According to many, David Gordon Green is one of the most promising new directors in recent years. I've just caught up with this film – his first feature –...
Okay this is the scenario: three astronauts are stranded on a space station, with no foreseeable prospect of being allowed home. Their mission has become an...
As I soon found out, this is the film on which High Society was based (yes, I'm that illiterate about films!). It may not boast Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra,...
The important thing about this particular re-issue is not so much the restored scenes (which do not really add greatly to the original version) but the sound...
This may not be up to the standard of Lubitsch's "The Shop Around The Corner" – which is on my rather long, and some may say indiscriminate, list of...
... And they have. These 30s style bumpkins are a mild distraction for the film's better parts which those between Stalinistic Ninotchka, (who btw has some...
Medieval Sweden, and a young, virginal girl sets out to take candles to church. As she passes through a wood, she is set upon by some herdsmen, whose brutal...
Wonderful. Kaurismaki, the master of economy, understatement, and deadpan humour, does it again. A miner shoots himself after his mine closes, and his son...
Polanski's film is good, and at times brilliant. It tells the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist in Poland. With a detached meticulousness,...
I have certainly given a lot of thought to this film since my initial viewing (I think I will need to let a little time elapse before seeing it again). My...
what more can be said about The Pianist that hasn't already been said by the lenghty address that you just gave it, it was phenomenal, exceiting and utterly...
Although Schindlers list was amazing, I think that the Pianist brought something new, something not as stong and overwhelming, something subtle and impersonal,...
Gaspar Noe's latest film Irreversible, staring Monica Belluci and Vincent Cassel is one of violence and thematic drives into time and its relevance to human...
American awards suck i just saw the SAG's and CHICAGO took everything home i was so routing for Adrien....damn it i think the OSCARS will be serverely...
Hi Holly The thing about the Baftas is they usually give best movie to whatever 'Dame Judi Dench' happened to have been in that year. As we have had a Judi...
Kaurismaki does Hamlet - but with a lot less words; a modern setting; plenty of dry humour; and, of course, a score that includes both Tchaikovsky's 6th and...
The opening cynical, world-weary voice over tells you that this might be something a bit special. And special it certainly is. Mankiewicz, who as well as...
Andie MacDowell stars as the determined wife on her way to Vokovar, in the former Yugoslavia, to find her Pulitzer prize winning Photojournalist husband...
Morvern Callar is todays "trainspotting" the protagonist was amazing, she made me fall in love with her, i saw it in 2003, but it is on my top ten so far...
A sad and cautionary tale, about the dangers of holding ballroom dances on the top deck of cruise liners, without adequately securing all the razor wiring....
I haven't seen Russian Ark yet (it's out in April over here), but I've heard good things about it. It's on my list of films to see. Mike ... amazing,...
Now this is what you call stylish. Every cinematic trick has been thrown at this film, and I have to say it works pretty well. The story concerns a hit man...
This is the first of Shane Meadows films I've seen, and I'm very impressed. First of all, this film is very funny. It's the story of two teenage boys growing...
Never heard of this movie before maybe becuase i am just 22 and it came years before i did, watched it last night and was amazing, i absolutely love it, a...
Agreed, this is one of the best British films I have ever seen; in fact I would put it almost on a par with KES. Certainly this marked 'Shane Meadows' out for...
I've just reread your excellent review Mike, and recommend it to any of you who may have missed it the first time. It is posting number 361. ... Agreed, this...
