Cannes

To find something as simple as Gimme The Loot in amongst the grand-standing, self-consciously important films at Cannes is a rare thing this year, but…

Cannes’ secondary competition – Un Certain Regard – offers attendees the opportunity to see innovative or intriguing projects, deemed of significance by the programme schedulers,…

Bernardo Bertolucci’s latest, Me and You, is the director’s first Italian language film for 30 years, seeking to show that the Italian has never lost…

For a long time heavy-weight director Pedro Almodovar attempted to bring an adaptation of Peter Dexter’s excellent novel “The Paperboy” to the screen, and a…

Just when the festival’s perpetual rain threatened to soak right through the collected critics’ spirit, redemption came from the most unlikely of places, the grey,…

When a film’s pre-release marketing includes mention of false accusations of pedophilia, and the subsequently unraveling world of the accused kindergarten assistant, and it has…

Cannes films have a tendency to provoke reaction, with selections chosen for their impact more often than any conventionally commercial appeal, and as a result,…

The simplest way to sell Wayne Blair’s film debut The Sapphires is to say it is like the point where Dreamgirls and Cool Runnings meet,…

Sitting in a theater watching a fair few people walk out in protest at the poor quality of Dracula 3D, you have to wonder whether…