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Wanted keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later.
Jonathon Rhys Meyers is a distinctive star with a powerful presence. In Children of the Silk Road, however he is tragically miscast
A hooded man stands on a box. A prisoner cowers from a barking dog. A grotesque pyramid of naked Arab men.
In taking Maxwell Smart out of the Cold War into a new millennium, the writers have softened Max almost beyond recognition.
Mike Leigh, director of Happy-Go-Lucky, can coax humanity from the most torturous circumstances, and warmth from a rock
M Night Shyamalan has had trouble maintaining his box office advantage since The Sixth Sense made him an international star.
The Egyptian Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel to help celebrate the opening of an Arab Cultural Centre, but no one is there to greet them.
Kicks, punches, pratfalls, head smacks, tumbles and free falls galore: a parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda
Unfinished Sky began life in Holland where a film called The Polish Bride sought to tackle the issue of forced prostitution among women in post Soviet Eastern Europe.
To say that Speed Racer is colourful would be as misleading as claiming that it's quiet and meditative.
Nomadic culture, squabbling tribes, the never-ending struggle against a climate so harsh only the hardiest and most intrepid survive.
Folk giant Pete Seeger has been honored for his contribution to protest music.
Reed's 1973 concept opus remains a dark affair.
Hunger takes place in a political wing of Northern Ireland's Maze prison
Standard Operating Procedure never offers concrete answers; it lets perpetrators explain themselves.
A tragic drama of love, routine, adultery and God's will
This Italian effort examines the grieving process of Pietro, a new widower.
This first feature from Israeli director Eran Kolirin wisely resists comments on Arab-Israeli relations and blunt political allegory.
Sally Hawkins is a real delight in Mike Leigh's new film as Poppy, a 30-year-old Londoner with a bubbly nature and an ever-present laugh
If you stumbled across Anvil! without knowing anything else, you would almost certainly dismiss it as a second-rate attempt at This Is Spinal Tap.
In Bruges is basically a tragicomic two-hander, with the casting of Farrell alongside Gleeson enabling a pleasing Irish inflection
A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and political and provides a potted history of modern Iran
Sex and the City was the kind of show that actually improved over time and not just for us straight guys tuning in for girlie gossip
Given director Andrew Adamson's background in family-friendly fare (Shrek), how odd is it that his strength as a director lies in managing long battle sequences?
Cinema has licked the boots of the Rolling Stones so many times that Scorsese's new doc about the band struggles to say anything new
He's back, and expectations are so high, it's a good thing the new Indiana Jones is the perfect example of an old school thrill ride.
What's wrong with Rats and Cats?
J-horror remake Shutter is little more than a mish-mash of random and increasingly blatant references disguised as a movie.
Or 51 years, nine months and four days of suffering.
This is the sort of film about WW2 which the French love: a beautiful woman, a dash of adultery, and good Galls saving desperate Jews by the dozen
Its Oscar for Best Foreign Film confirms that this is the sort of film about WW2 that Hollywood loves.
The Aussie crocodile thriller is practically a genre itself these days.
What a cast - everyone from Ciaran Hinds to Frances McDormand. And what a giddy tale.
This darkish comedy about the scary mother syndrome, dominated by a yucky olive palette, is just too chartreuse to be funny.
In case you haven't noticed, the need for a new American superhero has become kinda urgent, folks.
The Edge of Heaven, filmed in both Turkey and Germany, won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival last year
Who would want to go to this sleazy film?
A sweet little indie film without much punch, but a top cast.
She has outlasted many of her onscreen contemporaries but Catherine Deneuve still has to live up to the expectations created across five decades and over 100 films.
Lar's girlfriend arrives in a box, but he insists Bianca is a good Christian girl
Special screenings
Ruth Hessey reviews films from the current Faith On Film Festival
Opera classics come to life
The latest 3D IMAX adventure is about saving water. Ruth Hessey asks Greg MacGillivray why
It's the perfect time to shelter in the cinema while you wonder what place both religion and belief have in our lives.
Sydney's not all glamour and decadence. Ruth Hessey reports on a film that lifts the lid on what's really going on in the netherworld between the suburbs and the city
A colourblind musician and his adventurous colleagues fiddle on the threshold of sound art and music
It's a tough call judging The Dendy Awards. Meet the contenders
Sydney Film Festival is holding Accessible Cinema screenings for the deaf and blind
Popcorn? Single screen? Old school! Film's future is interactive
Newtown Flicks has become one of the city's pre-eminent festivals catering to Sydney's booming short film biz.
What is coming up in film about reconciliation?
Perfect your moves and then shoot your own film
The eccentric director of the much loved Donnie Darko explores the dystopian world of the future in Bondi junction.....
The Spanish film industry has given Hollywood stars like Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderos and Javier Bardem, and directors like Almodovar and Bunuel, to the world.
A lost art for almost a decade, the programming of back-to-back classics is about to enjoy a renaissance
Latest short screenings in Sydney
A new Aussie thriller about a kidnapping that goes turkey up holds delights for car lovers
To celebrate the release of Cactus, in cinemas May 1st, Time Out and Hoyts Distribution have 50 in season double passes to giveaway!
Confused about the clash of civilisations dominating global village chatter?
Research says that the older baby boomer generation knows more about film than most - and they're more openminded.