashionable source material (a novel by ‘Fight Club’…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chopper (18) ****
(Dir: Andrew Dominik, 2000, 94 mins) Raconteur, multiple murderer, nutter: Australia's foremost celebrity psychopath Mark 'Chopper' Read is all these things and more. In bringing his story to the screen, first-time…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (18) ***
(Dir: Paul Tickell, 2000, 93 mins) Paul Tickell’s adaptation of a short novel by cult ‘70s experimental writer B.S. Johnson harks back to the ambitious, anarchic and imaginative film-making of an earlier era. Living at…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Christmas Carol: The Movie (U) **
(Dir: Jimmy T. Murakami, 2001, 81 mins) Animation veteran Jimmy Murakami's version of the oft-told yarn opens with a live-action segment in which Charles Dickens (Simon Callow, who also voices Scrooge) is seen on stage…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Christmas With The Kranks (PG) *
(Dir: Joe Roth, 2004, 98 mins) When Luther Krank (Tim Allen) decides to give Christmas a miss and take wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) for a Caribbean cruise instead, everyone on their suburban Chicago block takes…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chromophobia (15) *
(Dir: Martha Fiennes, 2005, 136 mins) Martha Fiennes attempts a Paul Haggis-esque mosaic here, but virtually every character in her icily cold, spectacularly misjudged drama is so loathsome that when they all get their…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chuck and Buck (15) ****
(Dir: Miguel Arteta, 2000, 95 mins) After the death of his mother, Buck (Mike White) turns to his childhood best friend Chuck (Chris Weitz). But a lot has changed in the 15 years since they last saw one another. Or at…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Chungking Express (12) ***
Release Date: 1994 Chinese-born director Wong Kar-Wai's interconnected tales of two Hong Kong rozzers, released under the auspicies of Quentin Tarantino. Undercover cop no. 223 is moping around having been ditched by…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Churchill: The Hollywood Years (15) *
(Dir: Peter Richardson, 2004, 90 mins) Peter Richardson revisits the territory of his satirical Comic Strip classic, ‘The Strike’ for this truly woeful, one-joke comedy based on a similar Yankocentric premise, but with…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cinderella Man (12A) **
(Dir: Ron Howard, 2005, 144 mins) Cruelly if accurately dubbed a story that’s “too true to be good”, this ‘Angela’s Ashes’-meets-‘Rocky’ epic from the team behind ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is another big middlebrow movie…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Circus (18) **
(Dir: Rob Walker, 2000, 96 mins) Down in glamorous, er, Brighton, smalltime con artist and gambler John Hannah is stitched up during a contract killing. Meanwhile, his scheming American wife Famke Janssen is about to…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (12A) **
(Dir: Paul Weitz, 2009, 103 mins) Universal makes its bid for the booming teen vampire market with an adaptation of the popular series of books by Brit author Darren Shan. But they face a struggle to attract the…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City Hall (15) ***
Release Date: 1996 The role of New York mayor gives Al Pacino all the excuse he needs for the shameless grandstanding we’ve become used to in recent years. With the invaluable assistance of his eager, idealistic deputy…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of Angels (12) **
(Dir: Brad Silberling, 1998, 117 mins) A sugary reworking of Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire’ from the director of ‘Casper’, this casts Meg Ryan as a godless heart surgeon, whose guardian angel (Nicolas Cage, looking…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of Ember (PG) ****
(Dir: Gil Kenan, 2008, 90 mins) A futuristic ‘family’ film that will appeal to children, parents and childless adults who are still in touch with their inner sprog is a dystopian sci-fi adventure that continues in the…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of God (18) *****
(Dir: Katia Lund & Fernando Meirelles, 135 mins) Loosely adapted from a gargantuan autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, this sprawling, ultra-violent, visually and narratively inventive, superbly photographed, slickly…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of Hope (15)
Release Date: 1991 John Sayles' richly layered collection of themes include urban decay, racial tensions, municipal corruption and the general shittiness of American life in the 90s. Revolving loosely around the…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of Industry (18) ***
(Dir: John Irvin, 1997, 97 mins) This starts out as yet another high-on-style, low-on-originality heist flick, with regulation nods in the direction of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Heat’. Harvey Keitel plays an ageing…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
City of Life and Death (15) ****
(Dir: Lu Chuan, 2009, 135 mins, subtitles) Lu Chuan’s controversial, documentary-style dramatisation of the 1937 Rape of Nanking was heavily scrutinised by Chinese censors. So it comes as quite a surprise that the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
City Slickers (12)
Release Date: 1991 Menopausal, fortyish buddies Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby regularly take childishly adventurous holidays together, and here they progress from a pre-credits Pamplona bull-run to an…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Clash of the Titans (12A) ***
(Dir: Louis Leterrier, 2010, 106 mins) Louis (‘The Incredible Hulk’) Leterrier’s remake is pretty faithful to the ropy 1981 sword’n’sandals’n’monsters flick. Once again, we get a fairly anaemic hero (Sam Worthington),…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Class Trip (15) ****
(Dir: Claude Miller, 1998, 96 mins) Withdrawn, disturbed, friendless 13-year-old Nicolas has a vivid fantasy life. On a school skiing holiday, he sees masked gunman invading the alpine chalet and mowing down his…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Clerks II (15) ****
(Dir: Kevin Smith, 2006, 101 mins) Twelve years on, Kevin Smith finally gives ‘Clerks’ fans the sequel they’ve been begging for. There’s nothing here to win over critics who argue that he’s barely competent behind the…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Click (12A) **
(Dir: Frank Coraci, 2006, 107 mins) Suppose you had a magical universal remote control that allowed you to fast-forward, reverse and pause your life. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination. Now…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Cliffhanger (15)
Release Date: 1993 In desperate need of a hit, Sly Stallone returns to the action genre as an erstwhile Rocky Mountain rescuer trying to come to terms with the accidental death of a young woman, when a bunch of bad guys…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Clifford’s Really Big Movie (U) ***
(Dir: Robert C. Ramirez, 2004, 73 mins) Parents who object to the didactic ‘family values’ messages with which American films so often seek to indoctrinate their offspring should have no problems with this likeable if…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Climates (15) **
(Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006, 101 mins, subtitles) An unappealing glumfest from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which consists chiefly of a moody, middle-aged man being beastly and a younger woman snivelling,…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Clockers (18) ***
Release Date: 1995 Richard Price’s gripping source novel filters the contemporary problems of urban deprivation through a police procedural focusing on two characters - one a black crack dealer named Strike, the other a…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Clockstoppers (PG) **
(Dir: Jonathan Frakes, 2002, 93 mins) Jonathan Frakes’ first non-Star Trek movie is clearly pitched at the ‘Spy Kids’ audience, but lacks the wit, invention and sheer fun of the Robert Rodriguez flicks. The special…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
Close to Home (15) ***
(Dir: Dalia Hager & Vidi Bilu, 2005, 90 mins, subtitles) This rough and ready, low-budget, semi-autobiographical digital video drama about young female military conscripts patrolling the streets of Jerusalem certainly…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Closer (15) ****
(Dir: Mike Nichols, 2004, 98 mins) Patrick Marber’s adaptation of his own stage hit permits Mike Nichols to return to ‘Carnal Knowledge’ territory for a drama that plays like one of Neil LaBute’s most misanthropic…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Closing The Ring (12A) **
(Dir: Richard Attenborough, 2007, 118 mins) Lord Dickie’s embarrassingly hollow latest is a wannabe David Lean fuckbuddy for OAPs up there with his Hemingway wartime bio-romance clunker ‘In Love and War’. Not exactly…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (U) ****
(Dir: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2009, 88 mins) Excitable, eccentric inventor Flint Lockridge (voiced by Bill Hader) comes up with a device that can turn water into food. Soon it’s raining hamburgers, ice cream,…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cloverfield (15) ****
(Dir: Matt Reeves, 2007, 85 mins) Conceived and produced (but not executed) by JJ Abrams, this much-hyped hybrid sci-fi movie mixes the monster mayhem of ‘Godzilla’ with the shaky-cam immediacy of ‘Blair Witch’ to…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Club Dread (15) **
(Dir: Jay Chandresekhar, 2004, 103 mins) Former college comedy troupe Broken Lizard, creators of ‘Super Troopers’, seem to have enjoyed some very agreeable location work on this slasher/stoner/sex comedy, which opens…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Clubbed (18) ***
(Dir: Neil Thompson, 2008, 95 mins) It’s not hard to surmise that ‘Clubbed’ is adapted from the autobiography of a bloke who now leads motivational seminars. You’re never very far from a homily about “making fear your…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Clueless (12) ****
Release Date:1995 Take Alicia Silverstone, the psycho Lolita from 'Crush', and writer/director Amy Heckerling, add a loosely transposed adaptation of Jane Austen's 'Emma', and the result's the best teen satire since…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Coach Carter (12A) **
(Dir: Thomas Carter, 2005, 136 mins) Given the knowledge that this inspirational sports flick is based on the true story of tough-yet-caring basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), who made US headlines when he…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cockles and Muscles (15) ***
(Dir: Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau, 2005, 93 mins) This jolly, inclusive, polysexual summer holiday sex farce from across the channel has middle-aged couple Marc (Gilbert Melki) and Beatrix (Francois Ozon’s muse…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Coco Before Chanel (12A) ****
(Dir: Anne Fontaine, 2009, 110 mins, subtitles) It’s chateau porn rather than English country house porn, but costume drama enthusiasts who can handle subtitles will be delighted to find that by focussing on its…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Coco Chanel And Igor Stravinsky (15) ***
(Dir: Jan Kounen, 2010, 119 mins, subtitles) Although there’s some overlap with ‘Coco Before Chanel’, this lavish biopic of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is adapted by Chris Greenhalgh from his well-received speculative novel…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Code 46 (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 2003, 90 mins) After collaborating on ‘24 Hour Party People’ and ‘The Claim’, director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce turn their hands to science fiction with this…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Code Name: The Cleaner (PG) *
(Dir: Les Mayfield, 2007, 84 mins) An amnesia comedy-thriller perhaps best characterised as ‘The Bozo Identity’, this opens with actionably named Cedric The Entertainer awaking on a bed in a hotel room next to the…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Code Unknown (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Haneke, 2000, 117 mins) 'Funny Games' director Michael Haneke takes a left turn into a type of narrative experimentation that is at once enthralling and exasperating. It begins with a surly teenager being…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Coffee and Cigarettes (15) **
(Dir: Jim Jarmusch, 2003, 96 mins) Jim Jarmusch recruits some of his actor mates and hip rock star pals for a thematic collection of short films that’s likely to try the patience of the most dedicated acolyte among his…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cold Creek Manor (15) **
(Dir: Mike Figgis, 2003, 119 mins) Just as you thought Mike Figgis had turned his back on the Hollywood mainstream forever, along comes this slick, derivative, fifteen-years-too-late, yuppies-in-peril popcorn flick.…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cold Fish (18)
Japan 2010 146 mins Subtitles Dir: Shion Sono Starring: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hikari Kajiwara, Megumi Kagurazaka, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa Still unreleased in the UK, Shion Sono's 2001 film 'Suicide Club' boasts one of the…03.06.2011 READ MORE -
Cold Mountain (15) ***
Release Date: 2003 (Dir: Anthony Minghella, 152 mins) A classy yet oddly uninvolving adaptation of Charles Frazier’s American Civil War novel, written and directed by the creator of The English Patient. It also suffers…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Cold Souls (12A) ****
(Dir: Sophie Barthes, 2009, 101 mins) Sophie Barthes’ Charlie Kaufman-esque feature debut tackles some pretty weighty themes while delivering more laughs than you might expect from a rather earnest writer/director who’s…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Collateral (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Mann, 2004, 120 mins) Michael Mann’s latest thriller is reliant upon coincidences that would make lesser talents balk and loses its way altogether in the formulaic last act, which self-consciously recalls…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Collateral Damage (12) **
(Dir: Andrew Davis, 2002, 109 mins) When L.A. fireman Arnie Schwarzenegger sees wife and kid killed in a Colombian terrorist's bombing and the government refusing to take action lest it damage negotiations and…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Collector, The (18) **
(Dir: Marcus Dunstan, 2010, 90 mins) Although ‘Saw’/‘Feast’ co-writer and debuting director Marcus Dunstan equips himself with all the necessary tools, and plenty of them, he brings nothing new to the torture porn…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Comandante (PG) ***
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 2003, 99 mins) Back in February 2002, Oliver Stone travelled to Cuba where he was granted unprecedented access to Fidel Castro, the US government’s favourite Cold War demon-on-their-doorstep. Ollie…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Comedie de l'innocence (PG) ***
(Dir: Raoul Ruiz, 2000, 100 mins) On the occasion of his ninth birthday, creepy kid Camille announces that it's time he went home to his mother. This comes as something of a surprise to Ariane (Isabelle Huppert), who…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Con Air (15) ***
(Dir: Simon West, 123 mins) The annual Jerry Bruckheimer action pic is something of a disappointment, delivering little more than a series of flashy images, rib-shaking explosions and wise-ass one-liners. Reluctant…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Concert, The (15) ***
(Dir: Radu Mihaileanu, 2009, 123 mins, subtitles) A tear-jerking arthouse audience-pleaser that shamelessly pushes middlebrow liberal buttons, this French-Romanian confection is as calculated as the most machine-tooled…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Confessions (15)
(Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010, 106 mins, subtitles) An exquisite, lyrical tale of cold-blooded vengeance in the idiosyncratic Japanese tradition of cruel schoolkid shockers ('Battle Royale', 'Suicide Club', etc),…06.04.2011 READ MORE -
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (15) ****
(Dir: George Clooney, 2002, 113 mins) Scripted by Charlie Kaufman, George Clooney’s directorial debut is based on a memoir that nobody believes to be true. For a first-time director there’s some breathtaking visual…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (PG) ***
(Dir: P.J. Hogan, 2009, 104 mins) Credit where credit's due. Feminists may foam at the sample sale catfights and the idea that women are validated by their wardrobe, but this non-alcoholic cocktail of ‘The Devil Wears…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (PG) **
(Dir: Sara Sugarman, 2004, 89 mins) A formulaic ‘Clueless’ meets’ Romy & Michelle’ vehicle for ‘Freaky Friday’ star Lindsay Lohan. When her divorced hippie mom (Glenne Headly) decides to relocate to suburban New Jersey,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Confetti (15) **
(Dir: Debbie Isitt, 2006, 104 mins) A low-rent Britcom that attempts to do the Christopher Guest mockumentary thing with a TV sitcom cast. Debbie Isitt’s penchant for exaggerated caricature undermines the required…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Confidence (15) ***
(Dir: James Foley, 2003, 98 mins) James Foley attempts a return to the intelligent drama of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, while Edward Burns seeks to shake off his reputation as modern cinema’s Mr. Smug, with this con flick…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Connie and Carla (12A) ***
(Dir: Michael Lembeck, 2004, 98 mins) Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are a pair of budding dinner theatre performers who go on the run from a murderous gangster, hiding out in the sequinned netherworld…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Conspiracy Theory (15) **
(Dir: Richard Donner, 136 mins) The first half-hour of this new thriller from the ‘Lethal Weapon’ team promises much more than it delivers, setting up Mel Gibson as a cabbie so paranoid that his coffee jar has a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Conspirators Of Pleasure (18) ****
(Dir: Jan Svankmajer, 75 mins) Incorrigible Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer’s wordless tale of a bunch of outwardly respectable Prague perverts preparing for a weekend explosion of fetishism features a mailwoman whose…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Constantine (15) ***
(Dir: Francis Lawrence, 2005, 121 mins) Pop vid director Francis Lawrence’s FX-heavy feature debut pits Keanu Reeves against Satan again and maintains a remarkable standard of silliness and bonkers theology all the way…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Contact (PG) **
(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 1997, 140 mins) For all its grand cosmic ideas, this visually impressive, intellectually flimsy SF movie would be impossible to take seriously without the conviction that Jodie Foster brings to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Contagion (12A)
USA 2011 106 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Ehle Steven Soderbergh fashions an old-skool, multi-character…21.10.2011 READ MORE -
Container (15) *
(Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 2006, 72 mins) Once-promising Swedish director Lukas Moodysson has said he expects his latest film to find an appreciative audience of seven people. One cannot help but feel he’s being wildly…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Contraband (15)
USA 2012 110 mins Dir: Baltasar Kormakur Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Caleb Landry Jones, J.K. Simmons Arthouse punters will know Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur as the man…16.03.2012 READ MORE -
Control (15) ****
(Dir: Anton Corbijn , 2007, 122 mins) Joy Division's iconic frontman Ian Curtis lived a short life that was more tragic than heroic, but he left behind and indelible cult reputation when he committed suicide in 1980,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Conviction (15)
(Dir: Tony Goldwyn, 2010, 107 mins) A formulaic slice of true-life tenacious blue collar heroine awards-bait in the 'Erin Brockovich' mould, 'Conviction' gets strong performances from a fine cast, but director Tony…12.01.2011 READ MORE -
Cookie’s Fortune (12) ***
(Dir: Robert Altman, 118 mins) Anyone hoping for a return to ‘Short Cuts’ form is likely to be disappointed by ‘Cookie’s Fortune’, which sees Robert Altman still stranded down south in potboiler territory. But this…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cool and Crazy (15) ***
(Dir: Knut Erik Jensen, 105 mins) This cult film festival favourite has much in common with Wim Wenders' 'Buena Vista Social Club', introducing as it does the mostly aged members of a musical troupe and following them…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cop Land (15) ****
(Dir: James Mangold, 105 mins) A small town on the Jersey shore has been settled by a large number of New York rozzers thanks to dodgy loans secured by uber-cop Harvey Keitel. But when Keitel’s foul-up nephew is…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cop Out (15) **
(Dir: Kevin Smith, 2010, 107 mins) Kevin Smith’s main achievement with this New York cop buddy flick is that over the best part of two hours he manages to sustain the level of annoyance generated by the film’s trailer.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Copycat (18) **
Jon (‘Sommersby’) Amiel’s wholly implausible serial killer thriller provides Sigourney Weaver with the opportunity to continue her run of damaged females that began with ‘Alien 3” and ‘Death and the Maiden’. Here she’s…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Copying Beethoven (12A) **
(Dir: Agnieszka Holland, 2006, 104 mins) A fictionalised biopic putting a feminist spin on the Beethoven story might have cut the mustard back in the early 80s, when such notions were in vogue, but there are likely to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Coraline (PG) *****
(Dir: Henry Selick, 2009, 101 mins) Henry Selick’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novella is already assured of a place in the record books as the longest stop-motion animation ever made and the first to be…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Coriolanus (15)
UK 2011 123 mins Dir: Ralph Fiennes Starring: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt Anyone remember Richard Loncraine's 'Richard III' with Ian McKellen? Ralph…20.01.2012 READ MORE -
Corpse Bride (PG) ****
(Dir: Tim Burton & Mike Johnson, 78 mins) Tim Burton’s second stop-motion animation delivers more macabre-lite fun, although those expecting the broad comedy implied by the trailer may be surprised to find a sweet and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cotton Mary (15) **
(Dir: Ismail Merchant, 123 mins) Post-colonial India in the fifties. John Macintosh (James Wilby) and his wife Lily (Greta Scacchi) are ensconced in a nice big colonial house in the heart of the conservative expatriate…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Country Strong (12A)
(Dir: Shana Feste, 2011, 117 mins) For all its relentless name-dropping, this glossy, soapy, woefully miscast Nashville backstage melodrama is more Shania Twain than Patsy Cline. Writer/director Shana Feste leaves no…23.03.2011 READ MORE -
Couples Retreat (15) **
(Dir: Peter Billingsley, 2009, 113 mins) ‘Swingers’ duo Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau reunite for a baggy, sporadically funny comedy about a quartet of couples who visit the Eden Resort on an idyllic tropical island of…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Courage Under Fire (15) ***
Midway through a chaotic late-night Gulf War attack, tank commander Denzel Washington blows away his best pal. Back in Washington, while he awaits the results of a hush-hush military investigation, he is assigned to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Couscous (15) ***
(Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007, 154 mins, subtitles) What feted French-Tunisian writer/director Abdellatif Kechiche needs is a bloody good editor. Many scenes in the over-praised, over-long ‘Couscous’ seem to drag on…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cousin Bette (15) **
(Dir: Des McCanuff, 108 mins) Embittered, frumpy Parisian spinster Bette (Jessica Lange) decides to serve her late cousin’s philandering ninny of a husband Hector (Hugh Laurie) and his selfish, flighty daughter Hortense…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cowboys and Aliens (12A)
USA 2011 118 mins Dir: Jon Favreau Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrsion Ford, Paul Dano, Olivia Wilde If 'Snakes on a Plane' taught us to beware of Ronseal movie-making, at least this all-in-the-title genre mash-up…17.08.2011 READ MORE -
Coyote Ugly (12) *
(Dir: David McNally, 100 mins) Yup, it’s a no-brainer about a quartet of unfeasibly comely, barely dressed serving wenches who strut up and down in front of a bar full of leering hicks, waggling their jugs in time to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cradle 2 The Grave (15) ***
(Dir:Andrzej Bartkowiak, 101 mins) This may not be the most stylishly choreographed martial arts movie of Jet Li's American career but is certainly the most violent and energetic. Currently the most screen reliable…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crank (18) ****
(Dir: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, 88 mins) This smart, exciting action movie cannily combines the premises of ‘DOA’ – the 1949 film in which Edmond O’Brien learns he has been fatally poisoned and has only a few days…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crank: High Voltage (18) ****
(Dir: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, 2009, 86 mins) The inevitable sequel to the pleasingly funny, violent, profane action flick does all the things inevitable sequels do: recapitulating the bits you loved in the first…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crash (18) *****
(Dir: David Cronenberg, 100 mins) Finally passed uncut by the BBFC, David Cronenberg’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s classic 1973 novel is a cool, insidiously disturbing study of an evolving human pathology based on…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crash (2005) (15) ***
(Dir: Paul Haggis, 113 mins) Written and directed by ‘Million Dollar Baby’ screenwriter Paul Haggis, this is a film seemingly intended to stimulate the white liberal guilt reflex, sometimes by subtly confronting its…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crazy Heart (15) ***
(Dir: Scott Cooper, 2009, 112 mins) Jeff Bridges gives a brilliant performance in what is really a pretty average movie as grizzled, flat-broke, much-married, 57-year-old country singer Bad Blake – a kind of…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A)
USA 2011 118 mins Dir: Glenn Ficara & John Requa Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon After a string of duds ('Date Night', 'Dinner for Schmucks', etc), Steve…23.09.2011 READ MORE -
Crazy/Beautiful (12) ***
(Dir: John Stockwell, 100 mins) A familiar Romeo and Juliet tale, offering the sort of role that's a badge of honour for any serious actress. While the ever-excellent Kirsten Dunst is equal to it she cannot raise the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Creation (PG) ***
(Dir: Jon Amiel, 2009, 108 mins) The obvious emotional way in to the Charles Darwin story for any dramatist seeking to snare mainstream audiences is to focus on the great man’s struggle with his faith, and that of his…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Creep (18) ***
(Dir: Chris Smith, 86 mins) As a calling card, Bristolian film-maker Chris Smith’s debut certainly demonstrates that he can direct with considerable style and verve. Whether he can write is another matter entirely.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crimetime (18) *
George Sluzier’s post-‘Vanishing’ downward career slide continues with this woefully inept would-be satire on the true crime re-enactment business. Conspicuously unsuccessful thesp Stephen Baldwin is cast as a serial…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Criminal (‘Nine Queens’ Remake) (15) ***
(Dir: Gregory Jacobs, 87 mins) Yup, it’s another pointless remake. This US version of Argentinean writer/director Fabian Bielinsky’s ingenious con flick mirrors the original film so closely that it might as well be a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Criminal Lovers (18) ****
(Dir: Francois Ozon, 92 mins) Brutal murder, male rape, cannibalism and a dash of light bondage are among the pleasures on offer in this dark, sexually charged thriller from ‘8 Women’ director Francois Ozon, which…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crimson Gold (12A) ***
(Dir: Jafar Panahi, 95 mins) A heist movie unlike any other, mainly because it’s scripted by Iranian cinema veteran Abbas Kiarostami. The one concession to the racy, Tarantino-esque multiple flashback format one expects…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles (PG) **
(Dir: Simon Wincer, 95 mins) With crocs now a protected species, Walkabout Creek's no nonsense Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is reduced to wrangling for the tourist trade. So when, after his most recent embarrassing…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cronos (18) ****
Elderly antiquarian Jesus Gris (Frederico Luppi) happens upon a 16th century alchemist's immortality device, which promptly sinks its metal spikes into the palm of his hand leaving him with a craving for blood and a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crossing Over (18) **
(Dir: Wayne Kramer, 2009, 113 mins) Since ‘Crash’ bagged three Oscars with a heavy-handed and contrived mosaic drama, someone seems to have concluded that twice as many gongs could be won by repeating the trick with an…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (12A) ***
(Dir: Fatih Akin, 92 mins) One of the problems with many boring world music documentaries pitched at western middle class audiences is their exoticism and fetishising of cultural ‘authenticity’. What they tend to ignore…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crossroads (PG) ***
(Dir: Tamra Davis, 90 mins) Yup, it’s Britney Spears’ movie debut. Luckily, she can actually act, and while it may be full dairy cheese this is still vastly better than Mariah Carey's 'Glitter'. Overprotective dad (Dan…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (12) *****
(Dir: Ang Lee, 120 mins) Masterly Ang Lee brains-up that laziest of genres, the martial arts movie, with a complex, involving tale of love, honour, loyalty, repression and rebellion within a strictly regimented society,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Croupier (15) **
(Dir: Mike Hodges, 90 mins) Clive Owen is a would-be writer of hardboiled fiction whose dodgy old man fixes him up with a job as a croupier in a middle-ranking casino. This displeases his store detective girlfriend…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cruel Intentions (15) ***
(Dir: Roger Kumble, 97 mins) Yes, it's 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' all over again as the current mania for US teen remakes of classic drama continues with a cast straight out of all those post-modern horror flicks and a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crush (2002) (15) **
(Dir: John McKay, 112 mins) Every week, unwed prim American headmistress Andie MacDowell, sarcastic multiple divorcee doctor with a thing for rich patients Anna Chancellor, and frumpy single mother police inspector…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cry Wolf (15) **
(Dir: Jeff Wadlow, 90 mins) Students of pop culture’s ravenous self-consumption, and genre buffs who’ll lap up any old shit, will be quick to observe that this production-line horror’s one Big Idea is recycled from…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Crying Freeman (18) **
(Dri: Christophe Gans, 102 mins) The first ever live-action Manga flick casts martial arts star Mark Dacascos as the eponymous lachrymose executioner for an ancient Chinese warrior cult. His skills range from being able…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cube (15) ****
(Dir: Vincenzo Natali, 92 mins) Six people wake up in an eerily-lit, box-like rooms with hatch-like exits in the centre of each side. Through the walls can be heard the grinding sounds of distant machinery. None of them…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Curious George (U) ***
(Dir: Matthew O’Callaghan, 86 mins) 2D animation is supposed to be dead. What’s more, adaptations of much-loved kiddiefiction tend to be disappointing. Just look at how ill-served dear old Dr. Seuss has been. All of…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Curse of the Golden Flower (15) ****
(Dir: Zhang Yimou, 2006, 114 mins, subtitles) Eye-candy doesn’t get any more intoxicating than Zhang Yimou’s self-consciously Shakespearian melodrama. It’s reportedly the most expensive film ever made in China, and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cursed (15) **
(Dir: Wes Craven, 97 mins) The ‘Scream’ writer/director team of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven reunited for this aptly-titled, troubled werewolf flick that isn’t quite as dreadful as one might anticipate. The film’s…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cutthroat Island (PG) ***
When Renny Harlin’s $90 million pirate movie vehicle for his real-life love interest Geena Davis sank at the US box office, so too did production company Carolco. Even so, if you have a nostalgic love for this…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cyclo (18) ****
The second film from Tran Anh Hung, the gifted Vietnamese director of ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’, is an uncompromising look into a moral abyss. Shot on location in bustling Ho Chi Min City, its protagonist is a teenage…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cypher (15) ***
(Dir: Vincenzo Natali, 95 mins) Canadian director Vincenzo Natali follows his cult debut ‘Cube’ with a ‘Manchurian Candidate’-by-way-of-‘Total Recall’ near-future identity confusion thriller. The classy credits sequence…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Cyrus (15) ****
(Dir: Jay and Mark Duplass, 2010, 91 mins) New York DIY mumblecore duo Mark and Jay Duplass get their Hollywood moment without compromising their signature style. Despite the marquee cast and relatively straightforward…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Cyrus (15) ****
(Dir: Jay and Mark Duplass, 2010, 91 mins) New York DIY mumblecore duo Mark and Jay Duplass get their Hollywood moment without compromising their signature style. Despite the marquee cast and relatively straightforward…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Czech Dream (12A) ***
(Dir: Vit Klusak & Filip Remunda, 90 mins) What happens when the Michael Moore/Morgan Spurlock/Yes Men school of corporation-baiting political stunts goes global? In rapidly changing post-communist Prague, film school…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Ceremonie (15) ***
Elderly New Waver Claude Chabrol’s transposition of Ruth Rendell’s ‘A Judgement In Stone’ to rural France. Jacqueline Bisset manages to interview potential housekeeper Sandrine Bonnaire without being alerted by her…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Cienaga (12) **
(Dir: Lucrecia Martel, 100 mins) 'La Cienaga' is Spanish for 'The Swamp', but while Lucrecia Martel's debut does feature a muddy bog in which small children take pot shots at a stranded cow, its title is largely…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Comunidad (15) ****
(Dir: Alex de la Iglesia, 110 mins) Alex de la Iglesia, the naughty Spaniard who isn’t Pedro Almodovar, returns to form with this overblown, blackly comic and cheekily Hitchcockian satire on greed and its power to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Captive (15) **
(Dir: Chantal Akerman, 112 mins) Belgian minimalist Chantal Akerman plunders book five of Proust’s 'In Search of Lost Time'), but having pared away much of its content and texture to leave only the musical motifs (loads…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG)
(Dir: Michael Apted, 2010, 113 mins) For the benefit of slower children watching this overtly religious conclusion to CS Lewis's god-bothering fantasy trilogy, just prior to the Parting of the Narnian Sea sequence (no,…08.12.2010 READ MORE -
The Confessional (15) ***
Stage director Robert Lepage’s award-winning debut feature is a visually stunning if somewhat cold and unengaging blend of psychological thriller and navel-gazing meditation on the nature of identity. In 1989, a man is…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Consequences of Love (15) ****
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The Constant Gardener (15) *****
(Dir: Fernando Meirelles, 2005, 129 mins) Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles proves his stunning ‘City of God’ wasn’t a flash in the pan. An angry, atypical, post-Cold War entry in the John Le Carre oeuvre, ‘The…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Cooler (15) ***
(Dir: Wayne Kramer, 102 mins) Boasting William H. Macy at his most hangdog, an Oscar-nominated performance by under-used Alec Baldwin, and a script that was no doubt pitched as “‘Casino’ meets ‘Intacto’,”…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Core (12A) ***
(Dir: Jon Amiel, 135 mins) Yes, it’s two-hours-plus of B-listers battling to save the planet from occasionally wobbly special effects that herald one of the most risible threats to mankind in movie history. Dishevelled…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Corporation (PG) ****
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The Corrupter (18) **
(Dir: James Foley, 110 mins) What with the dismally lame 'Replacement Killers' and now this embarrassment, the chances of John Woo's alter-ego translating Hong Kong stardom to Hollywood is looking ever more remote. Here…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Cottage (18) **
(Dir: Paul Andrew Williams, 2008, 92 mins) Brit director Paul Andrew Williams’ follow up to the justly lauded ‘London to Brighton’ simply doesn’t work. There are a couple of laughs here, along with some knowing…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Count of Monte Cristo (PG) ****
(Dir: Kevin Reynolds, 131 mins) Sniffy critics will object to its liberties with a novel that nobody's read, but handsome, old-fashioned matinee swashbucklers don't get much more fun than this. Jim Caviezel gets the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Counterfeiters (15) ****
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The Cove (12A) *****
(Dir: Louie Psihoyos, 2009, 91 mins) Every year in the Japanese town of Taiji, 23,000 dolphins are driven into an isolated cove and hacked, slashed and beaten to death until the sea is stained deep crimson with their…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Covenant (12A) *
(Dir: Renny Harlin, 97 mins) Reliable crapmaster Renny Harlin’s risible, wholly derivative supernatural thriller plays like ‘The Lost Boys’ meets ‘The Craft’. Harlin connoisseurs will be delighted to find that his usual…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Cradle Will Rock (12) ***
(Dir: Tim Robbins, 133 mins) The true story behind this slice of American theatrical history is so remarkable that it virtually sustains writer/producer/director Tim Robbins's enjoyably rambling film for over two hours.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Craft (15) **
A supernatural teen which promises much but delivers a decidedly unspellbinding formulaic romp replete with expensive FX and that mandatory all-purpose alternative rock soundtrack. Wholesome new kid in school Robin…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crazies (15) ***
(Dir: Breck Eisner, 2010, 101 mins) In the sleepy small town of Ogen Marsh, Iowa, folksy Sheriff David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) is alarmed at reports of a plane crash in the marshland upstream, leaking something nasty…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crime of Father Amaro (15) ***
(Dir: Carlos Carrera, 118 mins) The Vatican lobbied to have this adaptation of a 19th century Portuguese novel banned, and it’s now officially the biggest box office hit in Mexico’s history. Perhaps tellingly, of the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Criminal (15) ***
(Dir: Julian Simpson, 89 mins) The strength of writer/director Julian Simpson's promising first feature, a contemporary urban thriller with film noir overtones, lies in that rarest of film-making skills, credible and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (PG) ****
(Dir: Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward, 2009, 78 mins) A year in the making, Disney’s first big screen nature documentary in almost 50 years is a stunningly beautiful film telling the remarkable and emotional story of…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (PG) **
(Dir: John Stainton, 89 mins) Over-animated outback reptile wrangler, conservationist and Professional Australian Steve Irwin’s USP is that he tracks down some of the world’s most dangerous animals and then proceeds to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crow: City Of Angels (18) **
British pop promo director Tim Pope’s necrophiliac sequel to the film that did for Brandon Lee makes an attempt to get back to the cathartic purity of James O’Barr’s original comic book, but while the setting has…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Crucible (12) ***
(Dir: Nicholas Hytner, 123 mins) Arthur Miller’s classic ‘50s play about the 1692 Salem witch trials is given Rolls-Royce performances in Nicholas (‘The Madness of King George) Hytner’s adaptation, with Daniel Day-Lewis…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Cup (PG) ***
(Dir: Khyentse Norbu, 93 mins) A piece of cinematic history, 'The Cup' is the first film ever to be made in the Tibetan language and also the first to be directed by an authentic revered lama. Plotwise, it's a little…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (12A) **
(Dir: David Fincher, 2008, 166 mins) David Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth take a minor ‘Dorian Gray’-esque short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald and blow it up into a bloated, overlong, sentimental epic. Be warned that…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (12A) ***
(Dir: Woody Allen, 103 mins) In his 30th film, Woody Allen plays a ‘40s gumshoe working for Dan Aykroyd’s insurance company. Trouble is, Aykroyd has brought in no-nonsense “efficiency expert” Helen Hunt as part of a…09.08.2010 READ MORE
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