Film & DVD Reviews

Satyricon

"The Beatles tours were like Fellini's Satyricon," John Lennon once remarked, and seeing the...

Romeo And Juliet

When compared to Baz Luhrmann's hysterical synapse-splitting kitsch, there's something strangely...

The Apu Trilogy

Satyajit Ray's superb 1955 debut Pather Panchali is released here as a three-disc package,...

The Centre Of The World

It's close to implausible that this graphic vignette about a computer geek falling foolishly for...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

A massive worldwide hit, Nia Vardalos' no-budget romp must be something special, right? Well,...

Roman Holiday

You could argue a case for Funny Face or Breakfast At Tiffany's, but this William Wyler rom-com...

Baise-Moi

Described by its proto-feminist French director Virginie Despentes as an attempt "to seize woman...

Mr Deeds Goes To Town

Much-emulated screwball comedy, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper as the...

Bad Company

Slick odd-couple blockbuster which sees secret service grandee Anthony Hopkins forced to team up...

Jabberwocky

Terry Gilliam's solo directorial debut. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem, like Python's Holy...

Manhattan Murder Mystery

We tend to damn Woody Allen's lighter comedies as 'just' comedies: if anyone else had come up...

The Fourth Man

Paul Verhoeven's last pre-Hollywood film (from 1983) is a minor classic. Depressed alcoholic...

You Can't Take It With You

This 1938 Frank Capra outing may have won an Oscar but its tale of the son of a wealthy family (...

The Girl From Paris

Echoes of Jean De Florette only add to the charm of Christian Carion's bucolic visit to the...

Luc And Learn

Four of French innovator Besson's finest pre-Hollywood offerings

Russian Ark

Time-travelling movie filmed in a single, uncut shot

The Core

OPENED MARCH 28, CERT 12A, 135 MINS

The Earth's molten core has stopped spinning, and...

El Crimen Del Padre Amaro

Priest gets laid. Slowly. In Mexico

Le Fate Ignoranti

Mature, moving odd-couple romance from Italy

Blue Crush

Grittier-than-average surfer-girl romance

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“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...