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A Dangerous Method (15)
UK/Germany/Canada/Switzerland 2011 100 mins Dir: David Cronenberg Starring: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon Keira Knightley writhes, moans, howls and juts her already…10.02.2012 READ MORE -
D-Tox (18) ***
(Dir: Jim Gillespie, 92 mins) This perversely-entertaining, jumped-up B picture plays well as a slasher movie with a top-of-the-second-division supporting cast and an impressive if unlikely central location. FBI agent…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Daddy Day Camp (PG) *
(Dir: Fred Savage, 2007, 89 mins) In the relentlessly mirthless ‘Daddy Day Care’, Eddie Murphy and Jeff Carlin teamed up to establish an affordable neighbourhood day care centre despite their negligible parenting…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Daddy Day Care (PG) **
(Dir: Steve Carr, 92 mins) Unable to regain his winning streak with grown up punters, Eddie Murphy retreats to Dr DoNutty Professor land and goes for the Rugrats brigade again. Expect them to demand their pocket money…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dallas Doll (18) ***
Like a vulgar antipodean reworking of Pasolini's 'Theorem', Ann ('Celia') Turner's third film has a mysterious bisexual outsider - in the distinctive form of Sandra Bernhard - insinuating herself into an ostensibly…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Damnation (15) **
(Dir: Bela Tarr, 120 mins) A slice of unremitting existential bleakness from Hungarian director Bela Tarr set in a permanently rain-soaked, unnamed Central European hellhole whose denizens certainly don’t disappoint in…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Damsels in Distress (12A)
USA 2011 99 mins Dir: Whit Stillman Starring: Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Analeigh Tipton, Hugo Becker Missing in action since 1998's 'The Last Days of Disco', unprolific US indie director Whit…27.04.2012 READ MORE -
Dan in Real Life (PG) **
(Dir: Peter Hedges, 2007, 99 mins) A lightweight romcom taking a premise and setting familiar from the grossout/embarrassment/cruelty comedy genres and attempting to sweeten it up for more sensitive audiences.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dance Flick (15) *
(Dir: Damien Wayans, 2009, 83 mins) The trouble with setting out to spoof the plague of teen dance flicks is that they all have much the same ‘Romeo and Juliet’-plundering plot: corn-fed white ballerina falls for rough…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dance Of The Wind (U) ***
(Dir: Rajan Khosa, 85 mins) Indian singer Pallavi learns her craft at the feet of her aged mother Devi in a 5,000 year-old Hindustani oral tradition. When dear old mum pops her clogs, Pallavi is so devastated that she…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dancer in the Dark (15) ***
(Dir: Lars Von Trier, 140 mins) Von Trier's controversial Palme D’Or-winning musical melodrama left Bjork with a best actress award on her mantelpiece. Set in a small American town, it features the Icelandic pop pixie…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dancing At Lughnasa (PG) **
(Dir: Pat O’Connor, 95 mins) Meryl Streep gets do an Irish accent in Pat O'Connor's dreary adaptation of the hit stage play by Brian Friel. This is the story of a quintet of ‘30s rural Irish spinsters battling, in a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dangerous Minds (15) **
Truth can be more difficult to believe than fiction, as this Hollywood version of ex-marine turned English teacher LouAnne Johnson's book 'My Posse Don't Do Homework' proves conclusively. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dangerous Parking (18) *
(Dir: Peter Howitt, 2008, 110 mins) Do you really want to spend the best part of two hours inside the head of a self-confessed “alcoholic, drug-abusing, arrogant bastard”? Although it’s based on the cult…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dans Paris (15) *
(Dir: Christophe Honore, 2007, 93 mins, subtitles) A Gallic patience-tester that craves your indulgence as un homage to the French Nouvelle Vague, this slight and irritating offering heaps on the plinky-plonky jazz…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dante's Peak (12) ***
(Dir: Roger Donaldson, 109 mins) The diasaster movie revival continues with this volcano epic, which recycles the ‘Twister’ format of incredible FX and 1940s’ B movie scripting. Pierce Brosnan is the sensitive…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Daratt (PG) ***
(Dir: Mahamat-Salah Haroun, 2006, 95 mins, subtitles) 2006. Chad’s Truth and Justice Commission has just granted amnesty to all war criminals. In a remote village, 16-year-old Atim’s (Ali Bacha) blind grandfather (Oumar…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Daredevil (15) ****
(Dir: Mark Steven Johnson, 105 mins) Clad in red leather and armed with a billy club, Daredevil is Marvel's answer to Batman: a haunted vigilante driven to avenge the death of a parent. Except the radioactive gunk that…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark Blue (15) ***
(Dir: Ron Shelton, 116 mins) A routine cop buddy movie, pairing the cynical older rule-bender with the young idealist, which hopes to gain additional resonance by being set in LA during April 1992, just as the Rodney…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark Blue World (12) **
(Jan Sverak, 119 mins) After 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Charlotte Gray', here's yet another poorly scripted yet handsomely photographed wartime love triangle yarn, whose cumulative effect is like being carpet-bombed with war…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark City (15) ***
(Dir: Alex Proyas, 97 mins) In a haunting, sci-fi-cum-film-noir urban environment, Rufus Sewell is the lone human able to thwart the cold machinations of a colony of subterranean bald aliens. Pursued by his concerned…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark Days (15) ***
(Dir: Marc Singer, 84 mins) We've seen documentaries about New York's 'tunnel people' before, but never anything quite like 'Dark Days'. Director Marc Singer decided to join them for a couple of years, recruiting his…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark Water (15) ****
(Dir: Hideo Nakata, 101 mins) The latest spookfest from ‘Ring’ writer Koji Suzuki and director Hideo Nakata is a genuinely haunting tale, which offers only a couple of jolts and no cheap shocks. From the outset, the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dark Water (US Remake) (15) ***
(Dir: Walter Salles, 107 mins) Yet another US remake of a creepy Japanese horror flick. The set-up is serviceable: neurotic young mother Jennifer Connelly and her five-year-old daughter Ariel Gade move into an ominous…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Darkness (15) ***
(Dir: Jaume Balagueró, 88 mins) This seems as if it’s going to be one familiar type of horror movie (cf: ‘The Shining’, ‘The Amityville Horror’), as a troubled family move into a house with a horrid secret and are…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Darkness Falls (15) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Liebesman, 85 mins) An undemanding ‘Jeepers Creepers’-style romp whose first-time director, Jonathan Liebesman, delivers an entertaining, irony-free rejigging of all the usual cliches. Down in the New…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Darwin’s Nightmare (15) ***
(Dir: Hubert Sauper, 107 mins) In recent years, the Nile perch has become Tanzania’s biggest export to the EU, with tonnes of fish being air-freighted out every week. Superficially, this looks this is a rare economic…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Date Movie (12A) *
(Dir: Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer, 83 mins) “From two of the six writers of ‘Scary Movie’,” this aims to do for the romcom what their earlier ‘Spy Hard’ did for espionage flicks. There’s no actual satire in these…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Date Night (15) **
(Dir: Shawn Levy, 2010, 88 mins) A sub-‘After Hours’ romp yielding just about enough larfs to prevent audiences feeling cheated, the chief merit of ‘Date Night’ is that it gets the job done in a brisk 88 minutes. If…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Date Night (15) **
(Dir: Shawn Levy, 2010, 88 mins) A sub-‘After Hours’ romp yielding just about enough larfs to prevent audiences feeling cheated, the chief merit of ‘Date Night’ is that it gets the job done in a brisk 88 minutes. If…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (15) ***
(Dir: Michel Gondry, 103 mins) If you're down with the hip-hop rap vibe this is a must-see latterday answer to 1973's ‘Wattstax’, albeit without the high profile politics. In September 2004, TV star comedian Chappelle…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dawn of the Dead (18) ***
(Dir: Jack Snyder, 100 mins) George Romero's grim 1978 shopping mall zombie movie ‘re-imagined’ as an apocalyptic action film. Surprisingly, director Jack Snyder and scripter James Gunn retain enough of the original…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Day Of The Beast, The (18) ****
(Dir: Alex de la Iglesia, 110 mins) Infelicitously named Angel Berriatua is an inoffensive-looking professor of theology who has concluded that the Antichrist will be born on Christmas Day in Madrid. Trouble is, it’s…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Day Watch (15) ***
(Dir: Timur Bekmambetov, 2006, 131 mins, subtitles) You’d be advised to embark on a refresher course before tackling part two of Timur Bekmambetov’s projected trilogy known universally as “Russia’s answer to ‘The…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Daybreakers (15) ***
(Dir: Michael and Peter Spierig, 2009, 98 mins) In 2019, ten years after a vampire plague has infected almost everyone, a more-or-less functioning, night-time society has been organised on futuristic fascist lines with…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Daylight (12) ***
(Dir Rob Cohen, 115 mins) Director Rob Cohen and screenwriter/star Sly Stallone’s ordinary-folks-trapped-in-a-tunnel disaster flick makes a genuine attempt at credibility rather than serving up the genre’s usual…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Days of Glory (12A) ****
(Dir: Rachid Bouchareb, 2006, 120 mins) This is all very familiar: the small group of soldiers who bond as we follow them through a series of battles, the shouty sergeant charged with knocking them into shape, the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
De-Lovely (PG) **
(Dir: Irwin Winkler, 125 mins) Though a marriage of convenience (he preferred men, she wanted to sustain her social position), the union of Cole Porter (Kevin Kline) and Linda Thomas (Ashley Judd) was also founded on a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead End (15) ***
(Dir: Jean-Baptiste Andrea & Fabrice Canepa, 85 mins) Finally, the neglected misanthropic gorehound market finally gets its first festive feelbad fix since Bob Clark’s ‘Black Christmas’ back in 1974. It’s Christmas Eve…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man (18) **
Jim Jarmusch’s two-hour, black and white western with a rumbling, feedbacktastic Neil Young soundtrack and cameos from the likes of Bob Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne and Alfred Molina. Having spent all his money on…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man Running (15) **
(Dir: Alex De Rakoff, 2009, 91 mins) The ‘Football Factory’/‘The Business’ team of Tamer Hassan and rent-a-geezer Danny Dyer reunite for a race-against-time mission: they’ve got just 90 screen minutes to indulge in…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man Walking (15) ****
Tim Robbins’ intensely powerful, moving and complex true story of Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean (Oscar winner Susan Sarandon) and her relationship with arrogant, casually racist, white trash Death Row prisoner…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man's Curve (15) ****
(Dir: Dan Rosen, 86 mins) Under a little-known, probably apocryphal ruling, American students whose room mates commit suicide are automatically granted straight A grades to ease their trauma. Concerned Chris (Michael…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man’s Cards (18) **
(Dir: James Marquand, 90 mins) First-time director/writer/producer James Marquand has turned out quite a calling card with this gritty Scouse gangland tale, which is most likely to be remembered for veteran Tom Bell’s…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Man’s Shoes (18) ****
(Dir: Shane Meadows, 86 mins) Given that Shane Meadows has been tagged, half-jokingly, “Uttoxeter's Martin Scorsese”, Paddy Considine must be his Bob De Niro. And if ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ gives him another peach of a role,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Presidents (18) **
Albert And Allen Hughes, the young brothers who gave us the grim urban truths of ‘Menace II Society’, overstretch themselves with this broader canvas which combines in the Vietnam war, the birth of radical black…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dead Silence (15) **
(Dir: James Wan, 2007, 89 mins) ‘Saw’ creators James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell take a left turn with this traditional, largely gore-free ghostie story centring on a malevolent ventriloquist’s dummy. It’s a very poor…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dean Spanley (U) ***
(Dir: Toa Fraser, 2008, 100 mins) A slight but oddly delightful barking mad period drama, throughout which Peter O’Toole wears an extraordinary expression like a botox experiment gone horribly wrong, ‘Dean Spanley’…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dear Frankie (12A) **
(Dir: Shona Auerbach, 104 mins) Yet another of those Britflicks that seem to be written to a rigid formula, apparently encouraged by grant-giving bodies. Big Social Ishoo? Check (domestic violence). Disability? Check…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dear John (12A) *
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2010, 108 mins) Lasse Hallstrom’s adaptation of a teen girl-oriented Nicholas Sparks novel gives away its main twist in the title, so a spot of terminal disease is chucked in to keep those tear…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Dear John (12A) *
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2010, 108 mins) Lasse Hallstrom’s adaptation of a teen girl-oriented Nicholas Sparks novel gives away its main twist in the title, so a spot of terminal disease is chucked in to keep those tear…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Dear Wendy (15) **
(Dir: Thomas Vinterberg, 105 mins) A crushingly obvious and clunky allegory, written by dogmatic Dane Lars Von Trier and directed by Thomas ‘Festen’ Vinterberg. The cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle is typically…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, The (12A) **
(Dir: Burr Steers, 2010, 99 mins) Personable tweenage heartthrob Zac Efron re-teams with Burr (’17 Again’) Steers for this adaptation of a sub-Nicholas Sparks bestseller. Alas, gloopy supernatural melodrama is clearly…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Death and the Maiden (18) ****
Roman Polanski's engrossing adaptation of Ariel Dorfman's stage play, set in an imaginary South American country just after the fall of its dictatorship, opens with nervy Sigourney Weaver awaiting the return of her…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death at a Funeral (15) **
(Dir: Frank Oz, 2007, 90 mins) Muppet man Frank Oz comes home to stage a farce that combines old-school with grossout in such a way that when trousers are pulled down people get covered in shit. But having established…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death at a Funeral (US) (15) **
(Dir: Neil LaBute, 2010, 92 mins) Why remake in the US with an African-American cast (Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Danny Glover, etc) a British farce that wasn’t very funny and which nobody went to see in the first…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Death Defying Acts (PG) ***
(Dir: Gillian Armstrong, 2007, 96 mins) Gillian Armstrong’s handsomely staged period drama promises spectacular supernatural feats in a style reminiscent of ‘The Prestige’ and ‘The Illusionist’. It’s 1926, and legendary…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death Proof (18) ***
(Dir: Quentin Tarantino, 2007, 113 mins) Stripped of its context as part of the ‘Grindhouse’ double-bill – complete with scratchy prints and fake trailers - ‘Death Proof’ looks like exactly what it is: an 80 minute film…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death Race (15) **
(Dir: Paul W.S. Anderson, 2008, 105 mins) Extract the modest social satire from that campy 1975 cult hit ‘Death Race 2000’ and you’ve got ‘Death Race’. And who better to serve up non-stop vehicular carnage and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Death Sentence (18) **
(Dir: James Wan, 2007, 105 mins) If a movie tells you in its title that it will concentrate on gritty action but opens with a happy family home movie montage spotlighting Kevin Bacon as a loving upper middle-class…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deathwatch (15) ***
(Dir: Michael J. Bassett, 95 mins) Imagine William Boyd’s ‘The Trench’ set in a much soggier and more rat-infested hell-hole, with all the same ‘toff officers vs working class soldiers’ tensions, plus an agreeable…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deception (18) **
(Dir: John Frankenheimer, 105 mins) Like veteran director Frankenheimer's absurdly overrated 'Ronin', this twisty thriller looks and feels like a film from the mid-60s. Yet the plot recalls a cheapo '50s 'B' noir,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deception (2008) (15) ***
(Dir: Marcel Langenganger, 2008, 110 mins) Though it spins out of that archetypal 21st Century mix-up, exchanged mobile phones, this is a throwback to the ‘erotic thrillers’ of the mid-1990s. The script would like to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deck the Halls (PG) *
(Dir: John Whitesell, 95 mins) The first Hollywood movie to celebrate light pollution, ‘Deck the Halls’ promises Danny DeVito in agreeable nasty little weasel mode, but any hopes of another ‘Bad Santa’ are swiftly…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deconstrcuting Harry (18) ****
(Dir: Woody Allen, 98 mins) That’s right – a Woody Allen film with an ‘18’ certificate: an extraordinary, often hilarious outburst of vulgarity, which seems to have been conceived as a defiant riposte to those who seek…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep Blue (PG) ***
(Dir: Andy Byatt/Alastair Fothergill, 91 mins) Better titled ‘Blue Planet: The Movie’, this comprises footage from the BBC’s superb briny-oriented series edited down to 90 minutes and tied together with a rather…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep Blue Sea (15) ***
(Dir: Renny Harlin, 104 mins) This is very silly indeed. But it craves forgiveness by revelling in its absurdity, delivering all the shocks and entertainment you could possibly want along the way. Face it: the best you…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep Crimson (18) ****
(Dir: Arturo Ripstein, 114 mins) Already filmed once before by Leonard Kastle as ‘The Honeymoon Killers’, this notorious American true story is transposed to Mexico by Bunuel’s former assistant Arturo Ripstein, who…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep End of the Ocean (12) ****
(Dir: Ulu Grosbard, 108 mins) 1988, Madison, Wisconsin. Working photographer mother Michelle Pfeiffer turns her back on her kids for a few minutes, only to find middle sibling Ben, aged three, has vanished. A fruitless…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep Impact (12) *
(Dir: Mimi Leder, 120 mins) A fragmented, tedious, lachrymose sci-fi soap about a vast comet on collision course with the Earth, ‘Peacemaker’ director Mimi Leder’s second film boasts a script by Michael (‘The Player’)…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deep Water (PG) ****
(Dir: Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell, 93 mins) An affinity with those who bob about on the briny is no prerequisite for enjoying this extraordinary, largely forgotten tale in the ‘Touching the Void’ vein. The difference…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Defiance (15) **
(Dir: Ed Zwick, 2008, 137 mins) Based loosely on a fascinating true story and flatly directed by Ed Zwick, with poor characterisation and an overly manipulative score, ‘Defiance’ follows a quartet of unlikely brothers…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Definitely, Maybe (12A) **
(Dir: Adam Brooks, 2008, 111 mins) A machine-tooled Working Title romcom product from the writer of ‘Wimbledon’, which foolishly endeavours to make a romantic leading man out of piggy-eyed charisma-vacuum Ryan Reynolds.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deja Vu (12A) ***
(Dir: Tony Scott, 126 mins) An existential time-slip thriller with Denzel Washington doing his familiar decent and driven routine as an ATF agent called in to investigate when a ferry explodes killing US Navy families…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Delbaran (PG) **
(Dir: Abolfazl Jalili, 97 mins) The cinema of minimalism reaches a new plateau of narrative austerity with this extravagantly praised film from Iran, which boasts little dialogue, virtually no music and not much of a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Delicacy (12A)
France 2011 109 mins Subtitles Dir: David & Stephane Foenkinos Starring: Audrey Tautou, Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Pio Marmai Nobody ever lost money making an art movie about a beautiful woman who defies the…13.04.2012 READ MORE -
Delta (18) **
(Dir: Kornel Mundruczo, 2008, 96 mins, subtitles) Slow, grim Hungarian incest drama, anybody? After the death of original star Lajos Bertok during filming, musician Felix Lajko took over the relatively undemanding role…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Denise Calls Up (15) ***
A sporadically funny, occasionally insightful metropolitan comedy focusing on a group of New York professionals whose ‘friendships’ exist only on the telephone. Everyone’s calling everyone else but no one’s making an…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Departures (12A) ***
(Dir: Yojiro Takita, 2008, 130 mins, subtitles) It certainly didn’t deserve 2009’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but this leisurely Japanese comedy-drama isn’t quite as dreary or cheesily uplifting as those…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Derailed (15) **
(Dir: Mikael Hafstrom, 107 mins) Jennifer Aniston comes over all femme fataley for what begins as a throwback to all those reactionary AIDS-era message movies about infidelity and then proceeds to get very silly indeed…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Desperado (18) ****
Robert Rodriguez’s ‘El Mariachi’ remake/sequel has a fearsome Mexican (Antonio Banderas), with a guitar case full of weaponry, on the trail of a druglord who once killed the woman he loved. The plot may be familiar…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Desperate Measures (15) ***
(Dir: Barbet Schroeder, 100 mins) The plot in full: ‘Desperate cop with sick son needs an urgent bone marrow donor. But the only person in the city with a compatible match is an imprisoned psychopath.’ Yes, it’s a very…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Despicable Me (U) **
(Dir: Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud, 2010, 95 mins) An underwhelming, only intermittently funny 3D animation, ‘Despicable Me’ promises much but eventually delivers little more than yet another sickening and predictable…13.10.2010 READ MORE -
Destinees Sentimentales, Les (12) ****
(Dir: Olivier Assayas, 180 mins) A three-hour costume drama with lots of frocks, sticky-on facial hair and horse-drawn carriages from hip French director Olivier Assayas might come as a surprise. What it's not, however,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Destricted (18) **
(Dir: Marina Abramovic/Matthew Barney/Marco Brambilla/Larry Clark/Gaspar Noe/Richard Prince/Sam Taylor Wood, 118 mins) This latest cause celebre in the artporn debate is a compilation of seven short films. Five of them…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Detroit Rock City (15) ***
(Dir: Adam Rifkin, 95 mins) We're back in 1978 middle America, a nation split in twain by disco fever and Kiss mania. Edward Furlong is the cool one among our youthful protagonists, Giuseppe Andrews his big lug of a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (15) *
(Dir: Mike Bigelow, 82 mins) A revolting and excruciatingly unfunny sequel to the surprisingly quite sweet ‘Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo’. Clutching her artificial leg after the rest of wife Kate was eaten by sharks,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (15) ***
(Dir: Mike Mitchell, 88 mins) Former Saturday Night Live comedian Rob Schneider plays Deuce, a man dedicated to his profession as a fish tank cleaner. But after a disastrous chain reaction of accidents in the home of a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Devil (15) **
(Dir: John Erick Dowdle, 2010, 80 mins) Conceived but not directed by M. Night Shyamalan, this brief locked room horror flick proves more entertaining, and less flatulent, than Shyamalan’s own post-‘Sixth Sense’ output.…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Devil in a Blue Dress (15) ***
Denzel Washington is Easy Rawlins, an unemployed ex-GI persuaded by sleazy Tom Sizemore to help locate a mayoral candidate's runaway fiancee (Jennifer Beals), who is known to have a taste for blue dresses and "dark…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Devil's Island ****
(Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 103 mins) It’s the bright dawn of the sixties, but on the grim outskirts of Reykjavik the Icelandic underclass are holed up in crumbling deserted Nissen huts originally built for US…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Diabolique (18) **
A pointless remake of a 1955 French classic, this lame melodrama-cum-thriller begins interestingly but before long spins out of control into pastiche and lame self-parody - which is not ideal for a film that is…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) ***
(Dir: Thor Freudenthal, 2010, 92 mins) It’s clumsily episodic and there’s a big tidy moral at the end, but this adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s popular ‘cartoon novel’ makes a pleasant change from recent dweebcoms since its…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) ***
(Dir: Thor Freudenthal, 2010, 92 mins) It’s clumsily episodic and there’s a big tidy moral at the end, but this adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s popular ‘cartoon novel’ makes a pleasant change from recent dweebcoms since its…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (U)
USA 1011 99 mins Dir: David Bowers Starring: Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Rachael Harris, Robert Capron, Steve Zahn Last year's first 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' film was an unexpected hit, despite some decidedly sniffy…27.05.2011 READ MORE -
Diary of the Dead (18) ***
(Dir: George A. Romero, 2007, 95 mins) George A. Romero’s fifth romp through zombieland sees him somewhat behind the curve in discovering ‘Cloverfield’-esque amateur wobblecam and the YouTube phenomenon. That’s not to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (12A) **
(Dir: Sam Weisman, 98 mins) This latest vehicle for David Spade boasts a premise so appealing that it’ll put a smile on your face before you even enter the cinema. Whether it’ll still be there when you emerge 98 minutes…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (PG) *
(Dir: Marc Lawrence, 2009, 103 mins) New York real estate queen Meryl Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker) is separated from her dithery British lawyer husband Paul (Hugh Grant), but he’s contrite about his one-time infidelity…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Die Another Day (12A) ***
(Dir: Lee Tamahori, 135 mins) Like a dependable if somewhat worn pair of old slippers, the James Bond franchise has settled into a comfortable late middle-aged groove, delivering exactly what you expect in the order you…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Die Hard 4.0 (15) ***
(Dir: Len Wiseman, 2007, 129 mins) This fourth ‘Die Hard’ flick delivers all the old-school stunts and thick-ear hardware destruction that franchise punters crave, forcing weary old Bruce Willis to earn his $25m crust…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
DiG! (15) ****
(Dir: Ondi Timoner, 107 mins) You don’t need to have heard of the Dandy Warhols or the Brian Jonestown Massacre to enjoy this latest excellent ‘rockumentary’. Their respective founders, Courtney Taylor and Anton…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Digimon: The Movie (PG) **
(Dir: Mamoru Hasada, 88 mins) The Pokemon rip-off follows its fast fading rival by making the leap from TV byte-sized chunks to the big screen. No surprise to find it's not exactly Disney either. For latecomers,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Diner de Cons, Le (15) ****
(Dir: Francis Veber, 80 mins) Adapted all-too-obviously from a stage play, this small but perfectly formed little black comedy of cruelty and revenge centres on a bunch of obnoxious professionals who regularly gather to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dinner for Schmucks (12A) ***
(Dir: Jay Roach, 2010, 112 mins) Jay Roach remakes Francis Veber’s ‘Le Diner de Cons’. But whereas the original film was an economical, astringent black comic chamber piece, this Americanised version runs for more than…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Dinner for Schmucks (15) ***
(Dir: Jay Roach, 2010, 112 mins) Jay Roach remakes Francis Veber’s ‘Le Diner de Cons’. But whereas the original film was an economical, astringent black comic chamber piece, this Americanised version runs for more than…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Dinner Rush (15) ****
(Dir: Bob Giraldi, 98 mins) It's 'Big Night' with a side-order of 'The Godfather'. At the centre of this Altman-esque ensemble foodie flick played out against the familiar kitchen chaos of a buzzing restaurant, Danny…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dinosaur (PG) ***
(Dir: Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton, 80 mins) Disney's computer animated cretaceous epic manages to casually rubbish Darwin's survival-of-the-fittest theories while throwing in a lot of crappy old Californian…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dirty Deeds (18) ***
(Dir: David Caesar, 110 mins) A rather uneven, visually tricksy and yet hugely enjoyable, meticulously designed tale of 60s villainy from Down Under. Sydney racketeer Bryan Brown is rolling in cash from his dodgy slot…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dirty Pretty Things (15) ****
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 94 mins) Written, astonishingly, by Jasper Carrott scripter and ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ co-creator, Steven Knight, this is about the new invisible workforce that keep London ticking. People…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dirty Sanchez (18) **
(Dir: Jim Hickey, 100 mins) A spin-off from the MTV UK TV series, this follows Welshmen Dainton, Pritchard and Pancho, along with Plymouth’s very own Joycey, as they travel the world in pursuit of the seven deadly sins.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The (18) ***
(Dir: J Blakeson, 2010, 100 mins) An archetypal ‘calling card’ movie by an ambitious young director eager to show off his talents on the tiniest of budgets with just three actors and one main set, J Blakeson’s debut…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Disaster Movie (12A) *
(Dir: Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2008, 87 mins) The formula devised by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, prolific purveyors of laugh-free spoofery to the slack of jaw, is simply to recapitulate scenes and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Disney's The Kid (PG) **
(Dir: Jon Turteltaub, 104 mins) You're right - it does sound bloody awful: a bewigged Bruce Willis as an uptight, emotionless yuppie control freak who gets in touch with his inner child by magically encountering his…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
District 13 (15) ***
(Dir: Pierre Morel, 85 mins) “Based on an original idea by Luc Besson,” this action flick blends ‘Escape From New York’ with Le Parcour, aka ‘Free Running’. Paris, 2013. The authorities have given up on the ghettos and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
District 9 (15) ****
(Dir: Neill Blomkamp, 2009, 112 mins) A brilliantly imaginative blend of action and sly political allegory, shot in semi-documentary style using hand-held cameras, surveillance footage and even a mock corporate video,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Disturbia (15) ***
(Dir: D.J. Caruso, 2007, 104 mins) Saddled with the description “a teen ‘Rear Window’” because, well, that’s exactly what it is, D.J. Caruso’s efficiently executed suspense flick springs few surprises, but nor does it…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Divided We Fall (PG) ****
(Dir: Jan Hrebejk, 117 mins) Jan Hrebejk's complex, ambiguous pitch-black satire explores, in the words of its main protagonist, "what abnormal times do to normal people". It’s the story of an ordinary Czech couple,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Divine Intervention (15) ***
(Dir: Elia Suleiman, 92 mins) Palestinian writer/director/actor Elia Suleiman’s ‘Divine Intervention’ has been described as doing for the Arab/Israeli conflict what ‘No Man’s Land’ did for the war in Bosnia. It’s a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (12A) *
(Dir: Callie Khouri, 116 mins) A sloppy, over-long, wholly unbelievable and poorly acted swamp of sentimental southern trash, adapted from the cult chicklit novel by Rebecca Wells. Somewhere back at the dawn of time, in…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Divorce, Le (PG) **
(Dir: James Ivory, 120 mins) A light Merchant Ivory comedy of manners on the differing French and American attitudes towards marriage and money. Isabel (Kate Hudson) arrives in Paris to visit pregnant poet sister…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Divorcing Jack (15) ****
(Dir: David Caffrey, 95 mins) Hard-drinking Belfast hack David Thewlis gets a belated wake-up call when his wife kicks him out and his one-night-stand is murdered, her enigmatic last words being “divorcing Jack”. A…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Do I Love You? (18) **
(Dir: Lisa Gornick, 73 mins) This is billed as the UK’s first lesbian feature in a decade. To which one can only retort that the UK’s lesbians deserve better representation than a shoddy, amateurish drama that suggests…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
DOA - Dead or Alive (15) ***
(Dir: Cory Yuen, 87 mins) Though it’s hardly an accolade, this is almost certainly the best film ever adapted from a computer game. It could do with a stronger fighting villain than Eric Roberts in high-tech sunglasses…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dobermann (18) **
(Dir: Jan Kounen, 103 mins) "We're the new generation," angry young(ish) former pop video director Jan Kounen seems to announce with this, ahem, 'ultra-hip urban western', "and we've got something to say." Sadly,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (12A) ****
(Dir: Rawson Marshall Thurber, 92 mins) The funniest non-PC sports comedy since ‘Kingpin’, ‘Dodgeball’ sticks firmly to its loser team’s motto (“Aim low”) to deliver a consistent stream of lowbrow larfs. It helps if…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dog Days (18) ****
(Dir: Ulrich Seidl, 132 mins) The League of Gentlemen are said to be great fans of this feature debut by Austrian documentarist Ulrich Seidl, and it’s easy to appreciate why. Rarely has a black-hearted satirist brought…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dog Eat Dog (15) ***
(Dir: Moody Shoaibi, 93 mins) A light variation on the clapped out Brit gangster genre, this thankfully leans more towards 'Human Traffic' mood than, say, 'The Criminal' in its tale of four West London black mates who…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dog Pound (18) ***
(Dir: Kim Chapiron, 2010, 91 mins) Anyone who enjoys a game of Borstal Bingo should find themselves with a satisfyingly full card by the end of ‘Dog Pound’, although bum-rape comes surprisingly late in the story. It’s…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Dog Soldiers (15) ****
(Dir: Neil Marshall, 105 mins) A frighteningly funny British werewolf movie about a squad of soldiers (Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKid, etc) on manoeuvres in the Scottish Highlands who fall prey to some lanky lycanthropes.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dogging: A Love Story (18) *
(Dir: Simon Ellis, 2009, 108 mins) This is something of a throwback to the shabby sex comedies of the 70s, in which perpetually horny women are always up for it with the most unappealing men. Only the Brits, one…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Doghouse (15) *****
(Dir: Jake West, 2009, 89 mins) This laddish but smart horror-comedy is a breakthrough for director Jake West. As in the lamentable ‘Lesbian Vampire Killers’, a bunch of blokes on a weekend boozing trip in the country…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dogma (18) **
(Dir: Kevin Smith, 130 mins) This religious-themed oddity -somewhere between comedy, fantasy, slacker melodrama and special effects horror - is Kevin Smith's most ambitious feature to date but also, aptly, his slackest.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dogtooth (18) ****
(Dir: Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009, 97 mins, subtitles) Meet the world’s most over-protective, control-freaky parents. In an anonymous, isolated suburb, a prosperous couple keep their three teenage children locked away from…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Dogtown and Z-Boys (15) ****
(Dir: Stacy Peralta, 82 mins) In ‘60s Santa Monica, Dogtown was a beachside slum where "the debris meets the sea". But also home to the Zephyr, the coolest surf shop around, whose custom-built boards defined outlaw…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dogville (15) ****
(Dir: Lars Von Trier, 178 mins) Inspired by Brecht, Lars Von Trier’s stark, three-hour tale of smalltown hypocrisy and degradation boasts an ultra-stagy set-up that takes a fair bit of getting used to, which rather…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dolls (12A) ****
(Dir: Takeshi Kitano, 113 mins) Inspired by Osaka’s traditional “bunraku”, which is broadly analogous to the better-known noh or kabuki puppet theatre, gangster flick veteran Takeshi Kitano’s most painterly, visually…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Domestic Disturbance (12) *
(Dir: Harold Becker, 89 mins) Divorced boat builder John Travolta is still on good terms with ex-wife Teri Polo, happily sharing their young son Matt O'Leary. A bit screwed up by the family split, the lad's got himself…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Domino (18) **
(Dir: Tony Scott, 128 mins) An extremely rushed shooting schedule notwithstanding, Tony Scott’s failure to realise the potential of some inherently fascinating real-life source material is nothing short of criminal.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Don't Forget You're Going To Die (18) ***
After receiving his call-up under France’s national service regime, Benoit, played by writer-director Xavier Beauvois, has a medical check-up that reveals he’s got AIDS. So off he goes to explore the uncharted territory…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (PG) *
(Dir: Will Patterson, 95 mins) Plant-spraying widow Jenny Seagrove is still mourning her deceased hubby, but her gossipy group of middle-aged professional mates have decided it's time she met someone else. Oleaginous…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Don't Say a Word (15) ***
(Dir: Gary Fleder, 113 mins) Despite the promised Hitchcockian twists'n'turns, this turns out to be another 'Ransom'-eque, yuppie-family-in-peril flick with Michael Douglas doing his familiar - but never less than…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Donkey Punch (18) ***
(Dir: Olly Blackburn, 2008, 99 mins) This low-budget British psychological horror flick’s gimmicky hook fails to conceal the grinding of formula gears, and it all gets rather silly and overwrought towards the end. But…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Donnie Brasco (18) *****
(Dir: Mike Newell, 126 mins) A radical departure for Mike ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Newell, this is the true story of undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp), who assumed the character of jewel fence Donnie…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Donnie Darko (15) *****
(Dir: Richard Kelly, 112 mins) 26-year-old Richard Kelly’s dazzling debut has been described variously as “a John Hughes movie directed by David Lynch” and “‘American Beauty’ reworked as an episode of ‘The X-Files’”.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Don’t Touch the Axe (PG) **
(Dir: Jacques Rivette, 2007, 137 mins, subtitles) Limping Napoleonic war veteran General Armand de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu, chip-off-the-old-block son of Gerard) and Antoinette, Duchess of Langeais (Jean…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Doom (15) *
(Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak, 105 mins) What the makers of these uniformly dreadful computer game adaptations have failed to grasp is that gaming is an interactive experience. So what is trumpeted as this film’s great USP -…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Doomsday (18) **
(Dir: Neil Marshall, 2008, 108 mins) Brit director Neil (‘The Descent’) Marshall has squandered the reward of a bigger budget on this sprawling post-apocalypse thriller, whose primary purpose appears to be to keep the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dorian Gray (15) **
(Dir: Oliver Parker, 2009, 112 mins) For Oliver Parker’s third bash at Wilde, Ben Barnes proves suitably pretty for the central non-role, Colin Firth steps ably into shoes previously occupied on screen by George Sanders…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Double Jeopardy (15) **
(Dir: Bruce Beresford, 105 mins) The sort of thriller that has more plot holes than plot points, this serves mainly as proof that good actresses like Ashley Judd are so desperate to get lead roles that they'll accept…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Double Take ***
(Dir: Johan Grimonprez, 2009, 80 mins) An inventive and enjoyable collage of fact and fiction, which explores the Cold War through the prism of an intriguing, if rather slight suspense yarn in which Alfred Hitchcock…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Doubt (15) ***
(Dir: John Patrick Shanley, 2008, 104 mins) It’s 1964, and social change is tapping insistently at the door of St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Essaying yet another of her stern, fearsome and intimidating power-bitches, Meryl…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Doug's 1st Movie (U) ***
(Dir: Maurice Joyce, 77 mins) Another feature-length spin-off from a kids' TV series, this is a simple, childish tale of Doug and his friend Skeeter who scour a local lake for a mythical monster. In finding the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Down From the Mountain (U) ***
(Dir: Nick Doob/Chris Hegedus/D.A. Pennebaker, 98 mins) Like Wim Wenders' 'Buena Vista Social Club' before it, the Coen brothers' 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' has sparked a renewed interest in the musicians who played…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Down in the Valley (15) ***
(Dir: David Jacobson, 125 mins) David (‘Dahmer’) Jacobson’s intriguing, if disjointed and rather overlong, attempt to drag the Old West kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a Scorsese-sized boot up its…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Down Periscope (PG) **
His subordinates love him, the top brass hate him - with the exception of similarly maverick Admiral Rip Torn, who gives idiosyncratic US Navy Lt Commander Kelsey Grammer his first command: USS Stingray; the first woman…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Down To Earth (12) *
(Dir: Chris Weitz/Paul Weitz, 87 mins) The problem with this millennial makeover of 'Heaven Can Wait' is that it simply doesn’t work. Chris Rock is a loveable bicycle messenger and aspiring stand-up comic who’s called…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Down With Love (12A) ***
(Dir: Peyton Reed, 101 mins) New York 1962 and new-in-town country cutie Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger) is basking in the success of her feminist manifesto that advocates achieving workplace equality by doing away with…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Downfall (15) ****
(Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel, 155 mins) ‘Das Experiment’ director Oliver Hirschbiegel summons up another psychologically plausible drama of social dynamics under stress in a confined space, based on Joachim Fest’s ‘Inside…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Downtime (18) **
(Dir: Bharat Nalluri, 90 mins) ‘Die Hard’ in a lift in a scummy Geordie towerblock sparsely populated by cast-off Ken Loach characters, anybody? Bharat Nalluri makes a brave stab at combining the homegrown…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dr Dolittle (PG) **
(Dir: Betty Thomas, 85 mins) Retaining only the central notion of communication with our furry and feathery pals from Hugh Lofting’s original stories, this effects-heavy Hollywood low comedy sees just how many jokes…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dr Dolittle 2 (PG) **
(Dir: Steve Carr, 87 mins) Having come out of the closet about his ability to talk to animals, the now celebrated Dr John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) is happily running his vet practice and chairing Strays Anonymous…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! (U) ***
(Dir: Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino, 2008, 86 mins) This CGI animated version of ‘Horton Hears a Who’ from the folks who brought us the ‘Ice Age’ flicks is by far the best feature-length adaptation of a Dr. Seuss yarn…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dr. T and the Women (12) ***
(Dir: Robert Altman, 122 mins) Any film that opens with Richard Gere's head up an old woman's fanny has got to have something going for it. Sadly, it transpires that director Robert Altman's latest collaboration with…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dracula 2001 (18) **
(Dir: Patrick Lussier, 99 mins) Wes Craven presents a toothless, updated Dracula directed by Patrick Lussier, editor of his 'Scream' trilogy. Besides featuring the campest ever Prince of Darkness, this puerile pop-video…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drag Me To Hell (15) ***
(Dir: Sam Raimi, 2009, 99 mins) ‘Spider-Man’ director Sam Raimi gets back to his ‘B’ movie roots with this gross-out fright movie, which fuses the scary intensity of ‘The Evil Dead’ with the cartoonish, slapstick humour…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dragonball Evolution (PG) *
(Dir: James Wong, 2009, 84 mins) A thin, poorly acted, cheaply realised and oddly part-Americanised adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series. Teenage boys may enjoy masturbating furiously over the female stars’…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dragonflies (15) ****
(Dir: Marius Holst, 109 mins) As you might expect from Nikolaj Frobenius, co-writer of the original Norwegian version of ‘Insomnia’, this is a psychological thriller that refuses to adhere to genre conventions despite…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dragonfly (12) *
(Dir: Tom Shadyac, 104 mins) After his saintly, pregnant doctor wife tumbles off a Venezuelan cliff, Kev Costner comes over all grief-stricken. But Kev's an atheist who doesn't believe in any of that afterlife nonsense,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dragonheart (PG) ***
(Dir: Rob Cohen, 103 mins) With four times as much computer-generated imagery as ‘Jurassic Park’ and all of it given over to one mythical beast, this 10th century sword and sorcery epic stars Draco the dragon - imbued…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dream Home (18)***
(Dir: Pang Ho-Cheung, 2010, 96 mins, subtitles) An enjoyable horror flick with satirical ambitions that are never fully developed, this first time buyer wish-fulfilment slasher works best in the gore department,…17.11.2010 READ MORE -
Dream House (15)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Jim Sheridan Starring: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas Crikey - the director of 'My Left Foot' and 'In the Name of the Father' bags an A-list cast, including James Bond…25.11.2011 READ MORE -
Dream with the Fishes (18) **
(Dir: Finn Taylor, 96 mins) David Arquette is about to fling himself off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge after the death of his wife, when hipster about town Brad Hunt talks him down. It transpires that drug-user…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dreamcatcher (15) **
(Dir: Lawrence Kasdan, 134 mins) Adapted by William Goldman from a bulky Stephen King novel and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who’s better known for his ensemble dramas, this is a messy agglomeration of familiar King…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dreamgirls (12A) ***
(Dir: Bill Condon, 131 mins) Bill Condon’s adaptation of the Broadway musical is a big, colourful, handsomely-mounted, formulaic prestige picture. Its core audience is Motown fans and musical enthusiasts, who are most…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dreams of a Life (12A)
UK 2011 95 mins Dir: Carol Morley Starring: Zawe Ashton, Alix Luka-Cain It takes 15 minutes until we see what Joyce Vincent looked like. Later, we hear her voice and even catch a glimpse of her on film. That's rather…30.12.2011 READ MORE -
Drifting Clouds (15) ***
(Dir: Aki Kaurismaki, 96 mins) Best known for his ‘Leningrad Cowboys’ flicks, whacky Finn Aki Kaurismaki serves up a contemporary social drama which is so deadpan that if it wasn’t billed as a comedy you probably…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drillbit Taylor (12A) ***
(Dir: Steven Brill, 2008, 102 mins) Produced by Judd Apatow, co-written by Seth Rogen and starring Owen Wilson, this latest comedy from the ‘Knocked Up’/‘Superbad’ team boasts an inspired premise and some nice…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drink Drank Drunk (12A) **
(Dir: Tung-Shing ‘Derek’ Yee, 101 mins) As if we don’t have enough of our own fluffy romantic comedies, we’re now importing from Hong Kong a film that directly transposes a production-line Western plot and stock…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drive Angry (18)
(Dir: Patrick Lussier, 2010, 104 mins) Nic Cage is back behind the wheel, fusing the tyre-squealing thrills of 'Gone in 60 Seconds' with the supernatural trappings of 'Ghost Rider' in a pedal-to-the-metal chase movie…23.02.2011 READ MORE -
Drive Me Crazy (12) *
(Dir: John Schultz, 91 mins) Yet another teen romance, prom date, makeover comedy recycling all the staple ingredients without a hint of self-generated imagination of its own. This basically just reverses the ‘She's All…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Driven (PG) **
(Dir: Renny Harlin, 117 mins) Renny Harlin clearly understands that the appeal of motor-racing lies in the hope that someone will perish in a spectacular tangle of flying steel and burning fuel, spending much of the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Driving Aphrodite (12A) *
(Dir: Donald Petrie, 2009, 94 mins) After the flop ‘Connie and Carla’, Nia (‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’) Vardalos returns to the ethnic ghetto for this feeble romcom, which packs her off to Greece in the company of a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Driving Lessons (15) **
(Dir: Jeremy Brock, 97 mins) This semi-autobiographical directorial debut of ‘Mrs Brown’/‘Charlotte Gray’ screenwriter Jeremy Brock provides Julie Walters with an extended showcase for her profane, feisty old biddy…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drole de Felix (15) ***
(Dir: Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau, 92 mins) It's not very funny, nor wildly original, but Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's episodic 'Funny Felix' boasts a certain charm and succeeds in showing us a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Drop Dead Gorgeous (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Patrick Jann, 98 mins) Scripted with delicious malice by former beauty pageant contestant Lona Williams, the conceit of this viciously satirical ‘mockumentary’ is that a documentary film crew is present to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Duck Season (15) ***
(Dir: Fernando Eimbcke, 90 mins) It sounds like the set-up for a promising US teencom. Two 14-year-old boys are left home alone for the day. They’ve got porn. They’ve got Slayer CDs. They’ve got their X-Box and a stack…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dude, Where's My Car? (15) ***
(Dir: Danny Leiner, 82 mins) When pizza delivery party animals Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester ('Road Trip''s Seann William Scott) wake up, they just know they must have had a hell of time because they totally…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Due Date (15) **
(Dir: Todd Phillips, 2010, 95 mins) Peter Higham (Robert Downey Jr), an uptight architect, wants to fly from Atlanta to Los Angeles to be home in time to be with his wife (Michelle Monaghan) for the birth of their first…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Duets (15) ***
(Dir: Bruce Paltrow, 112 mins) The neglected world of karaoke gets the Hollywood treatment in this improbably successful film which follows the fortunes of an eclectic bunch of amateur crooners determined to win the…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (12A) ***
(Dir: Troy Miller, 85 mins) Nine years after ‘Dumb and Dumber’ was such a hit, Jim Carrey is too expensive for the sequel. So the studio went for the Flintstones alternative: a prequel. Same characters, but younger.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dungeons & Dragons (12) *
(Dir: Courtney Solomon, 107 mins) Coming along years after the likes of 'Krull', 'Hawk the Slayer' and 'The Sword and the Sorcerer' have wrung every drop out of the doomed 'generic fantasy' genre, D&D must rank as a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Dunston Checks In (PG) **
The five star Majestic Hotel’s long-suffering manager Jason Alexander is sorely in need of his imminent holiday abroad, when hotel owner Faye Dunaway swans in and announces that a critic from the travel association that…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Duplicity (12A) ****
(Dir: Tony Gilroy, 2009, 125 mins) Tony Gilroy’s convoluted, globe-trotting, time-hopping follow-up to ‘Michael Clayton’ takes a less serious approach to corporate scumbaggery, feeling more like a superior entry in…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Eyes Wide Open (12A) ***
(Dir: Haim Tabakman, 2009, 90 mins, subtitles) This tale of forbidden love could have been set in any strict, repressed religious community. But there’s no question that young Israeli director Haim Tabakman’s feature…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
The Da Vinci Code (12A) *
(Dir: Ron Howard, 149 mins) In trying to be true to not only the spirit, but also the letter of Dan Brown’s bestseller, director Ron Howard and scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman have fashioned a cinematic torture instrument.…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Damned United (15) ****
(Dir: Tom Hooper, 2009, 97 mins) A smart, entertaining adaptation of David Peace’s fictionalised biography of Brian Clough, which is only nominally about football. The drama in this account of Clough’s disastrous 44…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Dancer Upstairs (15) ****
(Dir: John Malkovich, 124 mins) Actor turned first-time director John Malkovich offers a timely and incendiary look at revolutionary struggle in an unspecified Southern American country. Adapted by Nicholas Shakespeare…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Darjeeling Limited (15) ****
(Dir: Wes Anderson, 2007, 104 mins) Wes Anderson’s latest dysfunctional American family drama is preceded by a 13 minute short, ‘Hotel Chevalier’. Sweaty-palmed viewers may wish to note that this features Natalie…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Dark (15) ***
(Dir: John Fawcett, 93 mins) American Adelle (Maria Bello) travels to remote Wales where her estranged, glowering British husband (Sean Bean) lives near a clifftop that was the site of a cult suicide in 1952, bringing…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Dark Is Rising (12A) **
(Dir: David L Cunningham, 2007, 99 mins) This latest attempt to fill the upcoming Harry Potter void is adapted from the second novel in Susan Cooper’s five book sequence, which dates back to 1965. John Hodge’s…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Dark Knight (12A) ****
(Dir: Christopher Nolan, 2008, 152 mins) Having successfully ‘rebooted’ the Batman franchise, Christopher Nolan delivers an ambitious, surprisingly grim epic sequel. The Joker’s catchphrase here is ‘why so serious?’,…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Day After Tomorrow (12A) ***
(Dir: Roland Emmerich, 123 mins) Sticking firmly to the natural disaster flick template, Roland Emmerich’s global warming blockbuster kicks off with a handful of random outbreaks of meteorological weirdness while…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Day I Became a Woman (U) ***
(Dir: Marziyeh Meshkini, 78 mins) A triptych of fables focusing on women of different ages in modern-day Iran, this balances its overt feminist message with an empathic approach to its subjects and plenty of striking…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Day the Earth Stood Still (12A) **
(Dir: Scott Derrickson, 2008, 103 mins) Scott Derrickson updates Robert Wise’s 1951 Cold War classic by recasting Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) as a kind of space alien Al Gore who turns up in a giant CGI sphere to deliver a…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Day The Sun Turned Cold (15) ***
A young man walks into a busy police station to report the murder of his father by his mother ten years earlier. In flashback, we learn of Guan Jian’s harsh village childhood in China’s snowswept northeast, where his…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Daytrippers (15) ****
(Dir: Greg Mottla, 87 mins) Greg Mottola’s ultra-low-budget debut shoehorns a bickering suburban family into a station wagon for a journey to the big city, and stands well back as relationships implode. They’re off to…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (12A) **
(Dir: Burr Steers, 2010, 99 mins) Personable tweenage heartthrob Zac Efron re-teams with Burr (’17 Again’) Steers for this adaptation of a sub-Nicholas Sparks bestseller. Alas, gloopy supernatural melodrama is clearly…06.10.2010 READ MORE -
The Death of Mr Lazarescu (15) ****
(Dir: Cristi Puiu, 153 mins) This realist account of the last couple of hours of a Romanian codger doesn’t actually tell us anything new, but it is grimly compelling in a dour, blackly comic kind of way. Mr. Lazarascu…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Debt (15)
USA 2011 113 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen Back in 1966, young Mossad agents Rachel Singer (Chastain),…30.09.2011 READ MORE -
The Debt Collector (18) **
(Dir: Anthony Neilson, 110 mins) The directorial debut of ‘Cracker’ scriptwriter Anthony Neilson: an Edinburgh-based crime thriller fuelled with the pumped-up excess of early Seventies Hollywood pulp fiction. But…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Deep Blue Sea (12A)
UK 2011 98 mins Dir: Terence Davies Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale Terence Davies has been anointed a National Cinematic Treasure for so long that it feels vaguely heretical to confess to…25.11.2011 READ MORE -
The Deep End (15) ****
(Dir: Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 99 mins) A distinctive, slow-burning '40s-style noir based on Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's novel 'The Blank Wall', previously adapted by Max Orphuls in 1949 as 'The Reckless Moment',…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Departed (18) ****
(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 151 mins) Scorsese returns to familiar territory with this tough, complex gangster movie, which uses the 2002 Hong Kong movie ‘Infernal Affairs’ as a springboard rather than a blueprint. The story…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Descendants (15)
USA 2011 115 mins Dir: Alexander Payne Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Beau Bridges, Nick Krause, Judy Greer, Robert Forster Hollywood is always at its most disingenuous and nauseating with the…27.01.2012 READ MORE -
The Descent (18) ****
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The Dukes of Hazzard (12A) **
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