Previous Week
Cliff hanger
Action maestro John Woo is putting the finishing touches to Asia's most expensive movie: a Chinese historical epic. But the filming of Red Cliff has been plagued by torrential rains, set damage and the departures of two of its stars. Clifford Coonan reports from Beijing.
Terminator TV
The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts on TV3 tonight, a TV spin-off from the Terminator films, that promises to be better than the last movie. Joe Griffin examines how telly can breathe new life into cinema.
When the telly version's better than the movie
SMALLVILLE: The teen series was smarter than expected, and revived the Superman brand as a viable commodity, only for Superman Returns to flounder.
Bonnie vs Sidney
Oscar night, 1968, saw Hollywood's new wave pitted against old-school movies. A new book captures the period in all its revolutionary glory. Michael Dwyer reports
Date set for opening of new Light House
The eagerly awaited rebirth of Dublin's Light House cinema is now confirmed for May 9th.
New Line to toe the corporate line
New Line Cinema, one of the leading independent production/distribution companies in the US, has lost its autonomous status within the Time Warner group and has been subsumed into Warner Bros.
In Bruges
In Bruges is a clever comedy-thriller from playwright Martin McDonagh, writes Michael Dwyer
Diary of the Dead
Romero's latest is a provocative retooling of his original zombie classic, writes Donald Clarke
Anna M
Though Isabelle Carré's coruscating central performance has been justly praised, this interesting French film has also generated some confused responses in its journey about the globe. Is it a stalker thriller in the style of Fatal Attraction? Is it a serious attempt to detail the typical progress of an obsessive psychosis?
Vantage Point
YOU CAN see what the studio was thinking. A few years back a bright spark caught a glimpse of some film about the Northern Irish troubles and reckoned that the director might be able to do something with the Bourne franchise.
Don't Touch the Axe/Ne Touchez pas La Hache
JACQUES Rivette, who turned 80 last Saturday, was among that august group of Cahiers du Cinéma critics at the forefront of the stimulating Nouvelle Vague movement when they turned to making their own movies.
