Body of Lies
November 21st, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
Ridley Scott’s new thriller is lumbered with one of the worst titles of the year; not only is it nondescript
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Easy Virtue
November 7th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
Adapting a Noel Coward play by throwing out the whole of the original script, except for the choicest of its
Burn After Reading
October 17th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
The Coen Brothers’ new movie is an almost perverse about-face in the wake of their Oscar-winning, weighty adaptation of No
The Fall
October 3rd, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
Completed in 2006 but floundering in an unreleased netherworld ever since, music video director Tarsem Singh’s self-financed second feature (the
I’ve Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime)
September 26th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
Philippe Claudel’s film opens with a shot of Kristin Scott Thomas’s Juliette, alone in an airport coffee shop. In cold
The Wave
September 19th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
This German blockbuster, which has made over $20 million on home turf, begins with the dubious legend ‘based on a
Tropic Thunder
September 19th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
It’s been seven years since Ben Stiller’s Zoolander set a new standard for really silly cinema, and between then and
Pineapple Express
September 12th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
The Judd Apatow express continues apace with this odd mix of stoner comedy and action movie, the eighth film in
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
September 12th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
This film must have seemed like a good idea on paper. Literally, in fact, as it is adapted from a
The Wackness
August 29th, 2008 | by Paul Gallagher
The big idea of Jonathan Levine’s new comedy is that it’s set in New York in 1994, but while references
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