Subject:

Vera Drake

  • Film+TV

    January 8, 2009

    Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

    As film’s angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane

  • Film+TV

    October 9, 2008

    Happy-Go-Lucky: Female Persuasion From Mike Leigh

    Director's latest might just cheer you up

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    The Porn of Pain

    Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 12, 2007

    Harry Potter's Dark Arts

    New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

  • Film+TV

    May 31, 2007

    Pierrepoint: Crime and Punishment

    The problems of rehabilitating England’s Last Hangman

  • Film+TV

    January 4, 2007

    Film Reviews

    Including Freedom Writers

  • Film+TV

    May 25, 2006

    Hell Is for Children

    Two films by celebrated indie directors mine the kicks to be had when bad things happen to young people

  • Film+TV

    May 12, 2005

    She’s Baaack!

    Jane Fonda in Monster-in-Law

  • Columns

    March 3, 2005

    Baby, It’s Cold Inside

    Oscar at 77

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    Have They No Shame?

    Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

    Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    2004 in Film

    Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    11 Great Small Performances

    Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

  • Film+TV

    October 21, 2004

    Saint Vera

    Mike Leigh’s cardboard working-class hero

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