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Sleuth
Film Review  November 9, 2007
Description: Surprisingly, this powerhouse combination of writer Harold Pinter, director Kenneth Branagh, and co-stars Michael Caine and Jude Law adds up to a load of nonsense.

"...Directed by: Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law and Harold Pinter..."

Alfie
Film Review  November 5, 2004
Description: Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.

"...Starring: Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Nia Long, Omar Epps, Sienna Miller and Jane Krakowski. This remake of the 1966 hit, which starred Michael Caine as a Cockney serial seducer, reprises that film’s catchphrase – "What’s it all about?" – both in its tagline and its end-of-the-film musings..."

The Italian Job
Film Review  May 30, 2003
Description: That whooshing sound you hear is the sales figures of the Cooper Mini puncturing the stratosphere. BMW’s pip-squeak sexbomb of an automobile should rightfully be listed before Wahlberg and Norton...

"...That whooshing sound you hear is the sales figures of the Cooper Mini puncturing the stratosphere. BMW’s pip-squeak sexbomb of an automobile should rightfully be listed before Wahlberg and Norton in the film’s credits since the upstart micros feature so prominently in the film, a remake of a 1969 caper vehicle starring Michael Caine and Noel Coward..."

Body Parts
Film Review  August 9, 1991
Description: Director Red, whose previous credits include the screenplays for The Hitcher and Near Dark (two of the best horror/thrillers of the mid-eighties), spent a lot of time piloting a cab...

"...I'm not really sure, and you won't be either, I think. There's way too much story line cribbed from that awful Michael Caine/Oliver Stone vehicle The Hand, but that's not the heart of the problem..."

Friggin' Genius
Screens Blog  February 4, 2010
Description: SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...When Leonard is killed, Brown reaches his breaking point. Harry Brown is a powerful, character driven thriller starring two-time Academy Award® winner Michael Caine in a tour-de-force performance..."

Is Anybody There?
Film Review  May 1, 2009
Description: Michael Caine stars as a magician who's come to live in a retirement home when his mental faculties start to fail.

"...Directed by: John Crowley. Starring: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrissey, Charli Janeway, Anne-Marie Duff, Rosemary Harris and Angie Inwards..."

The Dark Knight
Film Review  July 18, 2008
Description: Although the visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, this new Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our new age of anxiety.

"...Directed by: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Eric Roberts, Monique Curnen and Chin Han..."

Sneak Peek at SXSW Film 2008
Screens Story  December 28, 2007
Description: The first announcements from SXSW Film 08 are trickling in

"...The South by Southwest Film Festival is waiting till the new year – Jan. 2, to be exact – to announce its 2008 opening-night film and other premieres/special guests/the like, but a little birdie slipped us the details on three titles showing: David Schwimmer's feature directorial debut, Run, Fatboy, Run, starring Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg (who co-wrote the script with Stella's Michael Ian Black); Flawless, a heist picture with Demi Moore and Michael Caine; and Wild Blue Yonder, Celia Maysles' controversial doc about her father and uncle, documentary giants the Maysles brothers..."

AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema
Screens Story  August 31, 2007
Description: Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...The film version of Look Back in Anger (1958), starring Richard Burton as the acid-tongued Jimmy Porter and helmed by the play's original director, Tony Richardson, opens the next edition of the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series, Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema (1958-1965), which will feature five other movies from that embittered era. Not only is Anger the classic example of angry-young-man cinema, which would become all the rage in Britain over the next seven years (launching the careers of many of the leading lights of British theatre and cinema in the process, including Michael Caine, Peter Finch, Albert Finney, and Richard Harris); it's also a true work of sociological art, indebted to the Italian neorealist school and to 1930s French poetic realism but adding a touch of British irony and proletarian grit..."

Screens String
Screens Story  April 19, 2007

"...Arguing that the cinema is the most egregious progenitor and perpetuator of these stereotypes, Murat interviews a host of international filmmakers and passersby about their recollections and impressions. From Blame It on Rio star Michael Caine to that film's screenwriters Larry Gelbart and Charlie Peters, actors Jon Voight and Hope Davis, directors Philippe de Broca and Zalman King, and many others, Murat uncovers a great many insights about the culture industry's perpetuation of clichés..."

Children of Men
Film Review  January 5, 2007
Description: Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.

"...Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón. Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofore, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Pam Ferris, Danny Huston and Peter Mullan..."

The Prestige
Film Review  October 27, 2006
Description: Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.

"...Directed by: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Samantha Mahurin, David Bowie and Andy Serkis..."

Extra Special
Screens Story  December 9, 2005

"...Follow-ups The Great Muppet Caper and Muppet Treasure Island are only slightly less heavenly, trading some of the latent hippyisms for hipster in-jokes (admittedly not much of a stretch for a former TV show that once featured Alice Cooper, Orson Welles, and Vincent Price). Of these four releases, though, it's the ambitious Muppet Christmas Carol, with Michael Caine as Scrooge and Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, that really transcends the whole idea of puppetry and manages to add new, unforeseen layers to Dickens' classic, including perpetually aged hecklers Stadtler and Waldorf as Scrooge's late partners in parsimony, and Gonzo (the Great!) as no less than Dickens himself, helpfully explicating the meaning of big words like "omniscient" and generally keeping things moving at a painfully funny pace..."

The Weather Man
Film Review  October 28, 2005
Description: In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.

"...Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Peña, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Rispoli and Gil Bellows..."

Phases & Stages
Music Review  October 21, 2005

"..."Protest music" at its height… Pink Floyd's London 1966/1967 (Snapper) is more music history, featuring the Syd Barrett-led group's first recording sessions via the epic "Interstellar Overdrive" and improvised "Nick's Boogie," all intercut with oddly cropped scenes from Swinging London. While Floyd's part is less than 30 minutes, the disc is padded with interviews of Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, and Julie Christie… More than 21Ú2 hours of pop brilliance, The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello (Rhino), collects 27 videos from 1978 to 1994..."

Bewitched
Film Review  June 24, 2005
Description: Again Kidman goes for another nose-centric role, yet Nora Ephron's very meta remake of the old TV show still misfires.

"...Directed by: Nora Ephron. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth, Heather Burns, Jim Turner, Stephen Colbert and David Alan Grier..."

Batman Begins
Film Review  June 17, 2005
Description: Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.

"...Directed by: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman and Ken Watanabe..."

Big Books: Part 3
Books Story  December 17, 2004

"...An interview with memoirist Mary Karr touches on how she became a Catholic (prompted by her 5-year-old son's announcement, "I want to go to church"), while the following one with writer Andre Dubus focuses on how Catholicism helped him through the aftermath of the tragic accident that put him in a wheelchair. This organization creates a natural string of "aha" moments, as if Michael Caine or Isabella Rossellini are addressing something you've just recently had on your mind, and if you've already heard some of these interviews, you're still unlikely to want to skip around..."

Around the Bend
Film Review  October 22, 2004
Description: Family elixir is by turns weepy and hilarious, a little bit Caine and a whole lotta Walken.

"...Directed by: Jordan Roberts. Starring: Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Jonah Bobo, Glenne Headly and David Eigenberg..."

Once Upon a Time in Austin
Screens Story  March 12, 2004
Description: The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...May-July 2000: Miss Congeniality (Castle Rock Entertainment) D: Donald Petrie; S: Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford; with Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen..."

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