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A Beautiful Mind (12) **
(Dir: Ron Howard, 2002, 135 mins) Here's a script that allows a popular leading man to go bonkers, age dramatically on screen, and then enjoy a heart-warming last-reel triumph over his affliction. That's right:…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
A Bug's Life (U) ****
(Dir: John Lasseter, 1999, 94 mins) Despite the rivals' extraordinary plot similarities (lone ant battles against tyranny), Disney's follow-up to 'Toy Story' is clearly aimed at a wider audience than DreamWorks' 'Antz',…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
A Christmas Carol (PG) ***
(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 2009, 97 mins) The opportunity to play multiple roles in CGI 3D was presumably too much for a natural ham like Jim Carrey to resist. With his features digitally stretched to give him a Mr Punch…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
A Cinderella Story (PG) *
(Dir: Mark Rosman, 2004, 95 mins) A lazy, intelligence-insulting update of the fairytale, which ill serves both tweenie-star-of-the-moment Hilary Duff and the excellent Jennifer Coolidge. The Cinderella figure is Sam…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
A Civil Action (12) ***
(Dir: Steve Zaillian, 1998, 115 mins) Based on a true story, this slow-burning legal thriller refuses to insult one's intelligence with John Grisham-style plot devices. Writer/director Steven Zaillian delivers a simple,…30.06.2010 READ MORE -
A Clockwork Orange (18) *****
(Dir: Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 137 mins) Watching Kubrick’s controversial masterpiece legitimately for the first time, there are a few surprises in store. Firstly, the "ultraviolence" on which its reputation hinges is not…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
A Cock and Bull Story (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 2005, 95 mins) If ever a project had the potential to disappear up its own arse, it’s this attempt to tackle Laurence Sterne’s bawdy18th century novel, ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
A Common Thread (12A) ***
(Dir: Eleonore Faucher, 2004, 87 mins) Slow and sensual, this feature debut by Eleonore Faucher is a confident and impressive calling card from a film-maker of considerable potential, although its stately pace and…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
A Girl Cut in Two (15) ***
(Dir: Claude Chabrol, 2007, 115 mins, subtitles) • Hitchcock’s Gallic understudy, Claude Chabrol, uses a notorious early 20th century murder case as a launchpad to indulge his own enduring obsession with skewering the…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Good Woman (PG) ***
(Dir: Mike Barker, 93 mins) Despite a somewhat uncomfortable Anglo-American cast betraying the meddling hands of Satan’s Little Helpers in the marketing department, Mike Barker pulls off a colourful and moderately…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Good Year (12A) **
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 117 mins) Previously adapted for TV with John Thaw, the big screen version of Peter Mayle's ‘A Year In Provence’ remains much the same; money-driven city type learns to stop and smell the bouquet,…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Goofy Movie (U) **
Disappointingly, the 63-year Disney character’s feature debut isn’t even about Goofy himself but his (newly invented) son Max - an American high school kid interested in girls and pop music. Goofy wants Max to accompany…16.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Guide To Recognising Your Saints (15) **
(Dir: Dito Montiel, 2006, 98 mins) Directed by Warhol protégé Dito Montiel from his own memoir, this works rather too hard at the old rites-of-passage routine, eagerly inviting comparisons to ‘Mean Streets’, ‘Stand By…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Guy Thing (12A) **
(Dir: Chris Koch, 101 mins) If you’re yearning to see all those Farrelly-esque grossout comedy staples again, you’ll feel right at home with ‘A Guy Thing’. Mind you, there are probably better poster shout lines than:…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
A History of Violence (18) *****
(Dir: David Cronenberg, 96 mins) David Cronenberg’s adaptation of John Wagner and Vince Locke’s graphic novel reminds us that violence has lasting moral and emotional consequences. The storyline may be simple, but the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Hole in My Heart (18) **
(Dir: Lukas Moodysson, 98 mins) Swedish provocateur Lukas Moodysson earned the contempt of broadsheet critics for this icky squalorfest, which naturally makes you warm to it. Sadly, after sitting through a good…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Home At The End of the World (15) **
(Dir: Michael Mayer, 97 mins) This adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel of friendship and families races through tragic past and mutual wanking of teen pals Jonathan Glover and Bobby Morrow to 1982, where Bobby…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
A la Place du Coeur (15) **
(Dir: Robert Guediguian, 1999, 112 mins) A transposition of James Baldwin's novel 'If Beale Street Could Talk' to working class Marseilles, where sixteen-year-old Clim (Laure Raoust) has just discovered that she's four…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
A Life Less Ordinary (15) ***
(Dir: Danny Boyle, 101 mins) Up in a heaven that resembles a bleached US cop show set, angels Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter are dispatched to pair off spoilt rich bitch Cameron Diaz and hopeless loser Ewan McGregor, who…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Little Bit of Heaven (12A)
(Dir: Nicole Kassell, 2011, 106 mins) While it would be a cheap shot to suggest that arse cancer is preferable to sitting through this terminal illness weepie, it really isn't that far off. Meet Marley Corbett (Kate…09.02.2011 READ MORE -
A Little Princess (U) ****
Adapted from a children’s novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett, this immaculately designed and directed tale effortlessly blends real-life settings, wild imaginings and heartfelt emotion in a way that is never remotely…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Lot Like Love (PG) *
(Dir: Nigel Cole, 106 mins) ‘When Ashton Met Amanda’, anybody? As resistible prospects go, this identikit B-lister romcom starring Demi Moore’s toyboy and the blandly attractive Amanda Peet, directed by the bloke who…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Ma Soeur! (18) ***
(Dir: Catherine Breillat, 2001, 83 mins) Catherine Breillat, director of the sexually explicit cause celebre ‘Romance’ takes on another taboo: underage sex. This is the story of two sisters who both lose their virginity…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
A Man Apart (15) ***
(Dir: F. Gary Gray, 110 mins) A routine lunkheaded revenge action movie filmed two years before its star Vin Diesel hit the big time with ‘xXx’. It’s actually not that bad as Seagal/Arnie/Bronson clones go, and, as ‘Set…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Man Of No Importance (15) ***
Dublin, 1963. When cultured, closeted bus conductor Albert Finney sets eyes upon beautiful young passenger Tara Fitzgerald, he knows he has found the princess for his long-cherished amateur theatrical production of…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) (PG) ***
(Dir: Michael Hoffman, 115 mins) Michael Hoffman's strongly cast new version of Shakespeare's comedy of transformation resembles a modern equivalent of Max Reinhardt's lavish 1935 Hollywood incarnation: that is to say,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1996) (15) ***
RSC Artistic Director Adrian Noble’s adaptation of his own acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy remains resolutely theatrical, apparently just incorporating the stage set for the main body of the film.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Mighty Heart (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 2007, 108 mins) With Angelina in front of the camera and Brad behind it (in a producing role), the mystery is how Tinseltown’s golden couple should have been responsible for such a mighty…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Mighty Wind (12A) ****
(Dir: Christopher Guest, 92 mins) Another triumph of improvisation, attention to detail and skilful editing, Christopher Guest’s follow-up to doggie delight ‘Best In Show’ reunites most of the old team (watch out for…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Monkey's Tale (PG) *
(Dir: Jean-Francois Laguionie, 76 mins) Separated by a great natural catastrophe, two populations of primates view one another with hostility and prejudice. After a bit of plot, the mutual suspicion evaporates, they…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Night At The Roxbury (15) *
(Dir: John Fortenberry, 82 mins) Quite possibly the most flaccid attempt at dorky-duo comedy ever to bore the tits off hard-earned-money-paying cinema-goers in the long, terrible American tradition of limp,…25.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Nightmare on Elm Street (18) *
(Dir: Samuel Bayer, 2010, 95 mins) This yawn-inducing horror re-make is the worst yet from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company, which also brought you rubbish re-workings of ‘Halloween’, ‘Friday the 13th’…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
A One and a Two (15) ****
(Dir: Edward Yang, 173 mins) An engrossing, unpretentious, Altmanesque family drama, bookended by a wedding and a funeral in contemporary Taipai. At the story's core is N.J. Jian, a successful businessman going through…25.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Perfect Getaway (15) ***
(Dir: David Twohy, 2009, 97 mins) Adventure-loving urban couple Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are on a suitably invigorating, two-day, 11-mile honeymoon backpacking trip to one of the most remote…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Perfect Murder (18) ****
(Dir: Andrew Davis, 107 mins) A classy, entertaining and intelligent contemporary reworking of Hitchcock’s dramatically flat 3D thriller ‘Dial M For Murder’, which complicates and adds emotional depth to the central…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Pig’s Tale (U) **
Most definitely not a sequel to ‘Babe’, this old-fashioned and woefully unfunny summer camp gang rivalry comedy is one of the most obnoxious bratfests of the ‘90s. Arriving unwillingly at Kamp Kipperman for the summer…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Prairie Home Companion (PG) ***
(Dir: Robert Altman, 105 mins) Robert Altman’s final film is suffused with an appropriately elegiac glow thanks to its subject matter and the warm tones favoured by cinematographer Edward Lachman. It’s a lightly…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Prophet (18) ****
(Dir: Jacques Audiard, 2009, 155 mins, subtitles) Anyone who enjoyed ‘Gomorrah’ or ‘Mesrine’ should need no encouragement to beat a path to ‘A Prophet’, which takes its place proudly alongside the all-time-great prison…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
A Room and a Half (12A) ****
(Dir: Andrey Khrzhanovsky, 2009, 130 mins, subtitles) On paper, lauded 70-year-old Russian animator Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s live-action feature debut appears to be rather dry: Nobel Prize-winning poet Josef Brodsky, who…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Room For Romeo Brass (15) ****
(Dir: Shane Meadows, 90 mins) Cruelly denied the breakthrough hit he so richly deserved with 'TwentyFourSeven', "Uttoxeter's Martin Scorsese" bounces back with his second feature which, after an uncertain start, proves…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Scanner Darkly (15) ****
(Dir: Richard Linklater, 100 mins) In the most faithful Philip K. Dick adaptation to date, Richard Linklater uses the ‘interpolated rotoscoping’ technique he pioneered with ‘Waking Life’ to provide an intriguing visual…02.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Self-Made Hero (15) ****
(Dir: Jacques Audiard, 105 mins) Brought up in a small provincial town by his embittered, widowed mother, fantasist Mathieu Kassovitz pretends to have been a French Resistance hero after falling under the spell of…02.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Serious Man (15) ****
(Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009, 105 mins) The Coen brothers’ star-free return to their suburban sixties Jewish roots has been somewhat over-praised by those who disapprove sternly when the siblings set out simply to…02.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Simple Wish (U) **
(Dir: Michael Ritchie, 89 mins) Martin Short is Murray, an inept equal opportunities fairy godperson who appears in the bedroom of eight-year-old Anabel, the daughter of widowed New York Central Park carriage driver…02.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Single Man (12A) ****
(Dir: Tom Ford, 2009, 100 mins) A confident, sensual and, as one might anticipate, stylish directorial debut by former fashion designer Tom Ford, this adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel benefits from the…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
A Snake of June (18) ****
(Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto, 77 mins) The kind of film for which the ‘Not For the Easily Offended’ tag was surely invented, this latest controversy-magnet from Shinya Tsukamoto, director of the ‘Tetsuo’ body horror flicks,…02.09.2010 READ MORE -
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (15) ***
(Dir: James Ivory, 130 mins) A refreshingly corset-free Merchant-Ivory, this is a leisurely, mildly engaging, largely ‘70s-set yarn based on an airbrushed autobiographical novel by Kaylie Jones, author of ‘From Here To…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Thousand Acres (15) ***
(Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse, 105 mins) Jocelyn Moorhouse’s adaptation of Jane Smiley’s Pultizer Prize-winning feminist re-imagining of ‘King Lear’ boasts just about every plot point known to weepiedom. All that lifts it…25.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Time For Drunken Horses (PG) ****
(Dir: Bahman Ghobadi, 80 mins) When his father is killed by a land mine, orphaned young Kurdish teen Ayoub is forced to take responsibility for the family. His handicapped, stunted brother Madi suffers from a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Time To Kill (15) ***
(Dir: Joel Schumacher, 145 mins) When Samuel L. Jackson guns down the racist rednecks who raped his 10-year-old daughter, inexperienced young lawyer Matthew McConaughey takes on the near-impossible task of conducting…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Town Called Panic (PG) ****
(Dir: Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2009, 77 mins, subtitles) • Ever wanted to see a talking horse dress up as Santa to trick a bunch of weird fish-people who’ve stolen his wall? Or a trio of mad scientists launching…06.10.2010 READ MORE -
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (U)
(Dir: Ben Stassen, 2011, 86 mins) Another shoddily dubbed European CGI animation with an eco-proselytising theme and loads of stuff flying out of the screen to justify that 3D surcharge. This one's mercifully bereft of…23.03.2011 READ MORE -
A Very Long Engagement (15) ****
(Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 134 mins) You might expect romance, battlefield carnage Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s trademark whimsy to make for a jarring combination in his expensive WWI epic. But he juggles the shifting tones with…18.08.2010 READ MORE -
A Walk To Remember (PG) *
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 102 mins) A curious throwback to the era when teenflicks were made without buckets of jizz and wall-to-wall profanity. Squeaky-clean US popstrel Mandy Moore plays Jamie Sullivan, a dowdy,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
A-Team, The (12A) *
(Dir: Joe Carnahan, 2010, 119 mins) Joe (‘Smokin’ Aces’) Carnahan’s noisy update of the cheesy 80s TV show comprises macho swagger and explosions strung together with wisecracks, catchphrases and the thinnest of idiot…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (12) ***
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 2001, 145 mins) This odd collaboration between Steven Spielberg, the late Stanley Kubrick and a clutch of name science fiction writers opens in a future world where the wealthy are limited only…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
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Abendland (18) *
(Dir: Fred Kelemen, 2000, 140 mins) Grim German Fred Kelemen may well have conjured up the most bleak, depressing and pretentious film of all time. Meet Anton, who's been reduced to a state of virtual catatonia by…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Abouna (PG) *****
(Dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2002, 85 mins) The man walking away from us under the opening credits is the errant father who’s just left his two sons at home with their mother in the Chaddean capital N’Djamena. In the…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
About a Boy (12) ***
(Dir: Chris and Paul Weitz, 2002, 101 mins) Shorn of his trademark floppy fringe, Hugh Grant delivers the best performance of his career as Nick Hornby's self-centred, 38-year-old anti-hero Will, who leads a fabulously…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
About Adam (15) ***
(Dir: Gerard Stembridge, 2001, 105 mins) A lightweight but affably amusing film that basically boils down to an extended gag about uptight people being in need of a good shag. When the mysterious Adam (Stuart Townsend)…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
About Schmidt (15) ****
(Dir: Alexander Payne, 2003, 124 mins) Putting aside all vanity, and eschewing his trademark killer smile and eyebrow arching, Jack Nicholson dominates every frame of this bleak comedy about a recently retired insurance…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Absolute Power (15) ***
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 1997, 121 mins) You can’t turn out a bad movie with a rock-solid Clint Eastwood/Gene Hackman/Ed Harris cast, no matter how much cack the scriptwriter (a slumming William Goldman, as it happens)…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Accepted (12A) **
(Dir: Steve Pink, 2006, 90 mins) A campus underdog comedy in the tradition of ‘Animal House’ and ‘Revenge of the Nerds’, ‘Accepted’ boasts a premise that promises a larf riot. That it only delivers a chuckle scuffle is…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (PG) ***
Release date: 1995 Jim Carrey's second Ace Ventura outing takes its cues from The Lion King's box office to spend much of its running length in a similarly picturesque Africa, here conceived as the English colonial…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Across the Universe (12A) **
(Dir: Julie Taymor, 2007, 133 mins) This peculiar endeavour from director Julie Taymor and septuaganerian screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais is at once an anthology of Beatles hits and a history of the 1960s. …28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Acts Of Love (18) **
Release Date: 1996 Although motivation never gets much of a look in, undeveloped plot strands are left flapping in the wind, and the mundane tale never quite sparks as either comedy or drama, this is worth a look if…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adam (12A) *
(Dir: Max Mayer, 2009, 101 mins) Max Mayer’s quirky, self-consciously sensitive indie romcom matches space-obsessed nerd Adam (Hugh Dancy) with rich, beautiful teacher Beth, who also writes children’s books (Rose…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adaptation (15) ****
(Dir: Spike Jonze, 2003, 114 mins) Nominally, this second offering from writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze is a film about film-making, with the twist that what we’re watching is the movie the screenwriter…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Addams Family Values (PG) ***
Release Date: 1993 After Morticia (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to baby Pubert in an hilarious pre-credits sequence, nanny Joan Cusack is hired to look after the Addams brood. Unbeknown to them, she specialises in…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Addicted To Love (15) ***
(Dir: Griffin Dunne, 1997, 100 mins) Actor/producer Griffin Dunne’s directorial debut is an unorthodox, uneven romantic comedy romantic comedy that has some of the edginess of the role he’s best known for as the…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adrift (15) ***
(Dir: Hans Horn, 2006, 95 mins) Distributed in some territories as ‘Open Water 2’ this is one of those ‘inspired by several similar true stories but with fictional characters’ flicks rather than a journalistic…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adulthood (15) **
(Dir: Noel Clarke, 2008, 99 mins) Yo, blood, safe, bruv, innit? Extract these five words from Noel Clarke’s ‘Adulthood’ script and you could probably reduce its length by 50%. Near-parodic devotion to urban authenticity…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adventureland (15) ***
(Dir: Greg Mottola, 2009, 107 mins) Greg Mottola’s autobiographical follow-up to ‘Superbad’ walks a tricky line and, for the most part, stays on the right side of it. Set in a meticulously recreated 1987, it follows…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
USA 2011 107 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Andy Serkis The purists, the nostalgics, and - worst of all - the nostalgic purists have all got their knives in early.…25.10.2011 READ MORE -
Ae Fond Kiss (15) ****
(Dir: Ken Loach, 2004, 104 mins) Ken Loach’s inter-racial love story set in Glasgow during a scorching hot summer is brighter in both look and tone than his two previous Scottish-set collaborations with scriptwriter…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Aeon Flux (15) *
(Dir: Karyn Kusama, 2006, 93 mins) It’s 2415, and impratically dressed underground revolutionary babe Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) lives in a sinister, regimented futureworld plagued by mysterious disappearances. It…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Affliction (15) ***
(Dir: Paul Schrader, 1999, 114 mins) Crumpled, unhappily divorced smalltown New Hampshire cop Nick Nolte is seriously screwed up, what with his daughter hating him, his boss abusing him, and his monstrous old coot of a…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Africa United (12A) ***
(Dir: Debs Gardner-Paterson, 2010, 88 mins) A colourful, unashamed crowd-pleaser that may prove a tad too sanitised and simplistic for some tastes, ‘Africa United’ supplies the receptive with their entire recommended…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
African Cats (U)
USA 2011 89 mins Dir: Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey The best in Bristol-based wildlife film-making meets the worst in US anthropomorphic narration in this Disneynature production which, perhaps understandably,…27.04.2012 READ MORE -
After the Sunset (12A) **
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 2004, 93 mins) Yet another formulaic heist comedy-thriller that springs no disagreeable surprises and puts no one in danger of mirth-driven prolapse. Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek are master jewel…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
After the Wedding (15) ***
(Dir: Susanne Bier, 2006, 120 mins, subtitles) Susanne Bier’s third collaboration with scriptwriter and fellow Dogme refugee Anders Thomas Jensen starts with a mystery and proceeds to chuck in family secrets, infidelity…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Afterglow (15) **
(Dir: Alan Rudolph, 1998, 110 mins) Two couples, one extremely anorexic idea for a movie. Couple one: amorous handyman Nick Nolte and faded actress Julie Christie. Couple 2: emotionally repressed corporate stuffed shirt…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Afterlife (PG) ****
(Dir: Kore-eda Hirokazu, 1998, 118 mins) It's an irresistible parlour game premise: if you could only take a single memory with you when you die, which one would it be? The great strength of Kore-eda Hirokazu's warm and…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Afterschool (18) ***
Dir: Antonio Campos, 2009, 107 mins) An impressive feature debut by 25-year-old New Yorker Antonio Campos, ‘Afterschool’ has already earned favourable comparisons to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Elephant’ and Michael Haneke’s…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Against the Ropes (12A) *
(Dir: Charles Dutton, 2004, 111 mins) After attempting to break out of the fluffy romcom straitjacket in Jane Campion’s misconceived ‘In the Cut’, Meg Ryan tries again with this would-be female empowerment flick…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Agent Cody Banks (12A) **
(Dir: Harold Zwart, 2003, 102 mins) An uninspired, sub-‘Spy Kids’ adventure whose conceit is that the CIA runs a series of covert training schools, disguised as summer camps, for suburban American teenagers. Even the…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (PG) *
(Dir: Kevin Allen, 2004, 100 mins) The half-pint, sub-‘Spy Kids’ Bond hit spawned this inevitable rushed sequel in which the now 16-year-old Banks (Frankie Muniz) is despatched to a picture postcard London to thwart…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Agnes Browne (15) **
(Dir: Anjelica Huston, 2000, 92 mins) Adapted from Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll's autobiographical novel 'The Mammy', which later spawned a popular Irish radio serial, this would-be heartwarming melodrama offers…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Agora (12A) ***
(Dir: Alejandro Amenabar, 2009, 127 mins) Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar’s unlikely follow-up to ‘The Sea Inside’ is both a tough sell and an odd movie, boasting an uncomfortable balance between big ideas, human…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Aimee and Jaguar (15) ***
(Dir: Max Farberbock, 2001, 125 mins) An expensively staged and well-acted WWII melodrama, incredibly based on a true story. In 1943 Berlin, Jewish lesbian Felice (Maria Schrader) thrives on risk as works as PA to a…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Air De Famille, Un (15) ****
(Dir: Cedric Klapisch, 109 mins) It’s Family Night at the dilapidated provincial café run by grumpy, resentful Henri and his quietly sarky barman Philippe. But on this particular evening, all the repressed tensions and…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Air Force One (15) *
(Dir: Wolfgang Petersen, 1997, 124 mins) Stuck for a hero for square-jawed, no-nonsense Harrison Ford to play, Hollywood has come up with turning the US President himself into the highest-ranking action hero of all.…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Air Guitar Nation (15) ****
(Dir: Alexandra Lipsitz, 2007, 82 mins) Who’d have guessed it would be possible to make a funny, touching and rousing documentary about such a pointless pursuit? That fashion photographer Alexandra Lipsitz achieves this…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ajami (15) ****
(Dir: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, 2009, 125 mins, subtitles) Co-directed by a Palestinian and an Israeli Jew, this drama about the complexities of identity and culture in modern-day Israel is complex, gripping,…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
AKA (18) **
(Dir: Duncan Roy, 2002, 123 mins) The best thing about Duncan Roy’s Ripley-esque and apparently autobiographical digital video debut is its strong narrative drive. Unfortunately, the tricksy, sub-Mike Figgis…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Akeelah and the Bee (12A) **
(Dir: Doug Atchison, 2006, 112 mins) This first film produced by the Starbucks coffee empire is a decaffeinated affair, clinging to the coattails of ‘Bee Season’ and the superior documentary ‘Spellbound’. That said, the…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alamar (U) ***
(Dir: Pedro González-Rubio, 2010, 73 mins, subtitles) Brief and slight, with the year’s best performance by a bird in a motion picture, ‘Alamar’ is likely to be appreciated most by ethno-tourists who crave gentle…29.09.2010 READ MORE -
Alamar (U) ***
(Dir: Pedro González-Rubio, 2010, 73 mins, subtitles) Brief and slight, with the year’s best performance by a bird in a motion picture, ‘Alamar’ is likely to be appreciated most by ethno-tourists who crave gentle…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Alaska (PG) **
Release Date: 1996 When former airline pilot Dirk Benedict crashes in the middle of nowhere, his son Vincent Kartheiser and daughter Thora Birch team up for a rites-of-passage rescue mission by kayak and canoe, braving…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Albino Alligator (18) ***
(Dir: Kevin Spacey, 1996, 103 mins) Dimwit Matt Dillon, his brighter brother Gary Sinise, and psycho William Fichtner are fleeing from a botched robbery when they get mixed up in a police stakeout of an arms dealer and…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alexander (15) **
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 2005, 175 mins) Like battles? There's two stunners here. The first as the Greeks demolish a vastly superior Persian force and the second where they're attacked in India by warriors mounted on…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alexandra (PG) ***
(Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov, 2007, 95 mins, subtitles) This is, in part at least, more accessible and involving than Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s earlier work, although, typically, several key scenes try our…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alexandra (PG) ***
(Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov, 2007, 95 mins, subtitles) This is, in part at least, more accessible and involving than Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s earlier work, although, typically, several key scenes try our…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alfie (15) **
(Dir: Charles Shyer, 2004, 105 mins) As pointless remakes go, this one is left inhabiting a curious limbo, bottling the opportunity to update the attitudes of the original film by having its neutered Alfie suffer…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ali (15) *****
(Dir: Michael Mann, 2001, 159 mins) Ignoring the traditional biopic approach to focus instead on that crucial ten-year period (1964-74) that started with the Sonny Liston fight and ended in Zaire with the Ali/Foreman…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ali G Indahouse (15) **
(Dir: Mark Mylod, 2002, 88 mins) You'd have hoped Sacha Baron Cohen and his writing partner Dan Mazer would be prepared to push the envelope a bit for the big screen debut of their brilliant comic creation, Ali G.…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alice et Martin (15) ***
(Dir: Andre Techine, 1999, 130 mins) After being brought up in a single parent household until the age of ten, young Martin is sent by his mother to live with his wealthy father's family. Ten years later, the now adult,…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alice in Wonderland (PG) ****
(Dir: Tim Burton, 2010, 108 mins) Tim Burton doing Lewis Carroll? It’s difficult to imagine a better combination. As anticipated, Burton brings his usual gothic sensibility to what is effectively a sequel in which…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alien Autopsy (12A) **
(Dir: Jonny Campbell, 2006, 95 mins) Based on the incredible 1995 hoax of an autopsy on a, er, alien, Declan Donolly and Anthony McPartlin’s film debut is ripe with comedic and conspiracy potential about UFO nuts, greed…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alien Vs Predator (15) **
(Dir: Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004, 104 mins) If you’re expecting the world’s worst film director to deliver a mechanical no-brainer beat-‘em-up that strips all its predecessors of their varying quotients of verve and…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alien: Resurrection (18) ****
(Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997, 105 mins) After being completely and irrevocably destroyed at the end of the last one, poor old 200-year-old Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is cloned from the bits left behind to help deal…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Aliens in the Attic (PG) **
(Dir: John Schultz, 2009, 85 mins) This attempts to lure the young ‘uns away from their consoles by emulating a computer game, its dialogue being peppered with references to Xbox, Game Boy and ‘Halo’, while the kiddie…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alive and Kicking (15) ***
(Dir: Nancy Meckler, 1997, 100 mins) Archetypal ‘Film on Four’ fare, ‘Alive and Kicking’ charts the devastation AIDS has wreaked on the luvvie community through the tale of a positive-thinking, HIV-positive prancing…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All About Lily Chou-Chou (15) **
(Dir: Shunji Iwai, 2002, 146 mins) Somewhere in here there’s a compelling drama about the violence and cruelty of Japanese highschool life, the dislocation caused by technology that’s supposed to bring people together,…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All About My Mother (15) ****
(Dir: Pedro Almodovar, 1999, 101 mins) Former pervemeister Pedro Almodovar brings his newfound maturity to bear on a moving tale of female solidarity and maternal grief. Following the tragic death of her son, transplant…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All About Steve (12A) *
(Dir: Phil Trail, 2009, 99 mins) Sandra Bullock turns 46 this year and has undeniably worn well, but she’s decidedly long in the tooth to play a ditzy single woman who lives at home with her parents. It doesn’t help…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All Dogs Go To Heaven (U)
Release Date: 1989 More cute cartoonery from the studios of Don Bluth, creators of 'An American Tail' and the excruciating 'The Land Before Time'. This one takes 40s comedy-fantasy-dramas like 'Angel on my Shoulder' as…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
All or Nothing (18) **
(Dir: Mike Leigh, 2002, 128 mins) After the atypical detour into costume drama that was ‘Topsy-Turvy’, Mike Leigh returns to his home territory with two hours-plus of working class, council estate misery, in which the…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (18) ****
(Dir: Jonathan Levine, 2006, 90 mins) Going into this, you wonder why a horror movie has been stuck with a teenage romcom title. Coming out, you can’t imagine it being called anything else. In an unsettling prologue,…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All the King’s Men (12A) **
(Dir: Steven Zaillan, 2006, 128 mins) This pointless remake of Robert Rossen’s 1949 Oscar-winner casts Sean Penn as Willie Stark, a small-town idealist co-opted as a third-party candidate to split the rural vote. But…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All the Pretty Horses (12) **
(Dir: Billy Bob Thornton, 2001, 116 mins) Billy Bob Thornton’s achingly symbolic, desperately slow adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s self-consciously elegiac Faulkner manque doorstop has Matt Damon and his pardner Henry…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
All the Real Girls (15) ***
(Dir: David Gordon Green, 2003, 108 mins) A considerable improvement on David Gordon Green’s first film, ‘George Washington’, this character-driven tale of fumbling young love in a stagnant smalltown setting is…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Almost Famous (15) *****
(Dir: Cameron Crowe, 2001 126 mins) Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical labour of love casts dough-faced Patrick Fugit perfectly as a teenager who badgers curmudgeonly icon of rock journalism Lester Bangs (Philip…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Along Came A Spider (15) **
(Dir: Lee Tamahori, 2001, 104 mins) When the daughter of a minor American senator is kidnapped from her exclusive prep school by her Lindbergh-obsessed teacher, right under the noses of the Secret Service, retired top…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Along Came Polly (12A) **
(Dir: John Hamburg, 2004, 90 mins) Ben Stiller’s routine as the embarrassed and humiliated nerdy suitor is now so familiar that if your mind starts to wander during this mechanical romcom it’s easy to imagine you’re…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alpha and Omega (U) *
(Dir: Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, 2010, 88 mins) Given the amount of crap he made in his later years, it is perhaps appropriate that Dennis Hopper’s valedictory performance should be as the voice of a gruff pack leader…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
Alpha Dog (15) **
(Dir: Nick Cassavetes, 2006, 117 mins) Surprising as it might seem, former boy band nerk Justin Timberlake acquits himself rather well in his first major big-screen role. Sure, he over-compensates for past misdemeanours…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alvin and the Chipmunks (U) **
(Dir: Tim Hill, 2007, 91 mins) Almost 50 years after they made their debut on a novelty record, those squeaky-voiced vermin the singing chipmunks are still inexplicably going strong. Now they've been given the CGI…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel (U) **
(Dir: Betty Thomas, 2009, 90 mins) The set-up of this unwanted ‘sqeuakqul’ to the singing chipmunk flick is that Alvin (voiced by Justin Long) and his brothers – bespectacled, brainy Simon (Jesse McCartney) and tubby,…28.04.2010 READ MORE -
Always (PG)
Steven Spielberg attempts a cosy remake of the 1940s war movie 'A Guy Named Joe', replacing all the nasty bomb dropping with a bunch of nice pilots flying old WW2 propeller-driven planes to put out forest fires. So far,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Am I Black Enough For You? (12A) **
(Dir: Goran Olsson, 2009, 87 mins) If the name Billy Paul means anything to non-enthusiasts, it’ll be for the ultra-smooth MOR Philly soul of his chart-topping, platinum-selling, Grammy-winning 1972 hit, ‘Me and Mrs…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amateur (15) **
Release Date: 1995 Hal Hartley's fourth film is virtually indistinguishable from the previous three and casts his regular lead Martin Donovan as an amnesiac who falls in with Isabelle Huppert, a virginal former nun who…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amazing Grace (PG) ***
(Dir: Michael Apted, 2006, 117 mins) Michael Apted’s hagiography of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) reeks of BBC social ishoo costume drama worthiness, presenting an illustrated lecture on abolitionist history while…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amelia (PG) **
(Dir: Mira Nair, 2009, 111 mins) American aviatrix Amelia Earhart’s first attempt to circumnavigate the globe failed to get off the ground, when her fuel-heavy Lockheed Elektra crashed on take-off. This leaden bio-pic…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amelie (15) *****
(Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001, 120 mins) Bashed out as a kind of catharsis after he directed the gloomy 'Alien: Resurrection' in Hollywood, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's immensely likeable eccentric romantic fable is cheerful…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
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America's Sweethearts (12) **
(Dir: Joe Roth, 2001, 102 mins) Unable to make up its mind if it's a romantic comedy set inside Hollywood or a barbed satire on the Dream Factory's slick publicity machine, this superficial star vehicle fails miserably…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Beauty (18) *****
(Dir: Sam Mendes, 2000, 121 mins) First-time director Sam Mendes's stylish, complex and emotionally powerful black comedy with Kevin Spacey on top form as middle-aged sad sack Lester Burnham, who jacks in his job and…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Buffalo (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Corrente, 1996, 90 mins) When junk shop owner Dennis Franz realises he’s sold a buffalo head nickel for a lot less than it’s worth, he decides to steal it back with his streetwise helper and surrogate son…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Dreamz (12A) **
(Dir: Paul Weitz, 2006, 107 mins) Although his ‘American Idol’-style reality show ‘American Dreamz’ tops the ratings, self-absorbed, self-loathing Brit Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant) wants more. 'Get me freaks', he orders…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Gangster (18) ***
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 2007, 157 mins) From the workaday title onwards, this is all very familiar: an assemblage of milieus, themes, confrontations and characters that’ll remind you of everything from ‘Serpico’ to ‘The…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American History X (18) ****
(Dir: Tony Kaye, 1999, 119 mins)A fierce, uncompromising study of racism among white working class American youths, this feature debut from British commercials director Tony Kaye is as topical and provocative as it is…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Movie (15) ****
(Dir: Chris Smith, 2000, 104 mins) Lanky longhair Mark Borchardt has dreamed of being a film director ever since he was 12. Now pushing 30, he's still living at home with his parents in grimmest Wisconsin and still…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Pie (15) ***
(Dir: Paul Weitz, 1999, 95 mins) When one of his more experienced pals tells Jason Biggs's horny doofus of a protagonist that actual penetration with a real live woman feels pretty much like cherry pie, our young hero…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Pie 2 (15) ***
(Dir: JB Rogers, 2001, 104 mins) The cheap laugh generator is still ticking over nicely, and the original cast are present and carnally incorrect. The sequel’s plot, such as it is, finds the group back in their Michigan…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Pie: Reunion (15)
USA 2012 113 mins Dir: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg Starring: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy, Ali Cobrin Ignoring those three…04.05.2012 READ MORE -
American Pie: The Wedding (15) ***
(Dir: Jesse Dylan, 2003, 102 mins) Working with a reduced cast, Jesse (son of Bob!) Dylan shifts the focus from lovable doofus Jim (Jason Biggs) to everybody’s secret favourite character: sleazy hornbag Stifler (Seann…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Psycho (18) ****
(Dir: Mary Harron, 2000, 101 mins) Mary Harron distils into cool, wickedly funny images the essence of Bret Easton Ellis's satirical attack on the 'greed is good' era - a Reaganite zeitgeist of which the book's…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American Splendor (15) ****
(Dir: Shari Springer Bergman & Robert Pulcini, 2004, 100 mins) Bergman and Pulcini’s award-winning drama-doc also takes a number of daring formal risks by having Harvey Pekar commenting on and interacting with the actor…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
American: The Bill Hicks Story (15) ***
(Dir: Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, 2009, 107 mins) While this new documentary about the great American stand-up comic adopts something of a fanboy approach, with contributions limited to friends and family, it gives…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Amistad (15) **
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 1998, 215 mins) Steven Spielberg follows up a big, lousy, disposable monster sequel with a big, lousy, self-important message movie. After a band of kidnapped Africans break shackles on board the…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Among Giants (15) **
(Dir: Sam Miller, 1999, 95 mins) While they were undoubtedly hoping to recapture the seemingly effortless humour and the dramatic reality of 'The Full Monty', the folk behind this sketchy story of a gang of unemployed…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amores Perros (18) *****
(Dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2001, 153 mins) Like ‘Pulp Fiction’, to which Inarritu’s visceral yet humane debut has been most frequently if erroneously compared, this comprises a triptych of loosely interlocking…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Amy Foster (12) ***
(Dir: Beeban Kidron, 1997, 115 mins) Coming to the screen with a considerable pedigree, Beeban Kidron’s attempt to resuscitate the epic romance is not wholly successful, but remains full of curiosities. Vincent Perez…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
An American Haunting (15) *
(Dir: Courtney Solomon, 2006, 91 mins) Courtney Solomon, director of the woeful ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, gets a second chance and even lands distinguished lead players in Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, but then given…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
An American Werewolf in Paris (15) **
(Dir: Anthony Waller, 1997, 102 mins) Coming across like the gauche younger brother of someone you remember as being really cool, this sequel has some splendid moments but, like the cursed werewolf himself, is rapidly…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
An Autumn Tale (U) ***
(Dir: Eric Rohmer, 1999, 111 mins) Seventy-nine-year-old Eric Rohmer concludes his Four Seasons quartet with the story of a widowed, lonely 45-year-old vineyard owner whose best mate and son’s girlfriend independently…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
An Education (12A) ***
(Dir: Lone Scherfig, 2009, 100 mins) Easier to admire than it is to like, Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir of her teenage relationship with a 38-year-old…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
An Everlasting Piece (15) ***
(Dir: Barry Levinson, 103 mins) This whimsical tale, set in ‘80s Belfast, sees two chancers trying to corner the city's toupee market. Their day job, as barbers in a mental hospital, has brought them into contact with…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
An Inconvenient Truth (U) ***
(Dir: Davis Guggenheim, 98 mins) There’s no doubting the commitment with which former US presidential candidate Al Gore now pursues his anti-Global Warning agenda. ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is based upon the PowerPoint…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
An Ordinary Execution (12A)
(Dir: Marc Dugain, 2010, 105 mins, subtitles) Marc ('The Officers' Ward') Dugain's adaptation of his own novel is a powerful chamber piece, skilfully evoking the pervasive paranoia of Stalin's final days. It's the…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
An Unfinished Life (12A) **
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 107 mins) Boy, has everybody got ishoos here. It’s like a two-hour episode of Oprah with nicer scenery. Grizzly old Robert Redford, in a role for which Clint Eastwood was presumably unavailable,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Anaconda (15) *
(Dir: Luis Llosa, 1997, 90 mins) This latest creature feature to demonise an otherwise cuddly and loveable man-eating beast pits our Amazon-dwelling snaky pal against a documentary film crew and an Ahab-like stranger…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (12A) *
(Dir: Dwight H. Little, 2004, 97 mins) This belated sequel stars nobody you’ve ever heard of, is directed by hack Dwight H. Little (‘Free Willy 2’, anybody?), and has no connection whatsoever to the first film other…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Analyze That (15) **
(Dir: Harold Ramis, 2003, 95 mins) This grimly inevitable sequel to the De Niro/Crystal mafioso/analyst hit turns out to be as perfunctory as its title. Actually, that’s not quite fair. The opening reel reminds us why…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Analyze This (15) ***
(Dir: Harold Ramis, 1999, 104 mins) In Harold Ramis's capable hands 'Analyze This' resists the temptation to simply send up Bob De Niro's familiar screen persona or wallow in smug self-referentialism, delivering instead…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anastasia (U) ***
(Dir: Don Bluth/Gary Goldman, 1998, 95 mins) Fox Animation Studios’ big-budget debut aims to challenge the Disney dynasty by resolving the question of what happened to Princess Anastasia when the Russian peasants rose…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (12A) **
(Dir: Adam McKay, 2004, 94 mins) Somewhere in this vanity project for writer/star Will Ferrell, there’s a perfectly serviceable idea for a satire struggling to get out. Down at San Diego’s Channel 4 back in the early…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (12A) ***
(Dir: Anand Tucker, 2007, 92 mins) Adapting Blake Morrison’s painfully honest memoir of his late father presented some formidable challenges for director Anand Tucker (‘Hilary and Jackie’) and writer David Nicholls…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angel (15) *
(Dir: Francois Ozon, 2007, 120 mins) Francois Ozon comes a cropper with his first English language feature, which harks back to the camp, artificial theatricality of his enjoyable Agatha Christie musical pastiche ‘8…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angel Eyes (15) *
(Dir: Luis Mandoki, 2001) Casting Jennifer Lopez as a Chicago cop who beats up on guilty parties because she still has anger issues with the dad she once busted for spousal abuse, and Jim Caviezel as a mysterious…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angel-A (15) **
(Dir: Luc Besson, 2006, 88 mins) Luc Besson’s first film as director since ‘Joan of Arc’ seven years ago feels like a parody of the saucy French art movie formula, and is perhaps best treated as such. All the ravishing…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angela's Ashes (15) ***
(Dir: Alan Parker, 2000, 148 mins) Alan Parker's grimly beautiful visualisation of Frank McCourt's upbringing in the Tipperaray slums of the 1930s and 40s pulls no punches. Yet the result is curiously distant and…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angels & Demons (12A) **
(Dir: Ron Howard, 2009, 138 mins) Havard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is back, sans mullet, in an adaptation of an earlier novel by Dan ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Brown. At least Ron Howard has taken note of…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angels and Insects (18) **
Release Date: 1995 A big country house, bags of costumes, well-dressed sets, a dash of softcore sauciness, the regulation cad, much repressed emotion, and all derived from a novella by A.S. Byatt. It sounds like a…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anger Management (15) ***
(Dir: Peter Segal, 2003, 106 mins) Following an hysterically topical minor misunderstanding that gets him slapped with an air-rage charge, Adam Sandler is packed off to deal with his ‘mood-swings’ care of aggressively…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (12A) **
(Dir: Gurinder Chadha, 2008, 100 mins) Gurinder Chadha comes over all nakedly commercial again with this contrived attempt to make a US-style tweenie flick in the UK. Adapted from a novel by Louise Rennison, ‘Angus…’ is…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Animal Attraction (12) ***
(Dir: Tony Goldwyn, 2001, 95 mins) New York chat show researcher and Ashley Judd is left heartbroken after producer Greg Kinnear’s ardour cools. So she moves in with colleague Hugh Jackman, a boorish serial womaniser,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Animal Factory (15) ***
(Dir: Steve Buscemi, 2003, 94 mins) All the cliches are present and correct in Steve Buscemi’s indie prison drama, written by Eddie Bunker (Mr. Blue in ‘Reservoir Dogs’): a convicted bank robber who once stabbed a…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Animal Kingdom (15)
(Dir: David Michod, 2010, 113 mins) Veteran Australian actress Jacki Weaver was justly Oscar nominated for her extraordinary performance as Janine Cody, the bubbly, mumsy yet steel-hearted matriarch of an 80s suburban…23.02.2011 READ MORE -
Animals United (U)
(Dir: Reinhard Kloos and Holger Tappe, 2010, 93 mins) Unevenly paced, indifferently animated and aimed at a very young audience, this re-voiced 3D animation is loosely adapted from German author Erich Kästner’s 1949…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Anita and Me (12A) ***
(Dir: Metin Huseyin, 2002, 93 mins) Although adapted from Meera Syal’s 1996 autobiographical bestseller, this sticks closely to the audience-pleasing ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ formula: broad humour, appealing leads, a…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anna and the King (12) *
(Dir: Andy Tennant, 1999, 140 mins) Or 'The King And I' minus the songs. With two Oscars on her shelf already, maybe the producers reckoned Jodie Foster would bring a touch of prestige to the proceedings. In the event,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anna Karenina (PG) *
(Dir: Bernard Rose, 1997, 108 mins) A truly disastrous adaptation of Tolstoy’s celebrated historical door-stopper, thanks in part to the hopeless casting. It’s not just the obvious language problem that undercuts any…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Another 48 Hours (18)
Release Date: 1990 Seven years after the original '48 Hrs', a bunch of plot devices set up hip black con Eddie Murphy and his former cop-buddy Nick Nolte for a straight re-run. This time, Murphy's been resentenced on a…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Another Day In Paradise (18) ****
(Dir: Larry Clark, 1999, 101 mins) In the cut’n’paste world of modern film-making, ‘Another Day In Paradise’ is ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ meets ‘Drugstore Cowboy’, but despite its familiarity Larry (‘Kids’) Clark has produced…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Another Earth (12A)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Mike Cahill Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother Things the movies tell us, part 94. When a mysterious planet appears in the sky, attractive young blonde women are compelled to remove all their…09.12.2011 READ MORE -
Another Woman (PG)
Release Date: 1988 Philosophy professor Geena Rowlands reaches her 50th birthday and goes into a bit of a decline as her orderly life, from which she has worked to expunge all emotion, is suddenly revealed as pointless…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Another Year (12A) ****
(Dir: Mike Leigh, 2010, 130 mins) Mike Leigh dials down his late discovery of cheerfulness for this episodic, contemplative drama, which tracks a year in the lives of a happily married, middle-aged, middle-class London…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Antichrist (18) ****
(Dir: Lars Von Trier, 2009, 109 mins) With a dash of unsimulated sex and an eye-watering scene of clitoral snippage, Danish dogmatist Lars Von Trier once again finds himself in the headlines. Strip away the carefully…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Antitrust (15) ****
(Dir: Peter Howitt, 2001, 120 mins) Californian computer genius Milo (Ryan Phillippe, trying to look nerdy in specs) is about to set up a software company. Computer giant NURV, headed up by Bill Gates doppelganger Gary…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Antonia’s Line (15) ***
(Dir: Marleen Gorris, 1996, 104 mins) Marleen Gorris’s Oscar-winning Suffering Peasant movie with a feminist twist is mercifully warmer and a little less didactic than her earlier work. Antonia is 85 and has decided…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Antwone Fisher (15) **
(Dir: Denzel Washington, 2003, 120 mins) Scripted from his autobiography by Mr. Fisher himself, this is a slow, stodgy, predictable, flatly directed and unforgivably sentimental plod that has little to distinguish it…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Antz (PG) ****
(Dir: Eric Darnell/Tim Johnson, 1998, 83 mins) The first computer-generated flick from the DreamWorks studio is not your usual animated film. Sure, there’s lots of funny slapstick stuff, broad gags and astonishing crowd…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anuvahood (15)
(Dir: Adam Deacon & Daniel Toland, 2011, 88 mins) Kenneth (Adam Deacon) is a disgruntled shelf-stacker with implausible dreams of achieving rap stardom and an even more implausible desire to command respect on his…16.03.2011 READ MORE -
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (15) *****
(Dir: Sacha Gervasi, 2008, 80 mins) Rarely has the over-used phrase “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry!” seemed more appropriate. You’ll howl with laughter at the antics of, and serial misfortunes afflicting, hapless Canadian…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Any Given Sunday (18) ***
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 2000, 150 mins) Oliver Stone's latest visceral meditation on the cynical corruption of democratic ideals by avaricious American capitalist scumbags is a welcome return to form, at least in terms of…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anything Else (15) ***
(Dir: Woody Allen, 2004, 108 mins) It’s the fate of most actors cast by Woody Allen to be his puppets. But in putting his words into the mouths of twentysomethings, he makes no concessions to the impact of the last 30…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Anything For Her (15) ****
(Dir: Fred Cavaye, 2008, 96 mins, subtitles) Despite a premise that’s so preposterous one half expects a ‘Based on a True Story’ caption to pop up (it doesn’t), this Gallic thriller is slick, taut and exciting from…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Apocalypto (18) ****
(Dir: Mel Gibson, 2007, 138 mins) Mel Gibson directs a bloody 16th century action adventure, in ancient Mayan, that truly warrants the term ‘epic’. The plot’s simple enough. After his jungle village is attacked, dead…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Apollo 13 (PG) *****
Release Date: 1995 April 11, 1970. Apollo 13 blasts off, eagerly watched by nobody much, since America had become bored by the space programme. On board are commander Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Aprile (PG) **
(Dir: Nanni Moretti, 1998, 78 mins) When they come to write the history of the Cinema of Solipsism, Italian Vespa enthusiast Nanni Moretti's much-explored navel is guaranteed a central role. In this follow-up to ‘Dear…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Apt Pupil (15) ***
(Dir: Bryan Singer, 1999, 112 mins) Based on a Stephen King short story and directed by Bryan (‘The Usual Suspects’) Singer, this promises much, but its faults are King's, not Singer's. Clean-cut, middle-class…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Aquamarine (PG) **
(Dir: Elizabeth Allen, 2006, 109 mins) A tweenie ‘Splash’, with enough ear-splitting girlie shrieking to give anyone over the age of 13 a severe headache, this adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s kiddie novel is a saccharine,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ararat (15) ***
(Dir: Atom Egoyan, 2003, 116 mins) In 1915, the Turks massacred nearly a million Armenians, but have denied doing so ever since. It’s a forgotten holocaust that clearly has resonance for Canadian-Armenian director Atom…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Archipelago (15)
(Dir: Joanna Hogg, 2010, 115 mins) British writer/director Joanna Hogg seems to be building a career out of making austere, low-budget films about moneyed, boorish, upper middle class English families disintegrating…02.03.2011 READ MORE -
Arctic Tale (U) **
(Dir: Adam Ravetch & Sarah Robertson, 2007, 86 mins) “‘March of the Penguins’ meets ‘An Inconvenient Truth’” is the pitch for this National Geographic eco-fable for kids, whose cutesy narration by Queen Latifah and…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Are We Done Yet? (PG) *
(Dir: Steve Carr, 2007, 92 mins) This wholly unwarranted sequel to the wretched ‘Are We There Yet?’ filches the plot of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy ‘Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House’. Even Ice Cube’s most ardent…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Are We There Yet? (PG) *
Are We There Yet? (PG) * (Dir: Brian Levant, 2005, 94 mins) Imagine ‘Home Alone’ as a road movie. Frightening, isn’t it? So here’s Ice Cube as a ladies’ man who has just splashed out on a top of the range Lincoln…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Arlington Road (15) ****
(Dir: Mark Pellington, 1999, 117 mins) When recently widowed college history professor Jeff Bridges saves the life of the young boy who lives over the road, parents Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack are naturally grateful,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Armageddon (12) ***
(Dir: Michael Bay, 1998, 150 mins) When buildings start collapsing and a few Americans are swallowed up by potholes, NASA boffins led by Billy Bob Thornton detect the presence of small meteorites which turn out to be…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Armored (12A) **
(Dir: Nimrod Antal, 2009, 88 mins) An oddly moralistic heist-gone-wrong B-movie whose cast alone keeps it out of the straight-to-DVD dumper, Nimrod Antal’s follow-up to ‘Vacancy’ delivers in both meat and potatoes…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Army of Crime (15) ***
(Dir: Robert Guediguian, 2009, 139 mins, subtitles) Robert (‘The Last Mitterand’) Guediguian tells the true story of a ragtag ‘army’ of foreign partisans who confronted apathy to mount an effective resistance movement…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Around the World in 80 Days (PG) **
(Dir: Frank Coraci, 2004, 125 mins) This latest reworking of the Jules Verne classic remains faithful to the 1956 version’s celeb cameo overload, with Kathy Bates as Queen Victoria, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Arrietty (U)
Japan 2010 94 mins Dir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Starring (voices): Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Tom Holland, Olivia Colman For film-makers, Mary Norton's 1952 children's novel 'The Borrowers' is something of a hardy…29.07.2011 READ MORE -
Artemisia (18) ***
(Dir: Agnes Merlet, 1999, 102 mins) Stranded somewhere between worthy art biopic, romantic potboiler and feminist tract, this handsomely staged and mildly titillating continental saucefest is likely to entertain…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Arthur (12A)
USA 2011 110 mins Dir: Jason Winer Starring Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Garner, Geraldine James Just as Depression-era audiences lapped up the screwball comedy antics of the idle rich, so did…27.04.2011 READ MORE -
Arthur and the Invisibles (U) **
(Dir: Luc Besson, 2007, 102 mins) Adapted from his own children’s book ‘Arthur and the Minimoys’, Luc Besson’s kiddieflick steals liberally from a wide variety of sources, taking in the legend of King Arthur, ‘Honey, I…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Arthur Christmas (U)
UK/USA 2011 Dir: Sarah Smith Starring (voices): James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Ashley Jensen, Imelda Staunton A step up from the unhappy experience that was Aardman's previous foray into CGI,…11.11.2011 READ MORE -
As Good As It Gets (15) ***
(Dir: James L. Brooks, 1998, 138 mins) Jack Nicholson is an obsessive-compulsive, misanthropic, homophobic, racist, anti-Semite, whose neighbour Greg Kinnear is a gay artist with a black agent (Cuba Gooding Jr) and a…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Ashes of Time Redux (15) **
(Dir: Wong Kar Wai, 2008, 93 mins, subtitles) First released in 1994 to mixed reviews and bugger-all box office return on its vast budget, Wong Kar Wai’s ‘redux’ version of his handsomely photographed wuxia flick is…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asoka (15) ***
(Dir: Santosh Sivan, 2001, 150 mins) Bollywood makes a serious attempt to court mainstream popcorn-munchers with this heavily fictionalised account of the life of the eponymous third Emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, who…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Assault on Precinct 13 (15) ****
(Dir: Jean-Francois Richet, 2005, 109 mins) Finally, a re-make worthy of the name, one which respects John Carpenter’s 1976 urban western enough to retain its gritty energy and playful use of Hollywood movie…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar (PG) **
(Dir: Claude Zidi, 2000, 105 mins) A dubbed version of Claude Zidi's lavishly staged live-action version of the venerable Goscinny and Uderzo comicbook characters' adventures, drawing loosely on 'Asterix and the Big…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (PG) ***
(Dir: Alain Chabat, 2002, 107 mins) Written and directed by Alain Chabat, who also finds time to play Caesar, ‘Mission Cleopatra’ is a considerable improvement on Cladue Zidi’s 1999 live-action adaptation of Rene…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asterix and the Big Fight (U)
Release Date: 1989 The small Gaul and his pals defend their village from invading Romans (again) in this latest cartoon version of the enduring Goscinny and Uderzo yarns. There's an all-star cast of voices, including…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asterix and the Vikings (U) ***
(Dir: Stefan Fjeldmark & Jesper Moller, 2007, 78 mins) There have been seven previous animated versions of Goscinny and Uderzo’s tales of those indomitable Gauls, ranging from faithful adaptations to entirely new yarns.…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Astro Boy (PG) ***
(Dir: David Bowers, 2009, 94 mins) An Americanisation by Aardman alumnus David (‘Flushed Away’) Bowers of one of those venerated early Japanese manga (and subsequent anime) series, the CG version of ‘Astro Boy’ will…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Asylum (18) ***
(Dir: David Mackenzie, 2005, 99 mins) This exceptional combination of talent – director David Mackenzie, plus screenwriter Patrick (‘Closer’) Marber adapting a novel by Patrick McGrath – is scuppered by the story’s…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
At First Sight (12)
(Dir: Irwin Winkler, 1999, 124 mins) A romance-cum-medico-doc, based on a real-life account from Olvier Sacks' hugely popular 'An Anthropologist on Mars', with Val Kilmer as a blind masseur leading a simple, ostensibly…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
At Five in the Afternoon (U) **
(Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf, 2004, 106 mins) Twenty-four year-old Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf travels to post-Taliban Afghanistan for her least satisfying film to date. In the ruins of Kabul, a whiskery old goat…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
At the Height of Summer (PG) ***
(Dir: Tran Anh Hung, 2001, 112 mins) A languid, mildly erotic and superbly photographed family drama from the director of ‘Cyclo’ and ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’, which is certain to delight connoisseurs of the cinema…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (15) ***
(Dir: Zacharias Kunuk, 2002, 172 mins) The overlong first film ever made in the Inuit language boasts the hoary old theme of the mythic struggle between good and evil played out between rival fur-clad families, but is…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Atash (12A) ***
(Dir: Tawfik Abu Wael, 2005, 110 mins) Essentially yet another contribution to the ever-popular Suffering Peasant school of austere arthouse cinema, ‘Atash’ (‘Thirst’) boasts the rare distinction of being a film by an…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (U) **
(Dir: Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale, 2001, 96 mins) It's not just the cloying political correctness that palls in what has to be one of the crappiest Disney flicks in years; it's the tired characterisation, the dated…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Atomised (15) **
(Dir: Oskar Roehler, 2006, 113 mins) ‘The Elementary Particles’ by French author Michel Houellebecq was so relentlessly bleak yet filled with porny sex that it proved irresistible to dour young men who crave a bit of…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Atonement (15) ****
(Dir: Joe Wright, 2007, 123 mins) Screenwriter Christopher Hampton and director Joe Wright have pulled off in style the considerable challenge of adapting Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novel about the consequences of a young…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Attack the Block (15)
UK 2011 88 mins Dir: Joe Cornish Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega Posh 42-year-old white boy Joe Cornish is perhaps not the first person who springs to mind when one thinks about…09.05.2011 READ MORE -
Audition (18) *****
(Dir: Miike Takashi, 2001, 115 mins) It opens like a romantic comedy. A widowed film-maker auditions starlets in the hope of finding a new wife, the clever bit being that he pretends to be casting a subordinate role to…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
August (PG) ***
Release date: 1996 Anthony Hopkins’ transposition of Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ to late 19th century Wales, in which he also casts himself as Ieuan: the bitter, generally inebriated brother-in-law of pompous, domineering…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
August Rush (PG) ***
(Dir: Kirsten Sheridan, 2007, 114 mins) Much suspension of disbelief is required for Kirsten Sheridan’s new age ‘Oliver!’, which stars Freddie Highmore as an orphan who finds harmony in the sounds all around him and…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Austin Powers in Goldmember (12) ****
(Dir: Jay Roach, 2002, 90 mins) The second Austin Powers sequel delivers a comic skit that manages to force a laugh out of you every few minutes, while simultaneously hitting on a genuine emotional core and sending up…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (15) ***
(Dir: Jay Roach, 1997, 94 mins) Shagadelic swinging ‘60s gentleman spy Powers (Mike Myers) has been thawed after 30 years to tackle his similarly defrosted Blofeld-esque nemesis Dr. Evil (also Myers), who’s threatening…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (12) ****
(Dir: Jay Roach, ,1999, 99 mins) Mike Myers’ original ‘Austin Powers’ flick was a modest theatrical hit that went on to become a cult item on video, but nobody could have predicted the massive success of this…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Australia (12A) ***
(Dir: Baz Luhrmann, 2008, 165 mins) Baz Luhrmann has a bash at the weepy ‘Gone With the Wind’-style epic: a romance between a high-spirited, haughty miss and an earthy he-man hero played out against a big slice of 20th…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Auto Focus (18) ***
(Dir: Paul Schrader, 2003, 108 mins) The true story of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), star of hit US TV comedy ‘Hogan’s Heroes’. Happily married to childhood sweetheart Annie (Rita Wilson) for 15 years, he's a non-smoking,…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Autumn in New York (15) *
(Dir: Joan Chen, 2001, 105 mins) Ageing lothario Richard Gere falls for radiant young goner Winona Ryder as autumnal New York turns symbolically to wintery slush in this dreary collection of Disease of the Week TV movie…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Avalon (12A) **
(Dir: Mamoru Oshii, 2002, 106 mins) In the near future, everyone is bloody miserable. The most popular pastimeis Avalon, an illegal virtual reality combat game played in a computer-generated war-torn landscape by teams…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Avatar (12A) ****
(Dir: James Cameron, 2009, 161 mins) A significant advance in 3D and computer-augmented imagery, James Cameron’s long-gestating ‘Avatar’ delivers on its promise to show off new toys and set a new benchmark for special…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
AVPR: Aliens Vs Predator – Requiem (15) *
(Dir: The Brothers Strause, 2007, 94 mins) This pointless sequel to a film that reduced a great series and an entertaining one to the level of no-brainer franchise is directed by the latest film-making siblings to…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Awake (15) *
(Dir: Joby Harold, 2007, 85 mins) For his Razzie-nominated (Worst Actress, Worst Screen Couple) feature debut, writer/director Joby Harold has come up with some preposterous plotting to wrap around the phenomenon of…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Awakenings (12)
Release Date: 1991 Bob De Niro is Leonard Lowe, who has spent the decades since his childhood languishing, unable to move or speak, in a Bronx hospital ward full of similarly incapacitated patients. In 1969, diffident…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Away From Her (12A) ****
(Dir: Sarah Polley, 2006, 110 mins) Any film about Alzheimer’s is likely to be a hard sell, but those who fancy an intelligent drama on the subject will be pleased to find that 27-year-old Canadian actress Sarah Polley…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Away We Go (15) ***
(Dir: Sam Mendes, 2009, 98 mins) Perhaps in need of a break from those heavy-duty gong-magnets, Sam Mendes tones things down with this small-scale relationship comedy populated by top class character actors rather than…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Awaydays (18) **
(Dir: Pat Holden, 2009, 105 mins) Adapted by Kevin Sampson from his own cult novel, this period football hooliganism flick boasts all the genre staples (testosterone-fuelled rucks, marginalised female characters who…29.04.2010 READ MORE -
Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That! (15) ***
(Dir: Nathaniel Hornblower, 2006, 89 mins) For their innovative, feature-length concert film, the Beastie Boys issued 50 fans with camcorders. Their only instruction was to keep these switched on throughout. Of course,…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
Azur & Asmar: The Princes’ Quest (U) ***
(Dir: Michel Ocelot, 2006, 95 mins) Although it has the feel of something out of the Arabian Nights, this impeccably multi-faith, racially diverse, polyglot North African fairytale with a wholesome pro-tolerance message…05.05.2010 READ MORE -
The Adjustment Bureau (12A)
(Dir: George Nolfi, 2011, 106 mins) This expansion of Philip K Dick's short paranoia story by 'Bourne Ultimatum' screenwriter-turned-director George Nolfi is clearly intended to augment the male sci-fi hardcore with a…02.03.2011 READ MORE -
The American (15)
(Dir: Anton Corbijn, 2010, 105 mins) Every ounce of George Clooney's star power is required to hold our attention in Anton Corbijn's US debut: the tale of a tormented assassin doing the familiar world-weary, fatalistic…24.11.2010 READ MORE -
The Arbor (15) ***
(Dir: Clio Barnard, 2010, 90 mins) An oddly constructed, occasionally moving grim-oop-north drama-doc by artist Clio Barnard, ‘The Arbor’ explores the background and legacy of Andrea Dunbar, the teenage playwright from…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
The Artist (PG)
France 2011 100 mins Dir: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell It is perhaps telling that at a time when modern Hollywood…06.01.2012 READ MORE -
The Awakening (15)
UK 2011 107 mins Dir: Nick Murphy Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton It'll never happen in real life, but there's nothing more satisfying in a well-crafted ghost story than the rationalist debunker…11.11.2011 READ MORE
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