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The Bourne Identity (12A)
On the action front, the movie also delivers, with a car chase involving
a mini through the streets of Paris a particular highlight, evoking
fond memories of both The Italian Job and Ronin.
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The Back to the Future
Trilogy (PG)
Whether your favourite character is the bullish Biff Tannen, the eccentric
mad professor, Doc Brown, or, of course, Marty Mcfly, BTTF has something
for everyone and is a real treat. As well as the six hours of film footage
from the three films themselves, we are treated to an additional five
hours of bonus footage...
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Bend It Like Beckham
(12)
Inevitably, there is a certain amount of predictability to proceedings,
but go with it and you'll come out grinning from ear to ear. Chadha
has produced a brilliantly scripted, endlessly re-watchable, feel-good
movie, that was successful, largely thanks to some good marketing and
its timely release just before the World Cup.
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Blade 2 (18)
IT'S not very often that a sequel can be said to genuinely surpass its
original in terms of concept, freshness and all-round enjoyability (see
the debate in Scream 2 as evidence), but Blade 2 most definitely does
that.
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Being John Malkovich
(15)
Being John Malkovich is, without doubt, one of the strangest movies
you are ever likely to see - but while certainly obscure, it is also
wildly inventive and constantly surprising. By affording each actor
the chance to send themselves up hilariously, we are treated to a tongue-in-cheek
tour-de-force.
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Brotherhood of the
Wolf (15)
"EXPECT the unexpected," announced director Christophe Gans as
he introduced his new movie, Brotherhood of the Wolf, to a cinema packed
full of critics recently - and it is sound advice. Combining elements
of werewolf-inspired horror, kick-arse action and sumptuous period costume
drama, The Brotherhood of the Wolf is cinema at its most ambitious and
impressive.
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School's out - for longer
- Battle Royale special edition
Coming hot on the heels of an avalanche of extreme-but-eternally-hip
movies, more controversy than you could wield an axe at and the release
of fellow dystopian satire "Series 7: The Contenders" (2001),
Battle Royale's arrival will surely prove to be a defining moment in
the cinema of 2001.
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Black Hawk Down (15)
At nearly two and a half hours, Black Hawk Down is certainly not for
the squeamish, but for those with the stomach for the battle, it is
an important, even pertinent, look at modern combat. You will feel shell
shocked, but I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Click here for a
special feature on the making of the movie...
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Behind Enemy Lines (15)
Hence, what we have left is the type of movie in which Rambo joins with
Top Gun and attempts to sign up for Saving
Private Ryan. That is to say, a complete mess.
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Bandits fail to impress
Bandits is a buddy movie, replete with the quirky relationship of two
mismatched characters, that leaves one longing for the buddy act of
James Belushi and his German shepherd dog sidekick of K9 – it’s
certainly funnier.
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The f**k of the Nineties
on DVD?
Mainstream audiences literally lapped up the gratuitous sex and violence
on display, from Sharon Stone's infamous leg-crossing interrogation
sequence, to the death by ice-pick, the date-rape and, limping by in
fourth place, the moment when the big two finally get it together.
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Bridget Jones comes to DVD
Bridget Jones's Diary is a cracking movie - one that, which certainly
packed cinemas with girlie groups who loved the book on which it is
based, can also be enjoyed in equal measure by the guys (who will no
doubt be forced to take the other half anyway!).
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Splash out on Besson's The Big
Blue
LUC Besson's The Big Blue has become one of the most popular French
films of all time... and rightly so. This heartfelt movie is a frequently
moving, visually stunning tale of two boyhood friends, turned diving
rivals, who push each other to ridiculous limits in search of the perfect
dive.
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