Campaigns run on money. Staff has to be paid, venues rented, ads bought, transportation gassed and ticketed. Most candidates for their party’s nomination don’t drop out as a direct consequence of losing one too many contests, they drop out because after they start losing, their campaign contributions drop off and they run out of money.

Henry Midgley has a couple of kind words to say about the latest Keanu Reeves vehicle "Street Kings" - at least it's better than "Rambo"...

My Brother is an only Child was released in the UK on 4 April. Our reviewer saw it and these are his thoughts.

Jesus Camp is a documentary about a controversial youth training camp in America, we review it here.

A popsci.com writer reports on a swimsuit whose wearers have already broken 11 world records in two months. Will the technology pave the way for a new era in swimming, or will FINA crack down?

Le Doulos is one of the classic French films. Made in 1962, its value as an examination of the criminal mind, not to mention its exciting plot, great acting and vivid direction mean that it has lost none of its lustre over the forty years since it was made. Our reviewer saw it at the British Film Institute last night- here is his review.

The Bank Job is the new British gangster film directed by Roger Donaldson- is it any good?

Blackboards is an interesting film from Iran. It is really about the nature of the choice to become educated in a society which isn't- what's the use of counting when chemical weapons are coming down from the sky.

The Flight of the Red Balloon is a meditation upon Paris and family life and love- but does it work? Our reviewer went to see it, what did he think?

After the Lord of the Rings and Narnia, the story that helped inspire both Tolkein and Lewis, the ancient English poem Beowulf comes to DVD today in the UK.

Slobodan Milosevic's trial was one of the most important historical events of the twenty first century. A new documentary based on records from the trial has been produced and was screened in the UK as part of a human rights season. We sent our reviewer to take a look...

In the second century Regilla a Roman woman was murdered- what happened and what does it tell us about the ancient world?

Is American History X just a polemic or is it a film? And if it is what kind of a polemic is it? Worth watching or worth passing over

A non-biased and restrained review of Rambo...

The Conformist is an incredible film about a servant of the Fascist state. It is also a deeper examination of the aesthetical distinction between fascism and liberalism, between conformity and freedom. The issues it brings up are important and worth thinking about. Its playing at the National Film theatre- we sent a reviewer and this is his review.

Eastern Promises comes out on DVD today in the UK. Our reviewer found a copy and watched it- here are his impressions.

So Control the DVD has come out today in the UK, our reviewer Henry Midgley saw it and here is what he thought.

3.10 to Yuma came out recently on DVD, we sent off our reviewer to have a look and he came back with a head filled with cowboys and Immanuel Kant!

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s "There Will Be Blood", is a saga of oil, blood, and cruelty.

In the Valley of Elah is the latest of a long line of films about Iraq. An effort full of merit, it fails in key ways however, but its still a film worth seeing as our critic explains.

Gaslight won Oscars in the 1940s so why did it leave our critic cold this evening when he watched it?

Madrugada’s new album titled “Madrugada” is probably their best album since their debut album “Industrial Silence”. This is the first time in a long while I’ve been listening to a new album with tears in my eyes, just lovely!

No Country for Old Men is one of the best films of this year- it has a scintillating plot, real suspense, a shocking inevitability, lovely camera work, very good acting and more importantly than anything else a vision of American history and fate that is mature and thoughtful.

A film about Afghanistan- how topical can you get? A film about a Southern Congressman and a Evangelical millionaire? With Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman- there is something for everyone surely- well is there, we went to see Charlie Wilson's War and here's our review.

In 1965, one of the great works of European literature- the Manuscript found in Saragossa, was turned into a film by director Wojciech Has. The book is not an easy one to film- being as it is a kind of Canterbury Tales filled with stories by all the separate characters. Did Has acheive his goal and bring this masterpiece to screen? We investigate.

Electric Wizard's Witchcult Today: another dose from the masters of doom.

Queens of the Stone Age try something different for their new album: sucking.

We reexamine the Children's Crusade in the light of recent research from the University of Edinburgh's Gary Dickson.

We all know about the Iraq war. Britain and America went to war largely, but not solely, to disarm Saddam Hussein of his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Ultimately they found none. Before the war, almost everyone accepted that Iraq had no nuclear weapons, but few doubted he had biological weapons, why were they so sure and what did they get so wrong

Ridley Scott has made an interesting new film. We explore some of the themes inside this sprawling account of Frank Lucas's rise up the pyramid of drug production in the US, and his eventual fall.