| review summary |
| A family struggles t..., A lost Eskimo boy is..., A Miami dentist trav..., about a man dating a..., Adam Sandler and Dre..., and completely off-t..., Aussie TV star Steve..., Barry Levinson's cha..., British remake of Ro..., but the real shock i..., Carroll Ballard dire..., Chuck Barris., Classic mock-documen..., Clooney's tale of th..., Eddie Murphy and Owe..., Flawed but ambitious..., George Clooney's dir..., Maverick Canadian di..., Nick Broomfield turn..., nightmarish, One of the seminal f..., Ray Winstone plays y..., Roger Moore is Bond ..., The courageous colli..., The devil wears diap..., The geek shall inher..., The zombie shocker a..., this time recalling ..., Tim Roth and Dougray..., Tom Hanks will scare..., with Vinnie Jones fo..., Yeah baby! The inter... |
| author |
| Adrian Hennigan, Almar Haflidason, Ben Falk, David Wood, George Perry, Jamie Russell, Mark Stevens, Martyn Glanville, Matt Arnoldi, Neil Smith, Nev Pierce, Nick Hilditch, Paul Arendt, Simon Wardell, Stella Papamichael, Tom Dawson |
| id |
| 0x1dd7225514bcaa5, 0x20cd51f3057db55, 0x281bc14dbe42c99, 0x2944e761aeb75a1, 0x2eb0c39ce63617a, 0x30692c6a567a39e, 0x339c2237361e976, 0x37af98373d466a, 0x49f51cfd0d431f8, 0x64dd0abe55c070e, 0x7cabff140137643, 0x7d318fe7d7cf6d9, 0x880a38e839884af, 0x954e4e4145d3e4a, 0x956977609f04888, 0x98cfca0d1e252c4, 0xa323e3e3914177e, 0xa895c777b805a05, 0xa8e9db005b63f39, 0xb30fc607b821c1b, 0xc0243e8e7f15dfb, 0xcec362f9a83853d, 0xd6ab1b17467c7ef, 0xe1f9e83e29d7b3c, 0xff0c650d3c8d78a |
| item type |
| Reviews |
| label |
| Reviews |
| name of item reviewed |
| Alpha Male (2006), Austin Powers in Gol..., Biggie and Tupac (2002), Blue Velvet (1986), Boogie Nights (1997), Chiens des neiges (2..., Confessions d'un hom..., Diner (1982), Duma (2005), Fifty First Dates (2..., Good Night, and Good..., I-Spy (2002), Ian Fleming's Moonra..., Ikíngut (2001), Lassie (2005), Mean Machine (2001), Napoleon Dynamite (2..., Sexy Beast (2000), The Crocodile Hunter..., The Omen (2006), The Polar Express: A..., The Saddest Music in..., This is Spinal Tap®:..., To Kill a King (2003), Zombi 3 (1974) |
| rating |
| 2 -below average, 3 -average, 4 -good, 5 -excellent |
| review date |
| 2000-10-09T00:00:00, 2001-01-11T00:00:00, 2001-02-06T00:00:00, 2001-02-16T00:00:00, 2001-06-22T00:00:00, 2001-07-27T00:00:00, 2001-12-13T00:00:00, 2001-12-28T00:00:00, 2002-03-18T00:00:00, 2002-05-15T00:00:00, 2002-05-30T00:00:00, 2002-07-24T00:00:00, 2002-07-25T00:00:00, 2003-01-21T00:00:00, 2003-03-16T00:00:00, 2003-05-12T00:00:00, 2004-04-08T00:00:00, 2004-05-04T00:00:00, 2004-12-09T00:00:00, 2004-12-23T00:00:00, 2005-05-23T00:00:00, 2005-12-14T00:00:00, 2006-02-17T00:00:00, 2006-06-18T00:00:00, 2006-08-05T00:00:00 |
| review publisher |
| BBC |
| review type |
| Movie Review |
| reviewer type |
| editorial |
|
| Review: Confessions d'un homme dangereux (2002) |
| Doubt fuels George Clooney's directorial debut. Can he cut it behind the camera? Is show business of any worth? Is TV innovator Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) really a CIA assassin on the side? Barris is the real-life creator of US shows The Dating ... |
| |
| Review: Ikíngut (2001) |
| He's four foot high, covered in fur, and he speaks in a strange language. Could he be a demon or is he, as one of the villagers suggests, a flying polar bear? As we quickly realize, this furry little bundle isn't some hellish offspring but a lost ... |
| |
|
|
| Review: Mean Machine (2001) |
| If Hollywood gave an Oscar for barefaced cheek, first-time director Barry Skolnick would beat allcomers. Not only does he remake Robert Aldrich's classic American prison film " The Mean Machine " (aka "The Longest Yard") as a British comedy, but he ... |
| |
| Review: Sexy Beast (2000) |
| Sunning himself by the pool at his luxurious Costa del Crime villa, Gal (Ray Winstone), a retired London crook, escapes by a hair's breadth from being squashed like a fly by a huge boulder that has hurtled off a mountain to end up immersed in the ... |
| |
|
|
| Review: The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience (2004) |
| Forget Christmas cheer - kids will run screaming from The Polar Express after seeing Tom Hanks looking like he's been killed, embalmed and resurrected by lightening. In reality, it's the work of director Robert Zemeckis, using state-of-the-art ... |
| |
| Review: Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
| If David Lynch decided to ditch the dwarves and make an American high school comedy, the result might be something like Napoleon Dynamite. Debut director Jared Hess' wonderfully offbeat movie revels in its own kookiness and is the most engaging teen ... |
| |
|
|
| Review: This is Spinal Tap®: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi (1984) |
| First of all, let's just clarify something: "This Is Spinal Tap" is the funniest film ever made. So it's a welcome return to the big screen for David St Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls 16 years after their first visit. For those who don't ... |
| |
| Review: Lassie (2005) |
| Lassie, the courageous collie with the heart of a lion and the navigational instincts of a homing pigeon, really does come home in Charles Sturridge's cosy family adventure, which brings the legendary mutt back across the Atlantic to the British ... |
| |
| Review: To Kill a King (2003) |
| Is history about personalities or politics? That seems to be the headache posed by director Mike Barker in this curious historical drama . Judging by the stories surrounding the production, that question was the least of his worries. Plagued by ... |
| |
| Review: Ian Fleming's Moonraker (1979) |
| For many "Moonraker" is the worst Bond film, not least because the adventure culminates in a massive laser battle above the planet. Besides this farther-than-far-fetched effort to capitalise on the late 70s taste for SF, such inanities as Bond ... |
| |
| Review: Chiens des neiges (2002) |
| If this slight Disney comedy is remembered for anything, it will be for the way it partners two recent best supporting actor Oscar-winners - Cuba Gooding Jr and veteran James Coburn - only to have them play second fiddle to eight furry sled dogs. ... |
| |
| Review: Diner (1982) |
| Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore. Plot-wise, there's relatively little to divulge in this classic ... |
| |
| Review: Biggie and Tupac (2002) |
| British documentary film maker Nick Broomfield can be relied upon for tenacity in the face of adversity. Take "Kurt and Courtney" and "Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam" as recent examples, and you realise that two murders in the US rap world would ... |
| |
| Review: The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002) |
| Rowdy Aussie naturalist Steve Irwin was always a big character on a small screen. Now his encounters with poisonous snakes and bouts of crocodile wrestling on a host of successful TV series have got him into the movies. Any doubts about his acting ... |
| |
| Review: Boogie Nights (1997) |
| Question: When is a Martin Scorsese film not a Martin Scorsese film? Answer: When it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film. And that's the trouble with Anderson's "Boogie Nights", an ambitious exploration of the American porno film industry. Its elaborate ... |
| |
| Review: Blue Velvet (1986) |
| "Blue Velvet" opens with a colourful picture postcard vision of small town America, set to the strains of the eponymous song. It seems so safe, so welcoming. Yet, by the time Lynch replays this sequence at the end of the film, we know that ... |
| |
| Review: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
| The third instalment of the Austin Powers franchise offers the same successful mix as "The Spy Who Shagged Me": lavatory humour, celebrity cameos, and devastatingly accurate parodies of pop culture . Operating under the 'bigger is better' principle, ... |
| |
| Review: Zombi 3 (1974) |
| Also known as "The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue", this notorious zombie shocker has previously only been available to see here on dodgy pirate video copies. With the movie now released on a fine US Region 1 DVD , it's fascinating to blow ... |
| |
| Review: Fifty First Dates (2004) |
| 50 First Dates stars Adam Sandler as a womanising vet who falls for Drew Barrymore's teacher one fine Hawaiian morning. Only she has short-term memory loss and can't remember him at all the next day - so he has to woo her again and again, each new ... |
| |
| Review: Alpha Male (2006) |
| A melancholy story of bereavement and family breakdown, Alpha Male takes itself seriously but quite never finds the emotional weight necessary for us to do the same. Jennifer Ehle ( Wilde , This Year's Love) heads the cast as Alice, widow of Jim ( ... |
| |
| Review: The Omen (2006) |
| Almost everyone comes to a sticky end in The Omen, just as they did in the 1976 original. From the moment that Liev Schreiber's ambitious young diplomat secretly adopts a child from a shifty-looking priest, the accidents start to pile up: burnings, ... |
| |
| Review: Duma (2005) |
| Coming of age, the battle for survival, and a couple of furry, four-legged sidekicks make Duma classic family viewing. Pint-sized newcomer Alex Michaeletos turns in a beautifully understated performance as Xan, a troubled boy who goes AWOL with his ... |
| |
| Review: The Saddest Music in the World (2003) |
| Ripping up today's movie-making conventions, cult Canadian director Guy Maddin raids cinema's often forgotten past to conjure up deliriously eccentric offering The Saddest Music In The World. Shot entirely in a studio, it's the tale of a musical ... |
| |
| Review: Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) |
| Golly, would you look at all these gongs? George Clooney's recreation of the televised battle between journalist Edward Murrow (David Strathairn) and the fear-mongering senator Joseph McCarthy has been feted with so many awards and nominations that ... |
| |
| Review: I-Spy (2002) |
| The words "starring Eddie Murphy" instil fear. "Metro", " Showtime ", " Pluto Nash "... all too horrible to contemplate. Perhaps it's his track record that makes this adaptation of Bill Cosby's 60s spy show all the more enjoyable. It's a welcome ... |
| |
| Show More Results |
|
|