CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. WRITER AND DIRECTOR Michael Moore first found fame with the anti-gun epic, Bowling for Columbine. He returns with Fahrenheit 9/11, “the temperature where freedom burns”, a film tracking the presidency of George W. Bush from dubious beginnings in Florida, through the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the war in Iraq. […]

LET THE gassy green giant rescue the summer – if it’s raining, go see Shrek 2, for some assured entertainment.

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. THERE IS A teen movie market which rakes in cash every time school’s out. Following the success of Freaky Friday, director Mark S. Waters brings Mean Girls to the same target audience. Word’s out that it’s pretty good. Monday saw an audience packed with teenage girls and a screening with […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. Ben (Affleck) and Jen (Lopez) are like, so over, that she totally married another guy last week. In movieworld, however, the couple can still be seen together – albeit briefly- in Jersey Girl. But if you’ve had enough of “Bennifer” to last a lifetime, don’t rule this film out, because […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. LOUD OZZIE GIRL meets repressed Japanese boy in the Australian outback for culture clash and more…    Directed by Sue Brooks, starring the excellent Toni Collette, (Muriel’s Wedding, About a Boy), and introducing Gotaro Tsunashima, Japanese Story follows the tradition of Walkabout and Picnic at Hanging Rock, by allowing the […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. I’VE HEARD IT’S the best yet, although I confess I saw the first one on video and missed the second one completely. I haven’t read the books. So, let’s forget all comparisons. In its own right, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fun film. Visually impressive, rich […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. TAKINGS AT the box office may have been disappointing, but this blockbuster is surprisingly good. Nowhere else but on film would the ancient worlds of the Med be recreated so richly. Brad glitters as Achilles; Eric Bana is convincingly noble as Hector. Yet it’s had nowhere near the success of […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. AN ACADEMY AWARD nominated documentary and winner of countless best docs at fests from Sundance to Sâo Paulo, you may be tempted to see this film based solely on its critical acclaim. The cinema trailers back the good press: slick, stylish and intriguing. Via home movie clips and recent interview […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. NOT EVERYTHING IN LIFE needs to be snappy. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a title that proves the point. The more you say it, the less cumbersome it seems until it repeats in your head like a soothing mantra.   Writer Charlie Kaufman created a whole heap of […]

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT to criticise one of Tarantino’s films, you need to take a deep breath and hang onto why you’re doing it. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by all that’s good in Kill Bill 2, to be bowled over by all the hype that surrounds the writer/director and his […]