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Man on Wire

Film Review: Man on Wire


"HERE was an extraordinary individual who viewed the world in a unique way. Not least from places that no other man has ever seen." Read

Film Review - The X-Files: I Want To Believe


IF ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder then we should be ready to fall in love again with FBI special agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson). Read

Batman meets the Joker in the film, The Dark Knight

Film Review: The Dark Knight


WITH Batman Begins, director Christopher Nolan gave us a grittily believable anti-hero who would appeal just as much to adults as to kids. With The Dark Knight, Nolan returns with an adrenaline pumping yet thoughtful film in many ways superior to its predecessor. Read

WALL-E

Film Review: WALL-E


PIXAR Animation Studios have a reputation for making entertainment into an artform, and with WALL-E the team responsible for making a rat nicer than Gordon Ramsey (Ratatouille), fish look cuddly (Finding Nemo) and a family of superheroes look, well, super (The Incredibles) have scored another very definite hit. Read

Image from the film, Mamma Mia!

Film Review: Mamma Mia!


IF LAST year’s film version of Hairspray put a spring in your step, then dust off your dancing shoes – Mamma Mia! is a delight. Read

Jackie Chan from the film, Forbidden Kingdom

Film Review: Forbidden Kingdom


MARTIAL arts titans Jet Li and Jackie Chan share the screen for the first time in a lively East meets West smackdown filmed on location in China. Read

Will Smith in the film, Hancock

Film Review: Hancock


WITH great power comes great responsibility . . . not that bona fide superhero Hancock (Smith) cares. Read

Scene from the film, Kung Fu Panda

Film Review: Kung Fu Panda


MARK OSBORNE and John Stevenson’s computer animated comedy does exactly what it says on the tin, spinning a story of triumph against the odds around a rotund bear with a passion for martial arts. Read

Scene from the film The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian

Film Review - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian


THE second book of CS Lewis’s epic series to make it to the big screen reunites the creative talents of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe for a titanic battle between the Narnians and a race of human usurpers called the Telmarines. Read

Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in the film, The Edge Of Love

Film Review: The Edge Of Love


OPENING in the confines of a crowded London Underground shelter during the Blitz, The Edge of Love recounts an inglorious incident in the topsy- turvy life of Dylan Thomas. Read

Image from the horror film, The Ruins

Film Review: The Ruins


FOR years, gardeners have been talking lovingly to flowers and shrubs in the belief that their little beauties respond to intonations of the human voice. Read

Brian Cox from the film, The Escapist

Film Review: The Escapist


FREEDOM is just a state of mind in The Escapist, a prison break thriller that attempts to breathe new life into the genre. Read

Scene from the film, The Incredible Hulk

Film Review: The Incredible Hulk


IF AT first you don’t succeed, try again. Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s flawed 2003 film adaptation of the not-so-jolly green giant struggled to marry a ponderous screenplay with overblown action set pieces, and a central character who looked more like Shrek’s dishevelled cousin than an unbridled force of rage. Read

Scene from the film, The Happening

Film Review: The Happening


DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan has consistently toyed with and subverted expectations, and The Happening will certainly shock and surprise audiences who enjoyed his earlier films like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village, though not in a good way. Read

Scene from the film, Gone Baby Gone

Film Review: Gone Baby Gone


ART reflects real life: sometimes with affection, sometimes with brutal honesty that sends a chill down the spine. Read

Scene from the film, Superhero Movie

Film Review: Superhero Movie


SOMEBODY ought to explain to filmmaker Craig Mazin that, in Hollywood, you have to respond quickly to changing tastes. Read

Images from the film, Sex and the City: The Movie

Film Review - Sex and the City: The Movie


IT MUST be the most eagerly anticipated movie of all time and after all the snatched photos, rumours, twists and turns, Sex and the City The Movie does not disappoint. Read

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the film, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


PARTICULAR care should be taken when messing around with the childhood of a generation. The consequences can be dire, as many a disenchanted Star Wars fan could tell you. So it is with the outings of Indiana Jones. Read

Director Terence Davies on the red carpet at Cannes

Liverpool film portrait takes Cannes Film Festival by storm

LIVERPOOL-BORN director Terence Davies’s new film about his home city is taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm after receiving rave reviews from the assembled world’s press out there. Read

Anton Yelchin in the film, Charlie Bartlett

Film Review: Charlie Bartlett


THE scourge of illegal drugs in playgrounds continues to be a worry, but an even greater concern should be the drugs given to youngsters with mum and dad’s blessing. Read