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Rabbit Fever (18) *
(Dir: Ian Denyer, 82 mins) No rabbit pun is too feeble and no carrot gag too forced for this strained one-joke mockumentary, whose watch-through-your-fingers awfulness is compounded by the sight of Richard Branson…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rabbit Hole (12A)
(Dir: John Cameron Mitchell, 2011, 91 mins) Taking something of a detour from his previous film 'Shortbus', John Cameron Mitchell directs a tasteful, restrained and impeccably performed if rather generic contribution to…02.02.2011 READ MORE -
Rabbit-Proof Fence (PG) ****
(Dir: Phillip Noyce, 93 mins) Philip Noyce’s true story of the forced resettlement of ‘half-caste’ aborigine children during the ‘30s spares us unnecessary political polemic, portraying the architect of this misery as a…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Race To Witch Mountain (PG) **
(Dir: Andy Fickman, 2009, 98 mins) Few action stars do ‘likeable’ quite as well as Dwayne Johnson, but he’s up against it with Disney’s “reimagining” of its 1975 hit ‘Escape to Witch Mountain’, which promises sci-fi…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Rachel Getting Married (15) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Demme, 2008, 113 mins) This isn’t about Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt); it’s about her more glamorous, troubled sibling Kym (Anne Hathaway). That’s certainly how Kym thinks things ought to be, as she’s one of…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Racing Stripes (U) **
(Dir: Frederick Du Chau, 101 mins) This calculated talking animal flick lifts the plot of Dick King-Smith’s ‘Babe’ and grafts on some bits from ‘National Velvet’ to create a wholly inferior product. Abandoned baby zebra…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Radio (PG) *
(Dir: Michael Tollin, 109 mins) Wearing those ‘based on a true story’ credentials like a defensive cloak, this extraordinarily misjudged ‘heart-warmer’ permits turkey-magnet Cuba Gooding Jr to indulge in one of the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rage (15) ***
(Dir: Newton I. Aduaka, 90 mins) A tough tale of inner city dreamers struggling to get their message heard through music, Newton I. Aduaka’s low-budget debut is a compelling journey of self discovery, with a shit-hot…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rage: Carrie 2, The (15) **
(Dir: Katt Shea, 105 mins) More an updated remake than a sequel, this belated and formulaic follow-up to Brian DePalma's horror classic was always on a hiding to nothing. Emily Bergl is the obligatory surly school…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rain (15) ****
(Dir: Christine Jeffs, 90 mins) If Lynne Ramsay had directed ‘The Ice Storm’, it might have turned out something like this sensual and melancholic, 70s-set tale of sexual awakening and menopausal ennui. It’s 1972 and…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rainbow (PG) *
Four annoyingly precocious New jersey kids take the eponymous funfair ride which transports them to the midwest as they ride its multi-coloured arcs, one of their number pocketing some of the rainbow’s gold in the hope…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Raining Stones (15) ****
Like his previous film, 'Riff-Raff', Ken Loach's collaboration with writer Jim Allen is a realistic portrait of working class existence, where an entire community, hammered by life on all sides, is still able to…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rainmaker, The (15) ***
(Dir: Francis Ford Coppola, 135 mins) John Grisham’s bestsellers have usually become mediocre films This time he exercised more control, and it shows. The other factor is director Francis Ford Coppola, whose clear…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Raising Helen (PG) **
(Dir: Garry Marshall, 119 mins) The US Christian right is forever banging on about the pernicious influence of liberal Hollywood, but chooses to overlook its endless stream of reactionary family values propaganda. In…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Raising Victor Vargas (15) ***
(Dir: Peter Sollett, 88 mins) Peter Sollett’s award-winning debut is an exploration of the vulnerability beneath the adolescent macho bravado of Latino youths in New York’s Lower East Side. Refreshingly, it doesn’t…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rambo (18) **
(Dir: Sylvester Stallone, 2008, 91 mins) Sexagenarian ‘Nam vet John Rambo (Sly Stallone) is piloting a riverboat in Thailand when a bunch of US Christian do-gooders arrive seeking safe passage to Burma. With…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rampart (15)
USA 2011 108 mins Dir: Oren Moverman Starring: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Robin Wright, Ice Cube, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon Yet another dirty cop movie, 'Rampart' takes its name from the LAPD's…24.02.2012 READ MORE -
Random Hearts (15) **
(Dir: Sydney Pollack, 135 mins) When Internal Affairs cop Harrison Ford loses his wife in an plane crash, it doesn't take him long to work out that she was on her way to Miami with the hubby of ambitious congresswoman…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rango (PG)
(Dir: Gore Verbinski, 2011, 107 mins) Technically, this may be the best digitally-animated feature toon ever made. Not going the 3D route presumably meant extra processing time for details like scaly skins, desert…02.03.2011 READ MORE -
Ransom (15) ***
(Dir: Ron Howard, 121 mins) When wealthy-yet-shifty Corporate American Man Mel Gibson’s appealing nine-year-old nipper is kidnapped and the FBI botch an attempt to hand over a modest $2 million ransom, Mel gets Real Mad…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (15)
(Dir: Jalmari Helander, 2010, 83 mins, subtitles) The best Christmas film since 'Bad Santa' and without question the one to feature the most full-frontal male nudity, this delicious black comic yarn from confident…01.12.2010 READ MORE -
Rat Race (12) *
(Dir: Jerry Zucker, 100 mins) To give his bored clients something different to bet on, eccentric Vegas casino owner John Cleese randomly selects six people (disgraced football ref Cuba Gooding Jr., compulsive gambler…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ratatouille (U) *****
(Dir: Brad Bird/Jan Pinkava, 2007, 111 mins) Brad Bird has pulled off the finest film Pixar has ever produced: witty, sophisticated, touching, superbly characterised, brilliantly animated, remarkably sensual, and…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ratcatcher (15) ***
(Dir: Lynne Ramsay, 97 mins) It's grim, it's the mid-'70s, and rubbish is piling up in the streets of Glasgow as a result of the refuse workers' strike. Twelve-year-old James is haunted by the drowning of a friend at…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ravenous (18) ***
(Dir: Antonia Bird, 101 mins) The original director was fired and it died in the US, but if you've got a taste for pitch black comedy and censor-baiting gore, and can handle its peculiar shifts in tone, you may find…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ray (15) ****
(Dir: Taylor Hackford, 152 mins) Taylor Hackford tells the extraordinary tale of blind Georgia-born crooner Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx), who found his own sound by controversially marrying r&b with gospel on the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Razor Blade Smile (18) *
(Dir: Jake West, 101 mins) Perhaps the best that can be said for this travesty of a vampire flick is that 28-year-old Jake West has an exceptional flair for publicity, sucking the lifeblood from the lad mags and then…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Razzle Dazzle (PG) ***
(Dir: Darren Ashton, 2007, 91 mins) Another Christopher Guest-style mockumentary from down under, this follows two teams of little girls competing for a prestigious dance trophy. Miss Elizabeth (Jane Hall) is a cruel…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Read My Lips (15) ****
(Dir: Jacques Audiard, 118 mins) A slowburning noir that positively begs for the description 'Hitchcock-esque'. Carla (superbly played by Emmanuelle Devos), is a scowly, resentful, sexually frustrated and not exactly…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reader, The (15) ****
(Dir: Steven Daldry, 2008, 123 mins) The post-war love affair between 15-year-old German schoolboy Michael (David Kross) and 36-year-old tram conductress Hannah (Kate Winslet) consists of secret trysts at her modest…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ready To Rumble (15) ***
(Dir: Brian Robbins, 107 mins) Think of 'Rocky' re-written by Beavis and Butthead and transported to the world of American wrestling, and you'll have a fair idea of what to expect from 'Ready To Rumble'. David Arquette…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Real Blonde, The (15) ***
(Dir: Tom DiCillo, 110 mins) A high-gloss comedy about the New York entertainment industry with the kind of sharp edges and dysfunctional characters you’d expect from Tom DiCillo. The delicious casting has Maxwell…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Real Howard Spitz, The (PG) ***
(Dir: Vadim Jean, 98 mins) Bristolian film-maker Vadim Jean bounces back with his most enjoyable film since ‘Leon the Pig Farmer’. Kelsey ‘Frasier’ Grammer is the eponymous down-on-his-luck, misanthropic hardboiled…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Real Women Have Curves (12A) ***
(Dir: Patricia Cardoso, 86 mins) The title makes it sound like one of those cheesy empowerment tomes, and there’s nothing here that we haven’t seen many times before, but a brace of endearing performances make this a…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reaping, The (15) **
(Dir: Stephen Hopkins, 2007, 99 mins) Traumatised spoilsport Katharine Winter (Hilary Swank) tours the world debunking miracles. She’s called in by the Bible Belt town of Haven, Louisiana, which is afflicted by the Ten…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rebound, The (15) **
(Dir: Bart Freundlich, 2009, 95 mins) Another awful romantic comedy from writer/director Bart Freundlich – aka Mr. Julianne Moore. This time, Freundlich seems to have abandoned arthouse pretensions for formula all the…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Recess: School's Out (U) **
(Dir: Chuck Sheetz, 84 mins) If the flatulent antics of the Rugrats clan left you cold, you're unlikely to warm to creators Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere's subsequent project, 'Recess', which started life as a kids'…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Recruit, The (12A) **
(Dir: Roger Donaldson, 105 mins) As grizzled CIA recruiter Walter Burke, Al Pacino slips back into one of those grandstanding roles he used to enjoy before Christopher Nolan calmed him down: an all-knowing, omnipotent…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red & White (15) **
(Dir: Yadi Sugandi, 2009, 113 mins, subtitles) Anyone who craves war movie clichés in a different ethnic setting should beat a path to ‘Red & White’. This first part of a projected ‘Freedom’ trilogy is set against the…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Red (12A) ***
(Dir: Robert Schwantke, 2010, 111 mins) Yet another ‘getting the band back together’ action picture, ‘Red’ is the latest contribution to DC Comics’ project to monetise their back catalogue. This is the one about the…20.10.2010 READ MORE -
Red Cliff (15) ****
(Dir: John Woo, 2009, 148 mins, subtitles) Based on the 13th Century Chinese novel ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, which mythologised a thousand-year-gone era, ‘Red Cliff’ is John Woo’s return to China after a sojourn…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Red Corner (15) ***
(Dir: Jon Avnet, 122 mins) On the verge of clinching a lucrative TV contract with the Chinese, top negotiator Richard Gere cops off with an attractive local girl, only to wake up covered in blood and accused of murder.…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red Dog (PG)
Australia 2011 92 min Dir: Kriv Stenders Starring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Noah Taylor, Luke Ford It's proving to be a great year for mutts on film. After Uggi's triumph in 'The Artist', here's…24.02.2012 READ MORE -
Red Dragon (15) ***
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 124 mins) Producer Dino de Laurentiis has another bash at Thomas Harris’s first Hannibel Lecter novel, previously filmed as ‘Manhunter’. This time it’s done as if it actually were a prequel to…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red Eye (12A) ****
(Dir: Wes Craven, 85 mins) Wes Craven’s taut and clever low-budget psychological thriller takes a leaf out of ‘Phone Booth’s directory by making a virtue of its tight narrative parameters. Flying home after her…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red Hill (15)
Australia 2010 97 mins Dir: Patrick Hughes Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tom E. Lewis, Claire van der Boom • There's a violent escaped convict on the loose, bent on revenge. A storm's a-brewing on the outskirts…20.05.2011 READ MORE -
Red Lights (15) ****
(Dir: Cedric Kahn, 105 mins) With this clever transposition of Georges Simenon’s novel to modern-day France, Cedric Kahn twists a familiar crime fiction scenario, adding a layer of ambiguity that suggests events have…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red Planet (12) *
(Dir: Antony Hoffman, 106 mins) So just how awful is 'Red Planet'? Well, here's a film in which the robot is better characterised than any of the astronauts. And when Terence Stamp simply gives up the will to live after…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red Riding Hood (12A)
(Dir: Catherine Hardwicke, 2011, 100 mins) An emo-ish, 'Twilight'-esque expansion of the venerable folk tale, anybody? More grim than Grimm, the best that can be said about this awful, dismally scripted folly is that…13.04.2011 READ MORE -
Red Road (18) ***
(Dir: Andrea Arnold, 114 mins) This fascinating, if flawed piece was made under unusual circumstances vaguely spun-off from the Dogme 95 system, being the first in a triptych of films with characters ‘developed’ by Lone…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Red State (18)
USA 2011 88 mins Dir: Kevin Smith Starring: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman Apparently stung by criticism that he can't actually direct, Kevin Smith recently announced he's retiring from film-making after his…30.09.2011 READ MORE -
Red Violin, The (15) ***
(Dir: Francois Girard, 130 mins) Tracking the history of a musical instrument as it passes through many hands on its epic journey through 300 years and five countries makes for a great literary conceit. Unfortunately,…07.10.2010 READ MORE -
Redbelt (15) ***
(Dir: David Mamet, 2008, 99 mins) Brazilian jiu-jitsu is the milieu for David Mamet’s latest meditation on honour, betrayal, distraction and misdirection. Mamet enthusiasts may be a tad disappointed by some of the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reef, The (U) *
(Dir: Howard E Baker, John Fox, Kyung Ho Lee, 2006, 78 mins) What do you get if you cross a shark and a clownfish? Answer: a shameless cobbling together of ‘Finding Nemo’ and ‘A Shark's Tale’ that marries South Korean…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reeker (15) ***
(Dir: Dave Payne, 91 mins) After an attention-grabbing opening sequence (oh, you know – bloke with half his head ripped off, mutilated dog, the usual), this low-budget horror introduces us to the disposable teens who…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Regeneration (15) ****
(Dir: Gillies MacKinnon, 113 mins) It’s 1917 and the decorated Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby) has been dispatched into the care of psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) to discredit him after he wrote a…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reign of Fire (12) ***
(Dir: Rob Bowman, 102 mins) England, 2020. Giant fire-breathing dragons have laid waste to the land. The last vestiges of humanity are holed up in a Northumberland castle under the command of brooding, tormented…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reign Over Me (15) *
(Dir: Mike Binder, 2007, 124 mins) Lowbrow comedian Adam Sandler comes over all dishevelled and haunted for this extraordinarily ill-judged comedy-drama whose greatest foolishness is in co-opting 9/11 as a backdrop for…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Relative Values (PG) **
(Dir: Eric Styles, 89 mins) Everyone's in a frightful tizzy down at the Marshwood stately home. Nigel (Edward Atterton), the nice-but-dim Earl of Marshwood, has plighted his troth to vulgar Hollywood starlet Miranda…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Relic, The (15) ***
(Dir: Peter Hyams, 109 mins) Never more than functional, but never less than mindlessly enjoyable, this surprisingly nasty horror movie blends elements of the haunted house, serial killer and monster mayhem sub-genres…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Religulous (15) ****
(Dir: Larry Charles, 2008, 101 mins) Religion, argues quick-witted US comedian Bill Maher, is a neurological disorder and “faith means making a virtue out of not thinking”. To illustrate this point, director Larry…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Remains of the Day, The (U) *****
Merchant-Ivory's greatest triumph: a haunting, sensitively scripted portrait of repressed emotion, showcasing Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson at their best. Hopkins is the impeccably servile butler Stevens, who takes…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Remember Me (12A) ****
(Dir: Allen Coulter, 2010, 112 mins) A teen rebellion flick in which ‘Twilight’ star Robert Pattinson plays Tyler Hawkins, a New Yorker with a festering resentment against his wealthy father (Pierce Brosnan) that harks…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Remember The Titans (PG) ***
(Dir: Boaz Yakin, 113 mins) Another year, another worthy role for Denzel Washington. This time he's the black coach of a newly-integrated high school football team in 1971 Virginia, whose successes show the divided…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Renaissance (15) **
(Dir: Christian Volckman, 105 mins) A minimalist/futurist science fiction cartoon set in Paris in 2054, where refugee geneticist Ilona Tassuiev is kidnapped by a withered dwarf who lives in the sewers. Hard-shelled,…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rendez-Vous In Paris (PG) ***
Three stories, nine characters and absolutely nothing happening whatsoever. Eric Rohmer’s been making his quintessentially French, naturalistic dramas since the late ‘50s. Nobody is likely to be converted by this latest…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rendition (15) ***
(Dir: Gavin Hood, 2007, 120 mins) Seizing on America's controversial policy of Extraordinary Rendition, Gavin Hood's follow up to the Oscar-winning ‘Tsotsi’ evokes the suspenseful political thrillers of Costa-Gavras. In…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Reno 911! Miami (15) **
(Dir: Ben Garant, 2007, 84 mins) This Comedy Central spin-off pre-supposes knowledge of its many useless cop characters. Reno’s finest are led by moustachioed Lt. Jim Dangle (co-writer Thomas Lennon), whose one joke is…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rent (12A) *
(Dir: Chris Columbus, 135 mins) A bum-punishing film version of the Tony Award-winning stage musical, which feels like a relic from that solemn late 80s AIDS drama glut. Maybe Chris (‘Home Alone’) Columbus’s ponderous…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Repo Men (18) **
(Dir: Miguel Sapochnik, 2010, 111 mins) Imagine the ‘Live Organ Transplants’ chapter from Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ played straight in an all-purpose dystopian futureworld context, stretched out to feature…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Requiem (12A) ***
(Dir: Hans Christian Schmid, 93 mins) “The real ‘Exorcism of Emily Rose’” is certainly a great selling point. But anyone expecting CGI demons is likely to come away from this low-key ‘possession’ flick feeling rather…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Requiem for a Dream (18) ****
(Dir: Darren Aronofsky, 102 mins) Most assuredly not a date movie, Darren Aronofsky's visually striking, brilliantly acted and unforgettably dark follow-up to his justly acclaimed low-budget feature debut 'Pi' begins in…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rescue Dawn (12A) ****
(Dir: Werner Herzog, 2006, 125 mins) There’s been some grumbling to the effect that Werner Herzog’s first Hollywood movie sees him hacking and slashing his way through familiar inhospitable territory and is a tad…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Resident Evil (15) *
(Dir: Paul WS Anderson, 100 mins) In the great tradition of films calculated to cash in on teen consoleheads, 'Resident Evil' is just like watching a computer game without, er, actually playing it. And just as exciting…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Resident Evil: Afterlife (15) **
(Dir: Paul W.S. Anderson, 2010, 97 mins) The fourth ‘Resident Evil’ flick based on the popular video games gives the franchise a 3D makeover. Since there isn’t much story involved in these zombie yarns, which play like…21.09.2010 READ MORE -
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (15) *
(Dir: Alexander Witt, 90 mins) This terrible sequel to the first terrible ‘Resident Evil’ flick, equips sub-Lara heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) with a new sidekick in the form of tough cop Jill Valentine (Sienna…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Resident Evil: Extinction (15) **
(Dir: Russell Mulcahy, 2007, 95 mins) Russell (‘Highlander’) Mulcahy returns from the wilderness to prove that he can helm a franchise no-brainer with anonymous competence. This computer game adaptation threequel,…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Respiro (12A) ****
(Dir: Emanuele Crialese, 90 mins) Set on the sun-drenched Sicilian island of Lampedusa, this is superficially a conflation of two ever-popular arthouse genres: the ‘sexy young woman goes bonkers and takes her clothes…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Restoration (15) ***
Wenching, flatulent medical student Robert Downey Jr is summoned to Court by King Charles II (Sam Neill) and bounced into an arranged marriage with a scrumptious young royal mistress. In return, he receives a knighthood…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Restrepo (15) ****
(Dir: Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, 2010, 94 mins) An extraordinary fly-in-the-foxhole Afghanistan war documentary without a political agenda, ‘Restrepo’ simply follows a bunch of US grunts over the course of…03.11.2010 READ MORE -
Resurrection Man (18) ****
(Dir: Marc Evans, 101 mins) A fiercely intelligent adaptation of the novel by Irish writer Eoin McNamee, which was inspired by the randomly violent mid-‘70s Protestant gangsters known as the Shankhill Butchers. Seen…07.08.2010 READ MORE -
Return To Me (PG) ***
(Dir: Bonnie Hunt, 116 mins) When we open with hospitalised Minnie Driver languishing in need of a new heart, and then cut to the hap-hap-happy marriage shared by David Duchovny and Joely Richardson, it can only mean…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Return to Neverland (U) ***
(Dir: Robin Budd, 72 mins) In the past, Disney have released sequels to established hits as straight-to-video titles. 'Return to Neverland' escapes this fate despite the fact that it updates the Peter Pan story, with…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Return To Paradise (18) ***
(Dir: Joseph Ruben, 112 mins) After an idyllic holiday in Malaysia, ‘tree hugger’ Joaquin Phoenix is arrested and charged with dope dealing. Two years later, his lawyer Anne Heche turns up in New York to persuade his…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Return, The (12A) ****
(Dir: Andrei Zvagintsev, 105 mins) Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev’s striking drama throws up more questions than it answers. And yet this brooding mood piece remains utterly gripping all the way to its last frame.…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Return, The (2007) (15) **
(Dir: Asif Kapadia, 85 mins) Bizarrely, the young British director of award-winning art movie ‘The Warrior’ decamped to Hollywood to make this anaemic, largely thrill-free, production-line, teen-oriented ghostie flick…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Revelation (15) *
(Dir: Stuart Urban, 111 mins) On paper, this seems like quite a promising attempt to tie up into one huge dastardly historical plot all that Knights Templar/sacred geometry/alchemy/freemasonry/astrology nonsense that…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Revengers Tragedy (15) **
(Dir: Alex Cox, 109 mins) Much as one would like to praise maverick Alex Cox’s cheap’n’cheerful relocation of Thomas Middleton’s bonkers 17th century black comedy to post-apocalypse feudal Liverpool, his much-vaunted…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Review case 39 (15)
USA 2009 109 mins Dir: Christian Alvart Starring: Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Kerry O’Malley, Callum Keith Rennie It certainly looks like an openand- shut case of child abuse. When dim-bulb caring…19.03.2010 READ MORE -
Review crazy heart (15)
USA 2009 112 mins Dir: Scott Cooper Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall Whoa! – there’s the Dude again! And he’s back in a bowling alley! But wait, this is the Country and Western…19.03.2010 READ MORE -
Revolutionary Road (15) ***
(Dir: Sam Mendes, 2008, 119 mins) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet revive their ‘Titanic’ pairing for this adaptation of Richard Yates’s well-regarded, ‘50s-set novel, with Winslet’s hubby Sam Mendes at the helm. But…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Revolver (15) **
(Dir: Guy Ritchie, 115 mins) Guy Ritchie’s too-clever-for-its-own-good return to gangster territory, which reduces its characters to ‘types’, their humanity and emotions subjugated as they function as mere pawns in the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Richard III (15) ****
Richard Loncraine’s visually stunning, breathlessly action-filled reinterpretation of the Bard’s play in a handsomely staged, civil war-torn alternate-world England of the 1930s. Ian McKellen is a hypnotically…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ride With the Devil (15) ****
(Dir: Ang Lee, 138 mins) It's 1861 and, like everyone else on the American frontier, childhood pals Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire), the son of a poor German immigrant, and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich), the son of a…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ridicule (15) *****
(Dir: Patrice Leconte, 102 mins) Patrice Leconte’s Oscar-nominated, wholly credible picture of an artificial environment where a bunch of worthless parasites competed for royal favour. The Baron Penceludon de Malavoy…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Riding Giants (12A) ****
Dir: Stacy Peralta (101 mins) From the director of the definitive skateboard documentary ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’, this history of Big Wave Surfing towers over earlier surf movies in the same way that the ferocious waves of…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Riding In Cars With Boys (PG) **
(Dir: Penny Marshall, 132 mins) Getting pregnant at 15 in the mid ‘60s and being pressured by her stern cop father (James Woods) to marry loveable but dimwitted loser Ray (Steve Zhan, good on the light touches, crap at…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rien a Faire (15) ***
(Dir: Marion Vernoux, 105 mins) Mousy Marie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and posh Pierre (Patric Dell'Isola) meet by chance after inadvertently swapping carrier bags in the supermarket and find they both toiled in the same…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rien Ne Va Plus (15) ***
(Dir: Claude Chabrol, 105 mins) Veteran French director Claude Chabrol notches up his 50th film with this leisurely, old-fashioned, self-styled comedy-thriller, which offers little in the way of either laughs or…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Right At Your Door (15) ***
(Dir: Chris Gorak, 95 mins) Constrained by a micro-budget that can only afford some clouds of smoke, a pile of ash, a few gas masks, and a handful of vaguely familiar actors, this is an opportunistic attempt to update…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Righteous Kill (15) **
(Dir: Jon Avnet, 2008, 101 mins) Pacino and De Niro! Together at last! Er, again! Yep, ‘Righteous Kill’ seems to exist solely to recapitulate the diner scene from ‘Heat’ by getting the two old duffers in a room together…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ring 2, The (12) ***
(Dir: Nakata Hideo, 95 mins) Adapted from a popular series of horror novels, the Ring flicks and their various spin-offs have become an enormous cultural phenomenon in the Far East. This sequel, from the same director,…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ring Two, The (USA) (15) **
(Dir: Hideo Nakata, 110 mins) Original ‘Ring’ director Hideo Nakata takes over for the US sequel, which, confusingly, is not a remake but a new story by Ehren Kruger, retaining only the mother-and-son theme and that…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ring, The (18) ***
Dir: Hideo Nakata, 95 mins) An effective little chiller and massive cult hit in Japan, this begins with a creepy urban legend concerning a haunted videotape. As soon as anyone watches it, the story goes, the telephone…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ring, The (USA) (15) ***
(Dir: Gore Verbinski, 115 mins) Hopes were not exactly high when it was announced that Gore Verbinski – of ‘Mousehunt’ and ‘The Mexican’ infamy – was to remake the cult Japanese haunted videotape flick, ‘Ring’. But…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Ringer, The (12A) **
(Dir: Barry W. Blaustein, 94 mins) That Farrelly brothers formula in full. Take an idea, usually involving mental or physical disability, that’s certain to generate headlines for its apparent tastelessness. Then pay…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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Ripley's Game (15) ****
(Dir: Liliana Cavani, 110 mins) This second adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's third Ripley novel (previously filmed as ‘The American Friend’) sees John Malkovich perfectly cast as her non-cannibalistic precursor to…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rise of the Footsoldier (18) **
(Dir: Julian Gilbey, 2007, 119 mins) Julian Gilbey’s follow-up to his opportunistic British ‘gangsta’ flick ‘Rollin’ With the Nines’ is undoubtedly more ambitious, attempting a Scorsese-esque epic scale but coming…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A)
USA 2011 105 mins Dir: Rupert Wyatt Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freda Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox Consider the unexpected similarities between this 'Planet of the Apes' prequel and 'Project Nim'. Both have…08.08.2011 READ MORE -
Rising Sun (18) **
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(Dir: Don Argott, 93 mins) A failed musician himself, thirtysomething Philadelphian Paul Green runs his own after-hours rock school for 120 kids aged between nine and seventeen. Don Argott’s amiable and affectionate…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Stephen Herek, 105 mins) When office supplies salesman Tim 'Ripper' Owens was plucked from an obscure Judas Priest tribute act to replace his idol Rob Halford, Hollywood sat up and took notice. Strip away the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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RocknRolla (15) ***
(Dir: Guy Ritchie, 2008, 114 mins) While there’s absolutely nothing new in Guy Ritchie’s latest Mockney gangster movie, there’s plenty here to put a smile on the boat races of ‘Lock, Stock…’ and ‘Snatch’ fans. Old…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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Role Models (15) ***
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Rollerball (15) *
(Dir: John McTiernan, 98 mins) Back in 1975, there was arguably something novel about Norman Jewison's 'Rollerball', with its thesis that in the not-too-distant future entertainment corporations would become more…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rollin’ With the Nines (18) *
(Dir: Julian Gilbey, 96 mins) We get one of these every couple of years or so. A low-budget ‘edgy’, ‘urban’, violent Britflick filled with the latest slang, underground music and flashy pop video editing techniques,…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Romance (18) **
(Dir Catherine Breillat, 95 mins) Erect penises! Fellatio! Full-on masturbation! Close-up ejaculation! All these delights (and no small amount of misery) get served up in Catherine Briellat's much-hyped film chronicling…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Romance and Cigarettes (15) **
(Dir: John Turturro, 106 mins) John Turturro’s third film behind the camera is a self-styled “down and dirty musical love story”, which, while certainly distinctive, boasts a lumpy, uneven mess of a storyline that…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Romantics Anonymous (12A)
France/Belgium 2010 78 mins Subtitles Dir: Jean-Pierre Ameris Starring: Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre You know exactly what you're getting with a chocolate-themed romcom, both from the product itself and from the…02.12.2011 READ MORE -
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Romeo Must Die (15) **
(Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak, 115 mins) Loosely based on 'Romeo and Juliet', relocated to Oakland with Chinese Triads and an African-American crime syndicate substituting for the Capulets and Montagues as though Baz…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (12) ***
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Ronin (15) **
(Dir: John Frankenheimer, 121 mins) Implausible icy Ulsterwoman Natascha McElhone has assembled the cream of the post-Cold War freelance espionage detritus (Bob de Niro in a beret, German computer expert Stellan…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: John Lee Hancock, 128 mins) A saccharine Disney true story comprising two-hours-plus of an old-timer realising the American Dream through the incomprehensible sport of baseball, optimistically pitched at young…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Room and a Half, A (12A) ****
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Room For Romeo Brass, A (15) ****
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Clare Peploe’s adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel is set in ‘50s LA where magician’s assistant Bridget Fonda is about to marry stinking rich uranium heir D.W. Moffet. Her employer warns her off and is promptly…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
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Route Irish (15)
(Dir: Ken Loach, 2010, 109 mins) An Iraq war movie set mainly in Liverpool? Trust Ken Loach and his long-term scriptwriting partner Paul Laverty to find a new, politically charged angle on the conflict. Loach and…16.03.2011 READ MORE -
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Rudo Y Cursi (15) ***
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Rugrats Go Wild (U) *
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Rugrats in Paris (U) **
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Rugrats Movie, The (U) ***
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Ruins, The (18) ***
(Dir: Carter Smith, 2008, 90 mins) To the uninitiated, this killer vegetation flick promises to be another of those horrors in the recent tradition of ‘Hostel’ and ‘Paradise Lost’, which perform such a valuable service…07.08.2010 READ MORE -
Rules of Attraction, The (18) ****
(Dir: Roger Avary, 110 mins) Roger Avary’s savagely funny adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s cult novel takes the campus comedy template, adds a matching wholesome young cast headed by James Van Der Beek and Shannyn…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rules of Engagement (15) **
(Dir: William Firedkin, 110 mins) A distasteful flag-salutin', towelhead-ass-whuppin' celebration of American military and moral superiority, William Friedkin’s military courtroom drama has US marine commander Samuel L.…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rumba (PG) ***
(Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, 2008, 77 mins, subtitles) A slight, whimsical and occasionally highly inventive deadpan physical comedy that owes a considerable debt to Jacques Tati and the early silent…08.07.2010 READ MORE -
Rumble In The Bronx (15) ***
(Dir: Stanley Tong, 90 mins) Asia’s number one box office star Jackie Chan stages yet another attempt to break into the Western market. Chan’s a kung-fu clown who mugs, trips over and embarrasses himself in front of…07.08.2010 READ MORE -
Rumour Has It (12A) **
(Dir: Rob Reiner, 97 mins) The once-great Rob Reiner’s latest clunker boasts a one-joke premise that’s established over the opening credits. Instead of developing and exploiting it, he simply allows the modestly capable…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Run Lola Run (15) ****
(Dir: Tom Tykwer, 80 mins) Lola (Franka Potente) has a 20-minute mission to bail out her incompetent wannabe-gangster boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) after he loses 100,000DM of dirty money on the U-Bahn to a tramp.…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Run, Fatboy, Run (12A) **
(Dir: David Schwimmer, 2007, 100 mins) David Schwimmer makes his feature-film directing debut with this awkward hybrid that seeks to fuse disparate strains of US and British comedy into a feel-good whole. The far from…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Runaway Bride (PG) **
(Dir: Garry Marshall, 116 mins) That inevitable reuniting of the ‘Pretty Woman’ team in which, needless to say, the stars adhere to their expected roles. Gere does grumpy and smug (but with a hint of something softer…07.11.2010 READ MORE -
Runaway Jury (12A) ***
(Dir: Gary Fleder, 127 mins) In this year’s John Grisham courtroom drama, a widow is suing the manufacturer of the weapon that killed her hubby. It’s a high-profile case that has enormous implications for both sides in…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Runaways, The (15) ***
(Dir: Floria Sigismondi, 2010, 106 mins) For all first-time director Floria Sigismondi’s arty flourishes, ‘The Runaways’ is at heart a nuts’n’bolts rise and fall rock biopic, with a dash of light lesbianism and…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Running Scared (18) ***
(Dir: Wayne Kramer, 122 mins) Over-long, over-complicated and over-the-top, writer/director Wayne Kramer’s ‘Running Scared’ is a violent, two-hour exploitation movie masquerading as a serious crime film. With its sleazy…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Running With Scissors (15) ***
(Dir: Ryan Murphy, 122 mins) ‘Nip/Tuck’ creator Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ Miserable Childhood bestseller struggles to reconcile his comedic sensibilities with the material’s darkness (y’know, the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rush Hour (15) ***
(Dir:Brett Ratner, 97 mins) A mismatched buddy movie co-starring Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker - familiar from his high-pitched, motor-mouthed performance in 'The Fifth Element'. Chan is Hong Kong…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rush Hour 2 (12) ***
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 93 mins) Acrobatic Chinese martial artist Jackie Chan and motor-mouthed African-American comedian Chris Tucker re-team for a big-budget sequel to their successful, sub-'Lethal Weapon'-style…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rush Hour 3 (12A) **
(Dir: Brett Ratner, 2007, 91 mins) No risks are taken with this buddy cop threequel ,which peddles the same schtick as before. Chris Tucker’s LA cop is still the same horny braggart with the helium voice, who matches…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Rushmore (15) *****
(Dir: Wes Anderson, 94 mins) Each perfectly-composed frame of ‘Rushmore’ tells you that this is the product of a resolutely original film-maker, and while it may take a few minutes to become accustomed to Wes Anderson’s…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
Russian Ark (U) ***
(Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov, 96 mins) ‘Russian Ark’ was shot in one long, unbroken take on high definition digital video. And director Aleksandr Sokurov doesn’t cheat by simply sticking the camera on a tripod and letting…07.11.2010 READ MORE -
RV: Runaway Vacation (PG) *
(Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld, 98 mins) Robin Williams seems to have decided he wants to be Chevy Chase with this feeble rip-off of the ‘Vacation’ series, directed by the similarly slumming Barry Sonnenfeld. You know the…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
[REC] (18) ****
(Dir: Juame Balaguero & Paco Plaza, 2007, 78 mins, subtitles) After a deceptively slow start, this expertly constructed and genuinely creepy ‘Cloverfield’-esque urban zombie flick kicks up several gears to become an…07.09.2010 READ MORE -
[REC] 2 (18) ***
(Dir: Juame Balaguero & Paco Plaza, 2010, 84 mins, subtitles) The inevitable sequel to Juame Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s expertly constructed and genuinely creepy urban apartment block zombie flick picks up where the…16.09.2010 READ MORE
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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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