Going the Distance ** In real life, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long’s on again/off again romance has been the subject of celebrity gossip in the glossy rags for quite some time. Now, with the release of romantic comedy Going the Distance, their real life relationship troubles have been translated to

It's 1999, two years before Afghanistan will experience the violence of Western liberation, and the Taliban still exert a draconian grip on the people. Working for a private firm, two Englishmen (Shaun Dooley and Dean Andrews) are contracted to sweep the war-ravaged Afghan deserts for mines. When one of them

Writer/director Gary King has gone more experimental whilst pushing boundaries and switching genres. A musical is in the works and a zombie piece is out soon. This film, What’s Up Lovely is his latest

Tamara Drewe ***½ Comics – they’re not all about superheroes you know. Case in point, Tamara Drewe, Posy Simmonds’ weekly comic strip published in The Guardian (and also released in its entirety as a hardcover graphic novel) which, based on Thomas Hardy’s nineteenth century novel Far from the

Cyrus *** One of this year’s acquisitions from the Sundance Film Festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cyrus (a film which surprisingly carries the producing credits of Ridley and Tony Scott) has failed to break out in the way that some other films picked up for distribution from the prestigious festival