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Hachi – A Dog’s Tale (U) ***
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2009, 93 mins) A slow, old-fashioned, man-mutt bonding flick, clunkily Americanised by Lasse Hallstrom from a 1987 Japanese film based on the true story of the oriental Greyfriars Bobby. Rhode…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Hackers (12) **
‘Backbeat’ director Iain Softley has another stab at capturing youth culture, with a zeitgeist-surfing tale of rival teen hackers who accidentally penetrate a computer system at an opportune moment for villain The…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hadewijch (12A)
France 2009 105 mins Subtitles Dir: Bruno Dumont Starring: Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele Yay! The unprolific king of austere, Bressonian rural miserablism is back. It's been six years…13.04.2012 READ MORE -
Haine, La (18) ****
Talented 25-year-old Mathieu Kassovitz's award-winning account of 24 hours in the lives of a trio of unemployed, ethnically diverse, petty thieving teens on a depressing Parisian council estate. When one of the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hairspray (PG) ****
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 2007, 111 mins) Against all expectations, this turns out to be enormous fun from the moment original director John Waters appears in cameo as a flasher during opening song ‘Good Morning Baltimore’,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Half Light (15) **
(Dir: Craig Rosenberg, 110 mins) A third-rate ghostie flick that fails to bring Demi Moore’s career back from the dead. She plays an expat American writer whose first novel has made her a multi-millionaire (“Yeah,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Half Moon ***
(Dir: Bahman Ghobadi, 2006, 114 mins, subtitles) Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi has a more cinematic vision than his fellow countrymen, is particularly concerned with the plight of his Kurdish people, and is prone to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Half Nelson (15) ***
(Dir: Ryan Fleck, 2006, 107 mins) This Oscar-nominated drama attempts to do something a little more subversive with the well-worn ‘Dangerous Minds’ formula in which (generally white) inspirational schoolteachers steer…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Half Past Dead (15) *
(Dir: Don Michael Paul, 98 mins) Yet another attempt to broaden the appeal of charmless action lunk Steven Seagal by teaming him with a young rapper. This time, the unlovely oaf is an undercover Fed, much admired by his…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hall Pass (15)
(Dir: Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 2011, 105 mins) Young middle-aged Rick (Owen Wilson, coasting on amiability) and his lifelong buddy Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are as sex-obsessed and immature as they were in college, but…09.03.2011 READ MORE -
Hallam Foe (15) ****
(Dir: David Mackenzie, 2007, 95 mins) “I like creepy guys,” enthuses Kate Breck (Sophia Myles), little suspecting just how creepy Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) has become. His scheming yet undeniably hot stepmum (Claire…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Halloween (18) ***
(Dir: Rob Zombie, 2007, 110 mins) The fundamental pointlessness of the exercise notwithstanding, Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ is one of the better remakes of recent years. He’s certainly stamped his distinctive mark on the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Halloween II (18) **
(Dir: Rob Zombie, 2009, 105 mins) Guess what? Psycho Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) isn’t dead, as usual. Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) thought she’d finished him off, like, completely, utterly and forever at the end…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Halloween: H20 (18) *
(Dir: Steve Miner, 89 mins) Twenty years on from the original ‘Halloween’, Jamie Lee Curtis is the headmistress of a plush Californian boarding school, who bizarrely sends the entire school off on a camping trip on…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Halloween: Resurrection (15) *
(Dir: Rick Rosenthal, 89 mins) Masked bus pass psycho Michael Myers returns for his eighth bout of hack’n’slash. This time, the franchise has belatedly discovered the whole webcam/reality TV thing but has the misfortune…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hamam (15) ***
(Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek, 96 mins) Hunksome Italian yuppie control freak Francesco arrives in Istanbul partly to inspect the property his eccentric aunt bequeathed him and partly to get away from his wife and business…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hamlet (2000) **
(Dir: Michael Almereyda, 111 mins) Well it worked for Baz Luhrmann, didn't it? Grab a 400-year-old play, give it a good shake and put it down in contemporary America, throw in an attractive, young indie cast and loud…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hamlet (PG) ****
(Dir: Ken Branagh, 242 mins) Branagh’s 70mm widescreen Hamlet has an epic look to match its four hours of blockbusting tragedy. While transposing the action to the 19th century, he retains virtually all of Shakespeare’s…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hana-Bi (18) ***
(Dir: Takeshi Kitano, 103 mins) Taking its title from the Japanese for “fireworks”, cult director Takeshi Kitano’s latest tale of cops’n’crims boasts the usual blend of extreme bloody violence and elegiac contemplation,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hancock (12A) ***
(Dir: Peter Berg, 2008, 92 mins) John Hancock (Will Smith) can fly and is invulnerable, but is also a down-and-out drunk on Hollywood Blvd whose botched attempts at fighting crime always end up in disaster or disgrace.…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hands (PG) **
(Dir: Artus Aristakisyan, 129 mins) Four years in the making, shot in grainy black and white, and completely silent but for a voiceover narration and occasional portentous blasts of Verdi’s ‘Requiem’, ‘Hands’ consists…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hanging Garden, The (15) ***
(Dir: Thom Fitzgerald, 91 mins) When splendidly vulgar Rosemary (Kerry Fox, in the film’s best performance) gets married, a ghost from the past appears in the form of her brother, Sweet William (Chris Leavins). Things…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hanging Up (PG) *
(Dir: Diane Keaton, 94 mins) Walter Matthau is plucky old codger Lou, who's wheeled into hospital with the kind of Hollywood terminal illness whose major symptoms are a propensity to speak in tart one-liners. With pa in…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hanna (12A)
USA/UK/Germany 2011 111 mins Dir: Joe Wright Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Jessica Barden, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng The trademark exceedingly long hand-held shot and casting of…03.05.2011 READ MORE -
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (U) *
(Dir: Bruce Hendricks, 2008, 75 mins) In the grand tradition of the Partridge Family, the Monkees and, er, Hilary Duff, tweenie pop sensation Hannah Montana is both fictional TV character and real life pop star. In this…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hannah Montana – The Movie (U) *
(Dir: Peter Chelsom, 2009, 102 mins) Here’s a bit of much-needed context for the over-eights. Hannah Montana is a sexless, squeaky-clean manufactured Disney star. Literally so, since the conceit of the TV show from…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hannibal (18) ***
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 135 mins) Ridley Scott retains most of the supposedly unfilmable stuff from Thomas Harris’s follow-up to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, tweaks the ending while retaining its grossest element, and -…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hannibal Rising (18) **
(Dir: Peter Webber, 2007, 121 mins) Scripted by Thomas Harris himself, this piss-poor prequel details Hannibal Lecter’s traumatic experiences watching his parents being killed and sister Mischa served for lunch in 1944…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happening, The (15) ***
(Dir: M. Night Shyamalan, 2008, 91 mins) Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan painted himself into a corner with the breakthrough success of ‘The Sixth Sense’, and has been ticking off various paranormal sub-genres in a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happily N’Ever After (U) *
(Dir: Paul J. Bolger/Yvette Kaplan, 2007, 87 mins) Originally conceived as a conventional 2D animation but bumped up to 3D to take advantage of the CGI boom, this US-German co-production is a horrible, derivative mess…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happiness (18) ****
(Dir: Todd Solondz, 140 mins) Squirmingly embarrassing, provocatively offensive, fantastically acted, occasionally very funny, ‘Happiness’ is an ambitious ensemble piece that pushes at the bad taste envelope in its most…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happiness of the Katakuris, The (15) ***
(Dir: Miike Takashi, 113 mins) An unemployed Japanese shoe salesman moves his extended, dysfunctional family to the mountains, where he opens a guesthouse. Trouble is the guests have a habit of coming over all dead. So…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happy Ever Afters (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Burke, 2009, 101 mins) Yet another wedding-themed romcom, with slapperish bridegrooms, drunken guests, big misunderstandings, illicit couplings, skeletons tumbling from closets and so on. This Irish Film…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happy Feet (U) **
(Dir: George Miller, 108 mins) George (‘Babe: Pig in the City’) Miller uses motion capture technology to ape the striking visuals of ‘March of the Penguins’ for this story of a tap-dancing baby emperor penguin, which…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happy Gilmore (12) **
The first golfing comedy since ‘Caddyshack’ (excepting the over-generous ‘Caddyshack II’, of course), in which not-entirely-charmless, yet hardly charismatic ‘Saturday Night Live’ alumnus Adam Sandler stretches a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happy Together (15) **
(Dir: Wong Kar-Wai, 96 mins) The latest triumph of style over content from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai won the Best Director award at Cannes 1997 and follows in minute detail the break up of two gay lovers in exile.…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Happy-Go-Lucky (15) ****
(Dir: Mike Leigh, 2008, 118 mins) The aptly-named, primary-coloured ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ brushes lightly against some typically heavy themes (racism, school bullying, child abuse, stalking), but Mike Leigh has never been…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hard Candy (18) ***
(Dir: David Slade, 103 mins) There’s much to admire in David Slade’s ultra-controversial, slickly directed, two-handed chamber piece, which will certainly have male members of the audience crossing their legs during its…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hard Men (18) **
(Dir: J.K. Amalou, 87 mins) A flat and unstylish UK gangster flick with “straight to video” written all over it, this is the tale of London gangland debt collector Tone who wants to settle down. But his boss Pops Den…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hard Rain (15) **
(Dir: Mikael Salomon, 96 mins) An astonishingly unthrilling scholocky heist potboiler despite the promising premise: ruthless robbers of jetskis lay siege to an armoured car stranded in a waterlogged Ohio town. Plucky…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hard Word, The (18) ***
(Dir: Scott Roberts, 103 mins) This rough-around-the-edges, blackly comic crime flick from Down Under atones for its clumsy plotting and lack of originality with some impressive performances and an agreeable streak of…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hardball (12) *
(Dir: Brian Robbins, 106 mins) Roll up for an inspirational baseball movie. Starring Keanu Reeves. And if you need any more encouragement to give it a miss, director Brian Robbins also makes a cack-handed attempt at…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies (15) ***
(Dir: Danny Leiner, 88 mins) Danny Leiner’s follow-up to ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’ is another stoner flick about a pair of chaps in their early 20s whose goals in life are getting laid and wasted. That one of them is…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harriet The Spy (PG) ***
(Dir: Bronwen Hughes, 102 mins) Based on an American kids’ bestseller and probably best suited to girls aged 6-12, this follows our eponymous freckle-faced wannabe writer heroine (Michelle Trachtenberg) as she spies on…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Brown (18) ***
(Dir: Daniel Barber, 2009, 103 mins) This ‘urban Western’ tries to give Michael Caine the showcase the similar, but subtler ‘Gran Torino’ was for Clint Eastwood, but it’s basically ‘Death Wish’ with a bus-pass. A big…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (12A) ****
(Dir: Mike Newell, 157 mins) With death coming to Hogwarts, the fourth Potter instalment is the darkest yet. Heavily condensing Rowling's massive novel, its centrepiece is the Triwizard tournament and the Goblet's…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PG) ****
(Dir: Chris Columbus, 162 mins) Shorn of the necessity to set the scene, Chris Columbus’s second Potter flick simply dives right in with a non-stop, incident-filled adventure, which glides by so effortlessly that by the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (12A)
UK/USA 2011 130 mins Dir: David Yates Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter To some excitable commentators, this is an era-defining…15.07.2011 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (12A) ****
(Dir: David Yates, 2010, 146 mins) After the punishing tedium of the 'Order of the Phoenix' and 'Half-Blood Prince' instalments, both of which meandered and digressed merely in order to defer the inevitable showdown…17.11.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (12A) ***
Dir: David Yates, 2009, 153 mins) Essentially a bridging episode between the superior ‘Order of the Phoenix’ and the final showdown, ‘Half-Blood Prince’ begins strongly with a Death Eater attack on Tourist London and…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (12A) ****
(Dir: David Yates, 2007, 138 mins) Hogwarts comes over all political and (mildly) saucy in this fifth instalment, which sees the post-pubescent boy wizard getting very cross indeed, with only a pause for a snog, as the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PG) ****
(Dir: Chris Columbus, 152 mins) While it is flawed, this eagerly awaited adaptation is at the same time very, very good, tapping into a familiar vein of folksy wisdom under a compelling veneer of whimsy. In case you…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (PG) ****
(Dir: Alfonso Cuaron, 142 mins) With ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ director Alfonso Cuaron at the helm and the boy wizard and his chums growing up, this succeeds in pushing the limits of the PG certificate to deliver the best,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harry, He's Here To Help (15) ****
(Dir: Dominik Moll, 117 mins) During a service station break on a fraught journey to the remote farmhouse he’s doing up with his with Claire, thirtysomething Michel is approached by a man named Harry Balestrero (Sergi…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Harsh Times (15) ***
(Dir: David Ayer, 111 mins) Screenwriter David (‘Training Day’) Ayer’s directorial debut self-consciously invites comparisons with early Scorsese, notably ‘Taxi Driver’. His script might be more than a decade old, but…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hart's War (15) **
(Dir: Gregory Hoblit, 125 mins) A WWII POW drama that attempts a novel twist, exploring the racist treatment meted out to black Americans by their white fellow prisoners. Colin Farrell is the eponymous Lieutenant Thomas…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hatchet (18) **
(Dir: Adam Green, 2006, 84 mins) Ten minutes in to Adam Green’s resolutely old-school, CGI-free stalk’n’slash flick, we’ve already enjoyed two eviscerations, dozens of naked teenage breasts, and brief, knowing cameos by…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Haunted Mansion, The (PG) *
(Dir: Rob Minkoff, 86 mins) A haunted house flick so feeble that it makes Jan de Bont’s sterile remake of ‘The Haunting’ seem like a masterpiece, the perfunctory, mechanical plot of this theme park adaptation seeks to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Haunting in Connecticut, The (15) **
(Dir: Peter Cornwell, 2009, 102 mins) Yet another Amityville-style haunted house flick which is – yeah, right – “based on a true story.” Fortunately for the film-makers, this is one of those true stories that conforms…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Haunting, The (12) **
(Dir: Jan de Bont, 112 mins) A remake of Robert Wise’s effective 1963 ghost story, directed in loud, obvious, hectoring style by Jan De Bont, whose post-'Speed' career ('Twister', 'Speed 2', this) suggests his smash hit…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Haywire (15)
USA 2011 93 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas There are two Steven Soderberghs. One makes high-minded arthouse films.…20.01.2012 READ MORE -
He Got Game (15) ****
(Dir: Spike Lee, 131 mins) Jesus Shuttlesworth (Ray Allen) is the best highschool basketball player in America. Rival universities battle over him and even his greedy uncle and scheming girlfriend are after a slice of…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
He Was a Quiet Man (15) ***
(Dir: Frank A. Cappello, 2007, 99 mins) “‘Office Space’ meets ‘Falling Down’” is the obvious soundbite review of this pitch-black satire which boasts a revelatory performance by Christian Slater. With a receding…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Head Above Water (15) ***
(Dir: Jim Wilson, 92 mins) This little thriller – a remake of a little-seen Norwegian movie – is a throwback to the convoluted B-movies of the ‘60s. The unlikely set-up has Harvey Keitel as a judge married to younger…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Head On (18) ***
(Dir: Ana Kokkinos, 104 mins) A graphic and frenetic story of a young man struggling with his sexual identity in Australia's Greek community this stars Alex Dimitriades as the archetypal disaffected handsome yoof:…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Head-On (18) ****
(Dir: Fatih Akin, 121 mins) A multiple-award-winning tale of a spectacularly damaged expat Turkish couple, starring Birol Unel as lurching fortysomething alcoholic Cahit Tomruk, who works in a squalid German bar and…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Headhunters (15)
Norway/Germany 2011 100 mins Subtitles Dir: Morten Tyldum Starring: Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Olgaard, Eivind Sander Meet Roger Brown (Hennie). He's a complete bastard. A smug,…06.04.2012 READ MORE -
Heading South (15) ****
(Dir: Laurent Cantet, 108 mins) Unfairly maligned in some quarters for having the temerity to tell a story about sex tourism that doesn’t involve men exploiting women, this actually deserves applause for taking a frank…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Headless Woman, The (12A) *
(Dir: Lucrecia Martel, 2008, 89 mins, subtitles) Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel’s grotesquely over-praised film promises much but delivers virtually nothing. The set-up is intriguing enough to keep you wondering…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Heartbeat Detector (12A) **
(Dir: Nicolas Klotz, 2007, 140 mins, subtitles) This is a classic audience-divider. Some will see it as an ambitious and invigorating intellectual exploration of several weighty themes, including corporate…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heartbeats (15)
Canada 2010 101 mins Subtitles Dir: Xavier Dolan Starring: Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri Twenty-year-old gay French-Canadian writer/actor/director Xavier Dolan is clearly prodigiously talented.…27.05.2011 READ MORE -
Heartbreak Kid, The (15) **
(Dir: Peter and Bobby Farrelly, 2007, 115 mins) The Farrelly brothers’ raunchy marital mix-up comedy fails to match their best work. Ben Stiller tears it up as confirmed bachelor Eddie Cantrow, whose chance meeting with…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heartbreaker (15) ****
(Dir: Pascal Chaumeil, 2010, 105 mins, subtitles) There’s nothing wildly original about this hit French romcom. It follows a predictable path all the way to an obvious ending. But it’s also bright and breezy,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Heartbreakers (15) ***
(Dir: David Mirkin, 124 mins) It's 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' meets 'The Grifters'. Only not as good. But if you're prepared to sit back and enjoy the ride, 'Heartbreakers' is entertaining enough despite its many faults.…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heartless (18) ****
(Dir: Philip Ridley, 2010, 114 mins) Unprolific Philip (‘The Reflecting Skin’, ‘The Passion of Darkly Noon’) Ridley returns with a self-styled ‘urban fairytale’ set in his native East End. A psychological horror film…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Hearts In Atlantis (12) ***
(Dir: Scott Hicks, 101 mins) By no means the worst Stephen King adaptation you'll ever see, this handsome, languorous slice of King-by-numbers has the unfortunate effect of reminding you of the better ones as its…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heat (18) ****
Venerable oldsters Bob De Niro and Al Pacino have done everything but appear onscreen together. So it was inevitable that Michael Mann’s dream teaming would be hyped as an Event. Thankfully, his long, flashy, sprawling,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heaven (15) *
(Dir: Tom Tykwer, 96 mins) ‘Run Lola Run’ director Tom Tykwer resurrects a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, the collision between the latter’s meditations on fate and the former’s…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heavenly Creatures (18) ****
A flawlessly crafted, sympathetically observed and emotionally devastating account of the infamous Parker-Hulme murder case that shocked the New Zealand town of Christchurch in 1954. Peter ('Braindead') Jackson tells…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heaven’s Prisoners (18) *
Heaven’s Prisoners (18) * Catholic, alcoholic ex-New Orleans cop Alec Baldwin is getting it together on the Louisiana bayou when a plane flying over local waters loses a wing and slews straight into the drink. Alec…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heavy (15) ***
James Mangold’s impressive debut feature and Sundance Special Jury Award-winner is an unusual, heart-rendingly evocative quasi-romance. Pruitt Taylor Vince is a balding 20-stone cook at his mother Shelley Winters’ café…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (15) ****
(Dir: Suroosh Alvi & Eddy Moretti, 2007, 84 mins) Meet Acrassicauda, Iraq’s one and only heavy metal band, for whom the familiar metal themes of death and destruction are purely autobiographical. Canadians Suroosh Alvi…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (15) ***
(Dir: John Cameron Mitchell, 95 mins) John Cameron Mitchell's surreal film adaptation of his successful off-Broadway musical has a vitality, energy and originality that's likely to divide audiences. Think the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heidi (U) **
(Dir: Paul Marcus, 104 mins) The main problem faced by adaptations of Johanna Spyri’s children’s book is how to deal with its heavy-handed Christian moralising. Brian Finch’s script wisely eliminates the religious slant…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Heist (15) ***
(Dir: David Mamet, 107 mins) To say that 'Heist' is exactly what you might expect isn't to detract from the fact that it's a hugely enjoyable way to spend the best part of two hours, as it sees David Mamet returning to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Helen (PG) **
(Dir: Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, 2009, 79 mins) Annoying and over-rated, short filmmakers Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s feature debut squanders an intriguing idea with a surfeit of torpor, modishly droning…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hell (15) ***
(Dir: Danis Tanovic, 98 mins) Polish director Krysztof Kieslowski died before he could film his arthouse franchise based on the three realms of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. Last year, Tom Tykwer made ‘Heaven’. Here Bosnian…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hellboy (12A) ****
(Dir: Guillermo Del Toro, 122 mins) Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro pulls off the smartest superhero flick of the year, boasting greater emotional depth than a film about a giant asymmetric red bloke with a pointy…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (12A) ****
(Dir: Guillermo Del Toro, 2008, 120 mins) Del Toro’s defiantly star-free ‘Hellboy II’ skips nimbly round those familiar sequel pitfalls, serving up some brilliant creatures and trademark clockwork devices, and working…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Help! I'm a Fish (U) **
(Dir: Michael Hegner/Stefan Fjeldmark, 78 mins) A repackaged and revoiced hit Danish animation, this tells the story of three kids who find their way into the secret underground lair of absent-minded Professor Mac Krill…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Henry Fool (18) ***
(Dir: Hal Hartley, 137 mins) Hal Hartley: deep thinker or pretentious tosser. It’s a question that has divided audiences throughout his career and will seem all the more pertinent after ‘Henry Fool’. Fool (Thomas Jay…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Henry's Crime (15)
(Dir: Malcolm Venville, 2010, 108 mins) Easygoing-to-the-point-of-catatonia Henry Torne (Keanu Reeves) winds up convicted of a bank robbery he didn't know he was involved in. Inside, he's mentored by institutionalised…12.01.2011 READ MORE -
Herbie: Fully Loaded (U) **
(Dir: Angela Robinson, 101 mins) A witty opening montage of newspaper headlines charting Herbie’s rise and fall, thereby introducing a new generation to this creaky franchise, is about as good as this anaemic makeover…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hercules (U) ****
(Dir: John Musker/Ron Clements, 91 mins) Disney’s 35th animated feature underperformed at the US box office, but it’s hard to see why, given that it’s the corporation’s best since ‘Aladdin’ and a good deal less…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hereafter (12A)
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 2011, 129 mins) A rare stinker from Clint Eastwood, with an atypically clunky screenplay by Peter Morgan that might cut the mustard with those of an undiscriminating spiritual bent, but is much too…26.01.2011 READ MORE -
Hero (12A) *****
(Dir: Zhang Yimou, 96 mins) Epic in scope and sumptuous in execution, Zhang Yimou’s Oscar-nominated, ‘Rashomon’-esque ‘Hero’ is the most expensive film ever made in China. Jet Li plays a nameless warrior who arrives at…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hey Arnold! The Movie (U) *
(Dir: Tuck Tucker, 76 mins) Originally conceived as three separate TV episodes to conclude the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series, ‘The Movie’ simply staples ‘em together and invites the 45 million people who apparently…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
He’s Just Not That Into You (12A) **
(Dir: Ken Kwapis, 2009, 129 mins) In a Baltimore that exists in some far-distant pastel parallel universe, nine pretty, young(-ish) people in fake yuppie jobs like real estate, ad sales or spice promotion (!) play at…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hi-Lo Country, The (15) ***
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 115 mins) An elegiac western bestriding WWII, with lots of rootin'-tootin', mildly homoerotic male bonding and a performance by Woody Harrelson as big as those widescreen cattle country landscapes…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hidalgo (12A) **
(Dir: Joe Johnston, 136 mins) Looking distinctly uncomfortable, miscast Viggo ‘Aragorn’ Mortensen plays Frank Hopkins, a part-Sioux pony express rider who’s worryingly close to his eponymous steed. After witnessing a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hidden (15) ****
(Dir: Michael Haneke, 117 mins) Michael Haneke’s Cannes award-winner returns to the territory of 1997’s ultra-controversial ‘Funny Games’. The unsettling tone is established with the lengthy opening shot: a static…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hidden Blade, The (15) ***
(Dir: Yoji Yamada, 132 mins) Whoa! A 19th century Samurai yarn whose central character is the keeper of a secret, deadly technique known as the “devil’s claw”. Any Taranteenies feeling the uncomfortable necessity to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hide and Seek (15) **
(Dir: John Polson, 101 mins) Bob De Niro continues his run of duds with John Polson’s cheap psychological thriller, which makes ‘Godsend’ look positively Hitchcockian. Bob’s an emotionally distant Manhattan shrink who…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hideous Kinky (15) ***
(Dir: Gillies MacKinnon, 98 mins) Fleeing a failed relationship and the grimness of early '70s London, 25-year-old Julia (Kate Winslet) whisks her daughters Bea and Lucy off on the hippy trail to Marrakech. But having…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High Art (18) ***
(Dir: Lisa Cholodenko, 101 mins) A leaky bath sends 24-year-old Manhattanite Syd (Radha Mitchell) upstairs to the heroin den populated by a bunch of Big Apple bohemian types led by reclusive photographer Lucy (Ally…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High Crimes (12A) ***
(Dir: Carl Franklin, 115 mins) An adequate military courtroom thriller that succeeds primarily in reminding viewers of other examples of this burgeoning sub-genre – chiefly the superior ‘A Few Good Men’. Attorney Ashley…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High Fidelity (15) ****
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 113 mins) There’s a collective sigh of relief all across blokeland as Stephen Frears’ transposition of Nick Hornby’s very English novel to Chicago turns out to be a very pleasant surprise, thanks,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High Heels and Low Lifes (15) *
(Dir: Mel Smith, 86 mins) A comedy-thriller that manages to be neither funny nor thrilling, Mel Smith's truly wretched amalgam of half-baked 'Thelma and Louise'-style girl power antics and trad Brit crime capering…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High School High (15) **
(Dir: Hart Bochner, 89 mins) The absurd Inspirational Inner City Schoolteacher genre, from ‘Stand and Deliver’ to ‘Dangerous Minds’, has long been ripe for lampooning, though a smidgen more subtlety wouldn’t have gone…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (U) ***
(Dir: Kenny Ortega, 2008, 112 mins) A wholesome, non-alcoholic cocktail of romance, dance, sanitised R&B, AOR ballads and insipid pin-ups, HSM has become a cultural phenomenon among young girls. It’s set in New Mexico’s…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Highway Patrolman (15) ****
'Repo Man' director Alex Cox's first film since 1987 is a Spanish-language satire on the Mexican highway cop genre. Rookie cop Pedro brims with idealism at the thought of upholding the law on Mexico's harsh highways.…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hilary and Jackie (15) ****
(Dir: Anand Tucker, 121 mins) "Let's get a flat together and go bonkers!" suggests the young Jacqueline du Pre (Emily Watson), in an attempt to dissuade her flautist sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths) from marrying…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hills Have Eyes II, The (18) ***
(Dir: Martin Weisz, 2007, 89 mins) A sequel to a remake of something that already had a sequel, this Wes Craven-scripted flick doesn’t revisit the storyline of his original or Alexandre Aja’s remake but opts instead to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hills Have Eyes, The (18) ****
(Dir: Alexandre Aja, 107 mins) Mercifully, this re-working of Wes Craven’s 1977 cannibal shocker was made, with his blessing, by die-hard genre fan Alexandre Aja. Craven’s grainy, low-budget horror movie was shot with a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Himalaya (PG) ***
(Dir: Eric Valli, 104 mins) About 20 minutes into the Oscar-nominated 'Himalaya', it dawns on you why this visually striking film inspires a sense of deja vu. Basically, it's just one of those old cattle drive westerns…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
History Boys, The (15) ***
(Dir: Nicholas Hytner, 112 mins) This second collaboration between Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner has already bagged a heap of Tony and Olivier awards. It certainly helps that the original stage cast have reunited for…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
History of Violence, A (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 -
Hitch (12A) ***
(Dir: Andy Tennant, 115 mins) Rather like the disastrous update of ‘Alfie’, this romcom takes a premise straight out of the sexist 60s – the shady guy who teaches nerdy blokes the secrets of how to cop off with…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hitcher, The (15) **
(Dir: Dave Meyers, 2007, 84 mins) Script tinkering on this pointless update of a film that was made just 20 years ago is minimal at first, but the perceived demands of jaded teens lead to a risible sub-Lara Croft climax…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (PG) **
(Dir: Garth Jennings, 110 mins) Whereas the much-derided TV series had the feel of an epic adventure, the disappointing long-gestating film version of Douglas Adams’ classic charges through a Reader’s Digest condensed…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hitman (15) **
(Dir: Xavier Gens, 2007, 93 mins) Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) has been raised from infancy to be one of a cadre of lethal assassins, but winds up in a plot soup that mixmasters the Bourne films and ‘Shooter’. On the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hoax, The (15) ****
(Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2006, 115 mins) Veteran treaclemeister Lasse Hallstrom teams up with Richard Gere for a project that appears tailor made for the Soderbergh/Clooney dream team. Against expectations, it’s…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hold Back the Night (15) **
(Dir: Philip Davis, 104 mins) Three apparently ill-matched souls find a measure of understanding in this all-too-telegraphed drama from actor-turned-director Philip Davis. Charleen is on the run from her home in the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hole in My Heart, A (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 -
Hole, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Joe Dante, 2010, 92 mins) A single mom moves her unwilling brood – including Surly Teen and Cute Moppet – into a new house in a small town and obligingly goes to work for long periods, leaving them to encounter…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Hole, The (15) ****
(Dir: Nick Hamm, 102 mins) Adapted from the novel 'After the Hole' by then-teenage novelist Guy Burt, this is a creepy Rashomon-style tale of public school dastardly deeds. It opens with Thora Birch stumbling bloodied…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Holes (PG) ***
(Dir: Andrew Davies, 117 mins) Louis Sachar’s novel ‘Holes’ is venerated by the Harry Potter crowd and has been hailed as the equal of anything written by Roald Dahl. But those who’ve been bypassed by the phenomenon…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Holiday, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Nancy Meyers, 135 mins) ‘Love, Actually’ meets ‘Wife Swap’ in this festive screwball romcom with Kate Winslet as a Telegraph hackette with a messy love life who exchanges houses with Hollywood career women Cameron…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hollow Man (18) **
(Dir: Paul Verhoeven, 114 mins) Just imagine. You're a brilliant research scientist beavering away in a top secret government bunker on a mission to make a human invisible. When you crack it and come over all illicitly…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hollow Reed (15) **
When his young son shows up sporting a nasty head injury, gay Martin Donovan has cause to suspect his ex-wife Joely Richardson’s new boyfriend Jason Flemyng of child abuse. Filmed on location in Bath and well performed…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hollywood Homicide (12A) **
(Dir: Ron Shelton, 111 mins). As he struggles with the challenge of loosening up to do a bit of light comedy, the grumpy old Harrison Ford has rarely looked so uncomfortable. More dog’s breakfast than curate’s egg,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hollywoodland (15) ****
(Dir: Allen Coulter, 126 mins) The feature debut by telly veteran Allen (‘The Sopranos’) Couler presents itself as a whodunit based on the true story of the demise of TV’s first Superman, George Reeves, but the most…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Holy Man (PG) **
(Dir: Stephen Herek, 114 mins) Saintly guru Eddie Murphy's on a 20th-century pilgrimage through America's shopping malls. Jeff Goldblum's a stressed-out TV-shopping-ads exec with flaccid sales figures. Doesn't take…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Holy Smoke (18) *
(Dir: Jane Campion, 114 mins) When Kate Winslet joins a loony Indian religious cult, her barking family, who seem to be under the impression they're in an earthy Aussie comedy rather than a drama that is about to…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Home (15) ***
(Dir: Ursula Meier, 2008, 98 mins, subtitles) A self-styled “road movie in reverse”, which comes across like a J.G. Ballard novel filtered through a Godardian sensibility, ‘Home’ works best as breezy comedy, straining…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Home Alone 3 (PG) *
(Dir: Raja Gosnell, 101 mins) The Culkin kid’s 17 now, which means casting him for a third time as a little kid left at home while bad guys stalk the neighbourhood isn’t an option. So enter Alex D. Linz, last seen a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Home At The End of the World, A (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 -
Home For The Holidays (15) ***
Jodie Foster’s second film as director has Holly Hunter as a smart career woman who, in the space of 36 hours, loses her job, her coat and her temper and regresses into childhood as she returns to her parents for…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Home On The Range (U) *
(Dir: Will Finn/John Sanford, 76 mins) Reportedly Disney’s very last 2D animated feature, this feeble effort is the tale of a trio of cows - the wise-cracking, belching Maggie (Roseanne Barr) and her stuffy sidekicks…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honest (18) **
(Dir: David A. Stewart, 105 mins) Gerry (Nicole Appleton), Mandy (Natalie Appleton), and Jo (Maelanie Blatt) are a trio of improbably glamorous East End sisters who live at home with their dear old dad (James Cosmo in a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honest Courtesan, The (15) *
(Dir: Marshall Herskovitz, 111 mins) This supposedly true story set in 17th century Venice recounts the life of young Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack). Her humble origins mean she can never marry the man she loves,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honey (PG) **
(Dir: Bille Woodruff, 94 mins) This relentlessly perky hip-hop ‘Flashdance’ variant does the old “let’s do the show right here” thang down in the PG-rated ‘hood. The plot is as old as pop itself, and so wholesome that…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honeydripper (PG) ***
(Dir: John Sayles, 2008, 124 mins) Veteran US indie director John Sayles evinces a strong feel for his 50s Alabama setting and has recruited a cast of some of the finest African-American actors, led by Danny Glover. He…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honeymooners, The (15) **
(Dir: Karl Golden, 89 mins) What if you were to use Dogme techniques to make an utterly conventional romantic comedy? That seems to have been the idea behind Karl Golden’s micro-budget debut ‘The Honeymooners’, which…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Honeymooners, The (2005) (PG) *
(Dir: John Schultz, 90 mins) A dire ‘re-imagining’ version of a 1950s American TV classic, starring Cedric The Entertainer. Blowhard bus driver Ralph Kramden (Mr. Entertainer) is a kind-hearted, if bone-headed soul, who…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hoodwinked (U) ***
(Dir: Cory & Todd Edwards, 81 mins) This shoddy-looking CGI re-working of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as a ‘Rashomon’-esque police procedural does have a few things going for it despite some rather over-ambitious…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
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Hope Floats (12) **
(Dir: Forest Whitaker, 114 mins) The opening scene of this Sandra Bullock vehicle suggests a parody of tabloid TV she’s lured onto a Ricki Lakealike talkshow and confronted by her treacherous best friend (an unbilled…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hope Springs (12A) *
(Dir: Mark Herman, 92 mins) Britplodder Mark (‘Brassed Off’, ‘Little Voice’) Herman’s insultingly calculated transatlantic romcom has Colin Firth doing the time-honoured ‘uptight Brit abroad’ routine with no evident…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Horrible Bosses (15)
USA 2011 98 mins Dir: Seth Gordon Starring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Donald Sutherland We're going to be getting a lot of these. The success…22.07.2011 READ MORE -
Horse Whisperer, The (PG) **
(Dir: Robert Redford, 168 mins) For much of ‘The Horse Whisperer’s extravagant running length, you yearn to turn the sound down and simply luxuriate in the gorgeous, richly textured imagery that Robert Redford has so…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Horseman On The Roof, The (15) ***
'Cyrano' director Jean-Paul Rappaneau's epic, big-budget 19th century costume drama, full of intrigue, adventure, repressed love and lots of sick people - all spectacularly shot in cinemascope. Olivier Martinez is the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hostage (15) ***
(Dir: Florent Emilio Siri, 118 mins) A welcome and belated return to form for Bruce Willis at the hands of visual stylist Siri, making his English language debut. Five years after quitting the job when a bad call left a…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hostel (18) ****
(Dir: Eli Roth, 95 mins) ‘Cabin Fever’ director Eli Roth returns with another low-budget horror flick that doesn’t soft-pedal on either the initial sex’n’drugs sequences or the subsequent gore, which amplifies scenes…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hostel Part II (18) ***
(Dir: Eli Roth, 2007, 93 mins) It’s more of the same as American back-packers lured to an idyllic spa town in Slovakia are captured by a sinister business whose paying customers torture the kids to death and get a free…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hot Chick, The (12A) **
(Dir: Tom Brady, 101 mins) A lowbrow comedy that may seem strikingly original to anyone who didn’t live through the great body-swap glut (‘Big’, ‘Vice Versa’, etc) of the late 80s. Blonde high-school cheerleader bitch…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hot Fuzz (15) ****
(Dir: Edgar Wright, 2007, 120 mins) Despite being London’s finest police officer, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg, in his straightest role to date) doesn’t exactly get a warm welcome from his fellow plods when he’s…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hot Rod (12A) *
(Dir: Akiva Shaffer, 2007, 88 mins) Oh great – another dweebcom. Napoleon bloody Dynamite sure does have an awful lot to answer for. Like so many ‘Saturday Night Live’ spin-offs, this feels like a thin, barely amusing…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hot Tub Time Machine (15) ***
(Dir: Steve Pink, 2010, 99 mins) A bunch of unsatisfied adult buddies go away together for some man-bonding. Something weird happens and raunchy comedy ensues as they attempt to get home. Yes, ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ so…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Hotel (18) **
(Dir: Mike Figgis, 115 mins) Mike Figgis’s previous film, 'Timecode', was a bold and often very effective challenge to narrative convention, which split the screen into four quarters, allowing us to follow its…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hotel Diaries (15) *
(Dir: John Smith, 2008, 82 mins) A collection of eight short video diaries recorded by experimental film maker John Smith between 2002 and 2007. Each takes place in a hotel room, usually in the small hours of the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hotel For Dogs (U) **
(Dir: Thor Freudenthal, 2008, 100 mins) Brother and sister orphan duo Bruce (Jake T. Austin) and Andi (tweenie star du jour Emma Roberts) are cheeky movie delinquent orphans who stumble across a bunch of stray dogs…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hotel Rwanda (12A) ****
(Dir: Terry George, 121 mins) A tense true story from the Rwandan genocide of 1994, this “African ‘Schindler’s List’” is so firmly fixed on the plight of his principals that many of the peripheral characters are reduced…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hotel Sorrento (15) **
The story of an expatriate Australian’s return home, where the thinly veiled autobiographical content of her Booker Prize-winning novel doesn’t go down too well with her family, this is a prime piece of Antipodean…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hottie and the Nottie, The (12A) **
(Dir: Tom Putnam, 2007, 91 mins) A lame copy of the Farrelly blueprint, airhead heiress Paris Hilton’s first vehicle is yet another ugly duckling tale about inner beauty. Dumped by his latest girlfriend, geeky loser…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hours, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Stpehen Daldry, 115 mins) Adapted by David Hare from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with weighty roles for a trio of classy actresses, Stephen Daldry’s follow-up to ‘Billy Elliot’ is this year’s most blatant…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House Bunny, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Fred Wolf, 2008, 97 mins) Anna Faris finally gets the sort of showcase movie ‘Legally Blonde’ (which was written by the same team) was for Reese Witherspoon, and deserves to step up to solid stardom. She plays…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House of 1000 Corpses (18) ***
(Dir: Rob Zombie, 88 mins) US shock rocker Rob Zombie set out to write and direct the goriest horror film ever made. Trouble is, Universal refused to release it. After two years of frustration, Zombie had the last…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House Of America (15) **
(Dir: Marc Evans, 96 mins) Adapted by Edward Thomas from his own stage play, this unremittingly ponderous, pretentious and unbelievable Welsh drama presents dysfunctional, incestuous yoof spouting shite in a permanently…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House of Flying Daggers (15) ****
(Dir: Zhang Yimou, 119 mins) Zhang Yimou’s follow-up to ‘Hero’ offers Ziyi Zhang a brilliant showcase for her formal ballet training in the stunning and colourful Echo Dance routine. This is among the most jaw-dropping…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House of Mirth, The (PG) **
(Dir: Terence Davies, 140 mins) Funereally slow and glacially passionless, veteran Brit glumster Terence Davies's adaptation of yet another of those Edith Wharton yarns about turn-of-the-century New York toffs being…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House of Sand and Fog (15) ****
(Dir: Vadim Perelman, 124 mins) It’s long and slow, and could hardly be described as cheerful or uplifting. But at a time when most adaptations of literary novels are disappointing simplifications, Vadim Perelman has…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House of Tolerance (18)
France 2011 126 mins Subtitles Dir: Bertrand Bernello Starring: Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth, Noemie Lvovsky Awash with fin de siecle decadence, this languorous (Read:…27.01.2012 READ MORE -
House of Wax (15) ***
(Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra, 105 mins) According to the film’s own publicity, the main attraction here is in watching rich nonentity Paris Hilton dying horribly. And the rest of it? ‘House of Wax’ is the latest in a line…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House on Haunted Hill, The (18) ****
(Dir: William Malone, 96 mins) This hugely entertaining re-make of schlock merchant William Castle's 1958 original is faithful to the tradition of the finest horror bollocks: warped theme park creator Steven Price…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
House! (15) ***
(Dir: Julian Kemp, 90 mins) A jolly, parochial Britcom, 'House!' is claimed to be the first feature film ever to tackle the subject of bingo. Deep in South Wales, the ornate-yet-knackered old La Scala bingo hall is…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How Do You Know? (12A)
(Dir: James L. Brooks, 2011, 121 mins) A child could bolt Meccano together more elegantly than the script for this menage à trois romcom has been constructed. Some sequences of its poorly integrated plot strands drag on…02.02.2011 READ MORE -
How I Ended This Summer (12A)
Russia 2011 130 mins Subtitles Dir: Aleksei Popograbsky Starring: Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis There's much to admire about this odd, existential art movie, but plenty to puzzle audiences too. A two-hander set in…27.04.2011 READ MORE -
How She Move (12A) *
(Dir: Ian Iqbal Rashid, 2008, 91 mins) Although we are encouraged to believe that Annemarie Morais’ script for this formulaic step dance flick is autobiographical, it’s especially fortunate for backers MTV that her life…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (15) **
(Dir: Kevin Sullivan, 124 mins) Super-sexy power broker Stella (Angela Bassett) enlists the help of best 'galfriend' Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) to break free from her stressed-up office for a week of fortysomething…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (12A) **
(Dir: Donald Petrie, 116 mins) How to lose interest in 10 minutes: sit through a romcom set-up so painfully contrived and formulaic that not only the outcome but also all the uninspired twists and turns during the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (15) ***
(Dir: Robert Weide, 2008, 110 mins) ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ would appear to the template for this heavily fictionalised reworking of Toby Young’s bestselling memoir of his ignominious attempt to break into US celebrity…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How To Make An American Quilt (15) ***
The combination of the producers of ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ and ‘River’s Edge’, Jocelyn Moorhouse (Australian director of ‘Proof’) and the single most amazing female cast ever assembled bodes well. Winona Ryder is…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
How to Train Your Dragon (PG) ****
(Dir: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, 2010, 98 mins) For 300 years, hardy Vikings have fought dragons. Then Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), a born-out-of-time weed with a conscience and a streak of curiosity, proves a…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
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Howl’s Moving Castle (U) ****
(Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, 119 mins) Loosely adapted from a novel by Welsh writer Diana Wynne Jones, this latest inventive animation from the director of ‘Spirited Away’ recalls the storytelling style of Lewis Carroll…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hulk (12A) ***
(Dir: Ang Lee, 137 mins) The first ten minutes suggest Ang Lee might actually have pulled off the trick of bringing an arthouse sensibility to the big studio comicbook adaptation as it races briskly and audaciously…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Human Centipede (First Sequence), The (18) ***
(Dir: Tom Six, 2009, 92 mins) This certainly delivers on the gimmicky grossout front, although it’s less explicit than you might imagine. But the film is also surprisingly well made, making excellent use of its…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Human Stain, The (15) **
(Dir: Robert Benton, 107 mins) When 70ish Jewish New England classics professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins maintaining clipped English accent) loses his job and wife in quick succession, he embarks on an affair with…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Human Traffic (18) ****
(Dir: Justin Kerrigan, 95 mins) You don't need to have the slightest interest in dance music to enjoy Justin Kerrigan's smart, fast, funny, inventive and occasionally derivative feature debut, which races along like,…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Humpday (15) ***
(Dir: Lynn Shelton, 2009, 94 mins) Clearly no major studio was going to touch a project that took ‘bromance’ one transgressive step further. What a shame, then, that Seattle writer/director Lynn Shelton’s much-hyped…01.07.2010 READ MORE -
Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The (U) ****
Disney’s 34th full-length animated feature is definitely one of the studio’s better efforts and happens to be a good deal darker than usual, despite a series of comic turns from the cathedral gargoyles (two of whom are…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hunger (15) ****
(Dir: Steve McQueen, 2008, 96 mins) This assured and innovative feature debut by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen is visceral in the true sense of the term, plunging the viewer into the piss, shit and blood of…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hunted, The (15) **
(Dir: William Friedkin, 94 mins) Another stinker from the once-great William Friedkin, ‘The Hunted’ bears all the hallmarks of a film that’s had all its non-action sequences pared away to leave one huge chase that…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hurlyburly (18) ***
(Dir: Antohny Drazan, 123 mins) Anthony Drazan's adaptation of David Rabe's Hollywood-set stage play stars Sean Penn as strung-out, coke snorting casting agent Eddie, whose snorting, sniffling and babbling is in stark…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hurricane, The (15) ***
(Dir: Norman Jewison, 140 mins) Norman Jewison would have us believe that boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter (Denzel Washington) was wrongfully convicted of murder after being framed by nasty racist cop Vincent Della Pasca…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hush (15) ***
(Dir: Mark Tonderai, 2009, 91 mins) It’s a wonder that anyone takes to the road at all after watching the likes of ‘Duel’, ‘Road Kill’ and the films to which ‘Hush’ appears to owe the greatest debt – ‘Breakdown’ and…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
Hustle & Flow (15) ***
(Dir: Craig Brewer, 116 mins) Produced by churchgoing sound engineer Keys (Anthony Anderson), Memphis pimp, dope dealer and occasional philosopher DJay (Terrence Howard) is pinning his hopes on music to get out of the…23.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Hangover Part II (15)
USA 2011 102 mins Dir: Todd Phillips Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jamie Chung As a great man (oh, OK, Bruce Willis) once opined: "How can the same shit happen to the…27.05.2011 READ MORE -
The Help (12A)
USA 2011 146 mins Dir: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain Adapted from the inevitably Oprah-approved bestseller by Kathryn Stockett, this sprawling,…28.10.2011 READ MORE -
The Host (15) ****
(Dir: Bong Joon-ho, 120 mins) Fancy a big, dumb, funny, old-school Far East monster movie, with a pleasing streak of anti-American satire? Look no further than South Korea’s biggest-ever box office hit, which is based…23.08.2010 READ MORE
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This Is Not a Film (U)
Iran 2010 75 mins Subtitles Dir: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi There was much nose-thumbing…
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Into the Abyss (12A)
Germany/Canada 2011 107 mins Dir: Werner Herzog Fun-loving German director Werner Herzog has spent…
Released 30.03.12
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (U)
UK 2012 90 mins Dir: Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt Starring (voices): Hugh Grant, Lenny Henry, Brendan…
Released 28.03.12
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The Kid with a Bike (12A)
Belgium/France/Italy 2011 87 mins Subtitles Dir: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Starring: Thomas Doret,…
Released 20.03.12
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The Devil Inside (15)
USA 2012 83 mins Dir: William Brent Bell Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quartermain, Evan…
Released 16.03.12
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Contraband (15)
USA 2012 110 mins Dir: Baltasar Kormakur Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster,…
Released 16.03.12
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We Bought a Zoo (PG)
USA 2011 124 mins Dir: Cameron Crowe Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church,…
Released 16.03.12
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In Darkness (15)
Poland/Germany/France/Canada 2011 144 mins Subtitles Dir: Agnieszka Holland Starring: Robert…
Released 16.03.12
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15)
Turkey/Bosnia & Herzegovina 2011 158 mins Subtitles Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Starring: Muhammet…
Released 16.03.12
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Trishna (15)
UK 2011 113 mins Dir: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth If…
Released 09.03.12
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Michael (18)
Austria 2011 96 mins Subtitles Dir: Markus Schleinzer Starring: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger…
Released 02.03.12
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Carancho (TBA)
Argentina/Chile/France 2010 107 mins Subtitles Dir: Pablo Trapero Starring: Ricardo Darin, Martina…
Released 02.03.12
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Rampart (15)
USA 2011 108 mins Dir: Oren Moverman Starring: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi,…
Released 24.02.12
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Red Dog (PG)
Australia 2011 92 min Dir: Kriv Stenders Starring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Keisha…
Released 24.02.12
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (12A)
UK 2011 123 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson,…
Released 24.02.12
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Blood Car (18)
USA 2007 76 mins Dir: Alex Orr Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Mike Brune, Katie Rowlett Anyone remember…
Released 24.02.12
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Safe House (15)
USA 2012 115 mins Dir: Daniel Espinosa Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga,…
Released 24.02.12
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (12A)
USA 2011 129 mins Dir: Stephen Daldry Starring: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, John…
Released 17.02.12
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The Woman in the Fifth (15)
France/Poland/UK 2011 84 mins Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke,…
Released 17.02.12
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Bombay Beach (TBA)
USA 2011 80 mins Dir: Alma Har'el The opening crackly vintage newsreel footage informs us that the…
Released 17.02.12
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A Dangerous Method (15)
UK/Germany/Canada/Switzerland 2011 100 mins Dir: David Cronenberg Starring: Keira Knightley, Viggo…
Released 10.02.12
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The Muppets (U)
USA 2011 110 mins Dir: James Bobin Starring: The Muppets, Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper,…
Released 10.02.12
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Carnage (15)
France/Germany/Poland/Spain 2011 80 mins Dir: Roman Polanski Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet,…
Released 03.02.12
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Jack and Jill (PG)
USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Denis Dugan Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes What could be…
Released 03.02.12
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Man on a Ledge (12A)
USA 2012 102 mins Dir: Asger Leth Starring: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Ed…
Released 03.02.12
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Young Adult (15)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Jason Reitman Starring: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt,…
Released 03.02.12
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Martha Marcy May Marlene (15)
USA 2011 102 mins Dir: Sean Durkin Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John…
Released 03.02.12
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Black Pond (15)
UK 2011 82 mins Dir: Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe Starring: Chris Langham, Anna O'Grady, Simon…
Released 30.01.12
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The Descendants (15)
USA 2011 115 mins Dir: Alexander Payne Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller,…
Released 27.01.12
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House of Tolerance (18)
France 2011 126 mins Subtitles Dir: Bertrand Bernello Starring: Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallette,…
Released 27.01.12
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Like Crazy (12A)
USA 2011 90 mins Dir: Drake Doremus Starring: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence,…
Released 27.01.12
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Haywire (15)
USA 2011 93 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender,…
Released 20.01.12
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J. Edgar (15)
USA 2011 137 mins Dir: Clint Eastwood Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Judi…
Released 20.01.12
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Coriolanus (15)
UK 2011 123 mins Dir: Ralph Fiennes Starring: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain,…
Released 20.01.12
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Shame (18)
UK 2011 101 mins Dir: Steve McQueen Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale…
Released 13.01.12
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War Horse (12A)
USA 2011 146 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan,…
Released 13.01.12
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Tatsumi (15)
Singapore 2011 96 mins Subtitles Dir: Eric Khoo Starring (voices): Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent,…
Released 13.01.12
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Margin Call (15)
USA 2011 107 mins Dir: J.C. Chandor Starring: Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Stanley…
Released 13.01.12
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The Artist (PG)
France 2011 100 mins Dir: Michel Hazanavicius Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman,…
Released 06.01.12
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The Iron Lady (12A)
UK 2011 105 mins Dir: Phyllida Lloyd Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant,…
Released 06.01.12
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Dreams of a Life (12A)
UK 2011 95 mins Dir: Carol Morley Starring: Zawe Ashton, Alix Luka-Cain It takes 15 minutes until…
Released 30.12.11
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Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows (12A)
USA 2011 129 mins Dir: Guy Ritchie Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen…
Released 19.12.11
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Surviving Life (15)
Czech Republic 2010 109 mins Subtitles Dir: Jan Svankmajer Starring: Vaclav Helsus, Klara Issova,…
Released 16.12.11
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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…
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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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