Philip Kerr

Mars bores

• 10 December 2001

Film - Philip Kerr watches a once talented director feed off his own corpse

Easy rider

• 03 December 2001

Film - Philip Kerr on what really goes on in the back seats of cars

Arts & Culture

Apocalypse . . . again

• 26 November 2001

The Vietnam war has possessed the imaginations of film-makers for a quarter of a century. But one hellish vision of the conflict still dominates the canon

Hogwarts and all

• 19 November 2001

Film - Philip Kerr on how Arthurian magic saves Harry Potter from being a muggle

Optical illusion

• 12 November 2001

Film - Philip Kerr on why you don't need special effects when you've got Nicole Kidman

Light show

• 05 November 2001

Film - Philip Kerr is entertained by some blonde froth

Invisible women

• 29 October 2001

Film - Philip Kerr looks at life in Afghanistan from beneath the burqa

A Coen-trick

• 22 October 2001

Film - Philip Kerr is left cold by the brothers' latest farrago

Silly Billy

• 15 October 2001

Film - Philip Kerr looks for the key to a curious Hollywood roman a clef

All right, Jack

• 08 October 2001

Film - Philip Kerr welcomes a good performance from a pocket-sized ham