Film

JEFF SAWTELL believes that Barbet Schroeder's impartial film allows controversial lawyer Jacques Verges to be hoist by his own petard.

IT TAKES a brave director to make a black and white silent movie in this day and age.

REMEMBER Ferris Bueller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick? Well, Charlie Bartlett is a modern-day Bueller who is just as charismatic and resourceful.

A SWEET and heart-warming romantic comedy set in a beauty salon that focuses on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.

A HIGHLY enjoyable observational comedy about a dysfunctional family made up of intellectually gifted people who are nonetheless socially inept.

ANOTHER remake of an Asian horror film which became the highest grossing movie in Thailand.

THIS film is based on an Asian proverb that breaks life down into four key emotions - happiness, sorrow, pleasure and love.

JEFF SAWTELL discovers the birth of rock and roll and finds out why the defenders of religion had no love of this new art.

KLINEFELTER'S syndrome, 47, XXY is a condition affecting males who have an extra X sex chromosome.

AFTER lifting the lid on obesity and the fast food industry in Super Size Me, film-maker Morgan Spurlock has now turned his sights on a much more dangerous target - Osama bin Laden.