Article: A tongue in cheek monster ride; Mike Davies takes a looks at this week's cinema releases. EXISTENZ CERT 15. 96 MINS.(News)

Article: Rusty stuff behind that old iron mask; Mike Davies makes his pick ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... all is forgiven. GATTACA CERT 15. 112 MINS Brave New World meets Alphaville in debut ... THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS CERT 15. 90 MINS This maybe another in a long line of family ... nature. CLUBBED TO DEATH CERT 18. 90 MINS SUBTITLED A 20-year-old drops an E ...

Article: Life's a ball for marooned Hanks; Mike Davies takes a look at the ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Force having quite the same impact. SEXY BEAST Cert 18, 88 mins You'd think by now that squeezing variations out of the increasingly ... rabbit hallucinations though. UNDER SUSPICION Cert 15, 110 mins Claude Miller has personally approved Stephen Hopkins' remake ...

Article: Film: Amityville is re-possessed; Mike Davies reviews this week's ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... electrical storms that you can always rely on to erupt just as the soundtrack reaches a crescendo. HHH THE INTERPRETER CERT 15 128 MINS From romcoms to Westerns to courtroom dramas, director Sydney Pollock (who also puts in a cameo appearance) has had success ...

Article: Culture: Not quite a comedy - more a farce; Mike Davies takes a ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... many twists to get there. JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS Cert PG. 100 mins Written by the team behind A Very Brady Sequel, this big-screen ... positively purrs. CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES Cert PG. 95 mins It's been 13 years since Paul Hogan last took croc-hunter ...

Article: Film: Tom's towering achievement; Mike Davies reviews the week's ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... you to emerge from the cinema heartened in the knowledge that no one is ever really alone. HHHHDAWN OF THE DEAD CERT 18 101 MINS As any real horror fan will tell you, zombie movies don't come much better than George Romero 1978 original, itself a rework ...

Article: Culture: Full speed ahead for big screen thrills; Mike Davies ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  September 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... adrenaline thrills without a seatbelt. The Martins Cert 15. 86 mins For his feature debut after a string of TV successes, writer ... It's because it's a bad film. Colour of Lies Cert 15 113 mins subtitled It's taken three years for this Claude Chabrol thriller ...

Article: A tomb with a spectacular view; Mike Davies takes a look at the ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... into melodrama renders it more Catherine Cookson than the Welsh Thomas Hardy of its aspirations. DEBT COLLECTOR CERT 18. 110 MINS It's taken an inexplicably long time for Anthony Neilson's feature debut to find its way to the screen, even more inexplicable ...