Prince Charles

Braindead

Peter Jackson's zombiefest follow-up to Bad Taste, set in suburbia in the late '50s, is 'a slapstick comedy...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Bowdlerised but pleasant enough adaptation, by George Axelrod, of Truman Capote's novel, with Hepburn rather too winsome as...

Bright Star

Reviewed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

Jane Campion’s ‘Bright...

Broken Embraces

Click here to read an interview with Cruz

There’s often something charmingly...

Coco Before Chanel

Audrey Tautou stars in this lavish biopic of famed fashion designer Coco Chanel. Based on the novel by Brenda Blethyn) to need a wheelchair, doting con Nick Kane (Tamer...

District 9

When the aliens finally do arrive in their metal ships, perhaps they’ll hang like a swollen metaphor over Johannesburg. District 9 takes this ominous spectacle,...

Fred Claus

Fred, Santa’s deadbeat older brother, pays a visit to the North Pole in an effort to make up for his past mistakes and redeem himself. The reunion with his family does not go according to plan...

The Frighteners

Jackson's follow-up to Heavenly Creatures is an sfx-heavy scarefest that looks at first like a return to the slapstick horror-comedy of Braindead. Later,...

The Hurt Locker

It’s quite likely that Staff Sergeant William James (Renner)—the bomb-defusing expert at the center of the terrific Iraq War action film The Hurt Locker—was...

Inglourious Basterds

Reviewed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

WARNING: SPOILERS

You get the feeling with ‘Inglourious...

Jaws

A reminder that, once upon a time, Spielberg used to make films for adults rather than infants and critical regressives. Maybe it is just a monster movie reminiscent of all those '50s sci-fi films,...

Julie & Julia

Is it possible to love half a movie? Every time Streep is onscreen as Julia Child, Julie & Julia is as light and airy as a soufflé. Every time Adams is onscreen, someone...

Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong

The Lodger

'In truth you might almost say that The Lodger was my first picture.' Indeed, what makes the film (from a novel by Mrs Belloc Lowndes) so fascinating is the way it dissolves into...

Mr Right

The murkier depths of our film industry are crammed with those suffering from the belief that because they’ve seen a few films, they’re qualified to make them. The resulting concoctions –...

Park

This shrill, static farce takes place at an “inspiration point” above Los Angeles, where five cars have assembled to pass the lunch hour. A hysterical woman in a VW Bug haplessly tries to...

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The Colony

The First Day of the Rest Of Your Life

The classic French family drama gets a modern reboot in this unstoppably entertaining saga of life, love, death, pop music and an ongoing battle to cut down on the ciggies. Director Rémi...

The Rock-Afire Explosion

The Shark is Still Working

Zombieland

Drop a loaded 12-gauge into the trembling mitts of a bubble-permed dweeb (Jesse Eisenberg), partner him with a bald,...