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The Warrior's Way (15)
(Dir: Sngmoo Lee, 2010, 100 mins) A stylish genre mash-up (if you're a hip, easily-impressed 15-year-old) or an exceedingly expensive dog's breakfast (if you're not), debuting writer/director Sngmoo Lee's sub-'Kung Fu'…08.12.2010 READ MORE -
The Wildest Dream (PG) ***
(Dir: Anthony Geffen, 2010, 94 mins) Back in 1924, British mountaineer George Mallory and his team packed their essential provisions (two cases of champagne, 70 tins of fois gras, etc), stiffened their upper lips, and…13.10.2010 READ MORE -
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (15) ****
(Dir: Ken Loach, 124 mins) The winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach’s fictional portrayal of the Irish struggle for independence in the early 1920s has since been subjected to a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
The Woman in the Fifth (15)
France/Poland/UK 2011 84 mins Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Samir Guesmi, Joanna Kulig, Delphine Chuillot An American man arrives in Paris, announcing that he's come to live with…17.02.2012 READ MORE -
W. (15) ****
(Oliver Stone, 2008, 129 mins) Oliver Stone’s hasty second draft of history was never going to be a subtle or definitive dissection of the Dubya presidency. But then this “misunderestimated man” is such a shallow…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wackness, The (15) ***
(Dir: Jonathan Levene, 2008, 99 mins) This Sundance Festival award winner offers a chance to see Ben Kingsley in a shaggy wig, chugging on a bong and bustin’ hip-hop moves while reciting misogynistic rap lyrics…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wag The Dog (15) ****
(Dir: Barry Levinson, 95 mins) With the President about to be brought down by an eve-of-election sex scandal, maverick spin doctor Bob De Niro dreams up a war with the Albanians to divert attention, enlisting famed…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wah-Wah (15) ***
(Dir: Richard E. Grant, 97 mins) Richard E. Grant’s semi-autobiographical directorial debut is a solidly played and attractively photographed if rather familiar lightly comic coming-of-age yarn set in Swaziland during…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waiting (15) **
(Dir: Rob McKittrick, 94 mins) Ah, the joys of the soul-destroying fast-food restaurant job. All the key ingredients for an entertaining comedy seem to be in place here. There’s the sad, friendless, moronic, middle-aged…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waiting Room, The (15) ***
(Dir: Roger Goldby, 2008, 105 mins) In leafy autumnal Balham, sleazy, unemployed, stay-at-home dad George (Rupert Graves) is knocking off single mum neighbour Anna (Anne-Marie Duff) because he feels neglected by wifey…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waiting To Exhale (15) **
A surprise box office success in the States, where it snared the hitherto elusive black female audience, this soapy account of four African American women engaged in a frustrating search for Mr. Right pushes all the…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waitress (12A) ****
(Dir: Adrienne Shelly, 2007, 108 mins) No sentimental allowances need to be made on behalf of the late Adrienne Shelly, 40-year-old writer/director/co-star of ‘Waitress’, as this is that rarity: a genuinely funny,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waking Ned (PG) ****
(Dir: Kirk Jones, 91 mins) Down in the tiny Irish village of Tully More (pop. 53), sparkly septuagenarians Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) have learned that a local has just won the…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (PG) ****
(Dir: Robert Greenwald, 95 mins) US documentarist Robert Greenwald’s technique - honed on ‘Outfoxed’, his earlier documentary about Fox News – is to use teams of enthusiastic researchers to amass vast amounts of…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (15) ****
(Dir: Jake Kasdan, 2007, 96 mins) The Judd (‘Knocked Up’, ‘Superbad’) Apatow comedy factory resuscitates the movie spoof with this rib-tickler, which has the solemn, self-important rock biopic in its sights - chiefly…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walk The Line (12A) ****
(Dir: James Mangold, 136 mins) James Mangold's film follows John R. Cash on part of the eventful journey that made him country music’s greatest icon. Opening with the legendary 1968 performance at Folsom prison, as…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walk To Remember, A (PG) *
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 102 mins) A curious throwback to the era when teenflicks were made without buckets of jizz and wall-to-wall profanity. Squeaky-clean US popstrel Mandy Moore plays Jamie Sullivan, a dowdy,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walker, The (15) ***
(Dir: Paul Schrader, 2007, 108 mins) In a mannered performance that frequently threatens to overwhelm this minor and often self-referential Paul Schrader drama, Woody Harrelson gives it the full Capote as suavely camp…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walking And Talking (15) **
(Dir: Nicole Holofcener, 86 mins) Late twentysomething lifelong best friends Catherine Keener and Anne Heche are, ahem, “approaching the crossroads of life without a map”, which essentially entails much whining about…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Walking Tall (15) **
(Dir: Kevin Bray, 85 mins) If WWE wrestler The Rock is to see off rival musclebound slaphead Vin Diesel and grab the Arnie crown, he’s really going to have to start making some better career decisions than this…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A) ***
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 2010, 133 mins) Twenty-three years after the original ‘Wall Street’, Oliver Stone delivers a sequel with a title that’s a gift to hostile reviewers fending off slumber during the endless speechifying…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A)***
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 2010, 133 mins) Twenty-three years after the original ‘Wall Street’, Oliver Stone delivers a sequel with a title that’s a gift to hostile reviewers fending off slumber during the endless speechifying…06.10.2010 READ MORE -
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (U) *****
(Dir: Nick Park/Steve Box, 83 mins) Another triumph for Bristol’s Aardman Animation, effortlessly rising to the challenge of expanding those W&G shorts to feature length. The new adventure has W&G’s humane pest control…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
WALL•E (U) *****
(Dir: Andrew Stanton, 2008, 103 mins) Beautifully animated and brilliantly, bravely wordless for the first 40 minutes, Pixar’s sci-fi stunner is very much a film of two contrasting halves. The first is a masterclass in…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waltz With Bashir (18) ****
(Dir: Ari Folman, 2008, 90 mins, subtitles) Ari Folman’s autobiographical self-styled “animated documentary” follows his attempts to uncover repressed memories of his conduct as an Israeli conscript during the 1982…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wanted (18) ***
(Dir: Timur Bekmambetov, 2008, 110 mins) Loosely adapted from a comic-book series, this utterly preposterous nerd wish-fulfillment flick from Timur (‘Night Watch’) Bekmambetov pleasures vigorously masturbating fanboys…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
War (18) *
(Dir: Philip G. Atwell, 2007, 103 mins) ‘War’, huh? What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing. Not even if it’s the last DVD in the rental shop at closing time on Friday. That’s where this thick-ear ‘Yakuza vs Triads’…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
War Bride, The (PG) *
(Dir: Lyndon Chubbock, 108 mins) September, 1940. Cocker-nee orphaned seamstress Lily (Anna Friel) cops off with hunky Canadian airman Charlie (Aden Young), they get married and she’s soon up the duff. Then Lily and…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
War Horse (12A)
USA 2011 146 mins Dir: Steven Spielberg Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Benedict Cumberpatch, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Niels Arestrup, Eddie Marsan Opening in a Devon bathed in such a warm…13.01.2012 READ MORE -
War of the Worlds (12A) **
(Dir: Steven Spielberg, 116 mins) Spielberg’s spin on the HG Wells yarn adds heavy-handed post-September 11 solemnity and a lot of drearily familiar Spielbergian guff about Tom Cruise learning to become a Better Dad.…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
War on Democracy, The (12A) ***
(Dir: John Pilger, 2007, 98 mins) For his first cinema documentary John Pilger makes no attempt to adapt his approach. What we have here is a telly documentary blown up to fit the big screen. Fortunately, the content is…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
War Zone, The (18) ****
(Dir: Tim Roth, 99 mins) For his directorial debut, Tim Roth adapts Alexander Stuart’s controversial novel of sexual abuse in which the perpetrator is an otherwise ordinary family man. His daughter is no familiar victim…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (15) ***
(Dir: Shohei Imamura, 119 mins) Septuagenarian Japanese director Shohei Imamura's slight, whimsical and endearing comedy-drama can be read as a celebration of the female orgasm or a diverting slice of magical realist…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Warrior King (18) ***
(Dir: Prachya Pinkaew, 110 mins) Thai martial artist Tony Jaa has become a huge star in the world of ass-whuppage by eschewing wire-work and CGI. ‘Ong-Bak’ director Prachya Pinkaew is clearly so reluctant to tamper with…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Warrior, The (12) **
(Dir: Asif Kapadia, 86 mins) Lafcadia (Irfan Khan), the eponymous warrior, beheads villagers who are disrespectfully late with their payments to the local tyrannical overlord and is mightily keen for his son Katiba to…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Warriors Of Virtue (PG) ****
(Dir: Ronny Yu, 102 mins) Continuing Hong Kong moviedom’s assault on Hollywood, Ronny Yu opts unexpectedly for the children’s genre with this extraordinary melange of fantasy film, animatronic effects, martial arts…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wash, The (15) *
(Dir: D.J. Pooh, 96 mins) Only a man who styles himself D.J. Pooh (that’s Mark Jordan to his mum and the taxman) could produce something that stinks as badly as this “update” of ‘Car Wash’. Charmless and…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Watcher, The (15) **
(Dir: Joe Charbanic, 97 mins) Arriving late in the serial killer cycle, this has some flashy visual trickery in its treatment of urban locales but nothing new to add. FBI agent Joel Campbell (James Spader in hollow-eyed…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Watchmen (18) ***
(Dir: Zack Snyder, 2009, 162 mins) A big, sprawling, no-star Hollywood adaptation of the ‘unflimable’ most acclaimed graphic novel of all time. It opens quite brilliantly, is commendably dark, bone-crunchingly violent,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Water (12A) ***
(Dir: Deepa Mehta, 2005, 114 mins, subtitles) While making the Oscar-nominated concluding film in her elements trilogy, Deepa Mehta received death threats from Hindus. What upset the sacred cow folk was Mehta’s…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (18) ***
(Dir: Francois Ozon, 82 mins) A spare adaptation of an unstaged four-act play written by the precocious 19-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder back in the mid-sixties, this paints such a bleak picture of human sexual…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, The (PG) ***
(Dir: Jay Russell, 2008, 112 mins) The biggest-budget Nessie flick to date boasts state-of-the-art Weta Workshop effects, though, bizarrely, just like last year’s cheapo knock-off ‘Mee-Shee’, it was filmed mostly in New…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Water Lilies (15) ****
(Dir: Celine Sciamma, 2007, 85 mins, subtitles) It’s probably thanks to the continuing climate of paedo-hysteria that a film as sweet, perceptive and touching as ‘Water Lilies’ should be seen as transgressive.…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waterboy, The (12) **
(Dir: Frank Coraci, 90 mins) In a sketch stretched thinly to movie length, Adam Sandler adopts his most irritating persona to date: a stuttering, squeaky-voiced, virginal 31-year-old mummy's boy from the Louisiana…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waterworld (12) ***
'Mad Max' with waterwings, the most expensive movie of all time has Kevin Costner as The Mariner: a glum mutant drifter who wanders the endless seas resulting from the melting of the ice caps. Kev drops by a floating…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wave, The (15) ***
(Dir: Dennis Gansel, 2008, 107 mins, subtitles) This follows in the footsteps of ‘The Experiment’ by relocating a real-life US social experiment from the swinging 60s to modern-day Germany, playing up its resonance in a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Way of the Gun, The (18) ***
(Dir: Christopher McQuarrie, 119 mins) Apparently deriving from ‘Usual Suspects’ writer McQuarrie's disgust with the infantile morality of most Hollywood thrillers, 'The Way of the Gun' is an unremittingly dark and…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Waz (18) **
(Dir: Tom Shankland, 2008, 92 mins) That’s ‘W Delta Z’ if you’re a stickler for accuracy, and it’s pronounced to rhyme with ‘was’ rather than, uh, ‘spazz’. This odd Lottery-backed effort by Brit telly veteran Tom…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
We Are Together (PG) ***
(Dir: Paul Taylor, 2008, 87 mins, subtitles) It’s hard to suppress the cynicism reflex when that big EMI logo pops up at the beginning of ‘We Are Together’. But at least 26-year-old first-time director Paul Taylor…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
We Are What We Are (15) ***
(Dir: Jorge Michal Grau, 2010, 90 mins, subtitles) In what may be intended as an allusion to George Romero’s classic ‘Dawn of the Dead’, an old geezer shuffles round a shopping mall looking distinctly peaky and then…10.11.2010 READ MORE -
We Bought a Zoo (PG)
USA 2011 124 mins Dir: Cameron Crowe Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Elle Fanning, Angus Macfadyen Cameron Crowe certainly has problems with the…16.03.2012 READ MORE -
We Have a Pope (PG)
Italy/France 2011 104 mins Subtitles Dir: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Nanni Moretti For years, Nanni Moretti has been referred to as "the Italian Woody Allen" with precious little evidence to…02.12.2011 READ MORE -
We Need to Talk About Kevin (15)
UK/USA 2011 112 mins Dir: Lynne Ramsay Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell Most assuredly not recommended for new or prospective parents, Lynne ('Ratcatcher') Ramsay's adaptation of…21.10.2011 READ MORE -
We Own the Night (15) **
(Dir: James Gray, 2007, 117 mins) James Gray’s belated follow-up to ‘The Yards’ is another grungy, 70s-style crime thriller, heavy on ethical dilemmas and fraught familial relationships. He also delivers several…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
We Shall Overcome (12A) ***
(Dir: Niels Arden Oplev, 109 mins) A gentle, mildly manipulative period drama that comes across a little like a hybrid of ‘If . . .’ and ‘School of Rock’, this non-Dogme Danish flick is based on the teenage experiences…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
We Were Soldiers (15) **
(Dir: Randall Wallace, 138 mins) Just what the world needs: another epic 'nam flick with stylised gunfights, flag-salutin' patriotism, endless appeals to Almighty Gawd, and lashings of syrupy music for the…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Weak at Denise (18) ***
(Dir: Julian Nott, 86 mins) Wallace and Gromit man in profanity and penis-severing outrage! Best known for composing the jolly music for those classic Aardman animations, Julian Nott showcases an altogether less…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Weather Man, The (15) ***
(Dir: Gore Verbinski, 101 mins) A big studio film from a big studio director who strives for a low-budget indieflick vibe, this melancholic comedy in the ‘American Beauty’ vein must rank as one of the year’s odder…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Crashers, The (15) ***
(Dir: David Dobkin, 119 mins) In something of a cocktail of ‘Meet the Parents’, the ‘American Pies’ and ‘There’s Something About Mary’, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are commitment-shy divorce mediators John and Jeremy…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Date, The (12A) *
(Dir: Clare Kilner, 88 mins) If ever there was any doubt that what scriptwriter Richard Curtis and director Mike Newell pulled off with ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was a whole lot harder than it looked, then this…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Daze (15) **
(Dir: Michael Ian Black, 2006, 90 mins) Yet another sweet-natured teen sex comedy heaping embarrassment and humiliation upon pie-violating doofus Jason Biggs. This is, of course, absolutely not a film in the ‘American…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Planner, The (12) *
(Dir: Adam Shankman, 103 mins)contrivance-driven piece of drivel starring Jennifer Lopez as a "wedding planner", who choreographs the nuptials of the rich and stupid by striding around looking severe while barking…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Singer, The (12) ****
(Dir: Frank Coraci, 97 mins) Embittered Adam Sandler was dumped at the altar by his bride-to-be and now works as a nuptial crooner, which requires him to be happy at other people’s weddings. After a few incendiary…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wedding Tackle, The (15) *
(Dir: Rami Dvir, 94 mins) Promiscuous photographer James Purefoy is betrothed to the lovely Susan Vidler, but starts to get cold feet on his stag night with chums Tony Slattery, Neil Stuke and Adrian Dunbar. Meanwhile,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Weekend (18)
UK 2011 97 mins Dir: Andrew Haigh Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New Imagine that Richard Linklater had set 'Before Sunrise' amid the tower blocks of Nottingham rather than the canals of Venice. And that instead of Ethan…04.11.2011 READ MORE -
Weirdsville (15) *
(Dir: Allen Moyle, 2007, 90 mins) A pair of junkies attempting to bury a dead hooker at an abandoned drive-in movie theatre stumble across a group of Satanists performing a ritual human sacrifice. What’s not to like?…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (12A) *
(Dir: Malcolm D. Lee, 2008, 114 mins) Any takers for a film that adds dog sex and a streak of misogyny to flop-magnet Martin Lawrence’s familiar blend of mirthless comedy and sickening sentimentality? Southern boy…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome II the Terrordome (18) *
Directed under near-impossible conditions over three years by Anglo-Nigerian Ngozi Onwurah, with finance raised exclusively from within the black community, and aimed at the sorely neglected homegrown young black…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome to Collinwood (15) ***
(Dir: Anthony and Joe Russo, 86 mins) A pair of film-making siblings directing George Clooney as a lovable lowlife to a distinctive soundtrack of period Americana. But that’s enough about ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ -…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome To Sarajevo (15) **
(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 100 mins) British director Michael Winterbottom’s “hymn to the spirit of Sarajevo” is loosely based on the real-life experiences of a British television reporter, played with little…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome to the Dollhouse (15) ****
(Dir Todd Solondz, 87 mins) The misery of adolescence is an enduringly popular subject among film-makers, but few have focused on it with such unblinking black comic cruelty as former schoolteacher Todd Solondz. The…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Welcome to the Jungle (12A) ***
(Dir: Peter Berg, 105 mins) Peter Berg’s first film as director since ‘Very Bad Things’ has no ambition other than to be a thick-ear no-brainer, but it is at least a thoroughly entertaining thick-ear no-brainer giving…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wendy and Lucy (15) ***
(Dir: Kelly Reichardt, 2008, 80 mins) ‘Old Joy’ director Kelly Reichardt improves on that over-rated slice of tedium thanks to an affecting performance by a scuzzed-up Michelle Williams; something approaching a plot,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Went the Day Well? (PG) *****
(Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942, 87 mins) • Welcome restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti’s propaganda thriller, adapted from a story by Graham Greene. Disguised as British soldiers a bunch of Nazis set out to infiltrate a…14.09.2010 READ MORE -
Werckmeister Harmonies (12A) **
(Dir: Bela Tarr, 145 mins) This latest slice of Euromiserablism from Bela Tarr is set in a small, unidentified town on the Hungarian plain. The temperature is twenty below zero, the coal’s running out, and the citizens…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
West Beirut (15) ****
(Dir: Ziad Doueiri, 105 mins) Ziad Doueiri has worked with both Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and brings their kinetic influences to bear on this, his controversial debut, which has already become the most…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
West Is West (15)
(Dir: Andy DeEmmony, 2011, 103 mins) Boasting another semi-autobiographical script by Ayub Khan-Din, this belated follow-up to 'East is East' is a fairly obvious reversal of the first film and is rather more cheesy and…23.02.2011 READ MORE -
Western (15) **
(Dir: Manuel Poirier, 134 mins) The winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this is a languid French road movie that doesn’t so much race down the open highway as pootle about a bit, fuelled by…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Whale Rider (PG) ***
(Dir: Niki Caro, 105 mins) As liberal arthouse audience-pleasers go, Niki Caro’s adaptation of the novel by Maori author Witi Ihimaera certainly pushes all the right buttons. Fortunately, it’s also unforced and…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What a Girl Wants (PG) **
(Dir: Dennie Gordon, 100 mins) Girlies will remember the plot of this lazy vehicle for blank-faced tweenage icon Amanda Bynes from ‘The Princess Diaries’, but it’s actually a US remake of ‘The Reluctant Debutante’ by…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What Dreams May Come (15) ***
(Dir: Vincent Ward, 113 mins) Doctor Robin Williams dies in an accident, leaving his artist wife Anabella Sciorra utterly distraught. As the adverts tell us however, 'The end is only the beginning', and thus we follow…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What Happens in Vegas (12A) **
(Dir: Tom Vaughan, 2008, 98 mins) This latest nuptially-themed romcom comes with a curious and possibly unintended reactionary subtext about the importance of holding one’s disastrous marriage together for the sake of…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What Just Happened? (15) **
(Dir: Barry Levinson, 2008, 102 mins) A smug and rather self-congratulatory satire which purports to target Tinseltown fear, hypocrisy and idiocy. All the usual suspects (including the mandatory Bruce Willis) show up…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What Lies Beneath (15) ***
(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, 126 mins) This stylish, serious attempt at a female-skewed suspense movie segues from the Hitchcock of 'Rear Window' to the differing moods of 'Suspicion' and 'Psycho' with a slice of ghost story…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What the Bleep Do We Know? (12A) *
(Dir: William Arntz/Betsy Chasse/Mark Vicente, 109 mins) This farrago of New Age hooey purports to address those Big Questions about the meaning of life’n’stuff in a spirit of open-minded enquiry that casts nay-sayers…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What Women Want (12) **
(Dir: Nancy Meyers, 127 mins) This being a high concept romcom with Mel Gibson as a sexist advertising executive who finds he can hear women’s thoughts, it’s pretty obvious how the story's going to pan out. First…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What's Cooking? (12) ****
(Dir: Gurinder Chadha, 110 mins) Like Christmas, Thanksgiving is a time when Yanks punish themselves by spending time with those with whom they share only a few strands of DNA. In the movies, it's normally WASP types…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (15) ***
(Dir: Sam Weisman, 97 mins) While it has plenty of faults - too many characters, excessive mugging by its leads - and certainly doesn't live up to the 'Get Shorty' standards to which it aspires, this is the best thing…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Whatever Happened To Harold Smith? (15) ****
(Dir: Peter Hewitt, 98 mins) An enjoyable Britcom set amid the style wars of 1977, this follows working class ‘70s disco kid Vince (Michael Legge) and his attempts win the heart of middle class punk Joanna (Laura…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Whatever Works (12A) ***
(Dir: Woody Allen, 2009, 92 mins) Woody Allen returns to New York after his European sojourn, reviving the misanthropic ‘My Fair Lady’ theme of ‘Mighty Aphrodite’. But at 74, feminist-enraging Woody’s finally realised…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
When a Stranger Calls (15) *
(Dir: Simon West, 87 mins) Another week, another pointless US horror remake. Oddly, director Simon West jettisons all but the first act of the original to turn out a film that plays like a feature-length expansion of…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When Brendan Met Trudy (15) **
(Dir: Kieron J. Walsh, 95 mins) This is the first script novelist Roddy Doyle has written directly for the screen. But if you didn’t spot his name on the credits, you’d never guess that the author of the acclaimed…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When in Rome (PG) *
(Dir: Mark Steven Johnson, 2010, 91 mins) This awful American romcom set in Italy baits cineastes by referencing both the Oscar-winning 1954 romance ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ and Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’. That will…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
When Saturday Comes (15) ***
Sean Bean is a twentysomething brewery worker who spends his weekends boozing and cruising with his mates as well as playing Sunday football on pitches rarely fit for the dogs who regularly soil them. But as this…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When The Cat’s Away (15) ***
(Dir: Cedric Klapisch, 95 mins) Put-upon make-up artist Chloe lives in a run-down suburb of Paris with her beloved black cat Gris-Gris and gay flatmate Michel. Chloe wants a holiday, but Michel refuses to look after…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When the Sky Falls (18) ***
(Dir: John Mackenzie, 107 mins) For legal reasons, the names have been changed in John ('The Long Good Friday') Mackenzie's biopic of Irish investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who was shot dead by a masked…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When We Were Kings (PG) *****
(Dir: Leon Gast, 90 mins) The result of a 23-year quest by director Leon Gast to transform the 300,000 hours of footage he shot over two months back in 1974 into watchable form, this compelling documentary deservedly…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
When You’re Strange (15) ****
(Dir: Tom DiCillo, 2010, 86 mins) Rock Cliché Bingo enthusiasts will not be disappointed by Johnny Depp’s narration for this first feature-length documentary on The Doors, which deploys the phrase “rock’n’roll poet”…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (12A) **
(Dir: Morgan Spurlock, 2008, 90 mins) Morgan (‘Super Size Me’) Spurlock comes unstuck with his second feature documentary, whose stunt comedy premise is Spurlock’s quest to track down Osama Bin Laden. Rather like…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Where the Heart Is (12) ***
(Dir: Matt Williams, 119 mins) Heavily pregnant, and dumped by her no-good boyfriend at a roadside Wal-Mart store, young Natalie Portman has to learn to look after herself. This she does admirably, in a film that takes…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Where the Money Is (15) ***
(Dir: Marek Kanievska, 87 mins) What's a 75-year-old living celluloid legend to do with himself these days? The answer, in Paul Newman's case, is to put on an acting masterclass in a modest little caper movie. We first…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Where the Truth Lies (18) ***
(Dir: Atom Egoyan, 108 mins) Although billed as Canadian post-modernist Atom Egoyan’s attempt to make a commercial mainstream movie, this noir-inflected thriller displays many of his familiar preoccupations: the…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Where the Wild Things Are (PG) ***
(Dir: Spike Jonze, 2009, 101 mins) Spike Jonze tackles a much-loved children’s classic in idiosyncratic fashion with this hugely expensive, long-gestating, studio-alarming folly adapted from one of the shortest books in…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
While You Were Sleeping (PG) ****
Lonely subway ticket salesbabe Sandra Bullock is facing another solo Christmas, when she saves a hunky commuter from the path of an oncoming train. But he's in a Plot Contrivance Coma that's destined to last long enough…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Whip It (12A) ***
(Dir: Drew Barrymore, 2009, 110 mins) While it’s refreshing to encounter a US sports comedy that doesn’t reek of the Will Ferrell locker room, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut doesn’t really have much more to commend…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Whisky (15) ****
(Dir: Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll, 94 mins) Not a celebration of the wee dram, this film festival favourite is an Unhappy Hour (and a half) in the company of a trio of decidedly glum, late-middle-aged Uruguayans.…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
White Chicks (12A) *
(Dir: Keenan Ivory Wayans, 100 mins) The solitary joke in this comedy from the creators of the lame ‘Scary movie’ flicks is all in the title: two black men dress up to pass themselves off as blonde bimbos. ‘Some Like…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: James Ivory, 138 mins) What with Ralph Fiennes doing disability and almost the entire Redgrave clan adopting funny accents, you’d have thought ‘The White Countess’ would be a shoo-in for Oscars. Add the emotional…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
White Lightnin’ (18) ***
(Dir: Dominic Murphy, 2009, 92 mins) Yee-haw! If you’re looking for every crank-shootin’, chicken-fuckin’, sibling-sodomisin’, God-fearin’, banjo-pickin’, single-figure IQ, inbred redneck white trash hillbilly cliché,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Claire Denis, 2009, 106 mins, subtitles) Those who are familiar with the torpor and opacity of lauded director Claire Denis’s films may be surprised to find that her latest benefits from a rudimentary storyline…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
White Noise (15) **
(Dir: Geoffrey Sax, 98 mins) The first hour of this low-rent American chiller is mostly erratically-paced narrative filler, and while the last thirty minutes deliver the spooky acoustics and spectral figures one would…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Michael Haneke, 2009, 144 mins, subtitles) It’s a tough sell: an austere, two-and-a-half hour monochrome drama set in a claustrophobic rural Protestant community on the eve of WWI, setting up an intriguing mystery…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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A ‘rites of passage’ tale with nautical knobs on, Ridley Scott’s seafaring yarn casts Jeff Bridges as captain of the Ocean Academy training ship Albatross, a salty dog who must whip a crew of eight privileged puppies…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Dominic Sera, 2009, 101 mins) The Antarctic-set ‘Whiteout’ had the potential to be trashily entertaining, kinda like ‘Encounters at the End of the World’ crossed with ‘The Thing’. But it turns out to be a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Tyler Perry, 2010, 121 mins) …or ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?’ to give the film its full title, on account of the fact that Mr. Perry is the writer, director, producer and star. Perry is something of…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Neil LaBute, 102 mins) A screen original rather than an adaptation of a novel, Robin Hardy’s ‘Wicker Man’ is one of those films as memorable for its unique atmosphere (and folk-rock score) as its tightly-contrived…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Paul McGuigan, 115 mins) An American remake of Gilles Mimouni’s acclaimed Hitchcockian psychological thriller, ‘L’Appartement’, from which everything that made the original so great is absent. Back in Chicago…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Lone Scherfig, 109 mins) On paper, this should be a complete mess. Directed by Lone (‘Italian For Beginners’) Scherfig from a script she co-wrote in Danish and then translated into English, ‘Wilbur’ was shot in a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Werner Herzog, 2005, 81 mins) Werner Herzog expands to feature length a rather slight idea that might have made an entertaining short. Wild-eyed, straggly-haired Brad Dourif addresses the camera directly,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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A newly restored 70mm print of Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Western masterpiece from 1969, with ten minutes of original footage reinstated. Hugely controversial in its time for the bloody slo-mo finale, which would barely…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Nick Moore, 2008, 96 mins) Spoiled Malibu princess Poppy Moore (Julia’s niece, Emma Roberts) is shipped off to a prim and proper English boarding school to straighten her out. Naturally, she hates it and, being a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wild Grass (12A) **
(Dir: Alain Resnais, 2009, 104 mins, subtitles) An extravagantly praised, patience-sapping melodrama from the 88-year-old grand old man of the French nouvelle vague. Alain Resnais certainly knows how to push those…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Walt Becker, 2007, 99 mins) The all-too-obvious template here is ‘City Slickers’, as a quartet of midlife crisis-afflicted suburban bikers get their motors running and head out on the highway. Alas, the adventure…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wild Man Blues (12) ***
(Dir: Barbara Kopple, 106 mins) An entertaining if unrevealing documentary following Woody Allen as he tootles and whines his way through Europe’s capitals in familiar self-deprecating style on a 1996 jazz tour, with…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Judy Irving, 83 mins) Nobody knows how the wild parrots of North Beach, San Francisco, got there. And until gentle, hippyish Mark Bittner started to take an interest in them, nobody cared either. Now the thriving,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Sebastien Lifshitz, 93 mins) Pre-op transsexual prostitute Stephanie (Stephanie Michelini) finds she has to return from Paris to her family home in rural northern France, where her terminally ill mother is dying.…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Donald Cammell, 112 mins) The ‘Director’s Cut’ of late Donald Cammell’s last film attracted suitably fawning reviews. So you may be surprised to find it resembles a preposterous arthouse reworking of those 'erotic…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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Although it has echoes of ‘Nikita’ in its tale of a professional killer pushed to the limits, Pierre Salvadori's film couldn't be more different, opting for comedy of an increasingly ludicrous variety as it piles a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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Wild Things (18) *
(Dir: John McNaughton, 111 mins) The come on for this “contemporary erotic thriller” from the director of ‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer’ is the promise of a couple of frames of Neve (‘Scream’) Campbell with her…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Cathy Malkasian & Jeff McGrath, 85 mins) Another Nickelodeon kids’ TV spinoff means more mildly diverting, competently animated multiplex fodder featuring kids with weird-shaped heads and plots that feel like –…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wild Wild West (12) **
(Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld, 106 mins ) Here's this year's disappointing mess adapted from a classic TV series, a blend of SF and western genres which has Will Smith reteaming with the director of ‘Men In Black’ to play U.S.…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Steve ‘Spazz’ Williams, 94 mins) This latest lazy CGI animation from Walt Disney sees the law of diminishing returns kick in big time, and is likely to leave even the least-demanding child feeling short-changed…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Sandrine Veysset, 90 mins) Imagine that Provence had been the haunt of Dickens or Thomas Hardy rather than Peter Bloody Mayle and you’ll have a flavour of this award-winning directorial debut by 30-year-old…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Ken Loach, 124 mins) The winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach’s fictional portrayal of the Irish struggle for independence in the early 1920s has since been subjected to a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Stephen Anderson & Don Hall, 2011, 63 mins) After a run of cheapo spinoffs like 'The Tigger Movie', Didsney makes a sincere attempt to stick a little closer to the tone of the books, down to getting a proper…13.04.2011 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Debra Granik, 2010, 100 mins) In a storyline and marginalised community setting that has strong echoes of ‘Frozen River’, 17-year-old Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) finds the only way she can save the family home is by…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Wishmaster (18) *
(Dir: Robert Kurtzman, 90 mins) This could very well have been written by a computer unfamiliar with the algorithm for shame, boasting as it does a mix’n’match approach to cheap horror cliches. A bit of pseudo-religious…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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Tenth anniversary revival of the film that launched a lethal drinking game. Richard E. Grant (Withnail) and Paul McGann (I) are out of work actors living, boozing and pill-popping in the seediest flat in Camden Town, if…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Without a Paddle (12A) *
(Dir: Steve Brill, 95 mins) Without adequate comic propulsion, as the title so unfortunately implies, this woeful comedy attempts to fuse ‘Deliverance’, ‘Stand by Me’ and, er, ‘The Great Outdoors’. That so much of its…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Andre Techine, 2007, 114 mins, subtitles) French writer/director Andre Techine’s period drama about the emergence of AIDS in the mid-80s has little new to offer, though it’s scrupulously unsentimental and…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Greg McLean, 99 mins) More Dogme 95 than ‘The Blair Witch Project’, to which it has been inaptly compared, first time writer/director/producer Greg McLean’s chilling, low budget, Australian old-school slasher is…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wolfman, The (15) ***
(Dir: Joe Johnston, 2010, 98 mins) There’s howling at the full moon over the moors and muttering into the beer at the peasant pub as the Wolf Man prowls again in this heavily gothic remake of the 1941 movie, starring a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Woman on Top (15) ***
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Women Without Men (15) ***
(Dir: Shirin Neshat, 2009, 100 mins, subtitles) Suicide, prostitution, rape, nudity and sex…just some of the things we’re not used to seeing in Iranian film. That’s why exiled Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat’s…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Women, The (12A) **
(Dir: Diane English, 2008, 114 mins) For all its superficial updating of the roles available to modern women, this half-baked re-make of George Cukor’s sparkling 1939 movie is more sappy than sassy. The women in Cukor’s…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wonder Boys (15) ****
(Dir: Curtis Hanson, 112 mins) Those who crave a coming-of-middle-age yarn occupying similar emotional territory to 'American Beauty' could do a lot worse than ‘LA Confidential’ director Curtis Hanson’s leisurely,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: Michael Winterbottom, 108 mins) Shot entirely on the hoof in that grainy, hand-held, verite style championed by the Danish Dogme brigade, Michael Winterbottom’s most impressive film to date uses a patchwork…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
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(Dir: James Cox, 104 mins) By 1981, legendary 70s porn star John Holmes (Val Kilmer) was a hopeless, washed-up “basehead”, with an impressionable, 15-year-old girlfriend named Dawn (Kate Bosworth) in tow and a…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wondrous Oblivion (PG) **
(Dir: Paul Morrison, 106 mins) A Britflick that reeks of calculation in its attempt to emulate the winning ‘Bend it Like Beckham’/‘East Is East’/‘Full Monty’ formula. There’s the light comedy approach to a serious…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Woodlanders, The (PG) ****
(Dir: Phil Agland, 97 mins) An accomplished adaptation of another slice of Thomas Hardy’s 19th century Dorset miserablism, this has Rufus Sewell as that stock Hardy hero the Sullen Horny-Handed Son of Toil, who’s in…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Woodsman, The (15) ***
(Dir: Nicole Kassell, 87 mins) There’s no shortage of potential objections to ‘The Woodsman’. Since the film cannot show us what a predatory paedophile does to children, our response to a sympathetic portrayal of his…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
World Is Not Enough, The (12) ***
(Dir: Michael Apted, 128 mins) Much has been made of 'Gorillas in the Mist' director Michael Apted's mandate to inject some emotion and human drama into the tired old James Bond franchise. He's certainly given the women…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
World Trade Center (12A) **
(Dir: Oliver Stone, 129 mins) Barely recognisable as an Oliver Stone movie, this practically salutes the flag in its eagerness to avoid giving offence to Middle America. To be fair, the first reel is terrific. Ordinary,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
World’s Fastest Indian, The (12A) **
(Dir: Roger Donaldson, 127 mins) Remember ‘The Straight Story’? This was the true tale of a codger who took a long, slow, picaresque journey by lawnmower. Now imagine the whole thing done at speed – yet, paradoxically,…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
World’s Greatest Dad (15) ***
(Dir: Bobcat Goldthwait, 2009, 99 mins) Splendidly named Bobcat Goldthwait follows his “dog blowjob movie” ‘Sleeping Dogs’ with what is likely to be his autoerotic asphyxiation flick. It has Robin Williams at his most…16.09.2010 READ MORE -
Wrestler, The (15) ****
(Dir: Darren Aronofsky, 2008, 109 mins) Unrecognisable as a Darren Aronofsky flick, ‘The Wrestler’ wisely ditches all his trademark jump-cut hyperactivity in favour of a back-to-basics approach to soak up every nuance…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wristcutters: A Love Story (15) ***
(Dir: Goran Dukic, 2006, 84 mins) Croatian director Goran Dukic’s expansion of a short story by popular Israeli writer Etgar Keret boasts a premise that’s certain to appeal to the black of heart: suppose those who…30.08.2010 READ MORE -
Wrong Turn (18) ***
(Dir: Rob Schmidt, 95 mins) Gorehounds who hanker after some proper unpleasantness will be delighted by this, which takes such recent teen shockers as ‘Jeepers Creepers’ and ‘Roadkill’ and chucks them in the…30.08.2010 READ MORE
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USA 2011 93 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender,…
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J. Edgar (15)
USA 2011 137 mins Dir: Clint Eastwood Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Judi…
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Coriolanus (15)
UK 2011 123 mins Dir: Ralph Fiennes Starring: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain,…
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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,…
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Tatsumi (15)
Singapore 2011 96 mins Subtitles Dir: Eric Khoo Starring (voices): Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent,…
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Margin Call (15)
USA 2011 107 mins Dir: J.C. Chandor Starring: Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Stanley…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Surviving Life (15)
Czech Republic 2010 109 mins Subtitles Dir: Jan Svankmajer Starring: Vaclav Helsus, Klara Issova,…
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Another Earth (12A)
USA 2011 92 mins Dir: Mike Cahill Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother Things the movies tell…
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Argentina/Spain 2011 86 mins Subtitles Dir: Pablo Giorgelli Starring: German de Silva, Hebe Durate…
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Puss In Boots (U)
USA 2011 90 mins Dir: Chris Miller Starring (voices): Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach…
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Portugal/France 2010 266 mins Subtitles Dir: Raoul Ruiz Starring: Adriano Luz, Maria Joao Bastos,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Take Shelter (15)
USA 2011 121 mins Dir: Jeff Nicholls Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain Imagine the first…
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Snowtown (18)
Australia 2011 115 mins Dir: Justin Kurzel Starring: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris…
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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…
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USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Joel Schumacher Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben…
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The Awakening (15)
UK 2011 107 mins Dir: Nick Murphy Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton It'll never…
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Weekend (18)
UK 2011 97 mins Dir: Andrew Haigh Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New Imagine that Richard Linklater…
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USA 2011 91 mins Dir: Miranda July Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky,…
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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…
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Miss Bala (15)
Mexico 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Gerardo Naranjo Starring: Stephanie Sigman, James Russo, Noe…
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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…
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Contagion (12A)
USA 2011 106 mins Dir: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion…
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Midnight in Paris (12A)
USA 2011 94 mins Dir: Woody Allen Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla…
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Tyrannosaur (18)
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The Debt (15)
USA 2011 113 mins Dir: John Madden Starring: Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Hinds, Sam…
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Guilty of Romance (18)
Japan 2011 113 mins Subtitles Dir: Sion Sono Starring: Megumi Kagurazaka, Miki Mizuno, Makato…
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Melancholia (15)
Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011 135 mins Dir: Lars Von Trier Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte…
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