Movie reviews by Nik Huggins
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Meet the FockersPayback’s been a long time coming, but in Meet the Fockers (yes, you read it right), the hotly anticipated sequel to the sleeper hit comedy of 2000, familial weirdness flies in from both…
Coffee and CigarettesHow much time do you devote to your daily addictions? How long do you spend sitting around shooting the breeze? How often do you combine the two? This interrogation is not designed to render purpose…
Dead Man's ShoesShane Meadows shrugs off the wry, bittersweet working class attitude evident in films such as 24-7 and “Once Upon A Time In The Midlands”, and replaces it with a much more savage account of the mores…
CollateralKing of the urban thriller, Michael Mann, adds a stylish new title to the cannon with Collateral, a return to what he knows best after the disappointing biopic…
Code 46Prolific British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom continues to cross genres, and now timelines, with Code 46, an exploratory story of doomed love set some years into the…
DodgeballHow many ball gags do you think you can cram into ninety minutes? For the answer watch 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog’s Story', the latest comedy from the Ben Stiller stable. With images of overloaded…
The Motorcycle DiariesIn adapting a very personal account of one man’s voyage across South America, Brazilian director Walter Salles has mapped out his own captivating portrait of a continent filled with…
The VillageM. Night Shyamalan delves into a 19th century period setting with The Village; his most pensive work to date, and perhaps his most satisfying. Set in a small rural community cut off from the…
Shattered GlassShattered Glass proves that the view from the floor can often be distorted. A biopic ostensibly based around the true-life rise and fall of one of America’s most precocious young journalists, quickly…
The CompanyWith The Company, Robert Altman has once again taken a specialised environment, placed it under the microscope, prodded it and dissected it carefully in an attempt to deconstructed every facet of its…
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindAnother wordy title and another insane collaboration between a music video virtuoso and cinema’s most unconventional screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, who’s gleefully disfigured world-view has given…
21 GramsThe miniscule value suggested by the title is by far the lightest thing about 21 Grams. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first English language film (he garnered international acclaim after Amores…
ValentinFrom modest ambitions Valentin makes a big emotional impact. Alejandro Agresti, Argentina’s answer to Pedro Almodovar, has elegantly reconstructed the ninth year of his own turbulent childhood in…
The DreamersThe cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci has provided the meat of many a heated film debate since his emergence in the 1970’s. Those with a soft spot for European cinema have always maintained that his…
School of RockAmerican independent filmmaker Richard Linklater has taken a sidestep into the mainstream with School of Rock, a musical comedy with more power chords than Jimmy Page.…
Girl With a Pearl EarringWith two films opening this week, Scarlett Johansson, star of Girl With A Pearl Earring, looks set to build on the promise shown in a number of eye-catching roles of recent times by maturing into a…
The Last SamuraiFull of Eastern promise or a cross-cultural catastrophe? The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise’s latest superstar vehicle, attempts to merge two heavily romanticised cultures, The American West and Feudal…
BodysongBodysong is one of those innovative and intriguing film concepts that sadly works much better on paper than it does on film. Simon Pummell’s 88 minute documentary is an original and potentially…
IntermissionThe combination of an assured directorial debut, a well-structured screenplay and Ireland’s very own smouldering Hollywood bad boy of the moment: Colin Farrell, would seem to ensure that Intermission…
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystemInterstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is the result of a fascinating meeting of minds and merging of cultures. French techno prophets Daft Punk and veteran Japanese animator Leiji…
