Review

The classic Irish sitcom Father Ted had a great conceit: its characters just happened to be priests, but first, foremost and with extreme fallibility they were, simply, humans. We’ve seen this trick before in cop films, but John Michael McDonagh’s melancholic comedy displays much of Ted’s cock-eyed charm. Without overstating …

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s 18th feature – his first with one-time muse Antonio Banderas since 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! – explores the director’s oft-worked themes of sexual identity and desire while exhibiting his fondness for vivid colours, vibrant melodrama and zesty living spaces. Yet in adapting Thierry …

You get two Dominic Coopers for the price of one in Lee Tamahori’s latest, a fact-based thriller about a man who spent four years being the ‘fiday’ (double) of Saddam Hussein’s deranged son Uday. That much is corroborated, both by public record and by double Latif Yahia himself, a former …

Everyone has their reason for why they fall in love with a particular anime. Whether it’s the flashy, high-action battles, an unpredictable story, or well-rounded, intriguing characters, there’s always a part that some fans cling to more than others. Bleach could have been a Dragon Ball Z clone, but it …

Conceived as an authentically French riposte to John Huston’s Moulin Rouge, Jean Renoir’s 1954 film offers a romanticised take on the founding of Montmartre’s most famous nightspot. Jean Gabin is impresario Danglard, juggling rich backers, bailiffs and various mistresses to achieve his ambition. If the film lacks the social bite …

A loving hybrid of Populous and Lemmings, From Dust is a slick, strange adventure that falls somewhere in between the Puzzle and God Game genres. That unusual pairing is matched with equally unique visuals and gameplay; tiny tribesmen with Katamari masks mill around as you, some sort of landscaping demigod, …

Spirits are low in this 1949 Ealing classic in more ways than one: on the Hebridean island of Todday, the whisky has run out and glum faces are everywhere. When a ship laden with booze is wrecked off the coast, the parched islanders scramble to salvage what they can. Standing …

Price: $2.99 Size: 36 Blocks First Released: 1997 Well before the Game Boy even existed, Nintendo%26rsquo;s LCD Game %26amp; Watch handhelds were considered the top choice for portable gaming %26ndash; and the built in alarm clocks were handy too. But with only one game included per handheld unit, it was …

Maybe it was the point when Vincent Brooks, Catherine%26rsquo;s protagonist, grew ram horns from the back of his head. Or maybe it was when we had to ascend a series of seemingly unending blocks to escape a mutant infant that was spewing chainsaws from its mouth. The thing is, we …

Price: $2.99 Size: 32 Blocks First Released: 1989 Whacking a ball around with a paddle in hopes of breaking stuff is an age-old pursuit, and dusting off this Game Boy launch title reminds us of how much fun a decent block breaking game can be – even if it doesn’t …