Film
Adam Sweeting
A movie about advertising and product placement entirely paid for by advertising and product placement? It's a Koh-i-Noor diamond of a concept, and zealous documentarian Morgan Spurlock has applied himself to his task with the efficiency of a Dyson vacuum cleaner and the tenacity of a corporate Salesman of the Month.Spurlock, who survived a 30-day eatathon of McDonald's food despite his liver partly turning to fat and emerged with the splendid Super Size Me, has made one of the most entertaining films of the year, a far funnier one than the stuff that's routinely palmed off on us as " Read more ...
ash.smyth
There is nothing good about The Three Musketeers. Nothing. To list all the ways in which Paul WS Anderson's superfluous remake is crap would require a tome only slightly thinner than Dumas's original novel, and it is impossible, frankly, to imagine how someone could so badly have fisted the simple criteria for a historical action-romp, least of all with a ready-written, solid-gold storyline and a budget of $100 million; but bear with me while I run through just a couple of highlights, and I'll ask you, please, for your own Read more ...
graham.rickson
Good cinema can show us the unimaginable, the unknowable. As does Werner Herzog’s documentary, taking us deep into the Chauvet Caves in the Ardèche in southern France. Discovered in 1994, they contain the oldest known cave paintings. Created 32,000 years ago, they were preserved after a fortuitous rock fall sealed the cave’s original entrance.Herzog and his team of three assistants were recently granted limited access by the French Ministry of Culture. Battery-powered lights were used, along with a 3D camera. The group were restricted to a narrow steel walkway, unable to touch the rock Read more ...