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21 June 2008Film Review: WALL-E + You have to pity the producers of WALL-E, the latest computer-animated offering from the enviable partnership of Disney and Pixar. -
21 June 2008Film Review: Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1 Brendan Fraser’s career is an odd one. -
21 June 2008Film Review: Kung Fu Panda + It's summer, so it must be time for a big budget, all-star cast, computer-animated movie involving talking animals. -
21 June 2008Film Review: Hancock 1 It's summer and in recent years that’s meant one major certainty – a glut of superhero movies featuring characters ever more obscure to the non-comic-reading public. -
14 June 2008Wanted + Giving it a brief glance, this could seem like ideal and stereotypical summer blockbuster material. -
5 June 2008Gone Baby Gone + It’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Ben Affleck. -
5 June 2008The Escapist + Everyone likes a good prison break, as the producers of the American TV show of the same name can happily attest, now that they’re on their fourth series – despite the titular escape having successfully happened at the end of the first. -
5 June 2008The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian + After the success of Peter Jackson’s gloriously ambitious adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was surely only a matter of time before Hollywood got around to tackling that other great mid-20th century fantasy series, CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. -
5 June 2008Mongol + Be honest, when was the last time you saw a movie from Kazakhstan? Most of us could barely point it out on a map, let alone name any of this mysterious Central Asian country’s cultural achievements. -
3 June 2008California Dreamin’ 1 It's a safe bet that there aren't many people in the world whose first choice of a movie to see on a Friday night is the latest offering from Romania. -
3 June 2008Sex and the City + So there we were, four girls dealing with being single and thirtysomething in New York City. -
3 June 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull + Indiana Jones has become what he was always intended to be – a genuine cinematic icon, a true Hollywood legend, and one of the most successful film-related brands ever created. -
23 April 2008Persepolis + When fans of comic books want to prove to doubters that such things are not "just for kids", as so many people seem to believe, there are a few examples they always use to demonstrate the point beyond doubt. -
23 April 2008The Eye + For a young actress trying to prove her mettle, appearing in a horror film can seem like a canny move. -
23 April 2008Fools Gold + It wouldn't be Spring without a bit of romance in the air, yet this month sees a surprising lack of films revolving around love and relationships. -
18 January 2008Sweeney Todd 1 Love him for his quirky visual style or hate him for his apparently deliberate appeal to that subsection of the teenage market that dresses in black all the time, mostly while writing dire poetry about death and unrequited love, Tim Burton is undoubtedly one of the more interesting and individual of mainstream Hollywood directors. -
18 January 2008Lust, Caution + Taiwanese director Ang Lee is nothing if not eclectic in his output. -
18 January 2008P.S. I Love You + The sheer unpleasantness of the thought that, one day, we are all bound to die has naturally led to human beings creating various methods to avoid worrying about the inevitable. -
18 January 2008Charlie Wilson’s War + Every now and then, a film comes along that has Oscar written all over it. -
18 January 2008Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead + Veteran director Sidney Lumet, best known for the Al Pacino-starring 1970s classics Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon, has had a rather hit-and-miss time of it in his six decades-long career.
