Third Man, The

Conceptual art comes to the movies, bringing with it a newish sort of excuse for watching pornography

I’m not quite sure how it does it, but the Australian film, The Dish, directed by Rob Sitch, gives the best cinematic account known to me of the American space program. On the surface, it is only tangentially about the Apollo 11 moonshot in July, 1969. Instead it concentrates on the true story of the…

In The Memory of a Killer, also known as The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer), Erik Van Looy has done a nice job of putting together an engaging, high-concept thriller. But once we’ve finished being caught up in it, we can’t help noticing that the high-concept pretty much goes to waste. It is this. A…

A charmer about the clash between teen-culture and reality whose cynicism and striving after hipness make it less good than it might have been

Though disappointing in the end, this is an engaging first feature based on a Raymond Carver story and offers a meaty role for Will Ferrell

The fantastical superhero makes the transition from childish wish-fulfilment to adult castration nightmare. Is this progress?