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Driving Aphrodite and The Invention of Lying
4:33pm Wednesday 30th September 2009
Romantic comedy Driving Aphrodite marks the long awaited return of Nia Vardalos to the big screen, seven years after her self-penned, Oscar-nominated smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In the interim, she wrote and starred in the ill-fated, spin-off television series My Big Fat Greek Life and the hit-and-miss drag queen comedy Connie and Carla, co-starring Toni Collette.
The Soloist
3:03pm Wednesday 23rd September 2009
right place at the right time. The Soloist is an inspirational true story about a musical prodigy crippled by schizophrenia, who unexpectedly gets a second chance at his dreams thanks to an influential journalist.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
3:43pm Wednesday 16th September 2009
Based on the beloved 1978 children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a comical fantasy about one man’s pursuit of his dreams. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s computer-animated film is also a colourful morality tale about the gluttony of the west where bigger is apparently always better, especially when it comes to food portions.
Julie & Julia
3:43pm Wednesday 9th September 2009
Meryl Streep looks certain to secure a 16th Oscar nomination for her tour-de-force portrayal of an American cultural icon in the new comedy from writer-director Nora Ephron (Sleepless In Seattle). Based on two memoirs set more than 50 years apart, Julie & Julia (12A) is a frothy and entertaining tale of cuisine, l’amour and the art of killing lobsters.
District 9
6:50am Thursday 3rd September 2009
Forget Transformers, Terminator Salvation, GI Joe and even the rejuvenated crew of the Starship Enterprise . . . the science-fiction blockbuster of the year has arrived. Produced by Peter Jackson and shot on location in Johannesburg, District 9 (15) has taken America by storm — and now the alien invasion begins on these shores.
Funny People
6:20am Thursday 27th August 2009
The title of Judd Apatow’s new comedy, his follow-up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, isn’t supposed to be ironic. What could be more perfect for a film immersed in the world of stand-up and its neurotic performers than Funny People?
Inglourious Basterds
1:13pm Wednesday 19th August 2009
‘Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France . . .” begins Quentin Tarantino’s long-mooted war opus, a blood-soaked fairytale divided into five hefty chapters. For most of the vengeful characters in Inglourious Basterds, there is no ‘happy ever after’ – the body count is staggeringly high and almost nobody reaches the end credits unscathed.
Aliens in the Attic
2:47pm Wednesday 12th August 2009
A spaceship full of ray gun-wielding extra-terrestrials, intent on invading Earth, meets resistance in a most unexpected form in John Schultz’s out-of-this-world family comedy Aliens in the Attic. The film is a special effects-laden adventure that positions younger characters as the heroes, unlikely saviours of mankind armed with items from their toy cupboard. Adults are clueless or largely ineffectual as an invasion gathers pace, masterminded by a race of talking knee-high creatures who strike a curious balance between fearsome and cute.
GI Joe and Adam
2:11pm Wednesday 5th August 2009
Based on the popular, military-themed action figures, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is an action adventure by numbers from the director of The Mummy and Van Helsing. Aimed squarely at teenage boys with limited attention spans, Stephen Sommers’s muscular, all-guns-blazing romp has big weapons, bigger explosions and visual effects-heavy sequences in abundance. One protracted set-piece in the French capital leaves countless flaming vehicles littering the usually tranquil boulevards before the coup de grace: the toppling of the Eiffel Tower into the Seine.
G-Force and Crossing Over
9:47am Thursday 30th July 2009
Don the snazzy, plastic spectacles for producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3D film, which proves that if you want a job done properly, hire a team of guinea pigs. Screening in the eye-popping format in selected cinemas and 2D everywhere else, G-Force is a light-hearted romp laden with gizmos including jet-propelled rodent balls that allow the cuddly characters to swerve through traffic in the film’s centrepiece action sequence.
The Proposal and Antichrist
2:47pm Wednesday 22nd July 2009
Sandra Bullock returns to sparkling form in Anne Fletcher's screwball romantic comedy The Proposal, which proves that the path to true love can sometimes begin with some good old-fashioned blackmail. With the triple whammy of Speed, While You Were Sleeping and A Time To Kill in the mid-1990s, Bullock was once the lady-in-waiting to Meg Ryan’s crown as America's favourite girl next door, but a string of lacklustre releases in every conceivable genre — including a fluffy romantic comedy with Hugh Grant, supernatural shenanigans across space and time with Keanu Reeves and an abortive sequel to the hysterical Miss Congeniality — brought her back down to Earth with a bump.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Moon
11:32am Thursday 16th July 2009
David Yates returns to the director’s chair after the disappointing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for the penultimate instalment in J.K. Rowling’s magical series, as the boy wizard and his friends face their toughest test yet in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Thankfully, the sixth film is a marked improvement on the last outing, riding some of the same dark undercurrents as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, still the strongest adventure in the series thus far.
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.
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.
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