FOR A ‘white-looking’ filmmaker, it comes as something of a surprise that first-time film-maker Eran Creevy is actually ‘one-quarter Sri Lankan thanks to my mum’.Read
RETURNING to the type of contemporary conspiracy dramas like LA Confidential and The Insider which marked him out as a star to watch, Russell Crowe is back on top form.Read
KIM Ji-woon’s 2003 supernatural horror, A Tale Of Two Sisters, is the latest Asian film to be recycled by Hollywood with weak effect complete with lines like ‘You lost your mother in a fire, maybe it’s not such a bad thing to forget’.Read
AN ALIEN spaceship crashlands in 8th century Norway. Its passenger is not a bug-eyed little green man but an extra-terrestrial in surprisingly human form, called Kainan (Jim Caviezel).Read
JUST when you thought that Paul Blart: Mall Cop would be the only comedy this year to feature a shopping centre security guard, here’s another one.Read
SET in Northern Ireland and sensibly informing us in advance that it’s “inspired by true events”, this is a potentially very dangerous movie about the Troubles.Read
SWEDISH horror film ‘Låt den rätte komma in’ has been making waves at festivals around the world. By the time I first saw this in January, it had already won more than 20 major prizes. Read
PARTLY inspired by Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 Venetian thriller Don’t Look Now with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, Michael Winterbottom shot this film mostly in Genoa, Italy.Read
