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Fantastic Mr Fox misses Roald Dahl menace

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:01:51 GMT

More star wattage is what the London Film Festival has been promising us. Given the added emphasis on red carpet events, opening the LFF with an animated feature was clearly a risk.

Movie heaven: Anthony Quinn's 100 Best Films

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:00:31 GMT

Fed up with formulaic ‘blockbusters’ and overhyped cinematic turkeys? Movie critic Anthony Quinn selects 100 timeless movie classics that never disappoint.

Movie heaven: Anthony Quinn's 100 Best Films

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:00:31 GMT

Fed up with formulaic ‘blockbusters’ and overhyped cinematic turkeys? Movie critic Anthony Quinn selects 100 timeless movie classics that never disappoint.

Best of the new films

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:23:17 GMT

Whether you want to take a trip to the cinema or save those pennies and stay at home with a DVD, here's a selection of the best films for you to watch this weekend.

Review: Duchess on the Estate, ITV1, X Factor, ITV1

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:44:30 GMT

Why does Sarah, Duchess of York, bother? She bothers because "as long as she can help people get a voice out" (sic), she will never stop "putting her head above the parapet".

Amy Jenkins: Tarantino’s outrageous films are all dogs

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:55:38 GMT

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s new film is out now. By all accounts it's awful — not just awful, actually, but tedious, gratuitously violent, over-long and the plot, they say, is |downright daft.

Review: Inglourious Basterds - Tarantino bounces back to gloriously violent form

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:50:41 GMT

"I think this might be my masterpiece," Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) declares after carving a swastika on a Nazi's forehead toward the end of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The film might not be Tarantino's masterpiece but it is his most entertaining and exhilarating effort since Pulp Fiction.

Imagine That (PG)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:31:24 GMT

Eddie Murphy plays a stockbroker distracted from making his mint by a seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi) who won't give up her security blanket (she lets out a piercing scream every time it's taken from her grasp).

Bandslam (PG)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:28:56 GMT

Remember the kind of films Cameron Crowe used to make, and the kind John Cusack used to star in?

Aliens in the Attic (PG)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:19 GMT

A pleasant, inconsequential movie about resourceful kids fighting off an alien invasion in suburban Michigan.

The Time Traveler's Wife (12A)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:23:08 GMT

Those who enjoyed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may like to turn next to The Time Traveler's Wife.

Antichrist: Most provocative film of the century to open in Northern Ireland

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:51:53 GMT

Antichrist, the controversial new film from Danish director Lars Von Trier, has divided critics across the world due to its graphic violence and sexual scenes. With the film about to hit the big screen in Belfast this weekend, Matthew McCreary went along to a screening to find out what all the fuss is about

Fifty Dead Men Walking (15, 117 mins)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:29:11 GMT

Jim Sturgess, Sir Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers, Rose McGowan

17 Again (12A, 101 mins)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:12:37 GMT

Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sterling Knight, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin

Watchmen (18)

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:29:45 GMT

Group superhero movies. A good thing? I could take or leave X-Men, and would go some way to avoid another Fantastic Four.

The 50 Best TV Boxsets

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:37:40 GMT

From Baltimore to Brideshead, from John Pilger to Richard Pryor, our TV addicts pick the sets that will keep you glued to the sofa

The 50 Best Boxsets

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:37:40 GMT

From Baltimore to Brideshead, from John Pilger to Richard Pryor, our TV addicts pick the sets that will keep you glued to the sofa

Barry puts music fans in the picture

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:10:18 GMT

Barry Norman, the film critic, author and broadcaster, achieved a rare double at the Ulster Orchestra St Valentine’s concert of film music in the Waterfront Hall on Saturday, which was sponsored by First Trust Bank.

Whoops! Barry makes a Hitchcock-up

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:05:28 GMT

It was the kind of puzzling situation old master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock would have loved.

EMPIRE OF THE SUN - Walking On A Dream (Virgin Records)

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:32:07 GMT

There’s something strangely compelling about the debut album from new ‘super-group’ duo, Empire of the Sun...

Notorious life makes for inglorious biopic

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:38 GMT

Notorious (15, 123 mins)

Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie

Frost/Nixon (15)

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:53:21 GMT

The atmosphere of Frost/Nixon is so heavy with self-importance that you'd be forgiven for thinking that, in it, the very fate of Western politics hangs in the balance.

The Wrestler (15, 109 mins)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:01:58 GMT

Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Judah Friedlander

Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (18)

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:29:37 GMT

First released in 1974, this marks the beginning of Sam Peckinpah's late slide into nihilism.

Gardens in Autumn (PG)

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:28:22 GMT

Languid drollery is the keynote of Otar Iosseliani's films, and this eccentric, walking-pace study of midlife change proves highly characteristic.