The Kids are All Right

The Kids Are All Right is a film that, like its two main characters, gets stuck in its meandering second half. And although it seems a sincere and even genuine slice of family life at first, Cholodenko’s latest directorial effort stumbles into a disappointing conclusion.

Films opening today in London - 5 November 2010

Due Date

Everyone’s got one: the type of friend who fate threw you together with and now you just can’t seem to drop. Can’t think who it is? Then it’s probably you. Or you have no friends. In either case, you’ll probably have sympathy for Robert Downey Junior’s character in ‘new’ comedy Due Date.

Films opening today in London

Films opening today in London

Raindance Festival - three nominees

The 18th Raindance Festival launched with an impressive opening night of Jackboots on Whitehall and closed out this year with an affecting feature from Iraq. Already an award winner on the festival circuit, Son of Babylon is an ode to the disappeared of Iraq, about a Kurdish boy and his grandmother travelling across the country, post-Saddam in 2003, in search of the boy’s missing father, conscripted then missing since the First Gulf War. Already chosen as Iraq’s official entry for the 2011 Academy Awards, it is also a nominee for Best International Feature at this year’s Raindance.

Robert Redford may be in talks with the O2 for a London version of the Sundance festival

Sundance film festival founder Robert Redford has been in talks with the 02 about creating a film festival, “says Deadline.com.” And that’s about it. They’re negotiating, they say.

Of course, we already have the Raindance Film Festival, stuffed with indie films and running until this Sunday.

No Fun City at the Prince Charles Tonight

Review: Life as we know it

Jackboots on Whitehall