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  • Cork welcomes Dahl thriller

    John Dahl, the US director who made his mark in the early 1990s with Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, will be the subject of the tribute programme at the Corona Cork Film Festival, which runs from October 14th to 21st.

  • Lynch and Donovan's twin speaks

    Director David Lynch and singer-songwriter Donovan are touring with a presentation to be staged in Dublin on October 20th, at the Edmund Burke Theatre in Trinity College, in association with Trinity's School of Drama, Film and Music. On the following afternoon, they will present the show at Elmwood Hall in Belfast, as part of the Belfast Festival at Queen's.

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  • Across the universe

    Across the Universe is a bold reimagining of the trippy 1960s, writes Michael Dwyer

  • Halloween

    THIS is a very odd beast indeed. It hardly needs to be said that remaking John Carpenter's Halloween, one of cinema's very greatest experiments in creative tension, is an idea that should remain in the same locked drawer as curried raspberries and chocolate oven gloves. And, sure enough, Rob Zombie's noisier, less nuanced version of the story does ultimately crash and burn.

  • The brave one

    ONE OF Neil Jordan's rare ventures into mainstream Hollywood studio production, The Brave One finds him in the company of Jodie Foster as she continues her penchant for action roles after Panic Room and Flightplan, and Joel Silver, the producer of the first two Die Hard movies, the Matrix trilogy and the four Lethal Weapon pictures.

  • Hot Rod

    YES, I'm afraid Hot Rod is yet another comedy about a teenage loser who, despite all the evidence otherwise, thinks himself a suburban Norse god. This time round, Andy Samberg, star of Saturday Night Live and YouTube, plays an aspiring stuntman with an overpowering urge to impress his smug, arrogant stepfather.

  • The singer/Quand j'etais chanteur

    ONE can't help but suspect that this undemanding romantic drama must, at some point, have been offered to Johnny Hallyday. Perhaps the aging French warbler - as ridiculed as he is celebrated - felt that Xavier Giannoli's tale of an aging French warbler - as ridiculed as he is celebrated - cut a little too close to the bone.

  • Rocket science

    WHEN I interviewed actor Eric Roberts some years ago, he spoke with a stammer that was not evident in any of his films. He explained that the characters he played did not stammer and that he started acting as a form of speech therapy.

  • Yella

    IT'S NOT often you encounter a film - or, rather, a good one - that you can confidently describe as sui generis. The latest picture from Christian Petzold, the German director of such insidious delights as The State I Am In, is a small-scale work that still manages to zip through a bewildering array of genres and take in a variety of tones during its economic 89 minutes.

  • Michael Clayton

    GEORGE Clooney portrays the title character as a man on the edge, his face as ashen as his hair. Michael Clayton has been with a high-powered Manhattan law firm for 15 years but has not been made a partner despite his diligent service as a fixer taking care of the dirty work for the firm's wealthy clients.

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  • Ace of base

    With Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, the Farrelly Brothers invented the gross-out comedy genre. But their new movie suggests the bodily-fluid humorists might have turned respectable. Never, Bobby Farrelly tells Donald Clarke

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