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Bruno, Fired Up! and Soul Power
3:00pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
Lightning doesn’t strike twice for Sacha Baron Cohen with Bruno, his eagerly-awaited follow-up to the smash hit Borat – Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Casting off the ill-fitting suit and moustache of his fictitious reporter, Cohen dresses to distress in figure-hugging hot pants and crop-tops as the eponymous fashionista from Klagenfurt, Austria.
Have your say »Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (U, 94 mins)
3:20pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for more than 100 million years, but the third instalment of the computer-animated Ice Age series will struggle to reign at the UK box office for more than two weeks.
Public Enemies (15, 139 mins)
3:19pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Perfectionist director Michael Mann doffs his fedora to Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in Public Enemies (15, 139 mins). This beautifully-crafted biopic surveys a volatile period in America’s history when a group of hoodlums ran rings around J Edgar Hoover and his fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Year One, My Sister's Keeper and Blood: The Last Vampire
9:45am Thursday 25th June 2009
What do you call a comedy without a single laugh? The answer is Year One, Harold Ramis’s ramshackle road movie through the Paleolithic era headlined by Jack Black and Michael Cera, two of the most gifted comic actors of their generations.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3:41pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
The robots in disguise continue their age-old feud in the eagerly-awaited sequel to one of the biggest box office hits of 2007. Director Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) returns to the helm for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to destroy large swathes of planet Earth in a miasma of pyrotechnics and computer-generated imagery, courtesy of the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain.
Terminator Salvation and Last Chance Harvey
12:39pm Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Man battles the machines once again in an all-guns-blazing reboot of the Terminator series, which sows the seeds of a new trilogy charting John Connor’s rise to leader of the Resistance in the aftermath of Judgment Day.
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience and 12 Rounds
3:46pm Wednesday 27th May 2009
The Jonas Brothers — aka good Christian boys Joe, Nick and Kevin — are an impeccably-styled, multi-million-dollar global phenomenon. The siblings are pin-ups for an entire generation of excitable teenagers and the embodiment of modern family values, wearing purity rings to affirm their belief in no sex before marriage.
Night at the Museum 2
6:30am Thursday 21st May 2009
History is brought vividly to life with a dazzling array of computer-generated effects in Night at the Museum 2 (PG), a soulless exercise in digital might over emotional substance and subtlety.
Tormented
7:40am Thursday 21st May 2009
Tormented (15), directed by Jon Wright, is a tongue-in-cheek horror set in a British comprehensive school where a gang of abusive students gets its just desserts at the hands of a most unlikely avenger. Not a demented dinner lady, fed up with gripes about her chicken cobbler, but the spectre of a bullied boy, who skulks in classrooms, toilets and corridors, picking off his prey one at a time.
Angels & Demons
10:56am Thursday 14th May 2009
In various religious texts and works of art, angels and demons are regarded as the messengers to the afterlife in either Heaven or Hell. Ron Howard’s action-packed film, Angels & Demons (12A) adapted from the best-seller by Dan Brown, hovers somewhere between the two extremes, jettisoning the ponderous dialogue which blighted The Da Vinci Code in favour of a protracted game of cat and mouse around Rome.
Fighting
10:57am Thursday 14th May 2009
Strutting down similar avenues to David Fincher’s Fight Club, albeit without that film’s biting wit and directorial pizzazz, Fighting (15) is a no-holds-barred tale of one young man’s introduction to the bare-knuckle brawl scene in present day New York City.
Star Trek
2:17pm Wednesday 6th May 2009
Space: the final frontier. This is the maiden voyage of a shiny, new Starship Enterprise under the captainship of director J. J. Abrams. Its mission: to revitalise a flagging yet beloved franchise, to breathe new life into iconic characters; to boldly go where so many have gone before.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
1:37pm Wednesday 29th April 2009
Hugh Jackman sharpens his retractable, adamantium claws in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a spin-off from the X-Men films, expanding the back-story of one of the franchise’s most popular characters. Screenwriters David Benioff and Skip Woods have the unenviable task of entertaining ardent fans of the comic books while forging links with the three blockbuster films.
State of Play
5:07pm Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Adapted from the six-part 2003 BBC mini-series created by Paul Abbott, State of Play is a timely political thriller about the tug of war between morality and sensationalist headlines. The skeletal narrative of the award-winning six-hour television programme is untouched, transplanted from the corridors of power in London to the newsrooms and boardrooms of Washington D.C.
In the Loop
11:04am Thursday 16th April 2009
‘He did not say ‘unforeseeable’. You may have heard him say that but he did not say that. And that is a fact.” The Minister for International Development, Simon Foster MP, has dropped a right clanger. In an unthinking moment, and on national television, he has accidentally averted war in the Middle East.
Race to Witch Mountain and 17 Again
5:10pm Wednesday 8th April 2009
E.T. phones home from the Nevada desert in Andy Fickman's special effects-laden reworking of the Disney adventure Escape To Witch Mountain. Almost 30 years after the original, this slick and sprightly revamp ticks all of the boxes with ruthless efficiency, introducing a dog at the halfway point to increase the ahh factor for family audiences.
Monsters V Aliens and The Boat That Rocked
10:18am Thursday 2nd April 2009
Just when it seemed that no one could challenge the computer animated might of Pixar (Ratatouille, WALL-E), directors Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon deliver an out-of-this-world adventure which proves heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Fast-paced and peppered with cute visual gags, Monsters Vs Aliens is a blast from eye-popping start to uproarious finish, especially in cinemas projecting in jaw-dropping 3D. Admittedly, Letterman and Vernon’s picture borrows heavily from Pixar’s 2004 smash hit The Incredibles, with nods to Godzilla and countless B-movies, but there are sufficient flashes of invention and a smattering of heartfelt emotion to bring a tear to the eye.
The Damned United and Traitor
9:14am Thursday 26th March 2009
The beautiful game is full of larger than life characters – men of boundless desire, on and off the pitch, who inspire lifelong devotion from the fans. Key to any team’s success is the manager: the architect of every hard fought battle between the goal posts, who must weather the storm when players fail to perform.
Lesbian Vampire Killers - Review
1:42pm Thursday 19th March 2009
TWO young, hot-shot comedians fresh from a successful outing in a TV sitcom, team up for a comedy horror on the silverscreen – sound familiar?
Duplicity - Reviewed
2:14pm Wednesday 18th March 2009
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite in the highly anticipated new film Duplicity, from writer/director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), set in the high stakes arena of corporate espionage. Words are meaningless in this comic caper because everyone is bluffing to some extent, concealing true intentions behind a compliment, or seemingly genuine smile. We don’t know who to trust – if anyone – as the intricate plot unfolds, right up to the final frame when the myriad knots untangle and the winners and losers in the elaborate scam discover their fate.
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