Let the Right One In

Let Me In

2 Nov 2010

(15) 116min Just two years after the adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel Let the Right One In was turned into a hit Swedish film by Tomas Alfredson comes the American take on the story and it’s a striking if mildly uneven adaptation. Matt…

Best films of 2009

Film Editor Paul Dale's Top films of the year

17 Dec 2009

The White Ribbon Strange events in a small German village before World War One. Che Part One and Part Two Brilliant two-part biopic of revolutionary hero Che Guevara by US filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. Fish Tank Dance and sex on an Essex…

Halloween Guide: M - S

Yet more spooky goings-on

16 Oct 2009

M is for Movies Perhaps only rivalled by the upsurge in the plastic horn industry around 31 Oct, the annual economic boost for the horror film industry ensures that, every Halloween, there is a fresh crop of dismembered corpse-filled flicks to satisfy…

Bargain DVDs

12 Aug 2009

Inglorious Bastards, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rocky, Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Dollars trilogy, Powell and Pressburger anthology, Watchmen, Let The Right One In, O Lucky Man!, Repo Man, Harold and Maude, Donnie Darko

Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In)

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA/HORROR Let the Right One In is a chilling Swedish coming-of-age story that breathes new life into a tired vampire genre marred by American high school teenagers and Christian lobbyist novelists (Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice). It’s the early…

Preview 2009 - Film

8 Jan 2009

There are three years to go until the end of the world, according to Mayan prophecies and it seems filmmakers can’t stop looking back to look forward. Let’s start at the beginning of the year when the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, civil rights…

Let the Right One In

16 Jul 2007

HORROR DRAMA JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST Let the Right One In (Quercus) Swedish magician turned stand-up comedian turned novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist’s first book features numerous sleight-of-hand tricks and sly jokes. In the opening chapter…