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Face (18) ****
(Dir: Antonia Bird, 100 mins) A meticulously planned robbery that goes wrong and a falling out among thieves who share little honour . . . yup, we’re on familiar territory here, but Antonia Bird’s crime thriller has…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Face/Off (18) ****
(Dir: John Woo, 139 mins) Hong Kong actionmeister John Woo’s finest Hollywood outing boasts a bravura visual style, and a level of emotional involvement and underlying intelligence that outclasses and outguns most of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Facing Window (15) **
(Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek, 106 mins) Passionate affairs, buried secrets and closeted homosexuality are the staples of Turkish-born Ferzan Ozpetek’s oeuvre. Here he chucks some additional ingredients into the mix, which seem…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Factory Girl (15) **
(Dir: George Hickenlooper, 2006, 90 mins) Any takers for a vapid and shallow biopic of a whiny, gullible trustafarian who’s chewed up and spat out by a tiresomely self-absorbed, over-indulged New York artist tosspot and…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Factotum (15) **
(Dir: Bent Hamer, 93 mins) Bent Hamer, Norwegian director of the marvellously droll ‘Kitchen Stories’, has a bash at Charles Bukowski’s semi-autobiographical novel, casting Matt Dillon (sporting a Method Moustache) as…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Faculty, The (15) ***
(Dir: Robert Rodriguez, 117 mins) Post-modern horror specialiast Kevin Williamson hybridises 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and 'The Breakfast Club', stripping out the McCarthyite paranoia of the former and giving…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fahrenheit 9/11 (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Moore, 122 mins) Muckraker Michael Moore’s provocative diatribe against President George ‘Dubya’ Bush, his greedy family and their American and Saudi cronies will foment much heated argument - not only…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Failure To Launch (12A) **
(Dir: Tom Dey, 92 mins) Fed up that their thirtysomething son Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) still lives at home, Sue and Al (Kathy Bates, Terry Bradshaw) hire Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to get him to move out. She…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fair Game (12A)
(Dir: Doug Liman, 2011, 103 mins) The Hollywood liberal ishoo movie (Sean Penn alert!) meets the globe-trotting spy thriller as 'Bourne Identity' director Doug Liman attempts to wring slick popcorn entertainment from…09.03.2011 READ MORE -
Fairytale – A True Story (U) ***
(Dir: Charles Sturridge, 98 mins) A big-budget kiddie-oriented version of the Cottingley Fairies case, that also inspired the more adult ‘Photographing Fairies’, in which two young girls caused a sensation by capturing…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Faithless (15) ***
(Dir: Liv Ullman, 155 mins) Anyone who yearns for the good old days of Ingmar Bergman-choreographed bleakness will not be disappointed by this superior entry in the genre, directed by his ex-lover Liv Ullmann from a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fall, The (15) *****
(Dir: Tarsem, 2006, 117 mins) A classic audience-divider, this extraordinary, uniquely bonkers, visually stunning film was shot at enormous expense over four years in more than 18 countries and, it’s claimed, contains…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fallen (15) **
(Dir: Gregory Hoblit, 117 mins) An atmospheric serial killer movie with supernatural overtones spoiled by tricksy direction, ‘Fallen’ has Denzel Washington as an obsessive detective who relishes the frying of demonic…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fallen Angels (15) **
Walk into much-hyped Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘Fallen Angels’ five minutes late and you’d be forgiven for thinking they were still showing an achingly “stylish” jeans ad. But soon the horrible realisation dawns…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fame (PG) ***
(Dir: Kevin Tancharoen, 2009, 107 mins) A makeover for the Hannah Montana generation of Alan Parker’s 1980 ensemble musical, this sanitised remake tackles such cutting-edge themes as, er, inflexible parents who just…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Familia Rodante (15) ***
(Dir: Pablo Trapero, 103 mins) Argentinean director Pablo Trapero’s unlikely follow-up to his gritty police corruption drama ‘El Bonaerense’ is a warm-hearted, semi-autobiographical family road movie, starring the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Family Friend, The (15) ***
(Dir: Paolo Sorrentino, 2006, 109 mins, subtitles) Misanthropists of the world rejoice! Here’s a film with a relentlessly low opinion of mankind, in which every hint of redemption is crushed as the pieces of its…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Family Man, The (12) ***
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 108 mins) Nic Cage is a high-powered Wall Street wolf on the verge of cementing a huge deal over the Christmas holidays. He wonders what his life would have been like if he hadn't broken up with his…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Family Stone, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Thomas Bezucha, 103 mins) Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker, as irritating as ever) has been brought home to meet the folks at Christmas by boyfriend Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney). That’ll be waspish mom…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fan, The (15) *
It’s hard to imagine what an actor of Bob De Niro’s calibre saw in the script for this hateful, mean-spirited Tony Scott film that merely requires him to reprise, in cruder form, two of his best-known roles: Rupert…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fanny and Elvis (15) **
(Dir: Kay Mellor, 111 mins) Picturesque Yorkshire is the setting for this predictable comedy-drama, and the inspiration for romantic novelist Kerry Fox, whose biological clock is ticking rapidly. Alas, she’s just…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fantasia 2000 (U) ***
(75 mins) Disney updates its 1940 animated musical classic with seven new sequences, plus the old Mickey Mouse/Sorcerer's Apprentice section from the original, along with a curious mixture of mostly leaden celeb links.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fantastic Four (PG) **
(Dir: Tim Story, 106 mins) A bargain-basement ‘X-Men’ whose own pre-publicity suggests Jessica Alba’s breasts are its chief attraction, this Marvel comicbook superhero adaptation looks pretty feeble next to ‘Spider-Man…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (PG) **
(Dir: Tim Story, 2007, 92 mins) Marvel’s Poundstretcher X-Men - Amazing Stretchy Boffin (Ioan Gruffudd); Immature Fiery Bloke (Chris Evans); grumpy Turdman (Michael Chiklis), who appears to have drawn something of a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fantastic Mr Fox (PG) ****
(Dir: Wes Anderson, 2009, 87 mins) Wes Anderson’s expanded animated take on Roald Dahl’s splendid short story successfully imports his familiar film-making and storytelling styles, offering plenty of fun for adults and…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Far From Heaven (12A) ****
(Dir: Todd Haynes, 107 mins) A ‘50s-style ‘woman’s picture’ filmed in lush Douglas Sirk-o-Vision by Todd Haynes, who plays it completely straight, immersing himself in the conventions of the post-war maternal melodrama…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Far North ***
(Dir: Asif Kapadia, 2007, 89 mins) Brit director Asif Kapadia returns to the territory of his acclaimed debut ‘The Warrior, which means sparse dialogue, plenty of brooding and spectacular landscapes. The setting is…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Farewell (12A)
France 2009 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Christian Carion Starring: Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Fred Ward, David Soul, Diane Kruger, Philippe Magnan, Willem Dafoe Structured like the most gripping John Le Carre novel,…29.04.2011 READ MORE -
Fargo (18) *****
The Coen brothers return to the hard-boiled crime territory of their acclaimed debut, ‘Blood Simple’. Wannabe entrepreneur William H. Macy enlists non-stop talker Steve Buscemi and his silent associate Peter Stormare to…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fast and Furious (12A) **
(Dir: Justin Lin, 2009, 107 mins) Alongside the bland Paul Walker, hit-starved Vin Diesel returns for the third sequel to his breakthrough hit, which certainly makes sense. His problem as a star is that he was much…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fast and the Furious, The (15) ***
(Dir: Rob Cohen, 107 mins) Fabulously stupid and perversely entertaining, this is every inch the movie 'Gone in 60 Seconds' failed to be. Blond hunk Paul Walker is an aspiring illegal street racer who hangs out in the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The (12A) **
(Dir: Justin Lin, 104 mins) First Vin Diesel dropped out and now even Paul Walker can't be arsed to turn up for the second sequel. Instead you get Lucas Black as rules-bucking high school Southern boy Sean Boswell who,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fast Food (18) **
(Dir: Stewart Sugg, 95 mins) Any young first-time director who boldly announces an intention to react against the "dowdy veneer" of British films deserves our applause. But the "doing it for the kids" approach…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fast Food Nation (15) ***
(Dir: Richard Linklater, 2006, 113 mins) It seems that shit is getting into burgers served by the fictional Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant chain, so newly recruited marketing executive Greg Kinnear is dispatched into the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Faster (15)
(Dir: George Tillman Jr, 2011, 98 mins) Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson seemed lost to a series of increasingly saccharine family comedies, so it comes as something of a surprise to see him suppressing that winning grin and…23.03.2011 READ MORE -
Fate (15) **
(Dir: Zeki Demirkubuz, 119 mins) Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz relocates Albert Camus’s existentialist classic ‘L’Etranger’ to modern-day Istanbul, where the solitary Meursault becomes blank shipping clerk Musa…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fateless (12A) ***
(Dir: Lajos Koltai, 136 mins) Adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Imre Kurtesz, renowned Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai’s directorial debut is a familiar…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Father of My Children (12A) ****
(Dir: Mia Hansen-Love, 2009, 111 mins, subtitles) Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is an outwardly prosperous, cultured Parisian film producer who has a swish apartment in town and a fancy house in the…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Father Of The Bride Part 2 **
Once again, a mediocre remake of a classic original is deemed successful enough to be given a sequel of its own. This is an updated version of the original sequel, ‘Father’s Little Dividend’, since it was scarcely…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Father's Day (12) **
(Dir: Ivan Reitman, 101 mins) Sharp-suited, super self-confident Billy Crystal is a successful attorney, while pleasing simpleton Robin Williams is a suicidal would-be writer. What links them is that Nastassja Kinski…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Favela Rising (12A) ***
(Dir: Matt Mochary & Jeff Zimbalist, 80 mins) A documentary companion piece to ‘City of God’, this tells a tale so uplifting and inspirational that Denzel Washington is probably already being considered for the sickly…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fear (18) **
For fathers of teenage daughters, any spotty oik who romances the apple of your eye is to be despised, but in the latest entry in the psycho-stalker genre dad really does know best. It begins promisingly enough with…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (18) ****
(Dir: Terry Gilliam, 128 mins) From Johnny Depp's familiar opening voiceover, the first surprise is how faithful the script is to Hunter S. Thompson's barking narrative. But this fidelity to its source almost proves to…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fear X (12A) ***
(Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, 91 mins) This David Lynch-esque US debut by the Danish director of the uncompromising ‘Pusher’ and ‘Bleeder’ was written in collaboration with ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ author Hubert Selby Jr.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fear(s) of the Dark (12A) ***
(Various directors, 2008, 83 mins, subtitles) Technically impressive throughout, this hit and miss compendium of monochrome animations by leading graphic artists is uniformly unscary despite purportedly presenting…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Feardotcom (18) *
(Dir: William Malone, 101 mins) Lifting its plot from ‘The Ring’ and visuals from ‘Se7en’, this duff “haunted website” yarn has sweaty mouse-jockeys logging on to the eponymous site to watch over-acting psycho Stephen…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fearless (15) **
(Dir: Ronny Yu, 104 mins) At the grand old age of 43, fun-sized martial artist Jet Li has announced that he’s too old for this shit and is hanging up his ass-whupping boots for good. But he’s returned to his roots for…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Feast of Love (15) *
(Dir: Robert Benton, 2007, 102 mins) In this smorgasbord of romantic tedium from unprolific, 75-year-old veteran Robert (‘Kramer vs Kramer’) Benton, Morgan Freeman is his usual omniscient and compassionate self,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Feeling Minnesota (18) **
A tale of two rival brothers, this dark, downbeat, sometimes rather surreal film has big lug Sam (Vincent D’Onofrio) being ‘given’ the lovely Cameron Diaz to marry by the smalltime crime boss he works for. At the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Felicia's Journey (12) ****
(Dir: Atom Egoyan, 116 mins) Atom Egoyan’s adaptation of William Trevor's psychological thriller has all the ingredients of a big, glossy, mainstream Hollywood flick. But this is precisely the film Egoyan isn't remotely…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Female Agents (15) ***
(Dir: Jean-Paul Salome, 2008, 120 mins, subtitles) After the likes of ‘Charlotte Grey’ and ‘Black Books’, one might be forgiven for concluding that WWII was actually won by a bunch of attractive French-speaking women.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Female Perversions (18) **
(Dir: Susan Streitfeld, 109 mins) There’s disappointment ahoy for the unclean of mac, as the titular deviance turns out to be gender conformity, as defined by the feminist writer Louise J. Kaplan. Susan Streitfield’s…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Femme Francaise, Une (18) **
‘Indochine’ director Regis Wargnier delivers another over-ripe, patience-straining melodrama which allegedly clocks in at just 98 minutes, though you could be excused for thinking the 35 years that pass by on screen are…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Festen (15) *****
(Dir: Thomas Vinterberg, 106 mins) It's crusty old patriarch Helge Kligenfeldt's 60th birthday and his huge rambling manor house is the venue for a celebratory dinner party. Guests are arriving from all across the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Festival (18) ***
(Dir: Annie Griffin, 107 mins) There can be few prospects more unappealing than a Film Council-financed Britflick set against the backdrop of the Edinburgh Festival, conjuring up as it does visions of a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Festival Express (15) ****
(Dir: Bob Smeaton, 90 mins) Conceived, as the name implies, as a festival on wheels, the Festival Express was a specially chartered luxury train which trundled from Toronto to Calgary over five days in the summer of…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fever Pitch (15) ****
(Dir: David Evans, 105 mins) Nick Hornby turns his autobiographical bestseller into fiction, taking one chapter (about Arsenal’s surprise winning streak in the 1988-89 season) as a template for a witty love story that…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fierce Creatures (PG) ****
(Dir: Robert Young, 93 mins) John Cleese’s follow-up to ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ casts him as an ex-Hong Kong cop hired by flatulently obnoxious Aussie mogul Kevin Kline to revive the flagging fortunes of a British zoo by…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fifty Dead Men Walking (15) ****
(Dir: Kari Skogland, 2009, 117 mins) Adapted from the autobiography of IRA informant Martin McGartland and directed with the verve of Scorsese by Canadian TV veteran Kari Skogland, this is a tense, gripping political…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fight Club (18) ***
(Dir: David Fincher, 139 mins) From the typically innovative credits sequence onwards, the first hour of 'Fight Club' is as good as anything you'll see on the big screen all year: stylishly directed, bitingly…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fighting (15) **
(Dir: Dito Montiel, 2009, 105 mins) Scuzzy rather than slick, Dito Montiel’s functionally-titled ‘Fighting’ is an undistinguished entry in the ‘does what it says on the tin’ school of film-making. Virtually every…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fighting Temptations, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Lynn, 123 mins) Cuba Gooding Jr hooks up with Brit hack Jonathan Lynn and remakes ‘Snow Dogs’ with a gospel choir instead of huskies. Cuba’s a slick adman and inveterate liar who returns to his Georgia…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fils, Le (12A) ***
(Dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 103 mins) Those who are averse to minimalist film-making in which everything is shot verite-style in wobbly, tightly-framed ultra-close-up should approach the Dardenne brothers’…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Filth & The Fury, The (15) ****
(Dir: Julien Temple, 107 mins) Julian Temple's Sex Pistols history lesson acts as a corrective to his earlier 'The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle': a bunch of bollocks clearly steered by Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Cut (18) *
(Dir: Dominic Anciano/Ray Burdis, 93 mins) As spectacularly misjudged projects go, 'Final Cut' takes some beating. 'Jude is Dead' claims the shout line, but such is the pall of sickening luvvie smugness hanging over the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Destination (15) ****
(Dir: James Wong, 97 mins) A beautifully simple idea, expertly executed by an 'X-Files' alumnus, 'Final Destination’ is certain to satisfy anyone who savours the prospect of this year's crop of fresh-faced teen movie…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Destination 2 (15) ***
(Dir: David R. Ellis, 90 mins) The inevitable sequel opens with an obliging chat show intro detailing how Death doesn't like people screwing with its agenda. You can cheat it, but you can't beat it. A year to the day…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Destination 3 (15) ***
(Dir: James Wong, 96 mins) There is nothing quite as much fun as watching stupid American teenagers die horribly. The FD franchise understands this perfectly, the third instalment being a straight re-run of the first…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Destination 5 (15)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Steven Quale Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher The previous one dispensed with numbers altogether and pronounced itself 'The Final Destination'. But finality is always…26.08.2011 READ MORE -
Final Destination, The (2009) (15) ***
(Dir: David R. Ellis, 2009, 82 mins) The ‘Final Destination’ franchise trumps ‘Saw’ by distilling exactly what we want from a modern horror series: anonymous American teenagers dying as unpleasantly as possible. Each…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (PG) ***
(Dir: Hironobu Sakaguchi/Motonori Sakakibara, 106 mins) This is perhaps the best film yet to be adapted from the interactive computer games medium - though that still doesn't give it a depth of character to go with its…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Finding Forrester (12) **
(Dir: Gus Van Sant, 136 mins) Gus Van Sant's latest eccentric career choice seems to be to rework his own 'Good Will Hunting', with a hint of 'Scent of a Woman', as a big, sprawling, self-important and largely bogus…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Finding Nemo (U) ****
(Dir: Andrew Stanton/Lee Unkrich, 100 mins) It’s not up to the standards of the ‘Toy Story’ flicks, the linear quest plot springs few surprises, and there’s some rather sappy “I love you dad”/“I love you son” bonding,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Finding Neverland (PG) ****
(Dir: Marc Forster, 106 mins) It's 1903 and having just seen his latest play flop, noted Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie (a softly accented Johnny Depp) is seeking inspiration when he chances upon widow Sylvia Llewelyn…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fire in Babylon (12A)
UK 2011 87 mins Dir: Stevan Riley A considerable improvement on Stevan Riley's Oxford University boxing flick 'Blue Blood', this joins the recent glut of engaging sports documentaries that do not presuppose the…01.07.2011 READ MORE -
Fired Up (12A) *
(Dir: Will Gluck, 2009, 90 mins) When a teen sex comedy leaves you yearning for the wit, sophistication and humanity of the ‘American Pie’ flicks, you know you’re in trouble. ‘Fired Up’ teens-down the ‘Wedding Crashers’…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fireflies in the Garden (15) **
(Dir: Dennis Lee, 2008, 99 mins) A tragedy brings a clan together to revisit the skeletons in their over-stuffed closet. The audience, meanwhile, is forced to revisit every dysfunctional family flick cliché, accompanied…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Firehouse Dog (PG) **
(Dir: Todd Holland, 2007, 111 mins) An unlikely mongrel cross between ‘Lassie’ and ‘Backdraft’, this mediocre and overlong family comedy has earnest Josh (‘Little Manhattan’, ‘Bridge Over Terabithia’) Hutcherson doing…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Firelight (15) **
(Dir: William Nicholson, 113 mins) Anxious to help her debt-hounded father, Swiss governess Sophie Marceau accepts a financial proposition from an anonymous English aristocrat (Stephen Dillane). This involves spending…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Firewall (12A) *
(Dir: Richard Loncraine, 105 mins) A feeble thriller with a plot you’ve seen a thousand times before. Virginia Madsen is wasted in a rubbish, cardboardy screaming spouse role. Paul Bettany gets one of those suave,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Firm, The (2009) (18) ***
(Dir: Nick Love, 2009, 90 mins) In his most mature film to date, the ‘Daddy’ of British geezer movies pays tribute to the “authentic British working class film-making” that inspired him to become a writer-director. But…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
First Daughter (PG) *
(Dir: Forest Whitaker, 106 mins) It’s a rare film that manages to squeeze all the likeability out of Katie Holmes, but this inept teencom manages the task without breaking sweat. She’s Samantha Mackenzie, the bland…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
First Day of the Rest of Your Life, The (15) ***
(Dir: Remi Bezancon, 2009, 113 mins, subtitles) Fancy a Richard Curtis movie without all the cheap emotional manipulation? Well if you don’t mind squinting at subtitles, this somewhat sudsy, atypical French flick does…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
First Sunday (12A) *
(Dir: David E. Talbert, 2008, 98 mins) Would you believe that Ice Cube gets Gawd, in a vague kinda way, in this painful attempt to fuse the muthafuckas-in-the-‘hood and faith comedy genres? No, really. He plays petty…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
First Wives Club, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Hugh Wilson, 102 mins) Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton are three comfortably well-off, middle-aged women whose husbands’ libidos have wandered towards younger and firmer flesh. Determined not to suffer…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fish Tank (15) ****
(Dir: Andrea Arnold, 2009, 124 mins) ‘Red Road’ director Andrea Arnold’s lauded second feature begins as a near-parodic social realist underclass drama with enough ‘cunts’ to make Danny Dyer blush and a repellent surly…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Five Children and It (U) **
(Dir: John Stephenson, 89 mins) A shoddy adaptation of ‘Railway Children’ author E. Nesbit’s less well-known novel, published in 1902 but updated to WWI. When pilot pater is dispatched to battle the Hun, mother (Tara…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Five Obstructions, The (15) ***
(Dir: Lars Von Trier/Jorgen Leth, 90 mins). Now a distinguished academic, Jorgen Leth once made an acclaimed short film entitled ‘The Perfect Human’. Dogmatic Lars Von Trier was one of Leth’s students and there is a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flags of Our Fathers (15) ****
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 132 mins) While Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of James Bradley’s bestseller, co-written by Paul Haggis, explores the background to Joe Rosenthal’s iconic image of military heroism, it also takes an…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flamenco (U) **
(Dir: Carlos Saura, 100 mins) The undisputed master of the hoofing flick, Carlos Saura serves up a flamenco performance film featuring more than 100 of the most highly regarded exponents of the form, covering every…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flanders (18) **
(Dir: Bruno Dumont, 2006, 92 mins, subtitles) Another slice of glum from the king of austere, Bresson-esque rural miserablism, who’s adored by Cannes gong-givers. Dumont returns to nondescript smalltown north-east…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flash of Genius (12A) ***
(Dir: Marc Abraham, 2008, 119 mins) A true-life David Vs Goliath struggle pitting a plucky man of principle against the malign forces of corporate scumbaggery is certain to strike a chord in the current economic…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flashbacks of a Fool (15) ***
(Dir: Baillie Walsh, 2008, 114 mins) Daniel Craig is Joe Scott, a selfish, aging, washed-up Hollywood movie star who lives alone in a vast, palatial beachfront abode. After a phone call from his mother (Olivia Williams)…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flawless (15) **
(Dir: Joel Schumacher, 110 mins) Joel Schumacher proves he can make small-scale odd-couple human drama that's just as obvious and predictable as his big, empty popcorn flicks. Even the class double-act of Robert De Niro…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flawless (2008) (12A) **
(Dir: Michael Radford, 2007, 108 mins) A refreshingly low-tech entry in the heist genre, whisking us back to 1960, when CCTV was in its infancy, fingerprinting was as far as biological evidence got, the cops relied on…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fled (18) **
Assigned to break a few rocks down in deepest Redneck Country, cocky ex-computer hacker turned convict Stephen Baldwin soon finds himself cuffed to fellow inmate Laurence Fishburne. After a fracas which turns into a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flight of the Phoenix (12A) ***
(Dir: John Moore, 113 mins) A remake of Robert Aldrich’s Oscar-nominated 1965 disaster flick precursor to take advantage of digital technology that can conjure up painlessly those action sequences which claimed the life…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flight of the Red Balloon (PG) ***
(Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007, 115 mins, subtitles) Anyone anticipating an expansion of Albert Lamorisse’s popular, Oscar-winning 1956 short – a fluffy, dialogue-free fantasy about a small boy and his mystical balloon on…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flightplan (12A) ***
(Dir: Robert Schwentke, 97 mins) It’s ‘Panic Room’ on a plane! Well, not quite. But once again we get to see Jodie Foster doing her determined, protective, frowny mom-in-peril routine in an enclosed space, whose…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas, The (PG) **
(Dir: Brian Levant, 91 mins) Probably the least eagerly-anticipated prequel of all time. First appearances are not promising, since the main cast members give the impression that they're happy enough to be in a big…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flipper (PG) **
Small boy, cute aquatic mammal, evil polluting/exploitative scumbags, chaste teen romance, last-reel come-uppance . . . The conventions of what has been cruelly termed the seafood-bonding flick are so firmly established…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flirt (15) *
(Dir: Hal Hartley, 80 mins) Triple arthouse tedium alert! Those who’ve always claimed that left-of-centre director Hal Hartley has simply made the same film four times will feel vindicated after sitting through this,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flirting With Disaster (15) ***
(Dir: David O’Russell, 90 mins) Russell’s follow-up to his incest’n’masturbation comedy ‘Spanking the Monkey’ moves towards the mainstream without sacrificing the quirky seriousness of his humour. Part romantic comedy,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flower Of My Secret, The (15) ***
Fortysomething romantic fiction writer Marisa Parades’ mid-life crisis is exacerbated by the continued absence of her NATO officer hubby. Her sister and mother are constantly fighting, her best pal seems strangely…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flubber (U) *
(Dir: Les Mayfield, 93 mins) Robin Williams, still exploring his inner charmlessness, is the eponymous forgetful prof who even manages to miss his own wedding to the long-suffering Marcia Gay Harden while beavering away…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fluffer, The (18) ***
(Dir: Wash West/Richard Glatzer, 94 mins) Bisexual aspiring filmmaker Sean McGinnis rents a copy of 'Citizen Kane' from his local video store. But when he gets home and slots the tape into his VCR, he finds he's…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flushed Away (U) ***
(Dir: Sam Fell & David Bowers, 84 mins) Made in LA, Aardman’s first CGI venture is stranded somewhere in mid-Atlantic. The character design is distinctively Aardman-esque despite the move from plasticine to pixels, and…11.08.2009 READ MORE -
Fly Away Home (U) ***
(Dir: Carol Ballard, 107 mins) Oscar-winner Anna Paquin plays a young girl who’s packed off to Canada to live with her estranged father Jeff Daniels after the death of her mother. Father-daughter bonding is duly…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fly Me to the Moon (U) **
(Dir: Ben Stassam, 2008, 84 mins) Here’s a movie that has been constructed backwards, working from the title – which is, of course, that hummable standard made famous by Frank Sinatra – to the premise, which is – get…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flyboys (12A) **
(Dir: Tony Bill, 2006, 139 mins) A fascinating true-ish wartime story is ill served by this expensive drama, which carries unfortunate echoes of ‘Pearl Harbor’. Like that Michael Bay flopbuster, the vast budget for…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Flying Scotsman, The (15) **
(Dir: Douglas Mackinnon, 2007, 102 mins) It’s another of those plucky underdog yarns, this time with Jonny Lee Miller as champion Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree. But there’s something off about director Douglas…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fog of War, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Errol Morris, 107 mins) Subtitled ‘Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S McNamara’, this latest slice of Americana from maverick documentary film-maker Errol Morris is a wry, penetrating and timely study of the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fog, The (15) **
(Dir: Rupert Wainwright, 99 mins) ‘The Fog’ was always the lost gem in John Carpenter’s oeuvre. It certainly deserves a whole lot better than the mediocre remake treatment dished out here by hack director Rupert…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Food, Inc (PG) ****
(Dir: Robert Kenner, 2008, 94 mins) There’s little in this Oscar-nominated documentary that an educated, environmentally-conscious viewer won’t know already. But with articulate input from Eric (‘Fast Food Nation’)…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Fools Rush In (12) **
(Dir Andy Tennant, 109 mins) Corporate Manhattan suit Matthew Perry bumps into sultry Mexican-American Salma Hayek in a Las Vegas diner toilet queue, and they nip off for a shag. As you do. Three months later, she…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fool’s Gold (12A) *
(Dir: Andy Tennant, 2008, 112 mins) Matthew McConaughey, who now seems to believe that removing his shirt constitutes a performance, teams up again with equally goodwill-squandering Kate Hudson as if ‘How to Lose a Guy…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Foot Fist Way, The (15) ***
(Dir: Jody Hill, 2006, 83 mins) Shot in 19 days on a budget of jack-shit, this rough and ready strip mall martial arts comedy boasts a career-making performance by Danny McBride, whose casting subsequently became…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Football Factory, The (18) ***
(Dir: Nick Love, 91 mins) Young writer/director Nick Love whacks every penny of his meagre £500,000 budget up on screen, extracts excellent performances from a fine cast, and never betrays his subject by imposing a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
For Colored Girls (15)
(Dir: Tyler Perry, 2010, 133 mins) Despite being based on a well-regarded feminist 'choreo-theatrical-poem' and starring almost every 'woman of color' in Tinseltown, this soapy feast of overwrought emoting and…09.12.2010 READ MORE -
For Love of the Game (12) **
(Dir: Sam Raimi, 138 mins) Kevin Costner’s career could only take an upward trajectory after 'The Postman', while director Sam Raimi was always going to have trouble maintaining the standard set by 'A Simple Plan'. 'For…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
For Your Consideration (12A) ****
(Dir: Christopher Guest, 2006, 86 mins) This breaks slightly with the mock-doc format of previous Christopher Guest semi-improv comedies but carries over his familiar troupe of talented ditzes (plus Ricky Gervais) and…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Forbidden Kingdom, The (12A) **
(Dir: Rob Minkoff, 2008, 104 mins) This together-at-last, kiddie-oriented teaming of aging chop-socky heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li references sundry Chinese legends and novels, but the plot sticks to the tried and…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (15) ****
(Dir: Nicholas Stoller, 2008, 111 mins) “The world’s first romantic disaster comedy” is up there with the Judd Apatow comedy factory’s ‘Superbad’ and ‘Knocked Up’, while continuing the team’s faintly alarming obsession…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Forgotten, The (12A) *
(Dir: Joseph Ruben, 91 mins) Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is stricken with grief after the death of her nine-year-old son in a plane accident. But then he starts to disappear from the family photographs and videos she…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Forsaken, The (18) **
(Dir: J.S. Cardone) A road/vampire movie with teen leads, this feels a lot like a sexed-up pilot for a TV series crossbreeding 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with 'Gary and Mike'. Kerr Smith, a Los Angeles film editor,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Forty Shades of Blue (15) **
(Dir: Ira Sachs, 107 mins) If one were to come up with an algorithm for the archetypal US indie flick, the script for ‘Forty Shades of Blue’ would be spewed out within seconds. It’s got everything: angst-ridden rich…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fountain, The (15) **
(Dir: Darren Aronofsky, 96 mins) Some will see Darren Aronofsky’s audience divider as a transcendent meditation on mortality. Others will suspect that he’s has bitten off considerably more than he can chew, his…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Four Brothers (15) ***
(Dir: John Singleton, 109 mins) John (‘Boyz N the Hood’) Singleton belatedly gets back on track with an urban revenge western that’s certain to trouble the Morality Police. When community-spirited little old dear Evelyn…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Four Christmases (12A) ***
(Dir: Seth Gordon, 2008, 88 mins) A shallow festive comedy which depicts American Christmases at home as battlegrounds but clearly has a soft-centre. No matter how many babies sick up on designer dresses, you know…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Four Feathers, The (15) **
(Dir: Shekhar Kapur, 130 mins) This seventh screen version of A.E.W. Mason’s imperialist novel set in the Sudan campaign certainly seemed intriguing enough, directed as it is by Indian-born Shekhar (‘Elizabeth’) Kapur.…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Four Lions (15) *****
(Dir: Chris Morris, 2010, 101 mins) It’s a safe bet that you never thought you’d be weeping with laughter at a film about bumbling British jihadists. Without giving too much away, Chris Morris doesn’t wimp out of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Fox and the Child, The (U) ***
(Dir: Luc Jacquet, 2007, 95 mins) French wildlife film-maker Luc Jacquet’s follow-up to ‘March of the Penguins’ takes a further step into the treacle swamps with a semi-autobiographical fairytale-esque narrative…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fracture (15) ***
(Dir: Gregory Hoblit, 2007, 113 mins) Wealthy super-genius Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins, with an Irish brogue) calmly shoots his adulterous wife (Embeth Davidtz) in the head, then waits for the LAPD hostage negotiator…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frailty (15) ****
(Dir: Bill Paxton, 100 mins) Actor Bill Paxton’s directorial debut is an indie-feeling, unsettling picture of everyday psychosis, highlighting his own creepy, sincere performance as a Fundamentalist Christian serial…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Franklyn (15) ***
(Dir: Gerald McMorrow, 2008, 97 mins) What a pleasure to see a low-budget Britflick with a bit of visual ambition. First-time director Gerald McMorrow’s self-styled “modern fairytale for cynical times” circumnavigates…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Freaky Friday (PG) **
(Dir: Mark S. Waters, 93 mins) A wholesome, formulaic Disney remake of the studio’s own forgotten 1976 mom/daughter bodyswap flick, whose only redeeming feature is a sparkling performance by Jamie Lee Curtis. She plays…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fred Claus (PG) *
(Dir: David Dobkin, 2007, 115 mins) Paul Giamatti squeezes into the fat suit for this lazy, tedious, overlong and painfully predictable steaming pile of Santa shite. Here’s the joke. Sibling rivalry in the Claus…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fred: The Movie (12A)
(Dir: Clay Weiner, 2010, 83 mins) Lucas Cruikshank's squeaky-voiced internet creation Fred Figglehorn must rank as the most annoying child character to infest the big screen since the 'Problem Child' movies. Seriously,…15.12.2010 READ MORE -
Freddy vs Jason (18) ***
(Dir: Ronny Yu, 97 mins) The grudge match set up to be the ‘Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man’ of the New Millennium finally makes it to the screen a decade or so after the original petering-out of both the Nightmare on…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (U) **
(Dir: Sam Pillsbury, 88 mins) Jesse, the brat from the first two Willies is now 17, but instead of chasing girls and being obnoxious during his summer vacation, this particular teenager in keen to spend his time as a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Freebird (15) *
(Dir: Jon Ivay, 2008, 93 mins) Adapted from his own stage play by Jon Ivay, this “rock and roll road movie comedy set in Wales” aims to revive ageing bikers’ memories of 1979’s ‘Quadrophenia’ with the casting of Phil…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Freedom Writers (12A) **
(Dir: Richard LaGravenese, 2006, 122 mins) Strip away the attention-grabbing context of the aftermath of the1992 LA riots and ‘Freedom Writers’ is yet another of those inspirational inner city schoolteacher yarns in the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Freedomland (15) **
(Dir: Joe Roth, 113 mins) An overwrought drama that plays the race card with all the finesse of the LAPD asking a black suspect to assist with their enquiries, ‘Freedomland’ oozes ishoo movie self-importance, but…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Freeze Frame (15) ***
(Dir: John Simpson, 98 mins) Lee Evans is on unexpectedly impressive form here as a creepy loner who escaped conviction as a brutal serial killer on a technicality but is still regarded as the only suspect. He’s become…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
French Twist (18) ****
When happily married, unadventurous housewife Victoria Abril opens the door of her picture postcard house, she finds large, lusty, pot-smoking dyke Josiane Balasko on her doorstep. The two women strike up an unlikely…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frequency (15) ***
(Dir: Gregory Hoblit, 118 mins) Boasting a classic ‘Twilight Zone’ premise, this hooks the audience in so cleverly that you're swept along even when its set-up is foolishly dissipated in a tired old whodunnit/thriller…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (15) ***
(Dir: Gareth Carrivick, 2009, 83 mins) This small-scale British slacker movie rather too bluntly does for science fiction what ‘Shaun of the Dead’ did for horror. Fannish nerd Ray (Chris O’Dowd), just fired from his…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frida (15) ***
(Dir: Julie Taymor, 118 mins) A half-Mexican, half-German-Jewish artist who survived a terrible childhood injury that left her in pain for most of her adult life, Frida Kahlo went on to marry philandering Commie dauber…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Friday Night Lights (12A) ***
(Dir: Peter Berg, 117 mins) Based, inevitably, on a true story, this American football flick blends the light racial politics of ‘Remember the Titans’ with the restless camerawork of Ollie Stone’s ‘Any Given Sunday’…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Friday the 13th (18) **
(Dir: Marcus Nispel, 2009, 97 mins) This Michael Bay-produced “reimagining” of the 80s slasher franchise is helmed by expat German Marcus Nispel, who did such an unexpectedly creditable job with the ‘Texas Chainsaw…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Friends with Benefits (15)
USA 2011 109 mins Dir: Will Gluck Starring: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins If, for some unaccountable reason, you contrived to miss 'No Strings Attached' a few months…09.09.2011 READ MORE -
Friends with Money (15) ****
(Dir: Nicole Holofcener, 88 mins) Nicole Holofcener's astringent comedy drama stars Jennifer Aniston as Olivia, a maid with the titular moneyed friends: a trio of fortysomething LA women who are extremely solicitous…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frighteners, The (15) ***
(Dir: Peter Jackson, 110 mins) ‘Brain Damage’ and ‘Heavenly Creatures’ director Peter Jackson changes tack again with this undemanding but entertaining comedy-horror in the ‘Ghostbusters’ mode. Michael J. Fox is a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
From Dusk Till Dawn (18) ***
The cult-pulp juggernaut rolls on as Quentin Tarantino uses his clout not only to get made an old schlock script he wrote during his video clerk days, but lands buddy Robert Rodriguez the directing gig and cops himself…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
From Hell (18) **
(Dir: Allen and Albert Hughes, 122 mins) Seasoned Ripperologists will object to almost anything put onscreen, as is their wont and, indeed, duty. But if you experience a strange feeling of deja vu as you watch Allen and…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
From Paris With Love (15) **
(Dir: Pierre Morel, 2010, 92 mins) The ‘Taken’ team of director Pierre Morel and producer Luc Besson (who also performs ‘original story’ duties) return with a very similar yarn. This time it’s a mismatched-buddy flick,…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Frost/Nixon (15) ****
(Dir: Ron Howard, 2008, 122 mins) Ron Howard is often criticised for being a nuts-and-bolts director with little to offer in the way of visual flair. But when you’ve got a story as strong as this, his meticulous,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Frozen (15) ***
(Dir: Adam Green, 2010, 93 mins) A neat idea, cleverly executed in a film that doesn’t outstay its welcome, this is a minimalist “what would you do?” chiller that adapts the ‘Adrift’ template to a chairlift.…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Frozen River (15) ****
(Dir: Courtney Hunt, 2008, 96 mins) Melissa Leo was an unexpected Oscar nominee, but there’s no grandstanding in Courtney Hunt’s gripping, low-key, non-judgemental people-trafficking flick, which focuses not on the…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Full Frontal (18) ***
(Dir: Steven Soderbergh, 101 mins) As anyone who saw Steven Soderbergh’s earlier, engagingly weird ‘Schizopolis’ will know, low-budget Steve is a very different proposition to big-budget Steve. So those attracted by…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Full Monty, The (15) ****
(Dir: Peter Cattaneo, 91 mins) A film about unemployed Sheffield steelworkers forming their own Chippendales-esque strip troupe may seem unpromising, but the real surprise here is how much director Peter Cattaneo…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Fun With Dick And Jane (12A) **
(Dir: Dean Parisot, 90 mins) Fired from his job at corporate behemoth Globodyne immediately after being promoted, Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) finds it impossible to get a new job. Before long, he and wife Jane (Tea Leoni)…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Funeral, The (18) *****
(Dir: Abel Ferrara, 99 mins) Shot back-to-back with his contemporary vampire yarn ‘The Addiction’, Abel Ferrara serves up the second great gangster movie of 1997 after ‘Donnie Brasco’. When a young mafioso is gunned…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Funny Bones (15) ****
Peter Chelsom's previous film, 'Hear My Song', could hardly have prepared us for this dark comic yarn about an unfunny American comedian (Oliver Platt) who returns to his Blackpool birthplace in search of inspiration,…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Funny Games (18) ****
(Dir: Michael Haneke, 103 mins) A playful, provocative and intense contribution to the movie violence controversy, which ratchets up the debate a notch or two with audacious self-referential interludes and a message you…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Funny Games (US) (18) ****
(Dir: Michael Haneke, 2007, 107 mins) Michael Haneke’s shot-for-shot remake of his 1997 German picture allows him to wag a disapproving finger at a far larger complicit audience. By now, you know the drill: an…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Funny People (15) ***
(Dir: Judd Apatow, 2009, 146 mins) Don’t be fooled by that title. This time one man comedy factory Judd Apatow wants to be taken seriously, which is always a bad sign in someone who’s built a career on the dick jokes…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
Furry Vengeance (PG) *
(Dir: Roger Kumble, 2010, 91 mins) Brendan Fraser comes a cropper in this cheap, lazy, painfully unfunny eco-parable. Having produced such excellent, socially conscious documentaries as ‘Food, Inc’ and‘The Cove’,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
The Fifth Element (PG) **
(Dir: Luc Besson, 127 mins) Luc Besson’s $90 million dream project is noisy, visually impressive, occasionally entertaining and mostly very stupid indeed, with a cast boasting the talents of Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Five Obstructions (15) ***
(Dir: Lars Von Trier/Jorgen Leth, 90 mins). Now a distinguished academic, Jorgen Leth once made an acclaimed short film entitled ‘The Perfect Human’. Dogmatic Lars Von Trier was one of Leth’s students and there is a…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Fountain (15) **
(Dir: Darren Aronofsky, 96 mins) Some will see Darren Aronofsky’s audience divider as a transcendent meditation on mortality. Others will suspect that he’s has bitten off considerably more than he can chew, his…11.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Future (12A)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Miranda July Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres An old geezer proudly recites his bawdy limerick about Santa. A nightshirt takes on a life of its own and…04.11.2011 READ MORE
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Another Earth (12A)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Mike Cahill Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother Things the movies tell…
Released 09.12.11
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Las Acacias (12A)
Argentina/Spain 2011 86 mins Subtitles Dir: Pablo Giorgelli Starring: German de Silva, Hebe Durate…
Released 09.12.11
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Puss In Boots (U)
USA 2011 90 mins Dir: Chris Miller Starring (voices): Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach…
Released 09.12.11
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Mysteries of Lisbon (PG)
Portugal/France 2010 266 mins Subtitles Dir: Raoul Ruiz Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria Joao Bastos,…
Released 09.12.11
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (12A)
USA 2011 117mins Dir: Bill Condon Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner As we…
Released 07.12.11
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The Thing (15)
USA 2011 103 mins Dir: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton,…
Released 02.12.11
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Romantics Anonymous (12A)
France/Belgium 2010 78 mins Subtitles Dir: Jean-Pierre Ameris Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle…
Released 02.12.11
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We Have a Pope (PG)
Italy/France 2011 104 mins Subtitles Dir: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr,…
Released 02.12.11
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The Deep Blue Sea (12A)
UK 2011 98 mins Dir: Terence Davies Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale…
Released 25.11.11
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Dream House (15)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Jim Sheridan Starring: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas…
Released 25.11.11
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Take Shelter (15)
USA 2011 121 mins Dir: Jeff Nicholls Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain Imagine the first…
Released 25.11.11
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The British Guide to Showing Off (15)
UK 2011 97 mins Dir: Jes Benstock If you've a high tolerance of exceedingly camp middle-aged men…
Released 20.11.11
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Snowtown (18)
Australia 2011 115 mins Dir: Justin Kurzel Starring: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris…
Released 18.11.11
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Arthur Christmas (U)
UK/USA 2011 Dir: Sarah Smith Starring (voices): James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim…
Released 11.11.11
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Tabloid (15)
USA 2010 87 mins Dir: Errol Morris Best known for heavy-duty documentaries such as the…
Released 11.11.11
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Trespass (15)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Joel Schumacher Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben…
Released 11.11.11
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The Awakening (15)
UK 2011 107 mins Dir: Nick Murphy Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton It'll never…
Released 11.11.11
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Weekend (18)
UK 2011 97 mins Dir: Andrew Haigh Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New Imagine that Richard Linklater…
Released 04.11.11
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The Future (12A)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Miranda July Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky,…
Released 04.11.11
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The Ides of March (15)
USA 2011 101 mins Dir: George Clooney Starring: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour…
Released 31.10.11
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The Help (12A)
USA 2011 146 mins Dir: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia…
Released 28.10.11
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Miss Bala (15)
Mexico 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Gerardo Naranjo Starring: Stephanie Sigman, James Russo, Noe…
Released 28.10.11
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Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
USA 2011 107 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost,…
Released 25.10.11
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Monte Carlo (PG)
USA 2011 109 mins Dir: Thomas Bezucha Starring: Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy,…
Released 21.10.11
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (15)
UK/USA 2011 112 mins Dir: Lynne Ramsay Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper…
Released 21.10.11
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Contagion (12A)
USA 2011 106 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion…
Released 21.10.11
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (12A)
Sweden 2011 96 mins Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson A necessarily rather scrappy documentary whose natural…
Released 21.10.11
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Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (12A)
USA 2011 87 mins Dir: Morgan Spurlock If there's one thing more depressing in modern documentary…
Released 14.10.11
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Midnight in Paris (12A)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Woody Allen Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla…
Released 07.10.11
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Tyrannosaur (18)
UK 2011 92 mins Dir: Paddy Considine Starring: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan How do you…
Released 07.10.11
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The Debt (15)
USA 2011 113 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Hinds, Sam…
Released 30.09.11
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Guilty of Romance (18)
Japan 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Sion Sono Starring: Megumi Kagurazaka, Miki Mizuno, Makato…
Released 30.09.11
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Melancholia (15)
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011 135 mins Dir: Lars Von Trier Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte…
Released 30.09.11
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Red State (18)
USA 2011 88 mins Dir: Kevin Smith Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman Apparently…
Released 30.09.11
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Shark Night 3D (15)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: David R. Ellis Starring: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Sinqua…
Released 30.09.11
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