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29 December 2008Film Review: The Spirit 1 Liked the over-the-top, heavily stylised Sin City, with its quirkily graphical black-and-white, comic-book feel? Can't wait until 2010 for the sequel? Well, this might just keep you going until then. -
29 December 2008Film Review: Defiance + Actors who get cast as James Bond all too often find it hard to shake off that iconic character. -
29 December 2008Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire 1 As unlikely award contenders go, a film about the Indian version of popular TV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? made by the guy who brought us that classic piece of mid-90s drug-addled madness Trainspotting has to be up there with the weirdest of them. -
29 December 2008Film Review: Bedtime Stories 3 After the release of the fun family adventure Inkheart two weeks ago, you may think that there's not much call for another movie about children's stories coming to life. -
29 December 2008Film Review: Che + Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara has long been a student hero – his beret-wearing, long-haired image adorning countless walls in university buildings world-wide even before his death, aged 39, by a Bolivian military firing-squad in 1967. -
28 December 2008Film Review: Australia + Romantic epics, and especially romantic epics set amid tragedy and destruction, have long been some of the most popular – yet hard to pull off – of all film genres. -
14 December 2008Film Review: Inkheart + As with buses, so with films – you wait ages for a movie with a certain basic premise, then two come along at once. -
14 December 2008Film Review: Madagascar – Escape 2 Africa + In 2005, Madagascar ambled into our cinemas as just one of countless computer-animated kids' films featuring talking animals getting into scrapes. -
14 December 2008Film Review: Hamlet 2 + There was a time during the mid to late 90s that Steve Coogan was almost unanimously regarded as Britain's best comedian. -
29 November 2008Film Review: Waltz With Bashir + It seems that the old idea that cartoons are for kids has finally been shattered. -
29 November 2008Film Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex + If you've been reading the papers over the last few years you could be forgiven for thinking that we're in the midst of an unprecedented surge of terrorist activity. -
29 November 2008Film Review: W. + In the run-up to what was already being touted as the most significant presidential election in years before the recent global financial upheavals that have added so many extra concerns to the race, it is perhaps unsurprising that Hollywood has tried to cash in on the massive political interest that has surrounded the vote. -
27 September 2008Film Review: Quantum of Solace 3 Not quite the traditional Halloween movie this, yet somehow it's still strangely appropriate for the second Daniel Craig-starring Bond film to come out on a date long associated with the dead. -
27 September 2008Film Review: Where the Wild Things Are 2 After the sheer madness of his only two feature films to date, 1999's Being John Malkovich and 2002's Adaptation, it's a safe bet that Spike Jonze must have been low down on anybody's list as the ideal director for a big screen adaptation of a hit series of children's books. -
27 September 2008Film Review: Ghost Town + Channel Four's late night comedy series The 11 O'Clock Show may only have run for three years, and may never have overly troubled the ratings, but it somehow proved a test bed for two of the biggest British comedy phenomena of the last decade. -
27 September 2008Film Review: High School Musical 3 – Senior Year 3 If you aren't aware of the phenomenon that is High School Musical, it's a safe bet that you're over the age of 15 and don't yet have any children or grandchildren under that age. -
27 September 2008Film Review: The Rocker + There's been a fairly strong tradition of Hollywood comedies revolving around the idea of aspiring rock gods, from the oddball antics of Bill and Ted and their time-travelling escapades in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey through the Wayne's World movies, up to the recent hit School of Rock, with many more along the way – including the oft-forgotten Airheads from 1994, which helped launch the careers of both Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler. -
27 September 2008Film Review: What Just Happened? 1 Back in 1976 the young Robert De Niro, at the height of his powers, appeared in a restrained classic movie about moviemaking, The Last Tycoon. -
27 September 2008Film Review: How To Lose Friends And Alienate People + British comedy's invasion of Hollywood continues apace. -
27 September 2008Film Review: 88 Minutes + Al Pacino is undeniably one of the greatest actors in Hollywood history – a star whose name can pretty much ensure a film's commercial success, and bring cachet to projects that would otherwise barely merit a glance.
