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Film review: To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die

Djamshed Usmonov is the director from Tajikistan whose 2002 movie Angel on the Right was a tremendous drama about a hoodlum lured back to his home village because his mother is sick - and he thinks he might be able to make some money on her house. His latest film, made in 2006, has also been much admired...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
Film review: Año Uña

Director Jonás Cuarón, 29-year-old son of Alfonso Cuarón, has had an interesting idea. He has made a movie about a Mexican kid and the hopeless romantic crush he gets on a twentysomething American student staying with his family. The twist is that everything is presented as a narrative...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
Film review: Quarantine

Good news for those who missed the Spanish zombie horror [REC] when it opened here a few months back. Here comes the inevitable fast-tracked Hollywood remake, which covers the same ground without the burden of all those subtitled hysterics. The threadbare, overheated plot dispatches a perky TV presenter...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Film review: Special People

Could there be a vein of autobiography to this low-budget British comedy about low-budget British film-making? Certainly the details ring true. Justin Edgar's tale focuses on a failed thirtysomething film director (Dominic Coleman), onetime star of the "Walsall film festival", who takes...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Rightwing despair at Obama's skill recalls Blair victory

I know that in the 24/7 media whirl this counts as old news but on the way home last night I read a fantastic column in the International Herald Tribune from William Kristol, a conservative (and Daily Show regular) who is coming to terms with America's new dawn. Here's what he said about Barack...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 11-12-2008
Film review: Midnight Meat Train

The writings of author Clive Barker have had, with few exceptions, a tough time translating to the big screen. In this instance it's not a softening of the imaginative and perverse imagery of his short story that scuppers proceedings (as that arrives more or less intact); rather it's the attempt...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 10-30-2008
DVD review: Never Apologize

'Malcolm, have you been to the set? I've never seen so much *** in all my life! Oh do tell me if you think they're pubescent or shaved!' Malcolm McDowell's on-stage memoir about his cinematic mentor may be billed as a tribute to Lindsay Anderson, but it's his account of John Gielgud's...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 10-25-2008
Film review: Incendiary

This ambitious British picture on an urgent topical subject is torpedoed by a poor script before it gets down the slipway. In Sharon Maguire's Incendiary , American actress Michelle Williams puts on a convincing cockney accent to play a young, working-class, London housewife who's having sex...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 10-25-2008
Hadley Freeman: The picture that proves Tom and Katie really do belong together

There have been cynical words written about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' marriage. Well, put this picture in your pipe and smoke it, fools! Of course Tom Cruise loves his wife - she now looks just like him. The phenomenon of couples growing to resemble one another is well known. But it is rare that...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 10-22-2008

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