Film
DVD: Meet Monica VelourSaturday, 02 July 2011
This was all set to be released in UK cinemas around about now, but at the last minute it has gone straight to DVD. Perhaps the distributors got nervous. You can imagine why. Kim Cattrall is a totem for all sophisticated, sexually expressive women... Read more... |
As If I Am Not ThereThursday, 30 June 2011
The capture and arraignment of Ratko Mladic has brought atrocities committed in Bosnia back onto the front page. As Martin Bell used to argue, the Bosnian war struggled to hold the world’s attention even when it was going on. Two much more major... Read more... |
Larry CrowneWednesday, 29 June 2011
What is it with Hollywood and education? Hot on the heels (shamelessly come-hither pumps, in fact) of Cameron Diaz in the lamentable Bad Teacher, we now get Julia Roberts as a disaffected babe who, we're told, is a teacher even though she spends... Read more... |
The ConspiratorTuesday, 28 June 2011
Some directors are just grateful that their movies get funded and released, but Robert Redford has loftier aspirations. Scornful of the routine popcorn-spattered multiplex-filler, he thinks we should be prodded to improve our lot by learning the... Read more... |
Transformers: Dark of the MoonTuesday, 28 June 2011
When the infantilisation of Hollywood started in 1977 with Star Wars, as a 10-year-old I was all in favour. The hugely successful Transformers franchise based on a series of clever 1980s toys - they’re a car; some Origami-style fiddling later, they’... Read more... |
DVD: The Music LoversMonday, 27 June 2011
There are many ways to get to the truth. One of the best ways is to ignore the truth. That seems to be the mantra of Ken Russell's colourfully mendacious portrait of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers, receiving its long-awaited... Read more... |
Film: GhostedMonday, 27 June 2011John Lynch, Martin Compston and Craig Parkinson in prison drama. Read more... |
Film: West Side StoryMonday, 27 June 201150th birthday re-release Read more... |
Film: Whisky Galore!Monday, 27 June 2011More Ealing revivalism Read more... |
A SeparationMonday, 27 June 2011
Asghar Farhadi’s new film unostentatiously suggests that Iran has many of the same things we have: cars, cash machines, schools, sex, divorce, Alzheimer’s. It doesn’t, we gather, have modern law. Before howls of protest erupt over so banal and... Read more... |
Cutter's WayFriday, 24 June 2011
Of all the curdled classics made during the neo-noir wave of the Seventies and early Eighties - including Klute, The Long Goodbye, Mean Streets, Chinatown, The Conversation, Night Moves, Farewell My Lovely, Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and The... Read more... |
DVD: Don't Look NowFriday, 24 June 2011
Is Don’t Look Now really the best British film of all time? That’s how a panel of 150 industry experts voted earlier this year in a poll compiled by Time Out. But then, out of a list of 100 top British movies, Distant Voices, Still Lives came third... Read more... |
