Away with the fairies and scaries
Three children, a magic book and hundreds of goblins are all put to good use in charming fantasy, The Spiderwick Chronicles... more | Add your review
An ill-conceived Queen medley was unspeakably naff, but frankly who cares?
Celine Dion
Comedy
It could be as irritating as nails down a blackboard yet it works as warped surrealism
Dina Martina
Theatre
I soon found myself as overwhelmed by David Calder’s King Lear as any interpretation I have seen in 25 years
King Lear
Why oh why didn't I take up the offer of leaving in the interval?
Kate is a good singer, very expressive, although not a great dancer
This was a masterclass in funk, soul and R&B
London,
Love in the Time of Cholera looks fabulous but a perfunctory adaptation misses the magic of Gabriel García Marquez's epic love story... more | Add your review
Three children, a magic book and hundreds of goblins are all put to good use in charming fantasy, The Spiderwick Chronicles... more | Add your review
The Orphanage builds its tension superbly and is a horror film-cum-ghost story that is at once frightening and powerfully intelligent... more | Add your review
Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi's film, Under the Bombs, is both horrifying and moving, augmented by excellent performances. .. more | Add your review
Doom-laden documentary, The 11th Hour, is not exciting stuff - just a bit second-hand and depressing... more | Add your review
Horton Hears A Who! is essentially a thin if charming tale which seems stretched at feature length... more | Add your review
It isn't easy even to imagine a worse film than cod version of 300, Meet the Spartans, says Derek Malcolm... more | Add your review
Speed Racer from the Wachowski brothers is a huge disappointment, says
Nick Curtis
Ryan Gosling does as well as he can in Lars and the Real Girl, but the story is fundamentally as silly as it sounds... more | Add your review
The clichés in Step Up 2 the Streets almost drown out the dancing - which is pretty damn good. The rest is pretty damn predictable... more | Add your review
The plot in Bunny Chow is so thin that any attempt to be subversive about South Africa degenerates to nought... more | Add your review
Director Brian De Palma's controversial account of the Iraq war, Redacted, mixes real and staged footage to powerful effect... more | Add your review
A computer-generated trip back to the Stone Age makes for a suitably old-fashioned family adventure in 10,000 BC... more | Add your review
Celine Sciamma's first feature, Water Lilies, could have been a French version of American Pie - but it determinedly goes much deeper... more | Add your review
If director Harmony Korine wants to say something about celebrity, it gets drowned out in the plot-turns of Mister Lonely... more | Add your review
If Out of the Blue doesn't answer all the questions about the worst mass murder in New Zealand's history, its recall of a terrible tragedy is both powerful and moving... more | Add your review
The Cottage shows Paul Andrew Williams is a good film-maker by the classy way it is made; but it's still not a very good movie... more | Add your review
Hou Hsiao Hsien has made some of the most memorable films of the past 30 years, but The Flight of the Red Balloon is not one of them... more | Add your review
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