Articles...
Feb 1 2008
IN SHAKESPEARE’S The Merchant Of Venice, Jessica famously declares, "Love is blind and lovers cannot see/The pretty follies that themselves commit . . . "...
Jan 25 2008
A GHOULISHLY compelling Victorian horror story, and a film director with an unrepentant gothic passion for the macabre may sound like a marriage made in heaven (or hell). But what happens when the issue of that fiendish union is a musical?...
Jan 25 2008
I THOUGHT it was a Biblical epic when I first heard the title, the Valley of Elah being the place where David met Goliath....
Jan 18 2008
JOEL and Ethan Coen orchestrate an unbearably tense game of cat-and-mouse against the barren Texan borderlands in this frequently bloody thriller, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy....
Jan 18 2008
IT IS not always easy to laugh at a film comedy when you are the only person in the cinema, as I was for the Liverpool press show of this American satire....
Jan 11 2008
ALTHOUGH it stops tantalisingly short of drawing explicit links between American involvement in Afghanistan during the early ’80s and the rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Mike Nichols’s starry political satire draws a trickle of blood with its timely references to conflict in the Middle East....
Jan 11 2008
THERE is something about American romantic comedies that make me want to reach for the sick bag, like those scenes where a couple kiss and everyone gets up to applaud....
Jan 4 2008
IN MARCH, 2006, Taiwanese film-maker Ang Lee was embroiled in one of Hollywood’s most shocking robberies....
Jan 4 2008
WITHIN the first 15 minutes of Richard LaGravenese's tepid romantic comedy, swarthy Irish musician Gerry Kennedy (Gerard Butler) dies, leaving his wife Holly (Hilary Swank) to contemplate a bleak future....
Dec 28 2007
BASED on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, which inspired the films, The Last Man On Earth and The Omega Man, I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic thriller about the last remaining survivor of a terrible man-made catastrophe....
