Mark Smith reflects on the sinister straightening out of Tom Ford's ASingle Man. Like its literary inspiration, Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man, released this month, ...

The fashion designer spent ten years as creative head of Gucci and now has his own fashion and fragrance line. Nina Caplan talks to him ahead of his first film, A Single Man. He made ...

The prolific director talks to Dave Calhoun about philosophy, scary caterpillars and his lifelong love of cinema. Martin Scorsese's new film, Shutter Island, is a 1950s-set ...

Genre expert Kathryn Bigelow talks to Joshua Rothkopf about her nail-biting action movie, The Hurt Locker. Hollywood players should make room for a voice that's rarely heard ...

Tales from the Golden Age

It's a frustrating case of individual triumph cancelling out collective cohesion in this sporadically enjoyable, if tonally mismatched, anthology of five short films, each intent ...

The Hurt Locker

It's quite likely that Staff Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner) - the bomb-defusing expert at the centre of the terrific Iraq War action film The Hurt Locker - was named by screenwriter ...

Shutter Island

"You boys seem a little on edge," offers Leonardo DiCaprio to the cops guarding an island of the damned - a mental institution. Now, the amateur sleuth in you might take this as a clue. ...

It's Complicated

It's bad enough that Nancy Meyer's (The Holiday, Something's Gotta Give) latest conventional romcom is blessed with a title so bluntly unimaginative as to seem facetious; the rub ...

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood's short 1964 novel A Single Man is a superb choice for a concise, intimate film. Its events are few, its emotional power is cumulative. The book visits one day ...

Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton's part-live action, part-animated, all-3D version of Alice in Wonderland is a collage of characters and episodes from Lewis Carroll's two nineteenth-century books about ...