Previous Week
A class apart
Michael Caine's world has changed - along with ours - since he starred in Sleuth 35 years ago. Now playing the older man in a modern remake, the porter turned Knight of the Realm tells Donald Clarke why class still matters and why Laurence Olivier was no Jude Law
'I'm still the guy in The Italian Job'
Despite committing himself to inferior material for much of the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Caine has always remained popular with the discerning public and - cheeringly for a man of his age - has never stopped being cool.
3-D or not 3-D? That's the question
Half a century after it was prematurely declared the future of cinema, the 3-D process seems finally to have captured the hearts of cinemagoers.
Polls apart: from hot to not
What would Reel News do without stupid lists? The two polls worth attending to this week were People Magazine 's Sexiest Man of the Year and, containing sadder news for the movie community, Film Threat's Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood.
Rescue Dawn
Even the trees seems slightly insane in Werner Herzog's powerful film, writes Donald Clarke .
The Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson's film is a funny and touching tale of sibling bonding, writes Michael Dwyer.
August Rush
SUBSTANTIAL degrees of good will towards the admirable Kirsten Sheridan - daughter of Jim, director of Disco Pigs and several excellent shorts - proved insufficient to blind me to the galloping inadequacies of her strange, ambitious, infuriating new film.
Sleuth
YES, I know what you're thinking. A version of Sleuth - that creaky, cobwebby old two-hander - directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring, of all people, Jude bloody Law? Who'd want to watch that?
Shrooms
IF YOU want to know what the latest film from the team that brought you Man About Dog is about, then you need only listen carefully to what is said in the first 15 minutes.
