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L'ATALANTE (PG)
Release date: 2005 A brand spanking new 35mm print of Jean Vigo's first, only and classic feature film, made in 1934. It tells the simple story of a young barge captain (Jean Daste) who takes his bride (Dita Parlo) to…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
L'Ennui (18) **
(Dir: Cedric Kahn, 120 mins) Sulky philosophy lecturer Martin is drowning in the eponymous condition, largely, it seems, because his impossibly chic wife Sophie has left him for a man even more geeky than himself.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
L'Humanite (18) **
(Dir: Bruno Dumont, 148 mins) Controversial French director Bruno (‘La Vie de Jesus’) Dumont's second slice of smalltown miserablism is dramatically unconvincing and so slow-moving that it threatens to straddle…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
L.A. Confidential (18) *****
(Dir: Curtis Hanson, 135 mins) Incredibly, ambitious B-list director Curtis Hanson has adapted James Ellroy’s dark, complex, supposedly unfilmable hard-boiled crime novel with extraordinary style and verve. Set in 1953,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
L.I.E. (18) ****
(Dir: Michael Cuesta, 97 mins) His mother having recently been killed out on the Long Island Expressway 15-year-old Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin Dano) is adrift in the world. His dad’s in trouble with the FBI. His best…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
La Antena (15) ****
(Dir: Esteban Sapir, 2007, 90 mins, subtitles) Borrowing heavily from German expressionism, this extraordinary Argentinean film is a beguiling, stylised, monochrome, dystopian allegorical fable about consumerism and…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
La Danse (PG) ***
(Dir: Frederick Wiseman, 2009, 159 mins) Veteran observational documentarian Frederick Wiseman eschews voiceovers and the like, using just the one camera, filming extended shots and generally taking his time. The…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
La Haine (Hate) (18) ****
Talented 25-year-old Mathieu Kassovitz's award-winning account of 24 hours in the lives of a trio of unemployed, ethnically diverse, petty thieving teens on a depressing Parisian council estate. When one of the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Madre Muerta (18) ****
Years after killing her mother and leaving her severely brain-damaged during a burglary, brutal psycho Ismael becomes obsessed with his catatonic victim, who has now grown into a beautiful pubescent teenager…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
La Nina Santa (15) **
(Dir: Lucrecia Martel, 106 mins) Retaining the unsavoury sweaty atmosphere and wilful narrative confusion of Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel’s debut ‘La Cienaga’, ‘La Nina Santa’ (‘The Holy Girl’), stirs in a…25.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Saison des Hommes (12) ***
(Dir: Moufida Tlati, 124 mins) A slow, contemplative, richly observant exploration of women's roles in a strictly patriarchal Arabic society, which resists polemic in favour of simple human compassion. Stuck on the grim…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Spagnola (15) ***
(Dir: Steve Jacobs, 90 mins) Imagine one of Spain’s fruitiest directors – Bigas Luna, say, or the early Pedro Almodovar – on vacation in a grim Australian industrial town in 1960 and you’ll have some idea of whether…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (15) ****
(Dir: Patrice Leconte, 112 mins) Poor old mid-19th century murderer Neel (Emir Kusturica) awaits execution on the small island of Saint-Pierre, a far-flung French outpost off the Canadian mainland which doesn't actually…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Vie De Jesus ***
(Dir: Bruno Dumont, 96 mins) Bruno Dumont’s award-winning, confident and slowburning tale of idle yoof gone bad in idyllic northern France, is set in the mostly deserted Flanders town of Bailleul, where a quintet of…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Vie en Rose (12A) **
(Dir: Olivier Dahan, 2007, 140 mins, subtitles) Given the intensity of Marion Cotillard’s central performance and the eventful life of Edith Piaf, it’s nothing short of miraculous that Olivier Dahan has managed to…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
La Ville est Tranquille (18) ***
(Dir: Robert Guediguian , 132 mins) Another of Robert Guediguian’s lengthy meditations on working class misery in Marseilles, featuring a familiar rep company led by his wife, Ariane Ascaride, the ironically titled 'La…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
LA Without a Map (15) ***
(Dir: Mike Kaurismaki, 106 mins) An odd, episodic yet likeable little film that never quite gels, Finnish director Mika (brother of Aki) Kaurismaki's adaptation of English author Richard Rayner's eponymous…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ladder 49 (12A) *
(Dir: Jay Russell, 105 mins) In the wake of September 11 2001, firefighters became America’s new heroes. With grim inevitability, Hollywood sat up and took notice. Lazy, plodding, manipulative and earnestly reverential,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ladies in Lavender (12A) ***
(Dir: Charles Dance, 103 mins) Charles Dance’s directorial debut is a gentle, understated, handsomely crafted and quietly humorous period drama that delivers on the promise of its exceptional cast. Cornwall, 1936.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady and the Duke, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Eric Rohmer, 125 mins) At the age of 82, French film-maker Eric Rohmer - best known for his visually restrained moral tales and witty comedies of manners - has embraced computer-generated imagery to create a…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady and the Tramp (U) ****
(Dir: Hamilton Luske/Clyde Geronomi/Wilfred Jackson, 76 mins) Disney’s first animated feature to be shot in cinemascope, this is a searing indictment of class prejudice in which a prim and proper cocker spaniel (Lady)…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady Chatterley (18) **
(Dir: Pascale Ferran, 2006, 168 mins, subtitles) A curious French adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in which Mellors is inexplicably renamed Parkin and goes about his horny-handed toil in a collar…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady Godiva *
(Dir: Vicky Jewson, 2008, 96 mins) Twenty-one-year-old director Vicky Jewson certainly has plenty of drive and ambition. Unfortunately, no amount of body-stockinged nudity can distract from that fact that her ‘Lady…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady in the Water (PG) ***
(Dir: M. Night Shyamalan, 109 mins) Traumatised by the murder of his entire family (a recurrent Shyamalan theme), former doctor Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) works as an on-site odd-job man in the Cove, an apartment…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lady Vengeance (18) ***
(Dir: Park Chan-wook, 110 mins) Anyone expecting the concluding part of Park Chan-wook’s retribution trilogy to be ‘Oldboy 2’ is likely to be sorely disappointed. Prepare yourself for an elusive, occasionally elliptical…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ladybird, Ladybird (18) ***
Ken Loach's harrowing docu-drama is based on the true story of working-class mother Maggie (Crissy Rock), who suffers the frustrated violence of her latest abusive husband, then struggles to retain custody of her…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ladykillers, The (15) ***
(Dir: Ethan and Joel Coen, 104 mins) The Coen brothers were always on a hiding to nothing with their transposition of this classic Ealing comedy from post-War London to Mississippi. Those who are able to get over the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lagaan (PG) ****
(Dir: Ashutosh Gowariker, 224 mins) A concerted, and largely successful, Bollywood attempt to break into the lucrative Western market. Set in 1893, ‘Lagaan’ tells the story of a group of farmers in a central Indian…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Laissez-Passer (15) ***
(Dir: Bertrand Tavernier, 170 mins) Bertrand Tavernier’s controversial account of French film-making under the Nazis uses a huge canvas to cover the Vichy years. With a total of 155 speaking roles, this is a rambling,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lake Placid (15) *****
(Dir: Steve Miner, 82 mins) On paper, this looks unpromising. A marauding beast flick from the writer of Ally McBeal and the director of, oh dear, 'Forever Young' sets expectation levels at zero. But from the moment the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lakeview Terrace (15) ***
(Dir: Neil LaBute, 2008, 110 mins) Hey – guess what? Black people can be racist too. And to prove it, here’s Samuel L. Mutherfuckin’ Jackson as an LAPD cop who disapproves of miscegenation so violently that he embarks…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Land and Freedom (15) **
It's 1936 and keen young unemployed Liverpudlian Ian Hart volunteers to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, joining a rainbow unisex unit of POUM volunteers from all over Europe, led by a Spaniard and his…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Land Girls, The (12) **
(Dir: David Leland, 111 mins) A syrupy and predictable drama about the volunteer army of women who tilled the soil during WWII so that farmers’ sons could go and fight. In 1941, three young ladies in uniform are…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Land of the Dead (15) ***
(Dir: George A. Romero, 93 mins) Although this isn’t the greatest of Romero’s zombie flicks, it’s still streets ahead of Hollywood’s standard teen horror crap, combining smart social satire with audience-pleasing…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Land of the Lost (12A) *
(Dir: Brad Silberling, 2009, 101 mins) The advance publicity for this ‘70s US TV show ‘reboot’ promised a kid-friendly fantastical romp with dinosaurs. What we actually get is a high-concept mess in which Will Ferrell…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lantana (15) ****
(Dir: Ray Lawrence, 121 mins) A finely crafted, superbly acted, multiple award-winning drama from Australian director Ray Lawrence, which boasts superficial similarities to ‘Short Cuts’ and ‘Magnolia’. But unlike those…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lara Croft Tomb Raider (12) *
(Dir: Simon West, 96 mins) The biggest film ever adapted from a computer game, this is just as pointless as everything from 'Super Mario Brothers' through 'Street Fighter' to 'Mortal Kombat'. Modesty Blaise knock-off…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (12A) *
(Dir: Jan de Bont, 117 mins) Standing small with the Charlie’s Angels sequel – also sold cynically under the Girl Power banner – this is one of the most soulless, lazy and mechanical films of 2003. Jan de Bont, who…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Larger Than Life (U) **
(Dir: Howard Franklin, 93 mins) Man-elephant buddy pic with Bill Murray as a motivational guru on the business conference circuit who inherits a clown’s red nose and an 8,000 pound elephant. A myriad of comic…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lars and the Real Girl (12A) **
(Dir: Craig Gillespie, 2008, 106 mins) You’ll need an awfully high tweeness threshold to get much out of this self-consciously ‘outrageous’ indieflick which expects us to take its quirky plot machinations seriously. In…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Las Acacias (12A)
Argentina/Spain 2011 86 mins Subtitles Dir: Pablo Giorgelli Starring: German de Silva, Hebe Durate An incident-free road movie that won its Argentinean director the Camera D'Or at Cannes, the slight, slow, dialogue-lite…09.12.2011 READ MORE -
Lassie (PG) ***
(Dir: Charles Sturridge, 99 mins) The first big-screen adaptation of Eric Knight’s 1940 novel ‘Lassie Come Home’ not to be filmed in America, Charles Sturridge’s version is a handsomely staged ‘Lassie’, set in Yorkshire…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Airbender, The (PG) *
(Dir: M. Night Shyamalan, 2010, 103 mins) A strong contender for the dubious accolade of Silliest Film of 2010, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest duffer is a boring, clumsy, badly acted adaptation of a Nickelodeon animated…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Castle, The (15) **
(Dir: Rod Lurie, 131 mins) An uproariously bad prison movie, which offers some entertainment value thanks to the face-off between the worn granite handsomeness of Robert Redford and the flabby, prissy, whiny villainy of…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Chance Harvey (12A) **
(Dir: Joel Hopkins, 2009, 93 mins) A menopausal ‘Before Sunrise’ featuring the unlikely romantic pairing of Dustin Hoffman (71) and Emma Thompson (50)? Dustin is sad sack American jingle writer Harvey Shine, who’s in…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Dance (18) ****
Waggishly dubbed ‘Dead Babe Walking’ in some quarters, this Sharon-Stone-on-death-row flick is far less ambiguous on the issue of capital punishment which it dissects so compellingly. Stone is Cindy Liggett, a…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Days (15) *
(Dir: Gus Van Sant, 97 mins) This isn’t actually about Kurt Cobain, we’re assured, even though Michael Pitt sports a blonde wig, a glum expression and that familiar stripy shirt’n’outsize shades combo. In resisting such…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Days of Disco, The (15) **
(Dir: Whit Stillman, 112 mins) Whit Stillman’s films are populated by smug, self-obsessed Ivy League twerps, whose unwieldy, arch exchanges make a feeble bid for qualification as dialogue, the twist to this painfully…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Days, The (PG) ****
(Dir: James Moll, 87 mins) The 1999 Best Documentary Oscar-winning 'The Last Days', co-produced by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Visual History Foundation, boasts a familiar mix of personal testimony and archive…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Last Exorcism, The (15) ***
(Dir: Daniel Stamm, 2010, 86 mins) This enjoyable shakycam mockumentary is at its best in the clever, satirical set up. By the third act, however, it seems to have forgotten altogether that it’s supposed to be a…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Great Wilderness, The (18) **
The Last Great Wilderness (18) ** (Dir: David Mackenzie, 96 mins) Rising Brit director Mackenzie’s troubled first film, shot on wobbly digital video and ambitiously setting out its stall as a ‘Wicker Man’ for the new…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last House on the Left, The (18) ***
(Dir: Dennis Illiadis, 2009, 110 mins) Every classic low-budget horror must have its glossy Hollywood remake. It’s the law. Given that Wes Craven’s grungy 1972 debut, a loose remake of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Virgin…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last King of Scotland, The (15) ****
(Dir: Kevin Macdonald, 123 mins) Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation of Giles Foden novels stands out from the Whitey Goes to Africa genre for two reasons. The fictional young Scottish doctor through whose experiences Idi…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Kiss, The (15) ***
(Dir: Tony Goldwyn, 104 mins) American audiences aren’t keen on tampering with the romantic ideal and don’t like endings in which love rats get away with their misdeeds. Working from a blackly comic Italian source,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Legion, The (12A) *
(Dir: Doug Lefler, 2007, 102 mins) This flat and episodic old-school Dino De Laurentiis sword’n’sandals production attempts to draw a line between the fall of Rome and the origins of Arthurian legend. When solemn nipper…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Man Standing (18) ***
Walter Hill’s reworking of Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo’ (already remade as ‘A Fistful of Dollars’) sets the familiar story in a town near the Mexican border in 1931, at the height of prohibition. So the Western retains its…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Mimzy, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Robert Shaye, 2007, 90 mins) Finally, some relief for parents fed up of fart gags, animated talking animals and interchangeable pop princesses posing as children’s cinema. Infused with an endearing retro feel,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Mitterand, The (PG) **
(Dir: Robert Guediguian, 117 mins) Imagine that, say, Ken Loach were to make a largely admiring film about Harold Wilson that chose to overlook his character faults in favour of a grand, self-important meditation on the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Night (15) ***
(Dir: Don McKellar, 94 mins) Canadian actor/writer/director Don McKellar's quirky, occasionally touching little film is quite unlike any other apocalypse yarn. Those craving explosions, spectacular FX and Bruce Willis…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last of the Dogmen (PG) ***
Reluctant, bereaved bounty-hunter Tom Berenger is on the trail of a trio of PG-rated baddies in the Montana wilderness, but before he can round ‘em up and spend his wages on drink , there’s a lot of unexplained gunfire…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last of the High Kings, The (15) ***
It’s the summer of 1977, and 17-year-old Dublin teenager Jared Leto is convinced he’s just failed his exams and will never get to university. He has just six weeks to wallow in the music of his beloved Thin Lizzy and…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Orders (15) ***
(Dir: Fred Schepisi, 109 mins) Despite some fine performances from a top cast of codgers, Fred Schepisi's occasionally mawkish adaptation struggles to match the complexity of the multiple-viewpoint approach which helped…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Resort (15) ****
(Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski, 75 mins) Beautiful, naive young Tanya (Dina Korzun) arrives at Stansted airport from the Soviet Union with her unwilling, streetwise ten-year-old son Artiom in tow. But when her fiance doesn't…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Samurai, The (15) ***
(Dir: Edward Zwick, 154 mins) Ed Zwick sure gives great battle and ‘The Last Samurai’ is bookended by two of them. The problem is all the stuff in between, which is liable to make sensitive cinemagoers feel distinctly…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Song, The (PG) *
(Dir: Julie Anne Robinson, 2010, 107 mins) Yet another adaptation of one of those formulaic Nicholas Sparks novels aimed at making tweenie girls blub. This one is also a vehicle for ruthless pocket money thief Hannah…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Last Supper, The (15) ****
(Dir: Stacy Title, 88 mins) An American variation on ‘Shallow Grave’, this blackly comic tale has five grad students in Iowa, each liberal to the core, becoming committed to some very illiberal actions after an…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Latcho Drom (15) ***
(Dir: Tony Gatlif, 103 mins) Algerian-born French director Tony Gatlif has long been fascinated by his gypsy roots. This pseudo-documentary’s title translates as 'Safe Journey', underlining the theme of migration and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Late August, Early September (15) *
(Dir: Olivier Assayas, 112 mins) A former editorial board member of beard-strokers' journal 'Cahiers du Cinema', Olivier Assayas has somehow managed to distil the essence of the fashionable ‘nothing much happening among…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Laura’s Star (U) **
(Dir: Piet De Rycker/Thilo Graf Rothkirch, 75 mins) Adapted from Klaus Baumgart’s multi-million-selling stories, this is the tale of an imaginative seven-year-old who adopts a baby star that tumbles from the sky. It…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Law Abiding Citizen (18) **
(Dir: F. Gary Gray, 2009, 109 mins) Wronged Philadelphia boffin Gerard Butler sets about avenging the rape and murder of his wife and child by bringing down the whole rotten judicial system. Director F. Gary Gray…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Lawless Heart, The (15) ****
(Dir: Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger, 99 mins) Incredibly, this is a classy new Britflick set in Essex. Stuart’s died and friends and relatives are gathered to say their goodbyes. There's grieving lover Nick (Tom…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lawn Dogs (15) ****
(Dir: John Duigan, 101 mins) John Duigan’s latest character-driven drama takes such risks with its subject matter and presentation that it’s in danger of polarising audiences. In a private suburb of Kentucky with its…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (12) **
Having been blown up at the end of ‘Lawnmower Man’ retarded gardener-turned-computer genius Jobe (Matt Frewer) is obligingly rebuilt at the sinister Virtual Light Institute, whose shifty proprietor Jonathan Walker is…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Laws of Attraction (12A) ***
(Dir: Peter Howitt, 90 mins) In what's basically a lightweight reworking of the battle of the sexes romcom ‘Adam's Rib’, Julianne Moore plays New York's most successful divorce lawyer, who’s so neurotic and insecure…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Layer Cake (15) ****
(Dir: Matthew Vaughn, 105 mins) Just when you thought the whole British crime movie bandwagon had ground to a halt, along comes the directorial debut of ‘Lock, Stock . . .’ producer Matthew Vaughn, who took over the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
LE BOSSU (15) *****
(Dir: Philippe de Broca, 1998, 129 mins) It’s 1699. Cocky young swordsman Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) and his new pal the Duc de Nevers (Vincent Perez) are off to visit the mother of Nevers’ heir. Lurking in the shadows…13.05.2010 READ MORE -
Le Concert (15) ***
(Dir: Radu Mihaileanu, 2009, 123 mins, subtitles) A tear-jerking arthouse audience-pleaser that shamelessly pushes middlebrow liberal buttons, this French-Romanian confection is as calculated as the most machine-tooled…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Le Diner de Cons (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…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Le Divorce (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…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (15) ***
(Dir: Shane Meadows, 2009, 72 mins) Shot in just five days, Shane Meadows’ no-budget follow-up to ‘Somers Town’ is a slight, rather familiar, wholly improvised comedy-drama which plays like an indie kid remix of ‘Spinal…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Le Fils (12A) ***
(Dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 103 mins) Those who are averse to minimalist film-making in which everything is shot verite-style in wobbly, tightly-framed ultra-close-up should approach the Dardenne brothers’…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Le Gout des Autres (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 -
Le Havre (PG)
Finland/France/Germany 2011 93 mins Subtitles Dir: Aki Kaurismaki Starring: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darrousin, Blondin Miguel At first glance, formerly wacky Finn Aki Kaurismaki seems to be following his…06.04.2012 READ MORE -
Le Refuge (15) ***
(Dir: Francois Ozon, 2009, 88 mins, subtitles) Francois Ozon returns to his familiar themes of grief and sexuality with this rather minor effort which begins as a tale of junkie business, ambitiously hoping to persuade…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Le Secret (18) ****
(Dir: Virginie Wagon, 107 mins) Virginie Wagon previously co-scripted 'The Dream Life of Angels' with her partner Erick Zonca, who returns the favour for her exceptional first feature, an involving look into the most…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Le Souffle (15) ***
(Dir: Damien Odoul, 77 mins) First-time writer/director Damien Odoul drains every last drop of romanticism from the Limousin countryside with this stark, unsentimental, Bressonian tale of one day’s drunkenness, misery…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Leading Man, The (15) ***
(Dir: John Duigan, 99 mins) All them acting lessons Mr. Bon Jovi has been taking in between Givin’ Love a Bad Name in stadia across the world seem to have paid off handsomely in this, his first major role: a demanding,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (12A) **
(Dir: Stephen Norrington, 110 mins) Alan Moore’s graphic novel ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ is revered because of its quality of artwork and complexity of storyline and characters. James Robinson’s screenplay…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, The (15) ***
(Dir: Steve Bendelack, 90 mins) There’s something awry in Royston Vasey. It seems that sour Reverend Bernice has uncovered a prophecy foretelling imminent apocalypse. The League of Gentlemen (Mark Gatiss, Steve…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Leap Year (PG) *
(Dir: Anand Tucker, 2010, 100 mins) Yet another recycling of the lazy romcom formula in which an uptight, materialistic businesswoman finds herself stranded in a rural town where she takes an instant dislike to a…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Leatherheads (12A) ***
(Dir: George Clooney, 2008, 113 mins) In theory, ‘Leatherheads’ is an ideal date movie. Girls get a George Clooney-Renée Zellweger rom-com set in 1925, with period fashions (see Renée in a cloche with a long feather!)…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Leaving (15) ***
(Dir: Catherine Corsini, 2009, 86 mins, subtitles) A Gallic infidelity and marital bust-up drama starring frosty old Kristin Scott Thomas, anyone? Alas, Kristin’s impeccable middle-class angst, Agnes Godard’s excellent…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Leaving Las Vegas (18) ****
Shot in a mere four and a half weeks, ignoring all of Hollywood's prescriptions about positive heroes and upbeat endings, and filmed in a gritty documentary style, Mike Figgis's movie breaks all the rules. At its dark…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lebanon (15) ****
(Dir: Samuel Maoz, 2009, 93 mins, subtitles) It’s ‘Das Boot’ in a tank! OK, that’s a little glib, but this is another visceral, claustrophobic combat-in-a-tin-can flick, dripping with blood and sweat. Like ‘Waltz With…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Legally Blonde (12) ***
(Dir: Robert Luketic, 97 mins) It lacks the intelligence of its close cinematic cousin 'Clueless' and the satirical bite of star Reese Witherspoon's earlier 'Election', but first-time director Robert Luketic's comedy…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (PG) **
(Dir: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 94 mins) Two years after Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) graduated Harvard, she discovers the biological mother of her pet Chihuahua, Bruiser, is a lab animal. Wangling a job with sorority…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Legend of Bagger Vance, The (PG) **
(Dir: Robert Redford, 126 mins) Robert Redford’s dreary mystical golfing flick whisks us back to the early years of the Great Depression, where a contrivance brings together two of America's foremost golfers for a big…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG) **
(Dir: Zack Snyder, 2010, 93 mins) Animated anthropomorphised owls are the new animated anthropomorphised penguins. That’s the hope of Warners’ animation department with this cumbersomely titled latest CGI avian…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
Legend of Zorro, The (PG) **
(Dir: Martin Campbell, 130 mins) It’s 1850, and California's set to vote on becoming the 31st state of the Union. However, there are forces at work determined not only to prevent this happening but to destroy the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Legion (15) *
(Dir: Scott Stewart, 2010, 100 mins) A promisingly preposterous mash-up of ‘The Reaping’, ‘Constantine’ and ‘The Mist’, with Charles Darwin himself (Paul Bettany, for it is he) as a renegade angel who opts to side with…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Lemming (15) ***
(Dir: Dominik Moll, 129 mins) Young Frenchman Dominik Moll’s disappointing follow-up to his Hitchcockian ‘Harry, He’s Here to Help’ starts intriguingly but actually plays like an overlong arthouse reworking of an…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lemmy (15)
(Dir: Greg Olliver & Wes Orshoski, 2010, 116 mins) An engaging portrait of Motorhead's gnarly 65-year-old frontman, who now suffers from diabetes and hypertension but shows no sign of slowing down. To Lemmy's peers in…15.12.2010 READ MORE -
Lemon Tree (PG) ****
(Dir: Eran Riklis, 2008, 106 mins, subtitles) Israeli director Eran Riklis’s liberal arthouse audience-pleaser never feels calculated or forced. It also boasts an irresistible David vs Goliath political allegory with…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG) ***
(Dir: Brad Silberling, 103 mins) Firmly in the Victorian tradition of tales in which ridiculously horrible things happen to perfectly nice children, this ambitious adaptation of the first three Lemony Snicket books…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (PG) **
(Dir: Lian Lunson, 99 mins) Based around concerts held to celebrate the 70th birthday of Canadian wordsmith and songwriter Leonard Cohen, 'I'm Your Man' intercuts a career-spanning interview with its golden-voiced…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF (18)
Release date: 1992 Juliette Binoche is a nice middle-class artist with a degenerative eye disease that will eventually cause her to go blind. One night, she bumps into stumbling bum Denis Lavant and they wind up living…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Les Amants Reguliers (18) *
(Dir: Philippe Garrel, 2006, 184 mins) Veteran Philippe Garrel’s stylistic and intellectual devotion to the nouvelle vague is so all-encompassing that this might as well be a monochrome Godardian time capsule from the…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Les Destinees Sentimentales (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,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Les Enfants Du Paradis (PG) *****
Made in 1945 and often cited as Marcel Carne's masterpiece, the credit for this French cinema classic belongs equally to the three principal actors and screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Among the stalls, entertainments and…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Les Enfants du Siecle (15) **
(Dir: Diane Kurys, 108 mins) A rather turgid historical biopic, which elevates George Sand's (Binoche) on-off relationship with whoring, opium-guzzling, rock'n'roll poet Alfred de Musset (Benoit Magimel) to the status…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Les Miserables (12) ***
Anyone expecting a straightforward version of Victor Hugo’s epic 19th century novel will get more than they bargained for in Claude Lelouch’s ambitious three-hour update. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays an uneducated…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Les Miserables (1998) (12) **
(Dir: Bille August, 134 mins) Liam Neeson is honest, decent Valjean, who takes in waif-like Fantine (Uma Thurman) after she has sunk into prostitution to pay for the upkeep of her child. A decade later in Paris, the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lesbian Vampire Killers (15) **
(Dir: Phil Claydon, 2009, 86 mins) Aspiring to ‘Shaun of the Dead’ status, this well-intentioned, fairly shoddy knockabout comedy-horror might have been better advised to ditch the rotten jokes and make a regular…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Let Me In (15) ****
(Dir: Matt Reeves, 2010, 116 mins) If we really must have an English-language remake of the best vampire film of recent years, then ‘Cloverfield’ director Matt Reeves far exceeds expectations with his skilful, sensitive…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Let the Right One In (15) *****
(Dir: Tomas Alfredson, 2008, 114 mins, subtitles) Adapted from his own novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, this genuinely unsettling, beautifully photographed urban Swedish fairytale adheres to familiar vampire lore and…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Lethal Weapon 4 (15) **
(Dir: Richard Donner, 128 mins) This (hopefully) last and (certainly) least of the ‘Lethal Weapon’ flicks gets the job done with the bare minimum of effort from all concerned. Family man Danny’s still “too old for this…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Letters from Iwo Jima (15) *****
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2006, 140 mins) A companion piece to Eastwood’s ‘Flags of Our Fathers’, this compelling war film tells the story of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers who defended the island.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Letters to Juliet (PG) **
(Dir: Gary Winick, 2010, 105 mins) Another gloopily sentimental Amanda Seyfried romance. This one casts her as an aspiring journalist who travels to picture postcard Italy with her fiancé Gael Garcia Bernal, who…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Let’s Talk About the Rain (12A) ***
(Dir: Agnes Jaoui, 2008, 99 mins, subtitles) Yet another comedy of bourgeois manners from Agnes Jaoui, who once again casts herself and hubby Jean-Pierre Bacri in the lead roles. Those with a low tolerance of the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Liaison Pornographique, Une (15) ****
(Dir: Frederic Fonteyne, 80 mins) Having answered a singles ad, two anonymous Parisians meet in a cafe, and there's hardly time to down a cognac before they're off to the hotel round the corner. We don’t find out what…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Liam (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 88 mins) A curiously unsatisfying offering from Stephen Frears, this period slice of Merseyside misery deals in the broadest of strokes (if you're being charitable) or the lamest of stereotypes (if…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Liar (18) ***
(Dir: Josh and Jonas Pate, 102 mins) Another set of writer-director brothers (identical twins, no less), and another twisty-turny psychological thriller. Smug, dissolute, epileptic rich-kid Tim Roth undergoing a lie…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Liar Liar (12) ***
(Dir: Tom Shadyac, 86 mins) Another showcase for Jim Carrey’s gurning antics and another huge box office hit, this boasts a simple no-brainer premise: what if a lawyer were obliged to tell the truth for a day? Carrey…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Libertine, The (18) ****
(Dir: Laurence Dunmore, 120 mins) An authentically bawdy, sweary romp through the life of the debauched John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, featuring yet another magnificent, gleefully enthusiastic performance from…09.08.2010 READ MORE -
Liberty Heights (15) ****
(Dir: Barry levinson, 127 mins) This fourth film in Barry Levinson’s hometown Baltimore series is a sweet, richly observant, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story whose familiarity is tempered by an observant script…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
License To Wed (12A) *
(Dir: Ken Kwapis, 2007, 91 mins) A strong contender for the hotly contested accolade of Most Annoying Robin Williams Movie Ever. Ben (John Krasinski, who starred in director Ken Kwapis’s US version of ‘The Office’) and…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life & Lyrics (15) **
(Dir: Richard Laxton, 99 mins) Like so many earnest films about black working class youths trying to escape their neighbourhood, this feels as if it was written by a concerned middle-aged teacher or social worker. A…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life (15) **
(Dir: Ted Demme, 109 mins) It’s easy to appreciate the appeal of watching Eddie Murphy serving out a life sentence behind bars. But you wouldn’t want to be there doing the porridge with him, which is what this…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (15) ***
(Dir: Stephen Hopkins, 126 mins) Stephen Hopkins’ flawed biopic manages to cram an awful lot into two hours, while still finding room for some audacious narrative trickery intended to offer insight into his subject’s…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The (15) ****
(Dir: Wes Anderson, 118 mins) Insomuch as there’s a theme developing in Texan director Wes Anderson’s increasingly wry and stylised oeuvre, it is of the wilful, tactless, unreliable father and his dysfunctional brood.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life As We Know It (12A) **
(Dir: Greg Berlanti, 2010, 114 mins) This is yet another variant on the standard mismatched-partners romcom plot – Katherine Heigl’s uptight café owner and Josh Duhamel’s laid-back jock are your typical chalk ‘n’ cheese…06.10.2010 READ MORE -
Life As We Know It (12A) **
(Dir: Greg Berlanti, 2010, 114 mins) This is yet another variant on the standard mismatched-partners romcom plot – Katherine Heigl’s uptight café owner and Josh Duhamel’s laid-back jock are your typical chalk ‘n’ cheese…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life During Wartime (15) ****
(Dir: Todd Solondz, 2009, 98 mins) Twelve years on from his misanthropic masterpiece ‘Happiness’, Todd Solondz revisits that film’s spectacularly dysfunctional extended Jewish family, with different actors playing the…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Life in a Day (12A)
USA 2011 95 mins Dir: Kevin Macdonald Although Kevin ('The Last King of Scotland') Macdonald is officially credited as director of 'Life in a Day', and Ridley Scott as its producer, the film is, in fact, the work of…17.06.2011 READ MORE -
Life is a Miracle (15) **
(Dir: Emir Kusturica, 154 mins) Even those who enjoy Bosnian director Emir Kusturica’s lengthy, sprawling epics with their barely coherent plots and endless jaunty, parping gypsy brass band music may feel a little…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life Is All You Get (15) **
(Dir: Wolfgang Becker, 115 mins) German comedy, the national stereotype would have us believe, is an oxymoron. Wolfgang Becker seems grimly determined to provide a two-hour illustration of this reprehensible contention.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life Is Beautiful (PG) **
(Dir: Roberto Benigni, 122 mins) The problem with Roberto Benigni’s concentration camp comedy is not, as some have claimed, that it’s inherently offensive but that it’s not funny and it doesn’t work. The first hour or…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life Is Sweet (15) ****
Mike Leigh offers up another bunch of impeccably decent if flawed working class characters in this largely good-natured, London-set social comedy, which preceded the coruscating ‘Naked’. Wendy (a typically excellent…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life Less Ordinary, A (15) ***
(Dir: Danny Boyle, 101 mins) Up in a heaven that resembles a bleached US cop show set, angels Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter are dispatched to pair off spoilt rich bitch Cameron Diaz and hopeless loser Ewan McGregor, who…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Life of David Gale, The (15) *
(Dir: Alan Parker, 130 mins) Alan Parker’s ludicrous film boasts a last reel twist which tips into abject preposterousness what had, until then, been just a tiresomely overwrought death penalty drama foghorned from the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lights in the Dusk (PG) ***
(Dir: Aki Kaurismaki, 2006, 78 mins) Each successive instalment in Aki Kaurismaki’s loser trilogy, of which this is the conclusion, has become thinner and less involving - or more refined and minimalist, if you’re…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Like Crazy (12A)
USA 2011 90 mins Dir: Drake Doremus Starring: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston Just as one suspects there's a factory somewhere churning out commercials/pop video directors…27.01.2012 READ MORE -
Like Mike (PG) **
(Dir: John Schultz, 99 mins) Pint-sized, squeaky clean, 14-year-old rapper Lil’ Bow Wow makes his screen debut as Calvin Cambridge: a perky orphan who acquires a pair of Michael Jordan’s old trainers which magically…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Like Water for Chocolate (15) ****
Mexico, 1895. Lumi Cavazos stays at home to look after her ghastly old widowed mother, declaring that she will never marry. As a teenager, she falls for Marco Leonardi but the matriarch refuses to let them marry,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lilo and Stitch (U) ***
(Dir: Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois, 85 mins) Down on Earth, lonely, troubled little Hawaiian girl Lilo is having a hard time fitting in. Meanwhile, up on the planet Turo, Experiment 626 – a fire-proof, bullet-proof…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lilya 4-Ever (18) ****
(Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 109 mins) After his comparatively gentle but hugely accomplished first two films, ‘Show Me Love’ and ‘Together’, this has been hailed in some quarters as young Swede Lukas Moodysson’s masterpiece.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Limbo (15) ***
(Dir: John Sayles, 126 mins) Veteran indie craftsman John Sayles subverts a familiar disaster movie scenario. It opens slowly in overlapping Altmanesque style as we're introduced to the denizens of Juneau, Alaska,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Limey, The (18) ****
(Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 89 mins) Steven Soderbergh's slight-yet-enjoyable low budget follow-up to his slick 'Out of Sight' is not only about two nations divided, as Bernard Shaw famously remarked, by a common language,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Limitless (15)
USA 2011 104 mins Dir: Neil Burger Starring: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Robert De Niro The addiction flick meets the 'careful what you wish for' fantasy, with a dash of superheroics and a soupcon of…14.03.2011 READ MORE -
Linha de Passe (15) ***
(Dir: Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, 2008, 113 mins, subtitles) Walter Salles returned to his roots for this warm-hearted, moderately gritty, occasionally engaging tale of a soccer-crazy single mother and her four sons…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lions for Lambs (15) **
(Dir: Robert Redford, 2007, 92 mins) Hollywood liberal Robert Redford tackles the War on Terror and the results are much as you would expect: earnest, worthy, and fatally undermined by an inability to see the world from…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Black Book (12A) **
(Dir: Nick Hurran, 106 mins) Discovering that her hockey scout boyfriend Derek hasn't been totally upfront about his past relationships, Stacy Holt (Brittany Murphy) is persuaded by conniving colleague Barb (Holly…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Children (15) ****
(Dir: Todd Field, 103 mins) Unhappily married to a dull older man with an Internet porn fetish, PhD dropout housewife Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet) begins an adulterous affair with househusband Brad (Patrick Wilson).…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Fish (15) ***
Little Fish (15) *** (Dir: Rowan Woods, 114 mins) A vivid depiction of smalltown junkie business and the grip it retains on those who attempt to escape its clutches, Rowan Woods’ multiple award-winning drama gives three…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Man (12A) *
(Dir: Keenan Ivory Wayans, 90 mins) ‘Scary Movie’ alumnus Keenan Ivory Wayans manages to insult both the dwarf lobby and anyone with a sense of humour. The latest digital effects technology can now transpose Marlon…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Manhattan (PG) **
(Dir: Mark Levin, 90 mins) Girls, eh? Can’t live with ‘em and you can’t live without ‘em. They mess with your head, smell kinda weird, and make you act real stupid. That’s the message of this pre-teen New York romcom…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Miss Sunshine (15) ****
(Dir: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 102 mins) When podgy, bespectacled, relentlessly sunny seven-year-old Olive (Abigail Breslin) gets the opportunity to compete in a Californian beauty contest, her entire…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Nicky (12) *
(Dir: Steven Brill, 84 mins) You'd think a film with Harvey Keitel as Satan, Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat and Henry Winkler being attacked by a swarm of bees would at least deliver in the lowbrow laughs…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Polar Bear 2 - The Mysterious Island, The (U) *
(Dir: Thilo Graf Rothkirch, 81 mins) Sequel to the episodic, feature-length animated adaptation of Dutch author Hans der Beers' pre-schooler books, whose German creators have at least made an effort to come up with a…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Polar Bear, The (U) **
(Dir: Piet de Rycker/Thilo Graf Rothkirch, 77 mins) A rudimentarily drawn feature-length version of the animated TV series based on the books by Dutch author Hans der Beers, this feels like three stories bundled…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Princess, A (U) ****
Adapted from a children’s novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett, this immaculately designed and directed tale effortlessly blends real-life settings, wild imaginings and heartfelt emotion in a way that is never remotely…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Red Flowers (12A) ***
(Dir: Zhang Yuan, 87 mins) An allegorical yarn set in a strict mixed ‘boarding kindergarten’ for the busy offspring of Communist Party officials in late 50s Beijing, which prides itself on training its charges from an…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Vampire, The (U) ***
(Dir: Uli Edel, 95 mins) Jonathan (‘Stuart Little’) Lipnicki plays the young hero of this oddly macabre story aimed at family audiences. He’s a bored nine-year-old American kid living in Scotland whose one escape is…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Vampire, The (U) ***
(Dir: Uli Edel, 95 mins) Jonathan (‘Stuart Little’) Lipnicki plays the young hero of this oddly macabre story aimed at family audiences. He’s a bored nine-year-old American kid living in Scotland whose one escape is…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little Voice (15) ***
(Dir: Mark Herman, 96 mins) Mark Herman's version of Jim Cartwright's stage hit skirts round many of the usual adaptational pitfalls, despite succumbing to the director's trademark sentimentalism. Following the death of…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Little White Lies (15)
(Dir: Guillaume Canet, 2010, 144 mins, subtitles) At two-and-a-half hours, this is way too long, the maudlin last reel drags when it should soar, and it's mostly concerned with the navel-gazing of the prosperous…13.04.2011 READ MORE -
Live Flesh (18) ****
(Dir: Pedro Almodovar, 99 mins) Pedro Almodovar’s densely plotted, genre-defying and completely restructured adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s novel is the tale of prostitute’s son Victor who gets involved in a shoot out…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Live Forever (15) **
(Dir: John Dower, 82 mins) In the vernacular of the Gallagher brothers, who are by far its strongest asset, ‘Live Forever’ is a lot of nobheads talking bollocks. But while one might expect its Britpop protagonists…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lives of Others, The (15) *****
(Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006, 137 mins, subtitles) Writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s brilliant,Oscar-winnng feature debut is the finest surveillance drama since ‘The Conversation’. East…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Living In Hope (15) ***
(Dir: John Miller, 87 mins) The first feature since 'Paper Mask' to capture Bristol - OK, the upmarket bits of it - so effectively on film. In an exhilarating high-speed blur of motion, John Miller's camera races down…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Living In Oblivion (15) *****
An American indie answer to Truffaut's 'Day For Night', this is likewise a movie about the making of a movie. Tom ('Johnny Suede') DiCillo offers a three-act structure. The first, a terrible day on the set of the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Living Out Loud (15) **
(Dir: Richard Lagravenese, 99 mins) Accomplished scriptwriter Richard LaGravenese's directorial debut is an honourable failure, one that suffers badly from his inability to inject the flatly photographed New York…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lizzie Maguire Movie, The (U) **
(Dir: Jim Fall, 90 mins) The intention of this tweenage flick seems to be to rebrand perky Hilary Duff as an identikit bland teenpop star while cashing in on her starring role in the popular Disney TV show. Lizzie is…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Loch Ness (PG) ***
Unlikely as it sounds, this is one of the best crafted and most entertaining British-made family films of recent years, with just the right balance between the human story and the sensibly restrained special effects.…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (18) ***
(Dir: Guy Richie, 107 mins) When street-slicker Nick Moran finds himself owing porn king Hatchet Harry a cool £500,000, he has to make with the cash fast before his dad (Sting!) loses his beloved bar. Fortunately, his…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lolita (18) ****
(Dir: Adrian Lyne, 137 mins) After all the contrived furore, this turns out to be the best and most restrained thing Adrian Lyne has ever done. By providing an unambiguous explanation of the origin of fortysomething…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
London Boulevard (18)
(Dir: William Monahan, 2010, 103 mins) The vintage Stones/Dylan/Yardbirds soundtrack and pop culture meets East End gangster theme are presumably intended to remind us of 'Performance'. That's a bold move on the part of…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
London River (12A) **
(Dir: Rachid Bouchareb, 2010, 87 mins, subtitles) • French Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb comes a bit of a cropper with this low-key, clunkily schematic follow-up to his brilliant ‘Days of Glory’. Race, community…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
London to Brighton (18) ****
(Dir: Paul Andrew Williams, 85 mins) Actor-turned-director Paul Andrew Williams’ arresting, privately-funded, low-budget feature debut has attracted the glib if reasonably accurate description “‘Cathy Comes Home’ meets…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lone Star (15) ****
(Dir: John Sayles, 134 mins) When a sheriff’s badge and accompanying skull are found just outside a small Texas town on the Mexican border, lawman Chris Cooper suspects that they’ve stumbled upon the remains of former…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Long Time Dead (15) *
(Dir: Marcus Adams, 94 mins) Instantly establishing itself as a front runner for the title Worst British Film of 2002, this inept, banal, stupefying, unimaginative and pitifully unoriginal piece of shit sets a new low…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Longest Yard, The (12A) **
(Dir: Peter Segal, 113 mins) A lame remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1974 comedy-drama with Adam Sandler in the Burt Reynolds role. Yes, you may want to read that sentence again. Weedy Adam Sandler attempts to fill the manly…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Longing (15) ***
(Dir: Valeska Grisebach, 2006, 88 mins, subtitles) This fictional feature debut by documentarist Valeska Grisebach is very much in the Euro arthouse miserablism tradition. Suitably shaken after being first on the scene…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Look at Me (12A) ***
(Dir: Agnès Jaoui, 110 mins) Lolita (Marilou Berry in her debut role), saddled with the name of a teenage strumpet but constantly at war with herself over her looks, is the unhappy daughter of successful, ego-centric…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Look Both Ways (12A) ****
(Dir: Sarah Watt, 100 mins) A funny, daring, perceptive, inventive and occasionally poignant but never mawkish multiple award-winner from Down Under. Worrier Meryl (Justine Clarke) witnesses a man being hit and killed…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Looking For Eric (15) ***
(Dir: Ken Loach, 2009, 116 mins) Ken Loach’s unexpected high-concept crowd-pleaser may prompt dismay among arthouse audiences and hardcore Loach enthusiasts on account of Paul Laverty’s lightweight and…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Looking For Richard (15) ****
(Dir: Al Pacino, 112 mins) Pacino’s directorial debut is a triple-track quest: a stated goal to make Shakespeare accessible to a larger public, a documentary record of getting to grips with the Bard, and the final…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lookout, The (15) ****
(Dir: Scott Frank, 2007, 99 mins) Screenwriter Scott (‘Out of Sight’, ‘Get Shorty’) Frank’s directorial debut is a slowburning noir welding the chilly locale and folksy cops of ‘Fargo’ to the potentially tricksy…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (PG) ***
(Dir: Joe Dante, 90 mins) Joe Dante’s strategy to rescue the Looney Tunes brand is to take a formulaic, sub-‘Spy kids’ plot, coat it with a self-referential veneer, add liberal quantities of movie in-jokes, find roles…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Loose Cannons (12A)
(Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek, 2010, 113 mins) Handsome young closeted homosexual Tomasso Cantone (Riccardo Scamarcio) returns to conservative Puglia for a grand gathering of the eccentric Cantone clan, at which proud patriarch…12.01.2011 READ MORE -
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (PG) *****
(Dir: Peter Jackson, 178 mins) Peter Jackson's jaw-droppingly original adaptation of Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' blends spectacular images with credible characters, complex moral ambiguities, exhilarating action…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (12A) *****
(Dir: Peter Jackson, 201 mins) The final instalment of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth-shattering trilogy drives the violent fantasy epic towards its denouement, introducing new challenges and fearsome creatures for the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (12A) ****
(Dir: Peter Jackson, 179 mins) Plunging us headlong into the action, the second part of Kiwi director Peter Jackson’s epic Tolkien trilogy picks up exactly where ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ left off. Frodo and Sam are…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lord of War (15) ****
(Dir: Andrew Niccol, 105 mins) While this arms trade flick packs a great deal of factual information for a drama, it’s also a blackly comic military satire in the recent tradition of ‘Three Kings’ and ‘Buffalo…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lords of Dogtown (12A) ***
(Dir: Catherine Hardwicke, 107 mins) If you saw writer Stacey Peralta’s ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’ documentary, you’ll find this rags-to-riches tale set during the 70s US skateboarding boom more than a little familiar. In…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Loser (12) ***
(Dir: Amy Heckerling, 98 mins) Writer/director Amy ('Clueless') Heckerling’s latest contribution to the American teen comedy genre boasts that familiar streetwise dialogue and feel for the fashions and culture of Young…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Losers, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Sylvain White, 2010, 97 mins) You’ve heard this one before: the Losers are a unit of multi-ethnic, hard-as-nails, mostly good-humoured covert military types with enough wardrobe and character quirks apiece so you…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost Highway (18) ***** or *
(Dir: David Lynch, 135 mins) There’s no point trying to summarise the plot as right from the outset, David Lynch’s latest weirdfest seems deliberately conceived to wrongfoot the viewer. It opens disturbingly ominously,…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost in La Mancha (15) ****
(Dir: Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, 93 mins) Terry Gilliam’s dream had always been to adapt Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’; a project which had previously defeated Orson Welles. After ten years of planning, he decamped to Spain…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost In Space (PG) **
(Dir: Stephen Hopkins, 130 mins) A clunky, unimaginative re-working of the cult 1960s TV series, which replaces the old papier mache boulders and fake-looking spaceship interiors with expensive computer-generated visual…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost in Translation (15) ****
(Dir: Sofia Coppola, 102 mins) Sofia Coppola’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to her justly lauded ‘The Virgin Suicides’ stars 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson as the unsatisfied and neglected spouse of a self-absorbed…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost Son, The (18) ***
(Dir: Chris Menges, 102 mins) An intelligent scratch at the surface of the child sex business, this sends Daniel Auteuil's French private dick from Soho to Suffolk to Mexico on the trail of a missing smack-addict: a…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost Souls (15) ***
(Dir: Janusz Kaminski, 97 mins) This belated entry in the Satanic possession cycle languished on the shelf for more than year, presumably because preview audiences reacted poorly to its plodding pace, untidy plotting…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (PG) ***
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 134 mins) When dear old Dickie Attenborough says to Jeff Goldblum, “You mean you didn’t know about Site B?” Jeff doesn’t burst out laughing and demand that they can surely do better than that for…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lot Like Love, A (PG) *
(Dir: Nigel Cole, 106 mins) ‘When Ashton Met Amanda’, anybody? As resistible prospects go, this identikit B-lister romcom starring Demi Moore’s toyboy and the blandly attractive Amanda Peet, directed by the bloke who…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lou Reed’s Berlin (12A) **
(Dir: Julian Schnabel, 2007, 85 mins) Lou Reed plunged himself into commercial obscurity with his 1973 album, ‘Berlin’ - a squalid tale of self-destruction and suicide via bad drugs, indiscriminate sex and casual…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Lourdes (U) ***
(Dir: Jessica Hausner, 2009, 99 mins, subtitles) Austrian director Jessica Hausner plays her cards pretty close to her chest with ‘Lourdes’. Is it a celebration of religious faith and the miracles that allegedly take…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Love + Hate (15) **
(Dir: Dominic Savage, 86 mins) Yet another BBC-backed, contrivance-laden ishoo drama, with ropy dialogue, a really crap soundtrack and more than a hint of worthy youth theatre. The synopsis boils down to a ‘Romeo and…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love Actually (15) **
(Dir: Richard Curtis, 135 mins) It’s the ultimate seasonal Richard Curtis remix, with Hugh Grant, a wedding, a funeral, a character whose sexuality will provide a twist, some comedy swearing and ‘Love Is All Around’ –…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love and Basketball (12) ***
(Dir: Gina Prince-Blythewood, 124 mins) Monica and Quincy grow up together, next-door neighbours in one of LA's more comfortable suburbs. At 12 they share their first basketball game and their first kiss, but the…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love and Death on Long Island (15) ***
(Dir: Richard Kwietniowski, 93 mins) Widowed writer Gerald De’Ath (John Hurt) is a crusty old fogey, pointedly out of touch with the modern world, who falls for strapping young buck Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly) after…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love and Other Catastrophes (15) ***
(Dir: Emma-Kate Croghan, 82 mins) Perky, predictable and eager to please, 23-year-old Australian Emma-Kate Croghan’s campus comedy debut comes replete with all those genre staples: love, sex, death, drugs, and the moody…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love and Other Drugs (15)
(Dir: Ed Zwick, 2010, 112 mins) Did you hear the one about the Viagra salesman and the woman with Parkinson’s Disease? It may sound like the set-up to a dodgy joke, but this is actually a sincere attempt at a modern…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Love and Sex (15) ***
(Dir: Valerie Breiman, 82 mins) Writer-director Valerie Breiman's up-and-down saga of awkward relationships certainly shows a lot of romcom promise. She gives us individuals who aren't immediately obvious in the very…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Love Etc (15) **
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