Film & DVD Reviews

Shampoo

Hal Ashby's deceptively sunny direction of Robert Towne and Warren Beatty's sex-comedy...

Persona

Rerun of Swedish master's harrowing '60s classic

Far From Heaven

Critic-charming, visually sumptuous tribute to the work of Sirk

L'Homme Du Train

Slo-mo drama starring ageing French heartthrob

Jiyan

Topical Kurdish-American tales of pain and friendship

Elling

Spacey favourite has plenty of low-key charm

Hell Is For Heroes

Marvel strikes cinematic gold again with dark and exuberant superhero blockbuster No 3

Screwed Up

Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel filmed by former Tarantino collaborator

Fogbound

Dark secrets exposed in intense three-hander

Le Fils (The Son)

Raw, rigorous yet transcendent social realism

Equilibrium

Sci-fi tosh with Christian Bale

The Recruit

DIRECTED BY Roger Donaldson

STARRING Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan

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In This World

Afghans' odyssey puts the asylum-seeker problem into human context

Evelyn

Inferior rival to Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters

Personal Velocity

Three vignettes from the Miller dynasty's diamond

TV Sinners

Schrader returns with lusty temptations of small-screen chancer

The Life Of David Gale

Smart race-against-Death-Row drama

Greatest Hits

George Clooney's stylised spy drama based on the unreliable memoirs of Gong Show host Chuck...

An Actor's Revenge

Stunningly beautiful and utterly bizarre Japanese fable about a medieval Kabuki actor (Kazuo...

Daddy & Them

Chronically misfiring comedy written and directed on an off day by Billy Bob Thornton, who also...

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Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!


“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and...