Film Review: John Travolta reprises his role in the sequel to Get Shorty and sets out to find the Russian Mafia blocking his path to a young singer with the help of feisty widow Uma Thurman. The plot may sound fun but the two hours seem like two days, says Derek Malcom... read
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Film Review: Was Hitler man or monster? Downfall, the first postwar German film to put the Führer on the screen, suggests he was both. His last days are depicted honestly, skilfully - and not as sympathetically as some seem to think, says Derek Malcom... read
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Rock 'n' roll bad girl Courtney Love is to play porn actress Linda Lovelace - star of the infamous Deep Throat - in a new film. It will not be the first time Love, 40, who was married to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, has played a porn icon... read
Film Review: Hideo Nakata, who made Ringu, the phenomenally successful Japanese film upon which the equally profitable American The Ring was based, directs this sequel. In an American context, the fantasy seems more than a trifle strained, says Derek Malcom... read
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Film Review: This animated British movie is about the fate of one little wood pigeon who is trying to join the elite Royal Homing Pigeon Service during the war. With a host of British stars and some inventive animation, it's a brave effort but not an entirely successful one... read
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DVD Reviews: From a rusty gas tanker and a killer-simple concept in Steven Spielberg's Duel to a slightly scruffy but ultimately well-poised Sandra Bullock in the feel-good romcom Miss Congeniality, we give you a round-up of the latest DVD releases... read
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Film Review: After a string of below par movies, Woody Allen is back on form - not top form, perhaps, but approaching it. Melinda and Melinda returns to one of his favourite subjects: life as it is lived by the middle classes in Manhattan, says Derek Malcom... read
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Film Review: Miss Congeniality 2 is a better prospect than its lightweight predecessor, largely because it has a better script, and Sandra Bullock, who hasn't really distinguished herself since Speed, bites on it with grateful abandon, says Derek Malcom... read
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