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Based on the TV series 'Firefly', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Angel' (and 'Firefly') creator Joss Whedon's first feature film is a CGI-free sci-fi action adventure, in other words a good old-fashioned space opera, with a ready-made cult status, clever script and effective cast. By general
Follow-up to the 1998 success The Mask of Zorro by the same director, the main attractions of that film, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas are back in the rather less engaging continuation of the swashbuckling legend. What is lacks in credible story line it makes up for in
A great 1970s classic, MASH is one of maverick director Robert Altman's most important films, and the one that enabled him to cock a snook at Hollywood and pursue an independent career. With gruesome black humour delivered with perfect timing by a cast of outstanding comic actors, anarchic improvisations
The name Tim Burton is synonymous with eccentricity and the macabre, and leading it to this production (actually he's co-director) is guaranteed to pull an assortment Goths and stray spectres recovering from Halloween excess. Using stop-motion animation, Burton and Mike Johnson create a dark Victorian world of
“Please, sir, I want some more…” and more we get from Roman Polanski’s adaptationof Dickens’s famous novel, the umpteenth screen version of the Victorian rags to riches story, which ears ...
‘Hide your bridemaids’ the tagline goes. And spare you embarrassment at a sad mad-cap misfire of a movie. Wedding crashers had all the best ideas for starters- a determined quest ...
‘Hide your bridemaids’ the tagline goes. And spare you embarrassment at a sad mad-cap misfire of a movie. Wedding crashers had all the best ideas for starters- a determined quest ...
Introducing a seven part Robert Altman season, this example of the great American directors theatrical work from the 1980s follows on from the James Dean commemoration just finished. In a Texas diner, near the set of Giant, a fans reunion on the 20th anniversary of Deans death unearths old hostilities
What you see is what you get. The title says it all. Mystery horror thriller. Emily Rose (a harrowing performance from Jennifer Carpenter) is exorcised but dies in the process, which puts the exorcist, parish priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) in the dock on negligent homicide charges. A story in
James Deans last movie (he died days after finishing it) and his least appealing, especially in the latter part where the youth icon is compelled to age. As the younger Jett Rink, Dean has all the attractiveness of his rebellious persona, but is perhaps upstaged by megastars Elizabeth Taylor and
Over-hyped, over-cooked and over here, Fantastic Four with its quartet of feeble supermutants, Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, The Invisible Woman and The Human Torch finally (hopefully!) brings the superhero movie franchise to the meltdown point of no return. Not even supervillain Dr. Doom can lift the picture above
Teaming Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda in a Meet the Parents style comedy romance would seem to be a recipe for disaster. The veteran has been enticed out of semi-retirement to play the monstrous mother-in-law-to-be cliche to good bu barely credible effect, while the far
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
James Dean's second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray's prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death,
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
John Singleton makes an urban western in this revenge thriller in which the four adopted sons of senselessly murdered Evelyn Mercer vow to avenge her death. Their common mean streets background gives them a unity of purpose and the energy they need to confront the criminal underworld of Detroit. Classic
The first of James Dean's three movies, and the one tha catapulted him to celebrity, securing his plac ein Hollywood firmament. Type-cast from the start, Dean plays the troubled adolescent, Cal Trask at odds with his father and brother in this treatment of part of John Steinbeck's
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
The romantic comedy Must Love Dogs features Miss Lonely-hearts Diane Lane set up for internet dating and looking for suitable company with a borrowed canine friend. It also has the likeable John Cusack. Unfortunately, the result is painful, especially in the script department. For masochists only.
When one considers the musical landscape that The White Stripes have jumped into, you’ve got to give them credit for doing so damn well. After five albums, they sound as fresh as ever. Offering new guitar pleasures and witty lyrics to the common folk. This recording again shows
After last year’s emotionally draining Million Dollar Baby, and the long tradition of boxing biopics that came before that (all the Rocky’s and Raging Bulls) yet another one might seem superfluous. But the first-rate teaming of Ron Howard and Russell Crowe (the second time,
Roald Dahl’s famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen a second time, and Tim Burton’s delightful version of the industrial fairy tale provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka.
A futuristic thriller warning of the dangers of human cloning and the harvesting of spare body parts, with a strong cast not quite succeeding in enlivening a structurally unsound movie of two philosophically unreconciled halves. The two attractive protagonists Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlet
