Get Him to the Greek
By . Published 26 October 2010
Russell Brand's turn as reclusive rock star Aldous Snow does little to stretch the comedian. The character, first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, sticks close to Brand's usual stage...
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Frozen
By . Published 25 October 2010Chipper college kids Joe (Shawn Ashmore), Dan (Kevin Zegers) and Parker (Emma Bell) head for the ski slopes. They grease a chair-lift dude to let them on one more run...
The Secret Of Kells
By . Published 22 October 2010The polished work of Pixar and its peers has left a large void for alternatives, and The Secret of Kells, basing both visuals and storyline on the famous Celtic manuscript,...
Predators
By . Published 21 October 2010Predators opens with a bang. Or, more accurately, a whoosh. Our hero (Adrien Brody) wakes to find himself plummeting through the air towards the ground. A parachute opens and deposits...
No Impact Man
By . Published 09 October 2010No Impact Man documents the year in which writer Colin Beavan and his family attempted to reduce their carbon emissions to zero. They begin by recycling, giving up powered transport...
Last Train Home
By . Published 06 October 2010Each year China's 130 million migrant workers travel home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. These arduous journeys from smog-shrouded cities to ancestral villages populated only by the...
The Losers
By . Published 04 October 2010A crack commando unit are framed for a crime that they didn't commit and have to go on the run to clear their names. If you can find them …...
Night of the Demons
By . Published 04 October 2010Freddy vs Jason veteran Monica Keena does well in this low rent remake of the 80s sex 'n' splatter classic, but it's Edward Furlong as a strung out gatecrashing drug...
Brother
By . Published 29 September 2010“You Japanese are so inscrutable”. It is a relief when a character says this in Brother for Beat Takeshi always has me reaching for the thesaurus to avoid the dreaded...
South of the Border
By . Published 27 September 2010Leading with footage of Fox News and its right-wing cohorts acting foolish, South of the Border seems to aim for populist agitprop a la Michael Moore. But Moore, for all...
Compulsion
By . Published 10 September 2010Compulsion is an enjoyable period thriller from 1959. It dramatises a famous 1920s crime which saw two rich law students trying to commit the perfect murder to prove their...
Sons of Cuba
By . Published 06 September 2010Joyce Carol Oates has written that whilst life could be considered as a metaphor for boxing, “boxing is only like boxing.” But for the youngsters attending the Havana Boxing...
Robin Hood
By . Published 06 September 2010In their version of the classic English myth Scott and Crowe choose to explore their hero's origins in the way that has proved so popular of late with superheroes:...
Eyes Wide Open
By . Published 04 September 2010It’s often said about religion that people get in the way of a nice idea. It’s certainly true in Israeli filmmakers Merav Doster and Haim Tabakman’s story of Aaron, an...
Breathless
By . Published 01 September 2010Godard's first and most accessible film is many things: a studied homage to his beloved Hollywood gangster films; a pioneering piece of guerilla film-making; a showcase for innovative techniques which...
The Edge of the World
By . Published 19 August 2010Released for the first time on Blu-ray, The Edge of the World was Michael Powell's first major feature. Filmed in 1937 on the Shetland island of Foula and using a...
Gay Sex in the 70s
By . Published 19 August 2010The blunt title of this documentary accurately captures the spirit of its subject: the period after Stonewall and before AIDS when gay men in New York set about making...
The Lair: Season 3
By . Published 13 May 2010A new series is a welcome chance for gleefully supernatural cheesefest The Lair to clean house and sort out the problems that plagued the previous year. At its best when...
Daybreakers
By . Published 10 May 2010As Stephen Fry has noted, one of life’s great pleasures is when something is better than it needs to be, and that’s exactly the case with Daybreakers. What should just...
World On A Wire
By . Published 10 May 2010Shown in a brand new Michael Ballhaus approved print at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, World On A Wire is one of Fassbinder’s less seen but most ambitious and enjoyable...
