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Ma Vie En Rose (12) ***
(Dir: Alain Berliner, 88 mins) Deep in Gallic suburbia, a jolly neighbourhood party turns embarrassing when daddy Pierre introduces his kids to his guests, only to find his seven-year-old Ludovic entering the fray in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ma Vie Sexuelle (15) **
(Dir: Arnaud Desplechin, 178 mins) The wretched Paul (Matthieu Amalric) is an achingly intellectual 29-year-old perpetual philosophy student seemingly unable to complete his thesis or dump his long-suffering girlfriend…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Maborosi (PG) ***
A young, happily married Japanese woman is devastated when her hubby deliberately walks under a train on the way home from work for no apparent reason, while her conservative family attempt to obliterate the social…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
MacGruber (15) **
(Dir: Jorma Taccone, 2010, 99 mins) Val Kilmer’s pony-tailed bad guy is called Dieter Von Cunth. Except that his surname is pronounced ‘cunt’. Rarely in the history of the movies has a character been addressed by name…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Machete (18)
(Dir: Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis, 2010, 105 mins) Seemingly designed to annoy serious-minded critics with in-jokes and tongue-in-cheek together-at-last casting (Robert De Niro, Steven Seagal) while thoroughly…24.11.2010 READ MORE -
Machinist, The (15) ***
(Dir: Brad Anderson, 102 mins) Much has been made of Christian Bale losing a third of his body weight to become cadaverous Trevor Reznik. Was it worth the effort? Well, Brad Anderson is certainly a promising director,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Machuca (15) ****
(Dir: Andres Wood, 121 mins) War stories told through the eyes of children are ten-a-penny, frequently using the kids’ innocence as a mask to dodge addressing complex ideological conflicts in favour of bland,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mad City (15) ***
(Dir: Costa-Gavras, 115 mins) A hostage drama. A media ratings war where truth becomes the first casualty. A script that has its own cake and eats it – then sends out for more cakes. Familiar, eh? But Costa-Gavras’s…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mad Cows (15) *
(Dir: Sara Sugarman, 90 mins) Underplaying broad farce on celluloid can dampen the comic momentum, overplaying leaves the actors looking foolish. This adaptation of Kathy Lette’s bright and breezy comic novel seems to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mad Detective (15) ***
(Dir: Johnny To & Wai Kar-fai, 2007, 86 mins, subtitles) Dishevelled Inspector Bun (Lau Ching-wan) sure is bonkers. But he’d been indulged by the Hong Kong police because of his brilliant track record in solving crimes…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mad Hot Ballroom (U) ***
(Dir: Marilyn Agrelo, 105 mins) While those who like to coo over TV programmes of the ‘Kids Say the Funniest Things’ ilk will get the most out of ‘Mad Hot Ballroom’, with its parade of 11-year-olds mimicking adult…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Madagascar (U) **
(Dir: Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 86 mins) An ungulate with attitude, voiced by a once-edgy black stand-up comic who’s now pursuing a career in more mainstream, family-friendly fare. But that’s enough about Eddie…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Madagascar Skin (15) *
An awkward, self-loathing young gay man with a prominent facial birthmark (John Hannah) drives to a desolate Pembrokeshire beach littered with neatly arranged pairs of shoes and unemployed scaffolder Bernard Hill…14.08.2010 READ MORE -
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) ***
(Dir: Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath, 2008, 89 mins) In traditional sequel style, this delivers more of the same only bigger and louder, with tried-and-tested multiple storylines, including one that’s ripped off shamelessly…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Made (15) ****
(Dir: Jon Favreau, 94 mins) The 'Swingers' double act of Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn reunite for this sparkling mob comedy, written and directed by Favreau himself. Bobby (Favreau) and Ricky (Vaughn) are a pair of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Made in Dagenham (15) ***
(Dir: Nigel Cole, 2010, 113 mins) Isn’t it amazing how closely real life conforms to the conventions of the cosy BBC/Lottery-backed feelgood Britcom? We must, of course, assume that Billy Ivory’s screenplay is a mostly…29.09.2010 READ MORE -
Made in Dagenham (15) ***
(Dir: Nigel Cole, 2010, 113 mins) Isn’t it amazing how closely real life conforms to the conventions of the cosy BBC/Lottery-backed feelgood Britcom? We must, of course, assume that Billy Ivory’s screenplay is a mostly…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Made In Hong Kong (18) ****
(Dir: Fruit Chan, 108 mins) Fruit Chan's gritty and engrossing no-budget directorial debut has the distinction of being the first film to come out of Hong Kong since the handover to China. It centres on a rake-thin,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Made of Honour (12A) **
(Dir: Paul Weiland, 2008, 101 mins) Yet another wedding-themed romcom, this one brazenly recycles the plot of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ but throws in a gender switch in a bid to cover its tracks and its makers’ shame.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Madeline (U) ***
(Dir: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer, 89 mins) It's difficult to imagine any self-respecting '90s brat clamouring to see this adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans' irreproachably wholesome, wholly innocuous children's books, the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Madness of King George, The (PG) ****
Alan Bennett's adaptation of his own play is remarkable for combining a topical freshness with authentic period detail while rarely betraying its stage origins. The film condenses history to the period 1788-89, when…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Madre Muerta, La (18) ****
Years after killing her mother and leaving her severely brain-damaged during a burglary, brutal psycho Ismael becomes obsessed with his catatonic victim, who has now grown into a beautiful pubescent teenager…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Magdalene Sisters, The (15) *****
(Dir: Peter Mullan, 119 mins) Set in 1964 Dublin, Peter Mullan’s fictionalised true story follows three young girls who are taken from their homes for such ‘crimes’ as being raped, having a child out of wedlock and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Magic Roundabout, The (U) **
(Dir: Dave Borthwick/Frank Passingham/Jean Duval, 82 mins) A big-screen adaptation of the kids’ teatime classic was always going to be hard to pull off, as it has to reconcile the conflicting demands of nostalgic baby…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Magic Sword: Quest For Camelot, The (U) ***
(Dir: Frederick du Chau, 86 mins) This latest offering from the Warner animation team who gave you ‘Space Jam’ is a PC take on the Arthurian legend. Bar a handful of digital sequences, it serves up a familiar selection…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Magicians (15) ***
(Dir: Andrew O’Connor, 2007, 90 mins) David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s comedic take on the tensions in the world of stage magic is amiable enough but lacks the bite of their best TV work. The film opens with Harry…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Magnolia (18) *****
(Dir; Paul Thomas Anderson, 188 mins) It’s all-too-tempting to describe 'Boogie Nights' director Paul Thomas Anderson’s extraordinary, sprawling, brilliant 'Magnolia' as 'Short Cuts' on acid. Like Altman's masterpiece,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Maid in Manhattan (PG) *
(Dir: Wayne Wang, 105 mins) Another terrible Jennifer Lopez romcom, despite having arthouse hero Wayne Wang at the helm and a cast of such dependables as Ralph Fiennes (grinning inanely and thinking of his cheque), Bob…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Majestic, The (PG) *
(Dir: Frank Darabont, 153 mins) Frank Darabont’s celebration of mythical '50s smalltown life is so wholesome, saccharine and calculatedly uplifting that its only value as entertainment would be in prompting a projectile…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Majorettes In Space (18) ***
(Various directors, 83 mins) An eclectic collection of five gay shorts from France, in which the first erect penis makes its wholly gratuitous appearance at around the 30 second mark. The most enjoyable films bookend…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mal (18) *
(Dir: Alberto Seixas Santos, 85 mins) Portuguese director Alberto Seixas Santos’s unpalatable, disjointed and uninvolving patchwork narrative apes the style of ‘Short Cuts’ and ‘Magnolia’ without a hint of their…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Malena (18) **
(Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore, 92 mins) Giuseppe Tornatore hasn’t had a commercial or critical success since ‘Cinema Paradiso’. Little wonder 'Malena' marks a return to nostalgic fare with a cinema-fixated boy and a syrupy…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mamma Mia! (PG) ****
(Dir: Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, 98 mins) This ridiculously enjoyable musical comedy is irresistibly silly, as camp as a row of tents, and as kitsch as Abba’s most embarrassing stage outfits. True, one tends to laugh at…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Apart, A (15) ***
(Dir: F. Gary Gray, 110 mins) A routine lunkheaded revenge action movie filmed two years before its star Vin Diesel hit the big time with ‘xXx’. It’s actually not that bad as Seagal/Arnie/Bronson clones go, and, as ‘Set…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man in the Chair (12A) ***
(Dir: Michael Schroeder, 2007, 109 mins) Hack director Michael Schroeder’s first attempt to snare a more upmarket audience boasts plenty of treated film stock and editing room trickery, plus a storyline tailored to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man In The Iron Mask, The (12) ***
(Dir: Randall Wallace, 122 mins) France 1660: young Louis XIV (Leonardo DiCaprio) is on the throne, the peasants are revolting and the muskateers are a little concerned that he doesn’t appear to represent the values and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Of No Importance, A (15) ***
Dublin, 1963. When cultured, closeted bus conductor Albert Finney sets eyes upon beautiful young passenger Tara Fitzgerald, he knows he has found the princess for his long-cherished amateur theatrical production of…09.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man of the House (12A) *
(Dir: Stephen Herek, 99 mins) When a bunch of college cheerleaders witness a murder, they're moved into a large house and crusty divorced Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) is appointed to protect them, posing…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man of the Year (18) ***
When he was voted Playgirl’s ‘Man of the Year’ back in 1992, Dirk Shafer was presented as the ideal man for every woman. Sensitive, intelligent, witty, handsome . . . Dirk seemed just too damn good to be true. And…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man of the Year (2007) (12A) **
(Dir: Barry Levinson, 2006, 116 mins) Since many people now get their information about what’s going on in the world from comedians, what would happen if a TV comic ran for president? In the right hands, this could have…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man of the Year, The (2003) (15) ***
(Dir: Jose Enrique Fonseca, 113 mins) Mild-mannered, unemployed Maiquel shoots dead a man who taunts him in a Rio de Janeiro bar. Luckily, the dead man was widely loathed and everybody was glad to see the back of him.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man on a Ledge (12A)
USA 2012 102 mins Dir: Asger Leth Starring: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez Serving 25 years in the slammer, ex-cop Nick Cassidy (Worthington) is granted…03.02.2012 READ MORE -
Man on Fire (18) ***
(Dir: Tony Scott, 146 mins) Oscar-winner Denzel Washington gives a reliably magnetic performance in the lead role of this slick thriller, while Tony Scott raids the director’s big box of tricks marked ‘Stylish’ to pile…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man on the Moon (15) ****
(Dir: Milos Forman, 119 mins) Like Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's previous biopic scripts, 'Ed Wood' and 'The People Vs. Larry Flynt', this life of cult, audience-baiting US comic Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) is a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man on Wire (12A) ****
(Dir: James Marsh, 2008, 90 mins) Given that you can’t go wrong with material as strong as this, the really impressive thing about ‘Man on Wire’ is how director James Marsh manages to get it so right, expertly blending…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Who Knew Too Little, The (12) **
(Dir: Jon Amiel, 95 mins) Dim-witted Iowa tourist Bill Murray is in London to see his brother, who buys him the hottest ticket in town: ‘Theatre of Life’, who let each punter be the star of their very own drama. All he…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Who Sued God, The (15) **
(Dir: Mark Joffe, 102 mins) This starts out promisingly enough with Billy Connolly cast as a fisherman whose boat is destroyed in a storm, leaving him homeless. When the insurance company wriggles out of coughing up by…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Who Wasn't There, The (15) ****
(Dir: Joel Coen, 116 mnis) The Coen brothers’ self-conscious tribute, in both tone and structure, to the work of James M. Cain, this relies heavily on a mannered performance by Billy Bob Thornton, who appears in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Without A Face, The (12) ****
Mel Gibson took quite a commercial risk with this, his directorial debut, by playing a reclusive man whose badly scarred face is a physical manifestation of the bitter torment that rages inside him. A former teacher,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man Without a Past, The (12A) ***
(Dir: Aki Kaurismaki, 97 mins) Beneath the trademark surface quirkiness of idiosyncratic Finn Aki Kaurismaki’s much-praised deadpan comedy there’s a thick layer of sentimentality that the film’s champions would be quick…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Man, The (12A) *
(Dir: Les Mayfield, 83 mins) A lead-footed, lumberingly unfunny mismatched buddy botch job of the ‘Midnight Run’/‘48 Hrs’ formula. Rehashing his familiar affable sad sack, Eugene Levy plays Andy Fiddler, a talkative…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Manchurian Candidate, The (15) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Demme, 129 mins) If it remains fundamentally rather silly, Jonathan Demme’s taut update of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 film tweaks the plot in all the right places. Desert Storm replaces the Korean War, the…14.08.2010 READ MORE -
Manderlay (15) ***
(Dir: Lars Von Trier, 139 mins) This second film in galumphing Danish Dogme prankster Lars Von Trier’s controversial American trilogy that began with ‘Dogville’ was shot on a giant soundstage in the same Brechtian style…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Manhattan Murder Mystery (PG) ****
A welcome return to Woody Allen's lighter comic material, reuniting the 'Annie Hall'/'Manhattan' team of writer Marshall Brickman and star Diane Keaton. New Yorker Keaton is convinced the death of her neighbour was no…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mansfield Park (15) ***
(Dir: Patricia Rozema, 99 mins) The idea of putting a few thousand volts through Jane Austen's dreary Fanny Price is a profoundly appealing one, and if anyone has the feminist cred to carry it off it's Patricia Rozema,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Manufactured Landscapes (U) ***
(Dir: Jennifer Baichwal, 2006, 87 mins) Opening a documentary with a wordless eight-minute tracking shot is certainly brave, but the strengths and weaknesses of Jennifer Baichwal’s film are all to be found here. We’re…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marathon Boy
(Dir: Gemma Atwal, 2010, 98 mins, subtitles) An excellent theatrical feature documentary debut by Bristol-based director Gemma Atwal, with inserts by local animator Ben Foley, 'Marathon Boy' tells its extraordinary if…16.02.2011 READ MORE -
March of the Penguins (U) ****
(Dir: Luc Jacquet, 85 mins) French biologist Luc Jacquet’s surprise hit documentary follows Emperor penguins’ astonishing annual trek to the most inhospitable landscape on earth, where they will risk death by…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Margaret’s Museum (15) ****
(Dir: Mort Ransen, 95 mins) Helena Bonham-Carter in arresting working class drama shock! She plays Margaret MacNeil, who lives in a late 1940s Nova Scotia mining community where life is harsh and, for the blokes, short.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Margin Call (15)
USA 2011 107 mins Dir: J.C. Chandor Starring: Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Demi Moore, Jeremy Irons Initially, first-time writer/director J.C. Chandor's 'Margin Call' seems…13.01.2012 READ MORE -
Margot at the Wedding (15) ***
(Dir: Noah Baumbach, 2007, 92 mins) The big drawback to any entry in the burgeoning American dysfunctional family drama genre is that, no matter how well written it may be, the incessant whining of the solipsistic…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Maria Full of Grace (15) ****
(Dir: Joshua Marston, 101 mins) Joshua Marston’s Oscar-nominated drama has been attacked from all sides but succeeds admirably in what he sets out to do, which is to tell one girl’s story without hysteria or special…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marie Antoinette (12A) ***
(Dir: Sofia Coppola, 123 mins) Sofia Coppola’s revisionist biopic turns out to be more ‘Lost in Translation’ than Merchant-Ivory, with all the strengths and weaknesses that this implies. On the plus side, Kirsten…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (12A) **
(Dir: Randall Miller, 103 mins) This feels like an adaptation of an Oprah Book Club selection, but is in fact an expansion of a short film that director Randall Miller made 15 years ago. Easily pleased blubbers craving…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marius Et Jeannette (12) ***
(Dir: Robert Guediguian, 102 mins) Stroppy, single-parent supermarket checkout worker Jeannette, who has two kids by two different fathers, falls for softy security guard Marius in unemployment-hit L’Estaque, near…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mark of an Angel (12A) ****
(Dir: Safy Nebbou, 2008, 95 mins, subtitles) An absolutely cracking French psychological thriller, based on a true story, which benefits from outstanding performances by Catherine Frot and Sandrine Bonnaire, who bounce…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marley (15)
USA/UK 2012 145 mins Dir: Kevin Macdonald "There's nothing Jamaicans like more than a man who's survived a shooting," chuckles the late Bob Marley's lawyer of the reggae superstar's triumphant return to the stage in…20.04.2012 READ MORE -
Marley and Me (PG) *
(Dir: David Finkel, 2009, 123 mins) Cross the romcom with the dog movie and you get a mongrel whose kid-friendly piss and poop gags are melded with story of a talented and successful career woman who yearns to become a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Marmaduke (U) *
(Dir: Tom Dey, 2010, 88 mins) A talking animal flick takes the familiar approach of robbing domesticated beasts of all dignity and self-respect with shoddy digital superimposition of gabbing gobs in order to articulate…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Married Life (PG) ***
(Dir: Ira Sachs, 2007, 90 mins) Adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, multiple Hitchcock references…you might be forgiven for expecting Ira Sachs’ ‘Married Life’ to be a suspense-filled thrill ride. But there’s very…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mars Attacks! (12) ***
(Dir: Tim Burton, 106 mins) Tim Burton’s comicbook take on the current cinematic ET invasion has the Martian bad guys causing widespread havoc while trying to con US president Jack Nicholson into believing they come in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mars Needs Moms (PG)
(Dir: Simon Wells, 2011, 89 mins) A catastrophic flop at the US box office, this 3D 'motion capture' animation boasts a bizarre right-wing subtext, which comprises an unappetising pincer movement of nuclear family…06.04.2011 READ MORE -
Martha Marcy May Marlene (15)
USA 2011 102 mins Dir: Sean Durkin Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes The tongue-twisty title should present quite a challenge at the box office, but signals that this is a film dealing…03.02.2012 READ MORE -
Martha – Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence (15) **
(Dir: Nick Hamm, 88 mins) Daniel (Tom Hollander) is a diminutive music business executive with an unfortunate touch of the Austin Powers. Frank (Rufus Sewell) is a penniless out-of-work actor consumed by cynicism.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Martins, The (15) **
(Dir: Tony Grounds, 86 mins) Lee Evans, on unusually restrained form, is Robert Martin, a career dole-wallah, fantasist and terminal loser, who lives with his long-suffering wife Angie (Kathy Burke), heavily pregnant…14.10.2010 READ MORE -
Marvel Avengers Assemble (12A)
USA 2012 143 mins Dir: Joss Whedon Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Cobie Smulders, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg Nerds will…27.04.2012 READ MORE -
Marvin’s Room (12) ****
(Dir: Jerry Zaks, 98 mins) The premise isn’t promising: terminal illness flick dealing with the relationship between two estranged sisters and one pyromaniac delinquent. But the potential schmaltz of the plot is wiped…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mary and Max (12A) ****
(Dir: Adam Elliot, 2009, 92 mins) Five years in the making, Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam (‘Harvie Krumpet’) Elliot’s utterly delightful, richly detailed debut claymation feature touches on some pretty hefty…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
Mary Reilly (15) **
Stephen Frears’ troubled adaptation of Valerie Martin’s feminist reworking of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’: a bold but flawed film ruined by ludicrous miscasting, risible dialogue and a crucial historical change in our…14.08.2010 READ MORE -
Mask of Zorro, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Martin Campbell, 116 mins) Old Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) has spent a couple of decades contemplating revenge on his adversary Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson), who killed his wife and nicked his baby daughter…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (12A) ****
(Dir: Peter Weir, 138 mins) Peter Weir isn’t the kind of director who’d be interested in making a traditional action flick, so he’s worked hard to retain the relationship between Captain ‘Lucky’ Jack Aubery (Russell…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Master of Disguise, The (PG) *
(Dir: Perry Andelin Blake, 80 mins) A shockingly awful comedy vehicle for Mike Myers’ former ‘Wayne’s World’ sidekick Dana Carvey. As joke after joke falls painfully flat and Carvey mugs away desperately, it’s hard to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Matador, The (15) ***
(Dir: Richard Shepard, 96 mins) Former bond star Pierce Brosnan has always been at his best playing unscrupulous characters. Writer/director Richard Shepard’s decidedly odd comedy-thriller buddy flick casts him as a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Match Point (12A) ***
(Dir: Woody Allen, 123 mins) Despite its touristy view of London, Woody Allen’s first UK film starts out in familiar fatalistic territory with an extended epigram on the nature of luck followed by an angsty tale of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Matchstick Men (12A) ***
(Dir: Ridley Scott, 116 mins) Though based on a novel by Eric Garcia, this feels uncannily like an Americanisation of the excellent Argentine movie ‘Nine Queens’. Nicolas Cage, is an obsessive-compulsive con artist and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Material Girls (PG) *
(Dir: Martha Coolidge, 2006, 97 mins) Originally written for the Olsen twins, this mirthless riches-to-rags tweencom wound up with their bargain basement understudies, the aptly named Duff sisters. So anyway, Hilary and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Matrix Reloaded, The (15) ***
(Dir: The Wachowski Brothers, 138 mins) After the first of many impressive stunt/fight scenes turns out to be a (perhaps prophetic) dream, this first instalment of the two-part sequel takes a half hour of whirring and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Matrix Revolutions, The (15) ***
(Dir: Andy and Larry Wachowski, 129 mins) Fortunately, this final instalment is nothing like as boring, humourless and pretentious as ‘The Matrix Reloaded’. True, it suffers from the same Repetitive Action Syndrome, but…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Matrix, The (15) ****
(Dir: The Wachowski Brothers, 139 mins) Who’d have guessed this Keanu Reeves vehicle would turn out to be a cutting-edge turn-of-the-millennium cyberpunk flick? Keanu is Neo, salaryman by day and hacker by night, who’s…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Max Payne (15) *
(Dir: John Moore, 2008, 100 mins) Oh joy! Yet another crappy film adapted from a video game, with Mark Wahlberg frowning his way through yet another tormented cop role. Preposterous plotting, feeble sub-‘Sin City’…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Maybe Baby (15) **
(Dir: Ben Elton, 104 mins) Ben Elton adapts 'Inconceivable', one of his earlier novels - the serio-comic tale of a London media couple (Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson) trying and trying for their first child, and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Me and Orson Welles (12A) ****
(Dir: Richard Linklater, 2009, 114 mins) Richard Linklater broadens his appeal beyond the young hipster crowd with this enjoyable, conventionally structured period thesping drama, which spins a fictional yarn around…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Me and You and Everyone We Know (15) ****
(Dir: Miranda July , 90 mins) The prospect of a film written, directed by and starring a performance artist is hardly appetising, especially when the work in question has already attracted such descriptions as…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Me Myself I (15) ***
Dir: Pip Karmel, 104 mins) A ‘Sliding Doors’-esque romcom starring the much under-rated Rachel Griffiths as a lonely, single thirtysomething journalist who swaps places with a doppelganger from an alternate universe to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Me Without You (15) ***
(Dir: Sandra Goldbacher, 108 mins) Holly (Michelle Williams) and Marina (Anna Friel) are your standard issue chalk'n'cheese childhood best friends who grow up on the same suburban '70s estate. Marina's mum is a brassy,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Me You Them (PG) ***
(Dir: Andrucha Waddington, 106 mins) Based on an unlikely but true story about a polygamous woman in a macho society, it would have been easy for Andrucha Waddington, assistant to Walter Salles on 'Central Station', to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Me, Myself & Irene (15) ***
(Dir: Bobby & Peter Farrelly, 117 mins) The Farrelly Brothers get back together with 'Dumb and Dumber' star Jim Carrey to pile on the bad taste jokes with the usual gusto. Carrey is a Rhode Island lawman with a split…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mean Creek (15) ****
(Dir: Jacob Aaron Estes, 87 mins) Jacob Aaron Estes explores similar territory to Larry Clark’s under-appreciated ‘Bully’ with his feature debut, which expertly avoids the pitfalls of the preachy morality tale.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mean Girls (12A) ***
(Dir: Mark S. Waters, 97 mins) Like ‘Heathers’ never happened, this latest frothy vehicle for personable, increasingly ubiquitous teen star Lindsay Lohan dissects familiar US high-school cliques and delivers all the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mean Machine (15) *
(Dir: Barry Skolnick, 89 mins) Try to imagine a film about a prison football team, starring Vinnie Jones, featuring stereotyped characters left over from the TV sitcom 'Porridge', and blessed with the vintage grainy…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Medallion, The (PG) *
(Dir: Gordon Chan, 88 mins) If you saw Jackie Chan’s ‘The Tuxedo’, you can save yourself a fiver because ‘The Medallion’ has exactly the same plot. There’s a ludicrious maguffin (then a tuxedo, now a medallion) that…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (PG) **
(Dir: John Henderson, 2005, 95 mins) Brit telly veteran John Henderson relocates his 1996 benign aquatic monster flick ‘Loch Ness’ to Canada (though, confusingly, this was actually filmed in New Zealand), tacking on a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meek's Cutoff (PG)
USA 2010 102 mins Dir: Kelly Reichardt Starring: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Will Patton, Shirley Henderson, Ron Rondeaux Yer traditional wagon train western has plucky god-fearin' settlers…27.04.2011 READ MORE -
Meerkats, The ***
(Dir: James Honeyborne, 2009, 84 mins) This is billed as the first collaboration between the Natural History Unit and BBC Films, co-financed by the pugnacious Weinstein company. Clearly, the idea was to turn out a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet Dave (PG) **
(Dir: Brian Robbins, 2008, 90 mins) Teaming up once again with ‘Norbit’ director Brian Robbins, formerly funny Eddie Murphy plays replica human being Dave Ming Chang, whose sartorial style – due to an erroneous reading…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet Joe Black (12) **
(Dir: Martin Brest, 181 mins) Despite the best efforts of the magisterial Anthony Hopkins, the boyishly handsome Brad Pitt and the ethereally beautiful Claire Forlani, this sumptuously realised adult fantasy movie is an…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet the Fockers (12A) ***
(Dir: Jay Roach, 115 mins) If it ain’t broke . . . simply re-jig it slightly, chuck it out again, and hope that nobody complains. To recap: hapless male nurse Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller) is betrothed to Pam Byrnes…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet the Parents (12) ****
(Dir: Jay Roach, 108 mins) It boasts a one-line premise - imagine your prospective father-in-law turns out to be former CIA psychological profiler Bob De Niro - and many of the gags can be spotted from the moment they…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet the Parents: Little Fockers (12A)
(Dir: Paul Weitz, 2010, 98 mins) I don't know if you’ve noticed, but the name ‘Focker’ sounds a bit like ‘Fucker’, especially when shouted in anger by Robert DeNiro. If you think that was funny once, then Hollywood…22.12.2010 READ MORE -
Meet the Robinsons (U) **
(Dir: Stephen J. Anderson, 2007, 102 mins) This Disney CG animation helps itself in magpie fashion to whatever’s been popular with the kiddiewinkies lately. Dinosaurs? No problem. Let’s just chuck one in. Robots? Yeah,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Meet the Spartans (12A) *
(Dir: Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, 2008, 83 mins) The mirth-dodging duo whose CV of Shame includes ‘Epic Movie’ and ‘Date Movie’ take the solitary subtextual gag of ‘300’ (Isn’t this gay?) and run with it, having…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Megamind (PG)
(Dir: Tom McGrath, 2010, 96 mins) Boasting uncanny similarities to 'Despicable Me', this 3D animation about a supervillain with hordes of robot helpers who learns the error of his evil ways is the superior film because…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
Melancholia (15)
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011 135 mins Dir: Lars Von Trier Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Keifer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgard Cheery old Lars Von Trier follows the…30.09.2011 READ MORE -
Melinda and Melinda (12A) ****
(Dir: Woody Allen, 99 mins) Working from the aphorism that one man’s joy is another’s sorrow, Woody Allen cheerfully plunders his own canon and influences (that’ll be Bergman and Chekhov then) for a significant return…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Memento (15) *****
(Dir: Christopher Nolan, 113 mins) A strikingly original murder mystery whose twist is that it’s told backwards. We know who killed whom, how and why. Only as we retreat from this climactic confrontation are the waters…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Memoirs of a Geisha (12A) ***
(Dir: Rob Marshall, 144 mins) Originally optioned by Spielberg, this long-gestating adaptation of Arthur Golden's bestselling period romance set amid the secret world of Japan’s geishas eventually became Rob Marshall’s…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Men In Black (PG) ****
(Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld, 90 mins) Tapping brilliantly into one of the staples of paranoid urban mythology, Barry Sonenfeld’s refreshing blockbuster has a magnificently deadpan Tommy Lee Jones as an ageing agent and Will…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Men In Black II (PG) ***
(Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld, 88 mins) With a tagline – ‘Same Planet. Different Scum’ – that makes a virtue of its lack of ambition, this greed-driven sequel gives the millions who shelled out to see 1997’s sharp and funny…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Men of Honour (15) **
(Dir: George Tillman Jr., 128 mins) It's 1952 and young, black, Kentucky sharecropper's son Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr) single-mindedly pursues his ambition to join the elite at the Navy Dive School in Bayonne, New…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Men With Guns (15) ****
(Dir: John Sayles, 127 mins) In an unidentified Central American country, recently widowed, unworldly big city doctor Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) decides to forsake his usual trip to the beach during his annual…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Men, Women: A User’s Manual (12) **
(Dir: Claude Lelouch, 122 mins) A millionaire businessman (played by disgraced former French cabinet minister Bernard Tapie) and a hypochondriac cop (Fabrice Luchini) have their medical test results switched by Dr.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (PG) ***
(Dir: Claude Chabrol, 97 mins) As with most of Claude Chabrol's recent efforts, this Hitchcockian drama is anchored by a superb performance from Isabelle Huppert, who glides through it with a somewhat distracted,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mercury Rising (15) **
(Dir: Harold Becker, 111 mins) Stop thief! That stubbly man in the sweat-stained T-shirt has made off with the top-secret ‘Lethal Weapon’ formula. And he’s not ashamed to use it! Yup, Bruce Willis is the maverick loner…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Merlin: The Return (PG) **
(Dir: Paul Matthews, 88 mins) This curious tale, filled with anomalies both intentional and accidental, is an ambitious but flawed project which fails to hold the interest of all but the most undemanding viewer. Which…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Merry Christmas (12A) ***
(Dir: Christian Carion, 115 mins) An amalgam of many stories that took place on the WWI front line during the Christmas truce of 1914, Carion’s film is far better than might be expected from its Europudding production.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15) ****
(Dir: Jean-Francois Richet, 2008, 113 mins, subtitles) From its slick split-screen title sequence, which shows the circumstances in which its subject was ambushed by police and gunned down in central Paris back in 1979,…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (15) ****
(Dir: Jean-Francois Richet, 2009, 133 mins, subtitles) • In part two of Jean-Francois Richet’s epic yet lean, skilful, briskly paced biopic of Jacques Mesrine, the tone grows darker as the posturing, arrogant,…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Message in a Bottle (12) ****
(Dir: Luis Mandoki, 126 mins) Wandering the deserted beaches of Cape Cod, lonely single mum Robin Wright Penn finds a message in a bottle: a letter of regret written to 'Catherine' by her husband 'G'. Back in Chicago,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Messengers, The (15) **
(Dir: Oxide and Danny Pang, 2007, 84 mins) For their US debut, the Pang brothers (‘The Eye’) have been landed with a generic, half-baked script, which they gamely attempt to jazz up using all the atmospheric tools in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey (15) ****
(Dir: Sam Dunn/Scott McFadyen/Jessica Joy Wise, 96 mins) Hirsute Canadian academic Sam Dunn is our engaging and enthusiastic host for this whistle-stop tour round the wonderful world of metal, applying his…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (15) *****
(Dir: Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sonofsky, 140 mins) When Metallica invited old mates and award-winning documentarists Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sonofsky to film an anodyne promo about the making of their new album, they…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Metro (18) ***
(Dir: Thomas Carter, 117 mins) Eddie Murphy is a wisecracking hostage negotiator who’s called in to display his skills when psycho cop-chopper Michael Wincott is cornered. An extended chase through the streets of San…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Metroland (18) ***
(Dir: Philip Savile, 105 mins) Philip Saville’s timely adaptation of Julian Barnes’ ‘70s-set literary ‘Likely Lads’ chimes perfectly with the current nostalgic obsessions of laddish thirtysomething males while…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Metropolis (PG) *****
(Dir: Fritz Lang, 1927, 1927, 145 mins) The restored version of Fritz Lang’s ground-breaking futurist classic. Originally premiered in Berlin on January 10, 1927, the film was subsequently butchered by Paramount, who…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mexican, The (15) ***
(Dir: Gore Verbinski, 123 mins) Those who crave this pairing of Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt for a bizarre, hybrid mix of romantic comedy, road movie and freewheeling, whimsical Western may be disappointed to find that…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miami Vice (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Mann, 133 mins) Fans of Michael Mann’s original 1984 TV cop show may be surprised at just how humourless Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) have become, while the story feels like an expansion…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Michael (18)
Austria 2011 96 mins Subtitles Dir: Markus Schleinzer Starring: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger Fans of Michael Haneke will need no encouragement to form an orderly queue for this feature debut by his former casting…02.03.2012 READ MORE -
Michael (PG) *
(Dir: Nora Ephron, 105 mins) John Travolta’s career plummets toiletwards once more as Scientology’s porkiest Tinsletown convert indulges what is beginning to look worryingly like a messiah complex once again. Here he’s…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Michael Clayton (15) ***
(Dir: Tony Gilroy, 2007, 119 mins) So long as you don’t expect ‘Bourne’ screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s directorial debut to deliver non-stop action, there’s plenty to enjoy in this low-key, 70s-style political conspiracy…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Michael Collins (15) ****
(Dir: Neil Jordan, 132 mins) Neil Jordan’s controversial biopic follows Collins (Neeson) from the last stand of the 1916 Easter Rebellion to his leadership of the struggle, painting his ‘murder and mayhem’ as a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Michael Jackson’s This Is It (PG) ****
(Dir: Kenny Ortega, 2009, 111 mins) Quick recap: world’s biggest star checks out aged 50, awash with prescription drugs in full Elvis fashion, on eve of comeback residency at the O2 Arena. This is the rehearsal footage.…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Mickey Blue Eyes (12) **
(Dir: Kelly Makin, 102 mins) Yet another product exploiting Hugh Grant’s limited strengths is unleashed onto an apparently insatiable market. Cynics who remain resolutely uncharmed by his familiar screen persona should…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Micmacs (12A) ****
(Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009, 104 mins, subtitles) ‘Amelie’ director Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns to the surrealist fun of ‘Delicatessen’ with ‘Micmacs’, which welds eye-popping visual gags to a lightweight arms trade…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Mid-August Lunch (U) ***
(Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio, 2009, 76 mins, subtitles) A dramatic change of pace for the team behind acclaimed gangster flick ‘Gomorrah’, here swapping producer and director roles, this gentle and rather slight comedy,…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Midnight in Paris (12A)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Woody Allen Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Nina Arianda, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard Woody's European vacation brings him back to Paris for the…07.10.2011 READ MORE -
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (15) **
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 155 mins) Even the best efforts of a strong cast can’t save this tedious, disjointed, flatly directed, overlong adaptation of an American bestseller. Young New York hack John Cusack is sent on to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Midnight Meat Train (18) ***
(Dir: Ryuhei Kitamura, 2008, 98 mins) Expanded from a very short story (just 35 pages, fact fans) in the first of Clive Barker’s ‘Books of Blood’ by Japanese director Ryuhei (‘Versus’) Kitamura, this is a stylish,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Midnight Movies (18) ***
(Dir: Stuart Samuels, 2005, 86 mins) Stuart Samuels’ celebratory documentary makes the case that the midnight movie was an urban American phenomenon that flourished briefly, allowing young film-makers to ply their…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1999) (PG) ***
(Dir: Michael Hoffman, 115 mins) Michael Hoffman's strongly cast new version of Shakespeare's comedy of transformation resembles a modern equivalent of Max Reinhardt's lavish 1935 Hollywood incarnation: that is to say,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1996) (15) ***
RSC Artistic Director Adrian Noble’s adaptation of his own acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy remains resolutely theatrical, apparently just incorporating the stage set for the main body of the film.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mifune (15) ****
(Dir: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, 98 mins) Another refreshingly misanthropic tale from the Dogme 95 brigade, 'Mifune' evinces a profound disdain for both sides of its city yuppies versus rural peasants culture-clash.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mighty Aphrodite (15) ****
A comedy so lightweight and funny it almost makes ‘Bananas’ seem like part of his Bergman period, ‘Mighty Aphrodite’ has Woody Allen on autopilot as a neurotic, middle-aged sportswriter obsessed with tracking down his…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mighty Heart, A (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 2007, 108 mins) With Angelina in front of the camera and Brad behind it (in a producing role), the mystery is how Tinseltown’s golden couple should have been responsible for such a mighty…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mighty Joe Young (PG) **
(Dir: Ron Underwood, 114 mins) The original 'Mighty Joe Young' was a cynical attempt to rework 'King Kong' for the kiddie market, so it's no surprise that Disney's lengthy anthropomorphic ape remake should attempt to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mighty, The (PG) **
(Dir: Peter Chelsom, 101 mins) Maxwell (Eldon Henson) is having a hard time at school because he is absolutely huge for his age, and his dad is in jail for killing his mother. Kevin (Kieran Culkin) has it even worse,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mike Bassett: England Manager (15) ***
(Dir: Steve Barron, 89 mins) A film torn from the back page headlines, this is the tale of Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson), the down-to-earth, take-each-game-as-it-comes, cup-winning manager of Norwich City football…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Milk (15) ****
(Dir: Gus Van Sant, 2008, 128 mins) Perhaps it’s because of his personal connection to the project as a gay man, or maybe Dustin Lance Black’s script helped rein in any needless and tiresome experimentalism, but this…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Million Dollar Baby (12A) ****
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 137 mins) What’s really surprising about this boxing drama, which ranks among Clint Eastwood’s finest work, is that it’s fashioned from the unpromising building blocks of pure cinematic cliché. He…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Million Dollar Hotel, The (15) *
(Dir: Wim Wenders, 122 mins) Wim Wenders unwisely gets his great pop star mate Bono to contribute a story that must have left a great deal of empty space on the back of that fag packet. The result is a truly ghastly,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Millions (12A) ***
(Dir: Danny Boyle, 98 mins) From the director of ‘Trainspotting’ comes this sweet family tale about grief, faith, and childhood: a fable about how unexpectedly acquiring vast amounts of dosh can bugger up your life and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mimic (15) ***
(Dir: Guillermo Del Toro, 102 mins) Having built a reputation on the back of Cannes prize-winning chiller ‘Cronos’, director Guillermo Del Toro follows up with a sci-fi horror movie that starts hopefully before…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Minor Mishaps (15) ***
(Dir: Annette K. Olesen, 109 mins) A Dogme film that isn’t, Annette K. Olesen’s debut bears the logo of Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa studio but not the Dogme 95 certificate of cinematic worthiness. So what we get is a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Minority Report (12) ****
(Dir: Steven Speilberg, 148 mins) Every summer needs one like this. An A-list star/director combo, an intelligent genre script, a premise/plot you can argue through afterwards, action scenes you’ve not seen before, a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miracle Maker, The (U) **
(Dir: Derek Hayes & Stanislav Sokolov, 91 mins) 'The Gospel According to Luke: The Animated Motion Picture', anybody? Quite why anyone thought such a prospect would appeal beyond an ever-declining constituency of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miral (12A)
(Dir: Julian Schnabel, 2010, 112 mins, subtitles) Artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel's follow-up to 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' is a decidedly clunky old-school liberal message movie. Adapted from the novel by…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
Miranda (15) **
(Dir: Marc Munden, 92 mins) A lukewarm Brit romantic-thriller-comedy which is at least three drafts away from being properly written, suffers from a fatally uncertain tone, and clings depressingly to the coattails of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mirror Has Two Faces, The (15) **
(Dir: Barbra Streisand, 126 mins) A syrupy, self-indulgent adaptation of a French comedy hit in which Babs grabs a fistful of credits - including star, director and co-producer. A variation on the ugly duckling tale,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mirror Mirror (PG)
USA 2012 106 mins Dir: Tarsem Singh Starring: Julia Roberts, Sean Bean, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane "You're messing with tried-and-tested storytelling," Prince Alcott (Hammer) warns Snow White (Lily…02.04.2012 READ MORE -
MirrorMask (PG) ***
(Dir: Dave McKean, 101 mins) This is such a gorgeous piece of cinematic wallpaper that it looks as though every frame has been composed with loving care by an illustrator. As, indeed, it was: multiple award-winning…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mirrors (15) **
(Dir: Alexandre Aja, 2008, 110 mins) Alexandre (Haute Tension’) Aja continues his downward slide with yet another trudge through a second-rate Asian horror flick. Kiefer Sutherland imports his intense Jack Bauer…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mischief Night (15) ***
(Dir: Penny Woolcock, 92 mins) Penny Woolcock picks up where her TV films left off with Kelli Hollis back as the Yorkshire single mom in a story involving child heroin dealers, racial abuse, teenage pregnancy, guns and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss Bala (15)
Mexico 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Gerardo Naranjo Starring: Stephanie Sigman, James Russo, Noe Hernandez In the ever-expanding cinema of attractive young Latino women sucked into the international drugs trade, this…28.10.2011 READ MORE -
Miss Congeniality (12) **
(Dir: Donald Petrie, 109 mins) This must have seemed like a great wheeze on paper, with a top no-brainer premise allowing Sandra Bullock to make best use of her minimal assets. Here it is in full: she's a slobby FBI…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (12A) ***
(Dir: John Pasquin, 115 mins) Though no comedy masterpiece, 2001’s ‘Miss Congeniality’ shone like a beacon in the twilight rapidly descending on Sandra Bullock’s career and, while interminably overlong with far too many…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss Julie (15) ***
(Dir: Mike Figgis, 100 mins) Adapted in a thoroughly modern style by Helen Cooper, Mike Figgis's version of August Strindberg's 1888 play exaggerates its intense intimacy by using a pair of roving hand-held cameras,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss March (15) *
(Dir: Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore, 2009, 90 mins) It takes a special kind of talent to fail to deliver lowbrow larfs in a grossout teen sex comedy, but the guys from painfully named US comedy troupe Whitest Kids U’Know…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (PG) ****
(Dir: Bharat Nalluri, 2008, 92 mins) As light and fluffy as they come, but also splendidly entertaining thanks to a brace of great performances, with Amy Adams delivering a sexed-up variation on Princess Giselle from…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Miss Potter (PG) ***
(Dir: Chris Noonan, 92 mins) Puffy-faced Texan Renee Zellweger does her ersatz Frightfully English routine once again as feisty thirtysomething spinster Bridg . . . er, Beatrix Potter. Mercifully, ‘Babe’ director Chris…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Missing, The (15) ***
(Dir: Ron Howard, 137 mins) A revisionist, PC western inspired by ‘The Searchers’ and directed by Ron Howard, with Tommy Lee Jones as some kind of Old West ‘wigger’ figure who hangs with the injuns and speaks their…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mission To Mars (PG) **
(Dir: Brian De Palma, 113 mins) When three astronauts perish on Mars while standing too close to a special effect in one of this absurd film's many moments of plot-chivvying reckless imperilment, the decision is made to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mission: Impossible (PG) ***
Brian De Palma’s reworking of the creaky old espionage show sets up a not-terribly-engaging mystery, takes the audience on an expensive scenic route through cross and double-cross, and deposits us a couple of hours…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mission: Impossible 2 (15) ***
(Dir: John Woo, 123 mins) This loud, brash and mostly entertaining sequel is just one huge compendium of those celebrated Bloody Stupid Things That Only Happen in the Movies. But at least with John Woo at the helm you…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mission: Impossible III (12A) ***
(Dir: JJ Abrams, 126 mins) Another episode of the usual nonsense with Tom Cruise conducting a one-man assault on the laws of physics. The twist this time around is that Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has decided to quit the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mist, The (15) ****
(Dir: Frank Darabont, 2007, 126 mins) Suppose you’re trapped in a smalltown convenience store, surrounded by a sinister mist that seems to be teeming with bloodthirsty alien monsters. Who would you least like to share…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mistress of Spices, The (12A) **
(Dir: Paul Mayeda Berges, 96 mins) The husband and wife partnership of Paul Mayeda Berges and Gurinda Chadha has come something of a cropper with Berges’ directorial debut, which openly aspires to the ‘Like Water For…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Model Behaviour (PG) ****
(Dir: Adam Elliot/Pjotr Sapegin, 72 mins) An entertaining selection of little-seen, adult-oriented animation focusing on the contrasting work of two of the world’s leading model animators. Russian-born Pjotr Sapegin…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Modern Life (PG) ***
(Dir: Raymond Depardon, 2008, 87 mins, subtitles) Celebrated Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon was raised in a farming family and spent 20 years befriending the weatherbeaten subjects of ‘Modern Life’. These are the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Moguls, The (15) ***
(Dir: Michael Traeger, 96 mins) Writer-director Michael Traeger's debut film is that rarity: a feel-good movie about porn. Compounding the improbability, it's also rather chaste, which may disappoint smut-hounds. The…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mojo (15) **
(Dir: Jez Butterworth, 90 mins) Jez Butterworth’s feeble adaptation of his own acclaimed ‘50s-set stage play is set a late ‘50s Soho club, where rock’n’roll has arrived in the lithe form of Hans Matheson. Club manager…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Moliere (12A) ****
(Dir: Laurent Tirard, 2007, 121 mins, subtitles) An enjoyable, frothy, speculative biopic with inescapable comparisons to ‘Shakespeare in Love’, anchored by a splendid central performance from multi-talented Romain…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Momma’s Man (15) **
(Dir: Azazel Jacobs, 2008, 98 mins) Adult males who feel tempted to pull the duvet over their heads and retreat from the pressures and responsibilities of the world might consider this is a movie whose time has come.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mon Homme (18) **
(Dir: Bertrand Blier, 98 mins) Young and beautiful prostitute Marie, who claims to love her job, stumbles across a tramp on her doorstep and invites him in for a prolonged bout of doggy sex. None too pleased with this,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mona Lisa Smile (12A) **
(Dir: Mike Newell, 119 mins) At first glance, this looks like one of those high-concept sci-fi movies, with Julia Roberts giving a thoroughly modern movie star performance as a free-spirited feminist parachuted in to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monday Morning (PG) ***
(Dir: Otar Iosseliani, 122 mins) Each day, middle-aged Gallic grumpster Vincent (Jacques Bidou) follows the same routine. He bids farewell to his taciturn wife and resentful kids, hops on a train for 90 minutes of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mondays in the Sun (15) ***
(Dir: Fernando Leon de Aranoa, 113 mins) As hard sells go, a film about moping dole-wallahs, most of whom resemble James Nesbitt, living in the shadow of a decaying shipyard is tough to beat. But the Oscar-nominated…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Money Talks (PG) *
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 95 mins) Maverick TV news reporter Charlie Sheen has just been fired when he’s contacted by escaped prisoner Chris Tucker (the motormouth media talkshow host from ‘The Fifth Element’), who’s…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Money Train (18) **
Undercover cops Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson are assigned to guard the eponymous repository for millions of dollars in subway fares, their working banter focusing on one major topic: if they were to rob the Money…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mongol (15) ****
(Dir: Sergei Bodrov, 2007, 125 mins, subtitles) A stirring and spectacular if a tad episodic, curiously sympathetic epic biopic that might be summarised as ‘Genghis Khan: The Early Years’. Worry not, action fans: it…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monkey's Tale, A (PG) *
c(Dir: Jean-Francois Laguionie, 76 mins) Separated by a great natural catastrophe, two populations of primates view one another with hostility and prejudice. After a bit of plot, the mutual suspicion evaporates, they…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monrak Transistor (15) ***
(Dir: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 121 mins) From the producers of that garish and overblown Thai melodrama ‘Tears of the Black Tiger’ comes this odd yet engaging romantic musical parable whose somewhat implausible, rambling and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monsoon Wedding (15) ****
(Dir: Mira Nair, 114 mins) Mira Nair's most accomplished film to date is an engrossing and thoroughly contemporary ensemble drama exploring the tensions between old and new in cosmopolitan New Delhi through the familiar…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monster (18) ****
(Dir: Patty Jenkins, 109 mins) Although sympathetic in its approach, Patty Jenkins’ film focuses on that brief and dramatic period in serial killer prostitute Aileen Wuornos’s (Charlize Theron) life when she was out…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monster House (PG) ***
(Dir: Gil Kenan, 91 mins) An inventive blend of ‘The Burbs’ and Miyazaki’s ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ which, refreshingly, has no ambitions other than to entertain and deliver PG-rated shocks. Pubescent DJ lives just across…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monster's Ball (15) ***
(Dir: Marc Forster, 111 mins) Notorious for its explicit sex scene and lauded for its historic, Oscar-winning performance by Halle Berry, 'Monster's Ball' tries very hard indeed to transcend its melodramatic potboiler…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monster-in-Law (12A) **
(Dir: Robert Luketic, 104 mins) A witless rerun of ‘Meet the Parents’ starring Jane Fonda (her first film in 15 years, fact fans) and serial turkey-magnet Jennifer Lopez. Lopez is Charlie, a girl of no fixed career or…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monsters (12A)
(Dir: Gareth Edwards, 2010, 94 mins) FX wizard-turned-first-time feature director Gareth Edwards's ultra-low-budget feature debut demonstrates how easily imagination, technical skill and tenacity can trump bloated,…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
Monsters Vs Aliens (PG) ***
(Dir: Conrad Vernon & Rob Letterman, 2009, 94 mins) The irresistible title of this DreamWorks 3D animation harks back to those Toho Godzilla smackdowns, and there are plenty of references to the likes of ‘The Blob’,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monsters, Inc. (U) ****
(Dir: Pete Docter, 90 mins) The latest from Pixar never quite hits the heights of their Toy Story flicks, but it's still probably the best animated film you'll see this year. Egged on by his green, one-eyed assistant…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Monte Carlo (PG)
USA 2011 109 mins Dir: Thomas Bezucha Starring: Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Katie Cassidy, Catherine Tate A feeble tweenie companion piece to Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris', in which a trio of American girls live…21.10.2011 READ MORE -
Moolaade (15) ****
(Dir: Ousmane Sembene, 124 mins) An act of sickening brutality conducted in the name of Islam. What could be more topical? Female circumcision – a weaselly euphemism for crude genital mutilation of pre-pubescent girls…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Moon (15) ****
(Dir: Duncan Jones, 2009, 97 mins) On the far side of the moon, nearly-cracked Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) operates a mining outpost single-handed, aided by a computer-robot named GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey) which evokes…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Moonlight and Valentino (15) ***
Elizabeth Perkins is fizzing mad because hubby Ben isn’t back yet from his morning jog to take her to work. A few enquiries later, she finds he’s been knocked over dead, by a car. And, er, that’s about it for plot. But…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Morning Glory (12A)
(Dir: Roger Michell, 2010, 107 mins) Much more enjoyable than one might be forgiven for anticipating, thanks largely to another of Aline ('The Devil Wears Prada') McKenna's sparky, 'ambitious young woman in the…19.01.2011 READ MORE -
Morvern Callar (15) ***
(Dir: Lynne Ramsay, 97 mins) Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s over-praised follow-up to her over-praised ‘Ratcatcher’, offers the massively under-rated Samantha Morton another role with minimal dialogue and plenty of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Most Desired Man, The (18) ***
Ooo-err missus! It’s not Just a German sex comedy, but also the country’s all-time box office record-breaker. Axel is a dim-yet-hunky, philandering waiter who spends a drunken evening at a gay club after being thrown…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Most Terrible Time of My Life, The (18) ****
Cool and sullen Masatoshi Nagase - the long-suffering Japanese abroad in cult indieflick ‘Cold Fever’ and Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Mystery Train’ - is low-rent Yokohama private eye Mike Hama (think about it), who becomes…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Most Wanted (15) *
(Dir: David Glenn Hogan, 99 mins) Another lamentable action-thriller, this stars Keenan Ivory Wayans as a decorated Gulf War hero who’s convicted of killing a superior officer but avoids a trip to Death Row by being…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mostly Martha (PG) ***
(Dir: Sandra Nettelbeck, 105 mins) Fearsome, fastidious, thirtysomething chef Martha (Martina Gedeck) rules her spotless Hamburg kitchen with a rod of iron, expertly juggling orders and creating imaginative dishes of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mother (15) ****
(Dir: Bong Joon-ho, 2009, 124 mins, subtitles) South Korean director Bong Joon-ho follows ‘The Host’ with this absolutely terrific, suspenseful and twisty-turny crime drama. Part-whodunit and part study of twisted…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mother Night (15) ****
(Dir: Keith Gordon, 114 mins) An intelligent, effective adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel with Nick Nolte as a minor playwright recruited by an American agent (an uncredited John Goodman) to remain in Germany…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mother's Boys (15) *
Just when you thought every conceivable permutation of the 'Home Invasion' plot had been done to death, along comes this flashy, vapid variation. The twist here is that the "happy family" consists of Peter Gallagher,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mother, The (15) ***
(Dir: Roger Michell, 111 mins) For his erstwhile ‘Buddha of Suburbia’ collaborator Hanif Kureishi’s grandmotherfucker drama, ‘Notting Hill’ director Roger Michell returns to a London quite unlike that celebrated by…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mothman Prophecies, The (12) ***
(Dir: Mark Pellington, 118 mins) As its title implies, 'The Mothman Prophecies' is a film about a man-sized moth who appears to people prophesying doom. Worse, it's "based on true events". Now this will either have you…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Motorcycle Diaries, The (15) ****
(Dir: Walter Salles, 126 mins) A road movie and biopic rolled into one, this warmly perceptive film from the Brazilian director of ‘Central Station’ depicts a defining episode in the life of the revolutionary leader…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Moulin Rouge (12) **
(Dir: Baz Luhrmann, 127 mins) As an exercise in pure cinematic technique, and a showcase for some superb set and costume design, this is mightily impressive. But Baz Luhrmann seems so terrified that his subject matter…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mouse Hunt (PG) ***
(Dir: Gore Verbinski, 98 mins) It’s ‘Home Alone’ with a mouse! But while this is ingenious and agreeably dark in places, boasting some Oscar-worthy rodent wrangling, it’s never quite as funny as you feel it ought to be.…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mozart's Sister (12A)
France 2010 120 mins Subtitles Dir: Rene Feret Starring: Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin, Lisa Feret Life on the road sure is tough for musical artistes, what with arduous…13.04.2012 READ MORE -
Mr and Mrs Smith (15) ****
(Dir: Doug Liman, 120 mins) As a manufactured melange of ‘True Lies’, ‘The War of the Roses’ and ‘Prizzi’s Honor’, this might not have a new idea in its head, but there’s no denying that it’s mostly fun. Unhappy couple…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr Brooks (18) **
(Dir: Bruce A. Evans, 2007, 120 mins) What do you do with a pair of fading 80s screen stars who are desperately in need of a hit? Why, bung them both in a gimmicky serial killer movie, of course. ‘Mr Brooks’ starts out…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (U) **
(Dir: Zach Helm, 2007, 94 mins) Writer/director Zach Helm’s thin slice of whimsy tweaks the plot of Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ just enough to avoid the attentions of m’learned friends, while…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr Nice (18) ****
(Dir: Bernard Rose, 2010, 121 mins) Famously loveable drug dealer Howard Marks’s somewhat episodic autobiography presents certain narrative challenges, but it’s to writer/director Bernard Rose’s enormous credit that…06.10.2010 READ MORE -
Mr Nice (18) ****
(Dir: Bernard Rose, 2010, 121 mins) Famously loveable drug dealer Howard Marks’s somewhat episodic autobiography presents certain narrative challenges, but it’s to writer/director Bernard Rose’s enormous credit that…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr Popper's Penguins (PG)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Mark Waters Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury 'Inoffensive' is the term a majority of critics reach for when describing 'family films' like this. I'm here to tell you that 'Mr.…05.08.2011 READ MORE -
Mr Woodcock (12A) **
(Dir: Craig Gillespie, 2007, 87 mins) John Farley (Seann William Scott), the confident young author of the self-help best-seller ‘Letting Go: Getting Past Your Past’, returns to his small home-town to pick up an award…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. Bean’s Holiday (PG) **
Dir: Steve Bendelack, 2007, 89 mins) This episodic, oddly paced sequel delivers the expected festival of gurning from Rowan Atkinson, but rarely yields any laughs. It also suffers in comparison to obvious influence…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. Deeds (12A) *
(Dir: Steven Brill, 96 mins) This very loose remake of Capra’s ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ adds creepy inbred conservatism to the mirthlessness and sickening sentimentality of standard Adam Sandler fare. For this is a film…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. Holland’s Opus (PG) ***
An unashamedly sentimental journey through recent American history as seen through the eyes of one man (a la ‘Forrest Gump’), the story of a schoolteacher who measure his life by his accomplishments with his pupils (a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. In-Between (15) ***
(Dir: Paul Sarossy, 98 mins) Adapted from the highly-praised novel by Bristol author Neil Cross, Paul Sarossy’s feature debut is a relentlessly bleak existential thriller. What works on the page doesn’t always transfer…14.10.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. Nice Guy (15) ****
(Dir: Samo Hung, 95 mins) Breathless stunts, a protracted chase, knockabout humour and more breathless stunts. . . yes, it’s another Jackie Chan movie. Truth be told, there’s no other reason to watch one of these than…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mr. Reliable (15) ****
(Dir: Nadia Tass, 113 mins) It’s 1968 and illiterate Australian petty crim Wally Mellish (Colin Friels) seduces sexy single parent Beryl (Jacqueline McKenzie) and inadvertently sets off Australia’s first armed siege…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mrs Brown (PG) ****
(Dir: John Madden, 103 mins) It’s 1864 and Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) is two years into a marathon sulk brought on by the death of her beloved Prince Albert, so in desperation her Private Secretary Sir Henry Ponsonby…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War (12A) **
(Dir: Ian Sharp, 110 mins) When her boorish chrysanthemum-loving misery guts husband's amusingly killed by a flying cricket ball, browbeaten middle-aged northern housewife Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) feels not…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mrs Dalloway (PG) **
(Dir: Marleen Gorris, 97 mins) Despite the advantage of casting Vanessa Redgrave in the title role, veteran feminist director Marleen Gorris reduces one of Virginia Woolf’s most complex novels to the level of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mrs Henderson Presents (12A) ****
(Dir: Stephen Frears, 103 mins) Judi Dench takes another of those feisty old biddy roles she has come to monopolise for this true tale of wealthy, 69-year-old widow Mrs Laura Henderson, who blows some of her loot on…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mugabe and the White African (12A) ****
(Dir: Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, 2009, 90 mins) White, avowedly Christian Africans, many of them with plummy voices, don’t exactly invite sympathy. But when they’re ranged against the continent’s most brutal and…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Mulan (U) ****
(Dir: Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft, 88 mins) Big battles, matchbox morals, true romance, groanworthy ditties and comedy sidekicks: it’s business as usual for Uncle Walt with this adaptation of a traditional Chinese folk…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mulholland Drive (15) ****
(Dir: David Lynch, 146 mins) Anyone worried about David Lynch's apparent loss of weirdness after 'The Straight Story' will be delighted to know that 'Mulholland Drive' finds the director firmly back in 'Twin…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mulholland Falls (18) ***
A slick opening scene sets up the promise of an old-style gangster movie which is never quite delivered in Lee Tamahori’s cop drama about the ‘Hat Squad’: a semi-autonomous LA Police Department unit of the ‘50s who…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Multiplicity (12) ****
Director Harold Ramis attempts to repeat the success of ‘Groundhog Day’ with another stratospherically high concept, gently moralistic romantic comedy which, while never quite as likeable as its predecessor, certainly…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mum & Dad (18) ****
(Dir: Steven Sheil, 2008, 84 mins) An accomplished, low-budget, controversy-courting blackly comic shocker, which takes its cue from the exploits of Fred and Rose West. There are just the two locations here, but first…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mummy Returns, The (12) **
(Dir: Stephen Sommers, 120 mins) From the ridiculous prologue - in which the Scorpion King (The Rock), an ancient warrior hulk, conquers Egypt with a tribe of jackal-headed sandmen - it's clear that this sequel, in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mummy, The (12) ***
(Dir: Stephen Sommers, 124 mins) A rollicking '90s adventure yarn that doesn't take itself too seriously and delivers where it counts in the special effects and relishable bad dialogue departments. Back in the 1920s, we…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The (12A) **
(Dir: Rob Cohen, 2008, 112 mins) A textbook example of the law of diminishing returns in action. This time they’ve even forgotten to bring a proper mummy, and belatedly attempt to rectify this fatal shortcoming in the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Muppet Treasure Island, The (U) ****
Jim Henson’s furry creations return to take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, with all the old characters, many of the old jokes, and a stage villain with a Bristolian accent. This is a pantomime-style fiesta that…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Muppets From Space (U) ***
(Dir: Tim Hill, 88 mins) Poor old hook-nosed felt funster Gonzo’s having an existential crisis, which is exacerbated when his breakfast cereal starts talking to him. Our peculiarly hued hero becomes convinced that he…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Murder at 1600 (15) **
(Dir: Dwight Little, 109 mins) Embarrassingly simliar to Clint Eastwood’s similarly useless ‘Absolute Power’, this centres on the murder of a young woman that threatens to implicate the President. Wesley Snipes is a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Murder By Numbers (15) **
(Dir: Barbet Schroeder, 120 mins) Detective Sandra Bullock is nicknamed 'the hyena' by her male colleagues, since the female of this particular species has a vestigial penis. That's right: despite being called Cassie…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Murderball (15) ****
(Dir: Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro, 86 mins) There are no disability stereotypes in this thoroughly refreshing and highly entertaining documentary about a bunch of quadriplegics who invented their own sport so…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Music and Lyrics (PG) **
(Dir: Marc Lawrence, 2007, 90 mins) Looking increasingly seedy in these roles as he ages, which can only be a good thing, Hugh Grant plays washed-up 80s pop star Alex Fletcher: the pointless Andrew Ridgely figure in the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Music of the Heart (PG) **
(Dir: Wes Craven, 130 mins) For all the unique nature of this true story there is a whiff of dramatic deja-vu about 'Music of the Heart'. The do-gooding tale of a white, middle class, middle-aged woman who helps…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Musketeer, The (PG) ***
(Dir: Peter Hyams, 104 mins) Veteran hack Peter Hyams' expensively staged if ill-judged downsizing of 'The Three Musketeers' is an entertainingly forgettable slice of popcorn pleasure. Don't even bother comparing this…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Must Love Dogs (12A) **
(Dir: Gary David Goldberg, 98 mins) You’ll require an inordinate fondness for the mongrel romcom to save this one from the straight-to-DVD pound. The presence of John Cusack, Diane Lane and a Newfoundland hound in the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mutant Chronicles, The (18) ***
(Dir: Simon Hunter, 2008, 111 mins) Set in a post-apocalyptic 2702 but shot on the Isle of Man and at Bray and Shepperton Studios, this stylised Poundstretcher steampunk action flick is relentlessly daft but pleasingly…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mute Witness (18) ****
Brit director Anthony Waller's debut, shot in near-impossible conditions in Moscow, stars the impressive Marina Sudina as a mute make-up artist working on a cheesy slasher flick deep in a labyrinthine Soviet film…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mutual Appreciation (15) *
(Dir: Andrew Bujalski, 2005, 108 mins) Writer/director/actor Andrew Bujalski has been compared to Jim Jarmusch and John Cassavetes, which ought to set those self-indulgence antennae twitching. The wary should note that…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Best Friend (12A) **
(Dir: Patrice Leconte, 2006, 95 mins, subtitles) Patrice Leconte takes a surprise turn into mainstream comedy territory. His favourite themes – the odd couple, male friendship – are present and correct, but Leconte…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Best Friend’s Girl (15) *
(Dir: Howard Deutch, 2008, 99 mins) At 30, Jason Biggs continues to play the lovable, sexually inexperienced doofus. Dane Cook, meanwhile, still comes across as being an annoying asshole. But while casting him as an…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Best Friend’s Wedding (12) ***
(Dir: P.J. Hogan, 105 mins) P.J. (‘Muriel’s Wedding) Hogan’s romantic comedy is already renowned as the film that re-established Rupert Everett’s career. The surprise is how little we see of him. This is, after all, a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) ***
(Dir: Joel Zwick, 95 mins) The most profitable low-budget sleeper hit of 2002 is yer standard-issue, ethnically themed, culture-clash romcom, which doesn’t stint on the laughs. Toula Portokalos (writer Nia Vardalos) is…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Bloody Valentine 3D (18) ***
(Dir: Patrick Lussier, 2008, 101 mins) Gratuitous gore and nudity in 3D: does life get any better than this? The news that MBV 3D was to be a “reimagining” of the Tarantino-endorsed minor 1981 slasher flick was enough…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Blueberry Nights (12A) **
(Dir: Wong Kar Wai, 2007, 95 mins) We’ve come to expect style-heavy and substance-lite films from Wong Kar Wai. But despite the scriptwriting assistance of veteran crime writer Lawrence Block, his first English-language…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Brother is an Only Child (15) ***
(Dir: Daniele Luchetti, 2007, 104 mins, subtitles) Screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli follow their sprawling epic ‘The Best of Youth’ with another drama covering part of the same tumultuous period in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Dog Skip (U) ***
(Dir: Jay Russell, 95 mins) Based on the autobiographical bestseller by Willie Morris, who went on to become the editor of Harper's magazine, this is a one-boy-and-his-dog coming-of-age yarn that can best be described…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Dog Tulip
USA 2009 83 mins Dir: Paul and Sandra Fierlinger Starring: (voices): Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini • To describe 'My Dog Tulip' as an adult animation would be a tad misleading. Now OK, so…20.05.2011 READ MORE -
My Favorite Martian (PG) **
(Dir: Donald Petrie, 94 mins) Long-suffering parents should be warned that we're in 'Flubber' territory here. A Disney update of a '60s kiddie comedy sci-fi (in this case a TV series rather than a film), 'My Favorite…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My House in Umbria (12A) ***
(Dir: Richard Loncraine, 103 mins) Originally made for US cable TV, this adaptation of William Trevor’s novel is oddly reminiscent of an Agatha Christie whodunit, with Maggie Smith in the Miss Marple role. She plays…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Kid Could Paint That (12A) ****
(Dir: Amir Bar-Lev, 2006, 84 mins) The appearance on the art scene in 2004 of four-year-old Marla Olmstead came as a gift for sour philistines everywhere. A cute moppet from the small town of Binghamton, New York,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Last Five Girlfriends (12A) **
(Dir: Julian Kemp, 2009, 87 mins) Adapted from suave egghead philosopher Alain de Botton’s analytical musings in ‘ Essays on Love’, this is a refreshingly ambitious tilt at the romcom, in which a suicidal Duncan…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
My Life Without Me (15) ***
(Dir: Isabel Croixet, 102 mins) The ever-popular terminal cancer weepie gets an indie makeover in this restrained and tasteful film, which nonetheless incorporates all of the genre’s clichés and eventually bottles out…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Little Eye (18) ***
(Dir: Marc Evans, 95 mins) Be very afraid: we’re in for a slew of reality TV-inspired flicks. The primary advantage to film-makers is that they can be done on the cheap. All you need is a single location and a small…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Name Is Joe (15) ****
(Dir: Ken Loach, 105 mins) Joe ( Peter Mullan) is an unemployed reformed alcoholic who manages the shiteiest football team in the whole of Glasgow. He lives alone in a spartan tenement flat with a single classical music…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Sister’s Keeper (12A) *
(Dir: Nick Cassavetes, 2009, 106 mins) Cameron Diaz showboats in a blubbing mom role in this terminal disease weepie/ishoo flick which attempts to sucker in discerning audiences with an intriguing ethical dilemma, but…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Son The Fanatic (15) ***
(Dir: Udayan Prasad, 87 mins) Thoroughly westernised taxi driver Parvez (Om Puri) is delighted that his trainee accountant son Farid is engaged to the daughter of a top local copper. He boasts of this great coup to his…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Summer of Love (15) ****
(Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski, 86 mins) Adapted from the novel by Helen Cross, Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to his justly lauded ‘Last Resort’ is a languid, atmospheric coming-of-age story with a strong sense of class and…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (12A) **
(Dir: Ivan Reitman, 95 mins) It’s a one gag premise: shy guy dates dorky girl who's really an emotionally needy superhero. She acts cranky, he breaks up, she flips out and makes his life hell. ‘Fatal Attraction’ in…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
My Winnipeg (12A) ****
(Dir: Guy Maddin, 2007, 80 mins) With this playful and highly enjoyable woozy faux documentary homage to his hometown, camp Canuck Guy Maddin has finally found a suitable context for his trademark stylised visuals,…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mysteries of Lisbon (PG)
Portugal/France 2010 266 mins Subtitles Dir: Raoul Ruiz Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria Joao Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Jose Alfonso Pimentel, Joao Arrais That's no misprint. This epic Portuguese costume drama really is just…09.12.2011 READ MORE -
Mysterious Skin (18) ****
(Dir: Gregg Araki, 105 mins) Gay provocateur Gregg Araki’s adaptation of Scott Heim’s acclaimed debut novel is his most glossy, mature and thoughtful work to date. But it’s no less controversial for that, following the…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mystery Men (PG) ****
(Dir: Kinka Usher, 122 mins) Champion City is protected by the overconfident, commercialised Captain Amazing , who arranges for the release of his old foe Casanova Frankenstein simply to have someone noteworthy to…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Mystic River (15) ****
(Dir: Clint Eastwood, 137 mins) Adapted by Brian Helgeland from Dennis Lehane's acclaimed novel, this is Clint Eastwood's best work behind the camera since ‘Unforgiven’ a decade ago. It also shares similar themes of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Myth of Fingerprints, The (15) ***
(Dir: Bart Freundlich, 90 mins) In their huge, sprawling New England house, grouchy, somewhat creepy Roy Scheider and long-suffering matriarch Blythe Danner await the arrival of their four attractive offspring for a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
The Maid (15) ****
(Dir: Sebastian Silva, 2009, 96 mins, subtitles) To describe this Chilean award-winner as a psycho-in-the-nest thriller would be a tad misleading, although it certainly contains elements that will be familiar to…26.10.2010 READ MORE -
The Merchant of Venice (PG) ***
(Dir: Michael Radford, 138 mins) As if to illustrate that old Eng Lit teachers’ saw about the enduring topicality of Shakespeare, the Bard’s most contentious play is still considered in need of extensive application of…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
The Muppets (U)
USA 2011 110 mins Dir: James Bobin Starring: The Muppets, Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper, Jack Black Will anyone remember the Muppets 12 years on from their last feature film? Rather than ignoring this burning…10.02.2012 READ MORE
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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…
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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