Dummy film-maker is promising talent
Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, Matthew Thompson's debut feature, Dummy, has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title. .. more | Add your review
A classic routine in every sense, shame the fresh material could not match it
Lee Evans: Big Tour 2008
Theatre
I have never seen a Pinter play so possessed by deathly foreboding, menace and covert gay desire
No Man's Land
Restaurants
The folksy, let-it-all-hang-out notion of sharing sits oddly in the confines of a formally decorated hotel dining room
Avista
A beautiful restoration, peaceful ambience, fantastic service & delicious food - would definitely recommend
One of the worst movies I have seen. Was looking forward to a laugh ... not sure I laughed once!
David Walliams is so out of his depth in this production that my friends and I were gripping the seats in embarrassment

The 52nd BFI London Film Festival opens next week and could turn out to be the best in years. Derek Malcolm makes picks his highlights. .. more | Add your view
Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, Matthew Thompson's debut feature, Dummy, has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title. .. more | Add your review
Never mind Hollywood gangsters - Gomorrah, a brave study of Naples' notorious Camorra, is the real thing... more | Add your review
The House Bunny - about a 28-year-old Playboy Bunny cast out of the Playboy mansion - is a silly comedy with a few decent jokes in its otherwise dim screenplay... more | Add your review
Shot on Super 16 film stock for practically nothing, SA Halewood's debut feature, Bigga Than Ben, is subtitled A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London... more | Add your review
For all the rich production values and well-known cast, City of Ember falters because of both a very ordinary screenplay and dramatic detail... more | Add your review
Mirrors is a remake of a weird South Korean horror film starring Kiefer Sutherland - but just isn't as scary as the original version... more | Add your review
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Mutant Chronicles stars John Malkovich Ron Perlman and looks like a computer game unwisely made into a movie without the money to do it justice... more | Add your review
Life on Mars pair John Simm and Philip Glenister are reunited in Tue£day, a ponderous British bank-blag drama. .. more | Add your review
Richard Gere and Diane Lane are cast adrift in Nights in Rodanthe in a farrago that seems to be made of treacle... more | Add your review
You have to be a basketball fan, or just a basket case, to concentrate on Gunning For That No 1 Spot by Beastie Boys founding member Adam Yauch... more | Add your review
It's unfair to compare Julian Jarrold's version of Brideshead Revisited to the classic TV series — but if only he'd taken more risks. .. more | Add your review
The big screen version of Toby Young's memoir, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, is a lesson in how to bore viewers and infuriate critics... more | Add your review
Ulrich Seidl is an Austrian director whose work illustrates the wretchedness of life at or near the bottom of the heap in Import/Export... more | Add your review
It must have taken considerable courage for Jerry Rothwell to film a documentary about a punk rock group with learning disabilities for Heavy Load... more | Add your review
Marianna Palka's film, Good Dick, might have been more convincing set deep in the bowels of Glasgow rather than LA... more | Add your review
A collection of short stories from 10 of the world's cutting-edge graphic artists ought to be more satisfying than Fear(s) of the Dark... more | Add your review
The Fall may look a treat in a static kind of way but the whole is a piece of turgid pictorialism that ends up unbearably dull... more | Add your review
The rather limp animated 3-D epic has three houseflies sneaking aboard the Apollo 11 spaceship mission to the moon... more | Add your review