Evening Standard - Film

Steven Spielberg knows audiences didn't love latest Indiana Jones film, but won't make a fifth to "prove a point"

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:57:31 GMT

Steven Spielberg says he won't 'prove a point' with Indiana 5

New Year's Eve - review

David Sexton — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:14:44 GMT

Even the attractions of Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Zac Ephron and Jon Bon Jovi don't make Garry Marshall's seasonal romcom pretty viewing

Another Earth - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:48:42 GMT

Up in the sky that young Rhoda constantly examines in Mike Cahill's intriguing debut feature, there's another Earth beside the Moon which seems to be exactly the same as ours

Puss in Boots - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:40:53 GMT

Puss in boots is an entertaining but not exactly outstanding piece of animation from Chris Miller, for DreamWorks. Being made in 3D, it comes out at you like a strangely eccentric Zorro serial

Mysteries of Lisbon - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:35:03 GMT

Raoul Ruiz has left a mammoth testament to his art in this adaptation of a novel by Portugal's equally prolific Camilo Castelo Branco about the strange world of European nobility in the 19th century

The Thing - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:02:04 GMT

This prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic starts with a smutty joke. In Norwegian. Director Matthijs van Heijningen (who is Dutch) obviously knows how to wrong-foot jaded viewers

Margaret - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:56:22 GMT

Anna Paquin plays a self-righteous New Yorker whose quest turns out to teach us all a lesson

Hugo - review

David Sexton — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:25:49 GMT

Martin Scorsese's first family movie takes a wrong turn with its heavy history of cinema that bypasses the dream factory

Filming The Hobbit is 'surreal', says Elijah Wood

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:36:20 GMT

Elijah Wood has said filming The Hobbit "felt like stepping back in time.

Daniel Radcliffe to play Allen Ginsberg in new film

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:27:51 GMT

Daniel Radcliffe is to play legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in new movie Kill Your Darlings.

Film maverick Ken Russell dies aged 84

Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:45:02 GMT

Ken Russell, the maverick movie director known for the Oscar-winning Women In Love and some of the more flamboyant films in British cinema, has died. He was 84

We Were Here - review

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:32:17 GMT

Five San Franciscans who are intimately involved with the Aids epidemic are the subject of David Weissman's Oscar-tipped documentary

Resistance - review

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:27:22 GMT

D-day has failed and the Germans are in charge in Amit Gupta's clumsy, inert adaptation of Owen Sheers's bestseller - which imagines life in an occupied Welsh village in 1944

An African Election - review

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:20:47 GMT

Jarreth J Merz takes a close look at the close-run 2008 election battle in Ghana and offers some insights into why a fair result holds such symbolic importance

Dream House - review

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:13:28 GMT

This hokey domestic thriller will cause massive embarrassment to its esteemed cast and crew, which include Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and director Jim Sheridan

Moneyball - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:56:34 GMT

Brad Pitt dominates this solidly crafted if over-reverent and often confusing study of inequality in professional baseball

Take Shelter - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:54:18 GMT

Jeff Nichols's low-budget but visually searing psychodrama paints a portrait of a man in crisis

50/50 - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:51:40 GMT

As far as the public are concerned, comedian Seth Rogen is a lewd, rude teddy-bear. What's mentioned less often is that his best friend is Will Reiser, on whose experiences with spinal cancer this film is based

The Deep Blue Sea - review

Charlotte O'Sullivan — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:46:41 GMT

Terence Davies's much-anticipated film (his first in 11 years) is based on a 1952 Terence Rattigan play in which a judge's wife called Hester falls too hard for an ex-airman called Freddie

My Week with Marilyn - review

David Sexton — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:41:24 GMT

The story of the brief encounter between Marilyn Monroe and a naive young Englishman gives the acting aristocracy the chance to flex their muscles

I didn't realise how big Scorsese was, says young star of Hugo

Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:23:01 GMT

Asa Butterfield, 14-year-old star of new Martin Scorsese film Hugo, is too young to see Goodfellas and Taxi Driver

Dr Who star travels back in time to play Sixties model Jean Shrimpton

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:01:20 GMT

Doctor Who star Karen Gillan's portrayal of Sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton in a new film has been endorsed by "the Shrimp" herself

This Our Still Life - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:11:53 GMT

Anyone who has seen Gallivant or This Filthy Earth will know roughly what to expect from experimental film-maker Andrew Kotting's latest hour-long film

How to Stop Being a Loser - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:02:50 GMT

There is some amusement to be had from Dominic Burns's small-budget comedy. But not much. It tells the tale of Simon Phillips, a loser in love who gets lessons from Craig Conway's love guru and Martin Kemp's serial seducer

Welcome to the Rileys - review

Derek Malcolm — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:54:21 GMT

The Rileys of Indianapolis are a struggling couple, married for 30 years but reduced to virtual silence after the death of their 15-year-old daughter