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11 Apr 2007
TRUE CRIME/DRAMA Justin Timberlake’s inauspicious lead role in straight to-landfill clunker Edison proved once again that global pop stardom doesn’t necessarily equate with matinee idol status. Yet the trouser snake acquits himself surprisingly well…
Perfect Stranger (15) 108min (3 Stars) Investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) thinks that her friend’s murder might be connected to powerful ad executive Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) and so goes undercover with the help of Miles Hailey…
Set in Mauritius Ajay Chandok’s Nehlle Pe Dehlla (12A) 125min (1 Star) is a reworking of the 1989 US comedy hit Weekend at Bernie’s. Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt mark time amongst the slow motion shots of lycra clad Bollywood babes, practising aerobics…
EPIC DRAMA/WAR Zhang Yimou’s third martial arthouse adventure is less action oriented than the co-writer and director’s last, House of Flying Daggers, but even more ravishing in visual terms than his first stab at the genre, Hero. At heart Curse of…
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS This collection of short documentaries from the all too often undervalued and under funded Scottish Documentary Institute serves as a welcome taster for the excellent work executed by this organisation. The best of the films here…
ROMANCE Jirí Weiss’ fine 1960 film is a tale of moral ambivalence and youthful idealism. Set in 1942 Czechoslovakia at a time when the Nazis were occupying the country and the Jews were hounded out of it. Pavel (Ivan Mistrík) falls in love with…
‘When April winds/Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush’ - (that’s American poet William Cullen Bryant in case you wondered) - our thoughts turn to female space warriors. Well, just one really, the one they call Ripley. The proto feminist hammerhead…
DIRECTOR COLLECTION Spike Lee was 50 on March 20 and this nine disc box set has been released to celebrate the occasion. It is an odd collection that reeks of commercialism with the films - School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle…
COMING OF AGE DRAMA When a prank goes horribly wrong with one boy being burned alive in a tree house, his closest allies cope with the loss in their own ways. The dead lad’s brother Jacob, born with a massive birthmark, goes on a mission to make the…
It’s that time of year again when the great and the good who coordinate the national French Film festival unleash their wares on those Francophiles among us. Taking in four Scottish cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen) this three week…
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