We’ve all put on a video that made us want to die, but this is a bit much. Bob Carroll took his life in his hands to view the US remake of the cult Asian hit Ringu but found ‘very little new here … scenes merely reset and cast to suit a western viewer’
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Paul Schrader returns to form with this portrait of a celebrity exploring the pornographic possibilities of new technology. Tim Smedley salutes ‘a successful mix of comedy and tragedy, style and substance’
»The ever excellent Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London next week. Yoram Allon reports on a trio of outstanding documentaries to be screened
»Following his review of Far From Heaven, Antonio Pasolini looks again at the work of Douglas Sirk, ‘a thinking artist with a social conscience’
»First cricket, then football (or soccer) – now movies? John Atkinson on why the line-up for 9th London Australian Film Festival might teach British cinema something
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It’s a big book with a big reputation. But has the Biographical Dictionary of Film lost its sparkle, asks John Atkinson?
»Mathieu Ravier reports from a short film-maker’s heaven – the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival where locals form queues to watch shorts
»Something of an anomaly in recent Latin American cinema, Japón is an old-fashioned slow moving art movie. Paul Clarke settles into ‘a remarkably composed vision that never falters’
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The critical raves keep on coming for Todd Haynes’s excursion into Sirk territory. Antonio Pasolini applauds ‘a clinically perfect combination of form and content which speaks deeply to the viewer’
»This month’s superhero making his movie debut is ‘the Man without Fear’, Daredevil. Bob Carroll, the Critic without Popcorn, sighs deeply in the face of ‘an average flick, a poor bastardisation of Batman’
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Jennifer Aniston, Indie Queen? Hmmm, thought not. But don’t write off The Good Girl, says Nicci Tucker
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