The Retrieval review: the emotional legacy of American slavery
Deceptively simple and deeply cutting. A remarkable little film, a marvel of American indie filmmaking and of stories typically overlooked.
Jesus People review: Christian pop takes the softest of smacks
This too gentle mockumentary barely even takes aim at its easiest potential targets, but the appealing cast is game and manages a few cogent hits.
you have to see this Australian Muppets Most Wanted TV ad
Studios quoting random people on Twitter needed a takedown, and this is it.
Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman on Late Show: I haz a sad
The terror at change that characterizes what passes for American entertainment has finally overstayed the welcome it never had.
Half of a Yellow Sun review: history with a romantic flourish
Oh what a lovely film! As romance and history, this is by turns funny and tragic, suspenseful and celebratory, and never less than solidly entertaining.
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears review: the color of nasty
A teeth-grindingly, blood-boilingly infuriating cinematic trial that’s like an art school film project gone horribly awry.
London photo: makes me feel like I’m playing Myst again
Looking up through the glass-sidewalked entryway of the Channel 4 HQ, from the lobby of its subterranean screening room.
The Quiet Ones review: possession obsession
The few outright scares are curiously circumspect, but the old-fashioned Hammer Horror atmosphere is appealingly spooky.
London photo: urban recycling
Shipping containers get a new life as support for stairs at Southbank.
Under the Skin movie review: sex as a weapon
Scarlett Johansson is an alien serial killer who sexes men to death in a misogynist fanboy wet dream that also fails to satisfy as science fiction.
