Wendy Ide

This week – The pilot light’s gone out… on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don’t you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, …

This week – Africans prove that not all the French are cheese eating surrender monkeys (Days Of Glory) and Mr Bean goes on holiday to the South of France (Mr Bean’s Holiday). This week’s Friday Film News has a definite French theme. As a result …

This week – The Spartans resist Persian domination (300) and Carmen Electra shoots a British porno (I Want Candy). First up, a film that went straight to the top of the box office chart in the USA, made a hatload and has angered some Iranians, …

This week – Simon Pegg polices the country town of Sandford (Hot Fuzz) and Jennifer Love Hewitt lives in Bristol (The Truth About Love). First, we must say sorry for the lack of Saturday Cinema Summary last week. We were saving London from certain destruction. …

This week – A Scottish doctor finds himself embroiled in Amin’s Uganda (The Last King of Scotland) and Affleck is rubbish again, (Smokin’ Aces). Four star ratings across the board (The Times, Guardian and Independent) for The Last King of Scotland, a film not about …

This week: a treat for Christmas as Tim Burton’s animated masterpiece goes 3D (Nightmare Before Christmas 3D), a Soviet agent starts questioning his life in London’s Swinging Sixties (Joy Division) and a philosophising serial killer paints canvases with his victims’ blood (Antibodies). As that big …

This week – Bond is back (Casino Royale) and two magicians go head to head in Edwardian London, (The Prestige). Bond is here! Well… on he will be on Thursday. We watched the last Bond installment last night on ITV2. We had forgotten how gash …

This week – Sofia Coppola tells the story of the French queen, (Marie Antoinette), a tale from British ASBO land (The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael) and a family is torn apart by bigotted attitudes to immigration, (Gypo). When writing this column, reading all of …

This week we look backwards to World Trade Center, fast forward with Click and then arrive closer to home with Life & Lyrics. Let’s just get straight into it with Bradshaw’s (1/5) review of WTC: There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty …

This week – Michael Douglas proves he can still run unassisted (The Sentinel), a “comedy” about a midget who masquerades as a baby (Little Man) and a Speed-like film in which a man will die unless he keeps his adreniline level above a certain, very …