Film releases: October 30

Nigel Andrews reviews the Nick Hornby-scripted ‘An Education’, environmental ‘gotcha’ movie ‘The Cove’, ‘Starsuckers’ and Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Tales from the Golden Age’

Film releases: October 14

Nigel Andrews reviews ‘The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus’, ‘Thirst’, ‘Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee’, ‘Triangle’ and ‘Pontypool’

Samuel Maoz’s prize-winning war film

The director tells Nigel Andrews that ‘Lebanon’ was based on his own experiences as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 war

Films: All over the place in pursuit of a perfect home

A comedy about a couple flitting across America to find a place to deliver their first child rains funkiness and unstable lovability like ceiling plaster. It needs these hints of chaotic amiability, since the structure is gimcrack, writes Nigel Andrews

The Venice Film Festival

Nigel Andrews is betting on Israel’s ‘Lebanon’ to win the top prize because it has everything: a powerful plot, prodigious direction and a passport to international controversy

Bonfire of the certainties

Certainties are put to the sword at the Venice Film Festival; thumbs are turned up or down; crowds and critics bay. Even US filmmaker Michael Moore seems to have caught the mood, writes Nigel Andrews

Film releases: Not yet ready for cosmic unity

Peter Aspden sees a rare sci-fi flick with socio-political bite and a documentary about an extreme swimmer, while Nigel Andrews looks at the week’s other releases

Film releases: To hell with a hothead hero

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘The Hurt Locker’ boldy suggests that war is sometimes fought not by trepidatious hero-martyrs but by the borderline-psychopathic, writes Nigel Andrews

Film releases: A dizzy dance with Hitler and Co

Film releases: Dog days with a Mamma’s boy

Film releases: A blast from Reality Alley

Film releases: Overload on the underground

The return of 3D cinema

Beauty and the unspeakable

Real life daring trumps wizardry

Danger: satirist on the loose

Face to face with film noir

Moved by the slow life