It’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskins
Year One
Theatre
This will appeal to those who grew up with the book as well as to anyone seeking family-friendly entertainment
Carrie's War
Music
With a smile that splits her face, the frizzy-haired singer fills her songs with playfulness and wide-eyed wonder
Regina Spektor
If you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this film
I thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to see
Absolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!
London,
03.07.09
Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute, with copious numbers to prove that Billy Paul was — and still is — a...
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03.07.09
Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s film seems tamer now than it did.
03.07.09
Red Mist's plot is total rubbish, and no amount of slick film-making can make you believe it is worth all the blood and gore we have to sit through.
03.07.09
Considering this is the third of the series, the makers of Ice Age 3 clearly still have some inspiration left.
03.07.09
José Mojica Marins’s outré Brazilian horror features cannibalism, torture by rats and/or spiders and hideous spectres augmented by plenty of blood.
26.06.09
The Last Thakur, the debut film from Sadik Ahmed, is well shot and confidently acted.
26.06.09
Year One, Jack Black's comedy road trip set in Old Testament times, fails to deliver the laughs.
26.06.09
The latest films in the ICA’s promotional season of New British Cinema are The Blue Tower and Dummy
26.06.09
Jodi Picoult's controversial bestseller, My Sister's Keeper, provides the story on which this film is based.
26.06.09
Carlos Cuarón’s footballing comedy Rudo Y Cursi s shows the beautiful game as a route out of poverty but also as constant prey for Mexico’s endemic...
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26.06.09
In Tenderness Russell Crowe plays a down-at-heel detective with a desperately ill wife and a career going nowhere.
26.06.09
Lake Tahoe is funny as well as melancholy and assisted by cinematography from Alexis Zabe that is astonishingly beautiful and precise.
26.06.09
Shirin shows us a bevy of Iranian women watching an epic romance, presumably in the cinema, but allows us only their reactions to the soundtrack.
19.06.09
The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen plot is confusing and the characters are sketchy, but the deafening effects are mindblowing.
19.06.09
Nick Moran’s film, based on his West End musical, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek in Telstar.
19.06.09
Beyond the Fire and The Disappeared are two excellent British films at the ICA.
19.06.09
The re-release of North by Northwest reiterates what an extraordinary director Alfred Hitchcock was.
19.06.09
Gigantic looks like an American version of Buñuel without the artistic wherewithal to be convincing.
12.06.09
Four men wake up in a hotel suite with a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a bubble bath full of sex toys and a smouldering sofa
12.06.09
New Town Killers, Richard Jobson’s thriller, set in Edinburgh, is more than a chase movie.