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G-Force (PG) ***
(Dir: Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr, 2009, 88 mins) Unlike its predecessor, ‘Bolt’, Disney’s first 3D live action/animation combo is a Jerry Bruckheimer production rather than a John Lasseter one, so instead of Pixar-style…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
G.I. Jane (15) **
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 125 mins) Plucked from backroom boffin obscurity by wily senator Anne Bancroft, intelligence officer Demi Moore becomes the first woman in history to sign up for Navy SEALs training, where she’s…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gabbeh (PG) ***
(Dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 75 mins) The most handsomely photographed, poetic and colourful entry in the recent cycle of Iranian flicks, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s twelfth feature is set among the virtually extinct nomadic tribes…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gabriel & Me (15) **
(Dir: Udayan Prasad, 84 mins) A young boy's search for a miracle that might save his cancer-ridden father is the basis for this well meaning, sometimes quite effective but ultimately rather flat tale. It's adapted by…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gabrielle (15) **
(Dir: Patrice Chereau, 90 mins) Patrice Chereau’s inert, stagy two-hander is expanded from Joseph Conrad’s story ‘The Return’ in an especially clod-hopping manner and filled with pointless tics (random black and white…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gadjo Dilo (15) ***
(Dir: Tony Gatlif, 105 mins) French director Tony Gatlif’s third celebration of his Algerian gypsy roots is a simplistic, often sentimental tale which might, in other hands, have been condemned for perpetuating…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gainsbourg (15) **
(Dir: Joann Sfar, 2010, 122 mins, subtitles) In adapting his own comicbook about French crooner Serge Gainsbourg, first-time director Joann Sfar self-consciously eschews the standard biopic format to follow the template…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Galaxy Quest (PG) ****
(Dir: Dean Parisot, 102 mins) At a frighteningly authentic fan convention, the stars of second-rate TV science fiction show 'Galaxy Quest' ('Star Trek' in all but name) are approached by a bunch of geeky Questies, who…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gallivant (15) *
(Dir: Andrew Kotting, 103 mins) No, really: it’s this bloke’s home movie, starring his severely disabled daughter and elderly grandmother. Except that Andrew Kotting is no ordinary punter with a wobbly video camera. The…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gamer (18) **
(Dir: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2009, 95 mins) Disappointingly, after two enormously enjoyable ‘Crank’ flicks, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor turn their attentions to a second-hand dystopian futureworld romp,…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Gang Related (18) ***
(Dir: Jim Kouf, 111 mins) Jim Kouf’s film takes a prehistoric theme, spices it up with some dry comic dialogue, and turns it into something rather more watchable than you might expect. Street cop Tupac Shakur and his…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gangs of New York (18) ***
(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 168 mins) Scorsese’s $100 million epic about mid-19th century New York’s immigrant tribes is a frustrating mess. A sprawling, incoherent epic, it has been saved from complete disaster by its…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gangster No 1 (18) ***
(Dir: Paul McGuigan, 103 mins) This East End gangster flick aspires to an absurd, Ortonesque grotesquerie, while director Paul McGuigan's bizarrely lit, frenetically edited pop video images ape the kaleidoscopic style…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Garage (18) ***
(Dir: Lenny Abrahamson, 2007, 85 mins) Irish director Lenny Abrahamson describes his second feature as “minimal slapstick or minimal tragedy”. It’s certainly heavy on the ‘minimal’ and may try the patience of those…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Garbage Warrior (15) ****
(Dir: Oliver Hodge, 2007, 87 mins) Hippy architect Michael Reynolds rejected much of his training and set out to create surprisingly luxurious ‘Earthships’ out of old tyres and recycled bottles and cans in the desert…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Garden State (15) ***
(Dir: Zach Braff, 109 mins) There’s a thin line between finely observed coming-of-age melancholy and adolescent navel-gazing, and this directorial debut by ‘Scrubs’ star Zach Braff stays on the right side of it for just…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Garfield (U) **
(Dir: Peter Hewitt, 80 mins) Remember ‘The Cat in the Hat’? Take a well-loved feline off the page and slap him on the screen in an all-purpose, “Will this do?” plot, making extensive use of CGI to paper over the lack of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Garfield 2 (U) **
(Dir: Tim Hill, 80 mins) This feeble sequel contrives to transplant the famously indolent ginger tom to London, England, echoing the ethos of those 70s TV sitcom spin-offs: when inspiration fails, pack the cast off on…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gattaca (15) ****
(Dir: Andrew Niccol, 106 mins) Here’s a rarity: a ‘90s science fiction movie that tries for intellectual drama rather than action and is concerned with character rather than spectacle. The complex set-up is deftly…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
General's Daughter, The (18) ***
(Dir: Simon West, 116 mins) Timothy Hutton, James Cromwell, Clarence Williams III) After the stupid, explosive fun that was 'Con Air', Brit director Simon West demonstrates his total Hollywood assimilation with one of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
General, The (15) ****
(Dir: John Boorman, 130 mins) Winner of the best Director award at Cannes, John Boorman’s biopic of Martin ‘The General’ Cahill – criminal rogue and scourge of the Dublin police – has the versatile Brendan Gleeson in…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Genova (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 2009, 94 mins) Michael Winterbottom reunites with ‘Wonderland’ writer Laurence Coriat for an off-kilter bereavement flick that rather bafflingly invites unflattering comparisons with Nic…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
George of the Jungle (U) ***
(Dir: Sam Weisman, 91 mins) Another live-action version of an animated favourite, this is a Tarzan spoof that even Mel Brooks might find a little juvenile, combining a traditional fish-out-of-water scenario with lots of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
George Washington (12) **
(Dir: David Gordon Green, 89 mins) Be warned that if a self-consciously ‘poetic’ portrait of deprived young children speaking achingly pretentious dialogue is not your bag, then this much –acclaimed US indieflick is…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gerry (15) *
(Dir: Gus Van Sant, 103 mins) Hungarian glumster Bela Tarr’s signature shot depicts one or more dour, downtrodden proles walking along in a grim landscape, stony-faced and in complete silence, for what seems like hours.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get him to the Greek (15) ****
(Dir: Nicholas Stoller, 2010, 109 mins) Nobody’s likely to accuse him of possessing enormous range, but Russell Brand is perfectly cast as gormless, narcissistic, priapic, junkie British rock star Aldous Snow, who gets…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Get On The Bus (15) ***
(Dir: Spike Lee, 120 mins) Inspired by the October 1995 Million Man March in Washington DC, organised by controversial black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Spike Lee’s two-hour bonding marathon brings…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get Over It (12) **
(Dir: Tommy O’Haver, 87 mins) Berke (Ben Foster) has been dumped by his childhood sweetheart, Allison (Melissa Sagemiller). Worse, she's taken up with terminally smug ex-boyband bozo Striker (Shane West). Cue the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get Real (15) ****
(Dir: Simon Shore, 111 mins) In beautiful downtown Basingstoke, gay schoolboy Ben Silverstone is in love with the school hunk. Simon Shore's first feature plots a course through sixth-form romance and intrigue, bringing…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (15) *
(Dir: Jim Sheridan, 117 mins) This semi-autobiographical account of the life of rapper Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson is so dreary, boorishly self-aggrandising and overlong that it makes his mentor Eminem’s mediocre ‘8 Mile’…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get Shorty (15) *****
No-nonsense Miami loanshark and movie buff Chili Palmer (John Travolta) finds himself in LA to recover gambling debts run up by Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), whose exploitation B-movies feature long-suffering Rene Russo…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Get Smart (12A) **
(Dir: Peter Segal, 2008, 110 mins) For anyone untainted by the warm glow of nostalgia, this update of the old US TV spy spoof show is decidedly patchy, with expensive stunts and effects used to paper over the paucity of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost and the Darkness, The (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Hopkins, 110 mins) Hemingway meets ‘Ripping Yarns’ in this occasionally exciting but all-too-often unintentionally hilarious true tale of colonial derring-do, shamefully scripted by William Goldman. Val…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (15) ***
(Dir: Jim Jarmusch, 116 mins) Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is a pigeon-fancying hitman who worships the Way of the Samurai. Alas, the 'master' to whom he is devoted is a sleazy, useless, mid-ranking mafioso, who once…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (15) **
(Dir: Mamoru Oshii, 1995/2009, 80 mins) Not to be confused with the 2004 sequel ‘Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence’, this falls somewhere in between a remake and a reissue. Back in 1995, ‘Ghost in the Shell’ proved hugely…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (15) ***
(Dir: Mamoru Oshii, 100 mins) The first animated film ever to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this sequel’s seamless blend of 2D and 3D CGI animation techniques makes for terrific eye-candy. The first ‘Ghost in…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost Rider (12A) *
(Dir Mark Steven Johnson, 2007, 110 mins) With ‘Daredevil’ director Mark Steven Johnson at the helm, you might be forgiven for expecting a little more from this Marvel superhero comicbook adaptation than an idiotic…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost Ship (18) **
(Dir: Steve Beck, 90 mins) The people who gave us new versions of William Castle’s ‘House on Haunted Hill’ and ‘Thirteen Ghosts’ deliver their first ‘original’ project - which is entirely lacking in originality. And…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost Town (12A) ***
(Dir: David Koepp, 2008, 102 mins) Ricky Gervais makes his Hollywood starring debut in this entertaining slice of formulaic, high-concept, sub-Capra guff, which offers a platform for his familiar comic persona until the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost World (15) ****
(Dir: Terry Zwigoff, 110 mins) Terry (‘Crumb’) Zwigoff’s adaptation of the cult underground comic by Daniel Clowes, from which much of its retro-kitsch styling derives, begins as little more than a collection of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghost, The (15) ****
(Dir: Roman Polanski, 2010, 128 mins) Roman Polanski’S slick and stylish political suspense flick, adapted from Robert Harris’s novel, offers lefties and conspiracy theorists all the excitement of a tautly plotted…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghosts (15) ***
(Dir: Nick Broomfield, 96 mins) For all its sense of anger and fierce political commitment, Nick Broomfiled’s Chinese immigrant cockle-picker flick plays like one of those drama-docs you might expect to find on C4. Next…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghosts From The Past (15) ****
(Dir: Rob Reiner) Back in 1963, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) shot dead civil rights activist Medger Evans, but remained free for 31 years when two trials ended in hung juries. Then his widow…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (12A) **
(Dir: Mark Waters, 2009, 100 mins) Yet another lazy, nuptially-themed, feminist-enraging romcom, this one stars turkey-magnet Matthew McConaughey as a charmless seducer who appears to have bedded the USA’s entire…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Ghosts of Mars (15) **
(Dir: John Carpenter, 98 mins) Another disappointment from John Carpenter, this thrown-together scramble of action, horror and science-fiction ought to be a lot more fun than it is, especially as it's a pillaging of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (12A) **
(Dir: Stephen Sommers, 2009, 118 mins) Here’s a film for everyone who thought the ‘Transformers’ flicks weren’t loud and flashy enough, had over-complicated plots, and didn’t showcase sufficient merchandise-oriented…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Gift, The (15) ***
(Dir: Sam Raimi, 112 mins) Sam Raimi switches to autopilot, delivering merely adequate minor-key supernatural spookiness in the 'Sixth Sense' vein. Down in swampy Georgia, psychic welfare mom Cate Blanchett gives…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gigli (15) *
(Dir: Martin Brest, 124 mins) Enduring this notorious turkey is like being stuck with a leering, dribbling, saloon bar fool trying to tell a self-consciously transgressive joke but repeatedly screwing up the punchline.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Ginger Snaps (18) ****
(Dir: John Fawcett, 104 mins) A splendidly inventive arthouse reworking of the werewolf myth offering plenty of blackly comic gore. Surly goth teen sisters Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) are…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gingerbread Man, The (15) ***
(Dir: Robert Altman, 114 mins) Back in saddle as a jobbing director, Robert Altman tackles a John Grisham yarn, casting Ken Branagh as a Clinton-esque, serial-shagging Southern lawyer who gets mixed up with young…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl 6 (18) ***
Struggling actress Theresa Randle finds herself drawn to the world of telephone sex as a means of making ends meet. Here she proves remarkably adept at sitting in a little booth helping sad blokes across the country to…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl Cut in Two, A (15) ***
(Dir: Claude Chabrol, 2007, 115 mins, subtitles) Hitchcock’s Gallic understudy, Claude Chabrol, uses a notorious early 20th century murder case as a launchpad to indulge his own enduring obsession with skewering the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl From Paris, The (15) ***
(Dir: Christian Carion, 103 mins) Fed up with big city life, single, 30-year-old Parisian internet lecturer Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) decides to retrain as a farmer. Down in the idyllic Rhone-Alpes, grumpy,…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl Next Door, The (15) ***
(Dir: Luke Greenfield, 109 mins) Straight arrow high schooler Matthew (Emile Hirsch, resembling a junior Brad Pitt) starts dating the babe next door (Elisha Cuthbert) only to discover that she’s a retired porn star. If…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl on the Bridge, The (15) ***
(Dir: Patrice leconte, 90 mins) Patrice Leconte returns to the acquired-taste sensualism of 'The Hairdresser's Husband' for this slight yet luminously photographed and enjoyable romantic fantasy. Gabor (Daniel Auteuil),…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl on the Train, The (15) ****
(Dir: Andre Techine, 2009, 105 mins, subtitles) Inspired by the true story of a French woman who faked an anti-Semitic attack, Andre Tachine’s skilful, unsensationalised character study boasts an outstanding central…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Girl with a Pearl Earring (12A) ***
(Dir: Peter Webber, 99 mins) In ‘Lost in Translation’, Scarlett Johansson enjoyed a chaste yet charged relationship with an older man, in which everything hinged on what was left unsaid. Here she has a virtually…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl With Brains In Her Feet, The (15) ***
(Dir: Roberto Bangura, 98 mins) Thirteen-year-old Joanna Ward is the only visible black girl in early ‘70s Leicester. She’s just had her first period, her unmarried mother is prone to abusive outbursts and unexplained…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girl, Interrupted (15) **
(Dir: James Mangold, 125 mins) James Mangold's leisurely adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir whisks us back to 1967 and the origins of baby-boomer navel-gazing. What follows can be broadly characterised as 'Thelma and…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girlfight (15) ***
(Dir: Karyn Kusama, 110 mins) A worthy indieflick that aims to filter contemporary gender politics through the prism of women's boxing, 'Girlfight' only really comes alive during its pugilism sequences. Like a female…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Girls Town (15) **
(Dir: Jim McKay, 90 mins) At first you fear this indieflick about a quartet of American high school students has been written by a computer programmed with the political correctness algorithm. Two are white, two are…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gladiator (15) ****
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 150 mins) Ridley Scott’s resuscitation of the moribund sword'n'sandals genre hardly has novelty on its side but barely puts a foot wrong in crowd-pleasing terms, delivering a truly magnificent…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Glass House, The (15) **
(Dir: Daniel Sackheim, 107 mins) The title invites critical stone-throwing, but this glossy slice of trash does a pretty good job of disintegrating without our help. When the parents of 16-year-old Ruby Baker (Leelee…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Glastonbury (15) ***
(Dir: Julien Temple, 2006, 128 mins) If you’ve ever been to the Glastonbury Festival, ignore that star rating and go and see Julien Temple’s film, which distils more than 30 years of fun on the farm into just over two…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Glastonbury – The Movie (15) ***
This is no more the definitive Glastonbury Festival film than Channel Four’s bland, largely stage-bound TV coverage. But it is a genuine attempt to do something creative with the “rockumentary” format and capture…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Glitter (PG) *
(Dir: Vondie Curtis Hall, 104 mins) Eccentric popstress Mariah Carey’s wretched vanity project is a turkey of such magnitude that, suitably basted, it could solve world hunger at a stroke. The perfunctory and…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Glorious 39 (12A) **
(Dir: Stephen Poliakoff, 2009, 129 mins) Lauded telly veteran Stephen Poliakoff’s first feature in more than a decade is a bizarre, clunkily constructed, sub-Hitchcockian pre-war melodrama, which would be perversely…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Gnomeo & Juliet (U)
(Dir: Kelly Asbury, 2011, 83 Mins) This densely packed CG animated tale offers a bright take on Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of star cross’d lovers re-told and cast with garden ornaments owned by feuding neighbours.…09.02.2011 READ MORE -
Go (18) ****
(Dir: Doug Liman, 100 mins) 'Junior Pulp Fiction' it may be, but if we must have endless homages to Tarantino’s masterpiece from the indie sector, let them all be as witty and entertaining as Doug Liman’s follow-up to…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Go Fish (18) ***
'She's Gotta Have It' meets 'When Harry Met Sally' with a lesbian twist in Rose Troche's zero-budget, black and white debut, which manages to be sharp and funny, embarrassing and clumsy all at the same time. Hip young…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goal II: Living The Dream (12A) ***
(Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra, 2007, 112 mins) Part two of the under-performing football trilogy picks up where we left off. Mexican immigrant Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) is now a star turn for Newcastle and about to marry…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goal! (12A) ****
(Dir: Danny Cannon, 118 mins) The first of a proposed trilogy climaxing with the 2006 World Cup, this is one of the most wholly enjoyable premier league films of the year. Mexican illegal immigrant Santiago Munez (Kuno…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gods and Monsters (15) ****
(Dir: William Condon, 105 mins) A speculative biopic based on the last days of James Whale (Ian McKellen), the openly gay English director of 'Frankenstein' and, more pertinently given its thematic similarity to 'Gods…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Godsend (15) *
(Dir: Nick Hamm, 103 mins) It begins with an intriguing premise that might have appealed to Andrew Niccol. Robert De Niro has a starring role. And the director is Nick Hamm, who gave us that inventive low-budget Brit…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Godzilla (PG) *
(Dir: Roland Emmerich, 140 mins) From the people who gave us ‘Stargate’ and ‘Independence Day’ comes a truly feeble $120 million version of the venerable Japanese giant lizard yarn. After the obligatory globetrotting…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gohatto (15) **
(Dir: Nagisa Oshima, 91 mins) It's 1865 and the Shogunate set out to establish an elite band of brave, young, ferociously loyal samurai guards. Among the successful applicants is Sozaburo Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda), a…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Going Off, Big Time (18) ***
(Dir: Jom Doyle, 85 mins) Acting on impulse, Liverpool chancer Neil Fitzmaurice trips up a bloke he sees fleeing from the police, leading to the fugitive's arrest. What he doesn't know is that the guy in question is a…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Going the Distance (15) **
(Dir: Nanette Burstein, 2010, 102 mins) In Nanette Burstein’s indie comedy about the pitfalls of a long distance relationship, Drew Barrymore’s aspiring newspaper reporter, Erin, is stuck waiting tables in San Francisco…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Golden Bowl, The (12) ****
(Dir: James Ivory, 135 mins) Completing an unofficial trilogy of Henry James stories with this sumptuous, turn-of-the-20th-century drama, Merchant-Ivory have, in the process, made one of their most enthralling and…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Golden Compass, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Chris Weitz, 2007, 113 mins) Chris Weitz’s adaptation of ‘Northern Lights’ tones down the atheist perspective of Philip Pullman’s novel in deference to that lucrative middle-American audience who cling to…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Golden Door (PG) ***
(Dir: Emanuele Crialese, 2006, 118 mins, subtitles) You don’t need satnav to locate the contemporary resonances in this timely tale of economic migration from ‘Respiro’ director Emanuele Crialese. It’s the dawn of the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goldeneye (12) ***
Pierce Brosnan's James Bond debut sticks so rigidly to the formula all the way from the ludicrously impossible stunt performed before those familiar opening credits that all the much-vaunted attempts at updating the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gomorrah (15) ****
(Dir: Matteo Garrone, 2008, 137 mins, subtitles) Adapted from a best-selling expose by Roberto Saviano, this depiction of modern-day Neapolitan Camorra mobsters is as far removed from Hollywood glamour as it’s possible…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
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Gone (15) ***
(Dir: Ringan Ledwige, 2006, 88 mins) It’s never a good idea to be a backpacker in the movies, so you’d think even innocents abroad might be wise to the dangers of getting into cars with strange men who smile rather too…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gone in 60 Seconds (15) **
(Dir: Dominic Sena, 117 mins) An oddly boring Jerry Bruckheimer production in which this week's sneering British panto villain, the decidedly unmenacing Christopher Eccleston, bullies ex-car thief Nicolas Cage out of…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (15) ****
(Dir: Alex Gibney, 2008, 119 mins) A hugely enjoyable documentary that benefits from all the right interviewees telling all the right anecdotes, which are just as entertaining as they were the first time you heard them.…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Good (15) **
(Dir: Vicente Amorim, 2009, 96 mins) Adapted from C.P. Taylor’s well-regarded 1981 play, ‘Good’ has as its promising theme an exploration of how ordinary, decent people could be seduced and corrupted by fascism. Alas,…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Boy! (U) *
(Dir: John Robert Hoffman, 87 mins) It’s ‘Cats and Dogs’ without the cats: an increasingly sickly talking dog flick aimed squarely at the undemanding, poop-fixated end of the kiddie market. Here comes that high concept.…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Burger (PG) *
(Dir: Brian Robbins, 95 mins) Saturday morning favourites Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson take to the big screen in a vehicle that started life as a short sketch - and should have stayed that way. Unpromisingly enough,…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Bye Lenin! (15) ****
(Dir: Wolfgang Becker, 121 mins) Subtler and more funny than our prejudices might lead us to anticipate, this box office record-breaking German comedy is a cleverly executed absurdist yarn with a touch of the Rip Van…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good German, The (15) ***
(Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 2007, 105 mins) Steven Soderbergh attempts a studied formal exercise in recreating the style and grammar of monochrome 40s noir, while striving for contemporary political resonance. But while…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Hair (12A) ****
(Dir: Jeff Stilson, 2010, 96 mins) When one of Chris Rock’s young, naturally curly-haired daughters asked why she didn’t have ‘good hair’, this became the spark for an investigation into culture, peer pressure, big…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Good Luck Chuck (15) *
(Dir: Mark Helfrich, 2007, 99 mins) A crushingly formulaic, high-concept post-Farrelly grossout romcom casting Dane Cook, who’s frequently mistaken for the similarly charmless Ryan Reynolds, opposite Jessica Alba, whose…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Night, and Good Luck (PG) ****
(Dir: George Clooney, 93 mins) A labour of love for multi-talented George Clooney, whose father was a US TV news anchor, this small but perfectly formed film strives to get every period detail right but never becomes…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Night, The (15) **
(Dir: Jake Paltrow, 2007, 93 mins) For his peculiar feature debut, Jake (brother of Gwyneth) Paltrow has obviously made use of all his family contacts to pull in acting favours. The film starts off in mock rockumentary…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Thief, The (15) ***
(Dir: Neil Jordan, 108 mins) While never less than enjoyable, Neil Jordan’s reworking of Melville’s black and white ‘50s noir ‘Bob le Flambeur’ starts out as a novel, superbly played character study, giving peerless…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Will Hunting (15) ***
(Dir: Gus Van Sant, 126 mins) Surly, bad-boy, working class orphan and MIT janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) just happens to be a genius who sneaks about after hours solving the impossibly complex mathematical puzzles…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Woman, A (PG) ***
(Dir: Mike Barker, 93 mins) Despite a somewhat uncomfortable Anglo-American cast betraying the meddling hands of Satan’s Little Helpers in the marketing department, Mike Barker pulls off a colourful and moderately…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Good Year, A (12A) **
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 117 mins) Previously adapted for TV with John Thaw, the big screen version of Peter Mayle's ‘A Year In Provence’ remains much the same; money-driven city type learns to stop and smell the bouquet,…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goodbye First Love (15)
France/Germany 2011 111 mins Subtitles Dir: Mia Hansen-Love Starring: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne-Havard Brekke Mia Hansen-Love follows her impressive 'Father of My Children' with a coming-of-age story…04.05.2012 READ MORE -
Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The (15) **
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (15) ** (Dir: Neal Brennan, 2009, 90 mins) Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) is being sold to audiences as a comedy cousin of Ron Burgundy (‘Anchorman’) and Ricky Bobby (‘Talledega Nights’) from…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goofy Movie, A (U) **
Disappointingly, the 63-year Disney character’s feature debut isn’t even about Goofy himself but his (newly invented) son Max - an American high school kid interested in girls and pop music. Goofy wants Max to accompany…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gosford Park (15) *****
(Dir: Robert Altman, 137 mins) Here's a ‘30s-set Agatha Christie country house weekend whodunit as directed by Robert Altman. It boasts a large cast of upstairs and downstairs characters weaving in and out of each…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gossip (15) ***
(Dir: Davis Guggenheim, 91 mins) An intriguing, glossy and well-executed thriller in which three university students try an experiment in gossip and news as part of their journalism class. James Marsden, Lena Headey and…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gothika (15) **
(Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz, 98 mins) Once-promising Mathieu (‘La Haine’) Kassovitz’s career deteroirates further with this loud, meaninglessly titled ghost story, which starts as it means to go on: ludicrously. Halle Berry…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gout des Autres, Le (15) ***
(Dir: Agnes Jaoui, 112 mins) Writer/actor/first-time director Agnes Jaoui’s likeable comedy about taste isn't quite as sharp or as funny as its champions would have us believe, but at least spares us the Gallic…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Goya’s Ghosts (15) ***
(Dir: Milos Forman, 2006, 114 mins) Milos Forman’s return to the opulent Euro history of his earlier ‘Valmont’ and ‘Amadeus’ is by no means the stinker some critics have alleged, but nor is it any great triumph. The…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grace of My Heart (15) ****
(Dir: Allison Anders, 115 mins) A feminist spin on the trad pop flick, this traces the turbulent careers of the fictional Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) from hack tunesmith in a ‘60s hit factory to a respected Joni…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gran Torino (15) ***
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2009, 116 mins) For his hugely watchable valedictory performance in this enjoyably preposterous movie, prolific 78-year-old Clint Eastwood is at his most scowly and granite-hewn, and has developed…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grand Theft Parsons (12A) ***
(Dir: David Caffrey, 88 mins) A slight yet enjoyable indie which dramatises and embellishes one of rock history’s most bizarre anecdotes. Country rock pioneer Gram Parsons met his squalid end after ODing on just about…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grateful Dawg (12A) ****
(Dir: Gillian Grisman, 81 mins) A warm, affectionate, thoroughly enjoyable documentary taking us down one of the Grateful Dead’s lesser-known by-ways to explore Deadhead-in-chief Jerry Garcia’s lifelong friendship with…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Great Expectations (15) **
(Dir: Alfonso Cuaron, 111 mins) Updated and transferred to ‘80s America, the key plot points of Dickens’ tedious rags-to-riches tale stay pretty much the same, with Ethan Hawke as the orphan Finn, Gwyneth Paltrow as the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Great White Hype, The (15) ****
With ringside attendance, public interest and pay-per-view satellite subscriptions all on the slide, flamboyant boxing promoter Samuel L. Jackson decides to introduce some racial tension into the sport by giving middle…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Green Lantern (12A)
USA 2011 114 mins Dir: Martin Campbell Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard There are two types of comicbook adaptation. The first appeals to those with friends, normal sex lives and a cultural…17.06.2011 READ MORE -
Green Mile, The (18) ***
(Dir: Frank Darabont, 189 mins) A discursive, laboured religious allegory, Frank Darabont’s second Stephen King adaptation is told in flashback from the present day. Crumbly old Tom Hanks recalls the events of the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Green Street (18) **
(Dir: Lexi Alexander, 109 mins) After being thrown out of Harvard, aspiring journalist Matt Buckman (Elijah Wood) heads for London, where he falls in with Pete (Charlie Hunnam), a serious West Ham fan and leader of the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
Green Zone (15) ****
(Dir: Paul Greengrass, 2010, 115 mins) Paul Greengrass shoehorns in some political commentary to this Iraq War thriller, but as far as Universal are concerned this is ‘Jason Bourne in the Hurt Locker’, shot and edited…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Greenfingers (15) **
(Dir: Joel Hershman, 90 mins) You can imagine the pitch for this one: a bunch of tough convicts find self-respect and redemption by becoming prize-winning gardeners. And it’s based on fact. The trouble is,…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grey Owl (PG) **
(Dir: Richard Attenborough, 118 mins) Grey Owl was one of the world's biggest celebrities during the inter-war years, drawing huge crowds to hear his native wisdom from the Canadian wilderness. Except that Grey Owl was…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gridiron Gang, The (12A) **
(Dir: Phil Joanou, 120 mins) Based on an Emmy-winning 1993 TV documentary of the same name, this is a hybrid of two genres that traditionally fail to cross the Atlantic with any great success: the American sports movie…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gridlock'd (18) ***
(Dir: Vondie Curtis Hall, 91 mins) Hopeless Detroit junkies Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur somehow manage to get it together to play in a dreadful avant-garde jazz trio with clean-living Thandie Newton, but when the dopey…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grinch, The (PG) ***
(Dir: Ron Howard, 105 mins) If you feel queasy every time a big, expensive Hollywood movie presumes to lecture you on the over-commercialisation of Christmas, you may want to give Ron Howard's adaptation of the Dr.…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grizzly Man (15) *****
(Dir: Werner Herzog, 103 mins) When one of the grizzly bears Timothy Treadwell had sworn to protect came over all peckish back in October 2003, he was decapitated and gobbled up, along with his girlfriend Amie…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grosse Pointe Blank (15) ****
(Dir: George Armitage, 107 mins) A delightfully effortless, off-kilter satire that shouldn’t work but does, thanks to the sure directorial hand of unprolific George Armitage and some fine playing from…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grounded (PG) *
(Dir: Paul Feig, 89 mins) Think about the idea of having ‘Home Alone’ set at an airport but minus the comic inspiration that made the Macaulay Culkin movie such fun, and you’ve just about got the gist of this kiddie…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grow Your Own (PG) ***
(Dir: Richard Laxton, 2007, 95 mins) A crushingly unsubtle allegory about multicultural Britain and immigration issues. Zimbabwean widow Miriam (Diveen Henry) and traumatised Chinaman Kung Sang (Benedict Wong) are…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grown Ups (12A) *
(Dir: Denis Dugan, 2010, 102 mins) Another grotesque Adam Sandler ‘family comedy’ that lurches abruptly from grossout to mawkishness, accompanied by plinky-plonky piano and strings as ghastly life lessons are learned by…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Grudge 2, The (15) **
(Dir: Takashi Shimizu, 102 mins) Having neglected to polish off Sarah Micelle Gellar in the first US ‘Grudge’, vengeful ghost Kayako rectifies her oversight in double-quick time at the start of the sequel. Naturally,…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Grudge, The (15) ***
(Dir: Takashi Shimizu, 90 mins) Few Hollywood remakes of ‘foreign’ originals stick as closely to what worked the first time round as ‘The Grudge’, by original director Takashi Shimizu. Though the ghosts are home-grown,…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guardian, The (12A) **
(Dir: Andrew Davis, 136 mins) Kev Costner dives back in the briny for a film that plays like an overblown, parodic hybrid of ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Men of Honor’, taking the role of grizzled mentor figure to Ashton Kutcher’s…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guess Who (12A) **
(Dir: Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 105 mins) Though ostensibly an ethnic reversal remake of Stanley Kramer's 1967 race relationships comedy-drama ‘Guess Who's Coming To Dinner’, this plays more like a rehash of ‘Meet The…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guest House Paradiso (15) **
(Dir: Adrian Edmondson, 86 mins) Although they're at pains to point out that this isn't a film version of 'Bottom', Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson always play the same characters and they're invariably called Riche and…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guide To Recognising Your Saints, A (15) **
A Guide To Recognising Your Saints (15) ** (Dir: Dito Montiel, 2006, 98 mins) Directed by Warhol protégé Dito Montiel from his own memoir, this works rather too hard at the old rites-of-passage routine, eagerly inviting…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guilty of Romance (18)
Japan 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Sion Sono Starring: Megumi Kagurazaka, Miki Mizuno, Makato Togashi, Kanji Tsuda It just seems as though Sion Sono is unusually prolific at the moment. His hugely enjoyable sex,…30.09.2011 READ MORE -
Gulliver's Travels (PG)
(Dir: Rob Letterman, 2010, 87 mins) There's little point complaining that Swift's savage political and economic satire has somehow become an uncritical celebration of US pop culture here. But one might have expected…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Gummo (18) ****
(Dir: Harmony Korine, 89 mins) Don’t let heated media arguments about gratuitous bad taste, graphic gore and intellectual slumming divert you from seeing this visually stunning debut feature by punky enfant terrible…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gun Shy (15) *
(Dir: Eric Blakeney, 101 mins) We're in familiar 'Sopranos'/'Analyse This' territory as legendary undercover agent Neeson is assigned to One Last Job taking on indiscriminately violent, self-loathing mafioso Oliver…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guru, The (15) ***
(Dir: Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 95 mins) Transparently pitched at the ‘East Is East’/‘Bend It like Beckham’ market, with one eye on the US box office, this fish-out-of-water romcom squanders its delicious premise. But…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guy Thing, A (12A) **
(Dir: Chris Koch, 101 mins) If you’re yearning to see all those Farrelly-esque grossout comedy staples again, you’ll feel right at home with ‘A Guy Thing’. Mind you, there are probably better poster shout lines than:…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Guy X (15) **
(Dir: Saul Metzstein, 101 mins) Had ‘Catch 22’, ‘MASH’, ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ or even ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ not existed, it’s just possible that ‘Guy X’ might be acclaimed as a satire of striking originality. Alas, the…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
Gypo (15) **
(Dir: Jan Dunn, 99 mins) Dogme goes ‘Rashomon’ in Jan Dunn’s directorial debut, which welds the Danish vow of cinematic chastity to a rough’n’ready, multiple-viewpoint, working class kitchen sink drama tackling the hot…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Gambler (15) ***
(Dir: Karoly Makk, 97 mins) Veteran Hungarian director Karoly Makk returns with an intriguing drama that seeks to tease out the parallels between Dostoevsky’s eponymous novel and the extraordinary circumstances in which…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Game (15) ***
(Dir: David Fincher, 128 mins) Michael Douglas is a scummy, emotionless multi-millionaire control freak who gets an unusual birthday present from his prankstering, ex-junkie brother Sean Penn: a ticket for ‘The Game’.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Game Plan (U) **
(Dir: Andy Fickman, 2007, 110 mins) Action lunk Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson follows in the footsteps of Arnie, Hulk Hogan and Vin Diesel in aiming to broaden his appeal with this wholly formulaic Disney-produced ‘family…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Guard (15)
Ireland 2011 96 mins Dir: John Michael McDonagh Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan Already a huge hit in Ireland, where it took £3m in six weeks, John Michael…19.08.2011 READ MORE
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