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Jan 16 2008
BRITISH film drama, Atonement, has received 14 nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards, it has been announced....
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....
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....
Dec 28 2007
MARC FORSTER'S magnificent adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-seller has been making the headlines for all of the wrong reasons....
Dec 14 2007
I DID not enjoy this movie. So why, you may ask, have I given it four stars? The simple answer is that it was not made for a cynical, old critic like myself....
Dec 14 2007
“WE OWN the night” was apparently a New York cops slogan in the 1980s as they battled drug barons....
Nov 30 2007
CALL ME an old cynic, but I always feel Christmas films with strong moral messages are created just to make money and lots of it. Make a successful one, you see, and you can be assured of an annual income as the movie is shown over and over again....
Nov 30 2007
IF BRAD PITT lassos his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the eponymous outlaw in Andrew Dominik’s drama, it will be at the expense of an even better performance....
