An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
25.09.09
Surrogates is an enjoyable parable, a candy-coloured reminder that while it may be liberating to have a healthy body, perfection — whether for men or...
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18.09.09
Sam Mendes loves women. Or rather, he gives actresses lots of screen time and seems especially fascinated by louder-than-life mothers
11.09.09
Meryl Streep cooks up a tasty comedy as the real-life celebrity chef of the Fifties whose recipes have been rescued by a modern-day blogger
11.09.09
A working-class heroine is something to be and 15-year-old Mia certainly dominates the landscape in Andrea Arnold’s award-winning drama
04.09.09
Greek Pete deserves to be a mainstream hit but due to all that unnecessarily graphic throbbing gristle, it probably won’t be coming to a cinema near...
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04.09.09
Passchendaele starts out as an ambitious, if gauche, attempt to tackle jingoism and the anti-German feeling of the era but soon nosedives into...
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04.09.09
In common with so many Polish directors, Andrezej Jakimowski is obsessed with the peculiar magic of fate and coincidence but unlike Kieslowski, say,...
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04.09.09
This surfing documentary is fascinating stuff and unfathomably bleak
04.09.09
Yes, Red Baron is unspeakably bad. But thanks to the nifty, CGI-enhanced air battles and handsomeness of the cast, the time flies.
28.08.09
Pedro Almodóvar's latest labyrinthine drama, Broken Embraces, makes the most of Penélope Cruz's talent
28.08.09
Mesrine: Public Enemy sees Vincent Cassel superb in the lead of the bad-boy hero
28.08.09
Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, is director Judd Apatow's poisoned valentine to the comedy business
28.08.09
The extremely low-budget Jetsam features lots of chases, curses, kisses and the odd fancy gadget
28.08.09
It was made 33 years ago but Nagisa Oshima's doomed lust classic, In the Realm Of The Senses, doesn't look in the least bit dusty
05.06.09
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our...
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29.05.09
An adaptation of Anne Michaels's prize-winning novel, Fugitive Pieces reduces the Holocaust and its aftermath to a cosy soap opera.
29.05.09
First time writer/director Dennis Lee is desperate to transcend genre clichés in Fireflies in the Garden
29.05.09
Four brainy people, all with something to hide, find themselves in a deserted house, faced with a string of riddles in Fermat's Room
29.05.09
The three Disney-backed, Christian cuties that are the Jonas Brothers seem very conscious of the camera in their 3D movie
29.05.09
Drag Me To Hell offers a wry take on the greedy, competitive and dishonest world of banking. It deserves to be seen.
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