Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
BURNING MAN. the latest film from Jonathan Teplitzky (BETTER THAN SEX, GETTIN’ SQUARE) is a reckless, haunting, funny, life-affirming love story, all of which is reflected in the film’s opening short scenes: a lovely empty garden, a car crash, a
A lovely little soufflé of cinema, ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (M) is a tasty sweet treat that should please the crowd that found CHOCOLAT so enchanting.
Isabelle Carre plays Angelique, a shy chocolatier who hides her cocoalossal confection perfection under the proverbial
On the face of it, THE DEEP BLUE SEA (M) seems terribly old fashioned and an odd choice of film for a 21st century cinema audience.
Based on the play by Terence Rattigan written sixty years ago, it tells the
Kids and adults alike have been dudded these school holidays, most especially with the dumbed down, dulled down, in the doldrums Aardman animation THE PIRATES: BAND OF MISFITS!
Admires of Aardman most likely will be disappointed by this pipe and
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (M) is a bizarre odyssey tale featuring Sean Penn as a former rock star called Cheyenne – think a cross between Alice Cooper and Robert Smith of The Cure – who is benevolently and benignly
Fungible. Sounds like a mushroom mish mash not something I’d instantly associate with Rin Tin Tin, arguably the world’s most famous dog.
Fungible is the word Susan Orlean uses with proclivity in her highly entertaining biography of the dog who
Animal instincts of homo sapien Hollywood are given a good airing in Scotty Bower’s unabashed biography, FULL SERVICE, MY ADVENTURES IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIVES OF THE STARS (GROVE PRESS).
Bi-sexual octogenarian Bowers outs many famous names, all
There’s nothing rum about Bruce Robinson’s Bacardi- fuelled adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, THE RUM DIARY (MA) with Johnny Depp as the dipso gonzo gringo journo.
Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, THE RUM DIARY tells
The first great popcorn movie of the year has arrived in THE HUNGER GAMES (M).
Written and Directed by Gary Ross whose earlier film Pleasantville is a kind of template to this robust action adventure yarn, THE HUNGER GAMES, is
“Stories are fishy things” says the only male character in Enda Walsh’s THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, now playing at the Stables Theatre.
He should know something about the piscatorial as he plies his trade trawling the bleak Irish coast where