Evening Standard - Film

Damon's fans to go Bananaz for rare showing of Gorillaz movie

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:31:04 GMT

He has sold more than 30million records, filled hundreds of stadia around the world and churned out 25 albums covering every genre from Britpop to African beats.

First review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:36:17 GMT

The sixth instalment of the Harry Potter saga is a slickly unemotional affair with a host of special effects.

Demented laughter and screams in Embodiment of Evil

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:20 GMT

José Mojica Marinss outré Brazilian horror features cannibalism, torture by rats and/or spiders and hideous spectres augmented by plenty of blood.

Strawberry and Chocolate is still an important film

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:29:28 GMT

Made in 1994, when homosexuality was frowned upon in Cuba, Tomás Gutiérrez Aleas film seems tamer now than it did.

Am I Black Enough for You?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:25:37 GMT

Göran Hugo Olssons documentary is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute, with copious numbers to prove that Billy Paul was and still is a singer who really had something.

Stupid plot lost in Red Mist

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:54:49 GMT

Red Mist's plot is total rubbish, and no amount of slick film-making can make you believe it is worth all the blood and gore we have to sit through.

The Ice Age goes 3D

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:39 GMT

Considering this is the third of the series, the makers of Ice Age 3 clearly still have some inspiration left.

Johnny Depp's gangster is rapped in Public Enemies

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:39 GMT

Johnny Depp plays Dillinger with his customary charm but director Michael Mann's film Public Enemies never quite nails the legendary criminals character.

Biblical bunkum in Year One

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:29:20 GMT

Year One, Jack Black's comedy road trip set in Old Testament times, fails to deliver the laughs.

Sunshine Cleaning is the sleeper hit of the summer

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:14:02 GMT

Emily Blunt and Amy Adams make smalltown family drama Sunshine Cleaning a funny and refreshing antidote to the usual seasonal blockbusters.

Smiles amid moody minimalism in Lake Tahoe

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:44 GMT

Lake Tahoe is funny as well as melancholy and assisted by cinematography from Alexis Zabe that is astonishingly beautiful and precise.

Russell Crowe as down-at-heel detective in Tenderness

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:44 GMT

In Tenderness Russell Crowe plays a down-at-heel detective with a desperately ill wife and a career going nowhere.

Revenge and coming-of-age drama at ICA

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:44 GMT

The latest films in the ICAs promotional season of New British Cinema are The Blue Tower and Dummy

Stranger in a small town in The Last Thakur

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:44 GMT

The Last Thakur, the debut film from Sadik Ahmed, is well shot and confidently acted.

Rudo Y Cursi sees funny side of footie

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:44 GMT

Carlos Cuaróns footballing comedy Rudo Y Cursi s shows the beautiful game as a route out of poverty but also as constant prey for Mexicos endemic corruption.

Watching Iranian women in Shirin

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:09:35 GMT

Shirin shows us a bevy of Iranian women watching an epic romance, presumably in the cinema, but allows us only their reactions to the soundtrack.

Healing power of sisterhood in My Sister's Keeper

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:09:35 GMT

Jodi Picoult's controversial bestseller, My Sister's Keeper, provides the story on which this film is based.

Biblical bunkum in Year One

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:46:06 GMT

Year One, Jack Black's comedy road trip set in Old Testament times, fails to deliver the laughs.

Pure entertainment in North by Northwest

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:59 GMT

The re-release of North by Northwest reiterates what an extraordinary director Alfred Hitchcock was.

A surreal and serious tone for Gigantic

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:59 GMT

Gigantic looks like an American version of Buñuel without the artistic wherewithal to be convincing.

Two bright sparks at the ICA

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:59 GMT

Beyond the Fire and The Disappeared are two excellent British films at the ICA.

Musical monster played for laughs in Telstar

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:59 GMT

Nick Morans film, based on his West End musical, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek in Telstar.

Katyn is story the world has been waiting to hear

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:52:06 GMT

Truth is the star of Andrzej Wajda's masterly telling of the Russian massacre of 20,000 Polish officers during the Second World War in Katyn.

Who cares who wins the Transformers war?

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:49:00 GMT

The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen plot is confusing and the characters are sketchy, but the deafening effects are mindblowing.

Profile: Sacha Baron Cohen and the making of Bruno

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:52:00 GMT

Sacha Baron Cohen is cinemas most secretive star. So what and who is behind his latest outrageous creation, unveiled last night?.