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DVD: Cold Souls (12) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Ever wondered what your soul might look like if it was extracted and stored in a jar?
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DVD: The Gruffalo (U) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 19 March 2010

A ridiculously starry cast – including Helena Bonham Carter, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, James Corden and Robbie Coltrane – voice this witty adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's children's tale of a shrewd little mouse who outwits a ravenous snake, owl and a fox with the threat of a gruffalo, a creature with terrible claws, orange eyes and purple prickles all over its back.
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DVD: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (12) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 19 March 2010

Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan is, like, bummed out 'cos her "hot" young/old bloodsucker beau Edward (Robert Pattinson) has gone and left her – "This is the last time you'll ever see me," he solemnly promises. Yeah, right.
Comment: 1

DVD: Harry Brown (18) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 19 March 2010

Pensioner Harry Brown (Michael Caine) spends his time between caring for his dying wife and drowning his sorrows with best friend Leonard down his local.
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DVD: Paranormal Activity (15) (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 19 March 2010

Taking its cue from films such as The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity may not be the first low-budget horror movie to use the hand-held camera technique, but that doesn't stop it working to terrifying effect.
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Shutter Island (15)

Friday, 12 March 2010

Having laid the Oscar ghost with his win for The Departed, Martin Scorsese could have allowed himself to relax.
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Green Zone (15) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 12 March 2010

Miller's determination to establish the truth takes him on a perilous go-round of Baghdad, beyond the US military's cordoned fiefdom – the Green Zone – and into territory where "the enemy" is as likely to be from his own side as from Saddam loyalists.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18) (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 12 March 2010

This overlong but absorbing murder mystery, adapted from the first of a best-selling trilogy by the late journalist-turned-crime writer Stieg Larsson, dabbles in some pretty dark material.
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Legion: reader review (Rated 1/ 5 )

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Paul Bettany stars as the Archangel Michael. When God decides to exterminate civilisation, Michael (who still has faith in mankind) goes against his wishes and falls to earth in order to defend the soon-to-be-born Messiah.
Comments: 13

Alice in Wonderland: reader review (Rated 4/ 5 )

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Mia Wasikowska plays Alice, a 19 year old girl who is plagued by vivid dreams of a wondrous land where she meets an assortment of different characters.
Comments: 4

Alice in Wonderland (PG) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

This much-hyped new Alice in Wonderland is animated by two troublesome conflicts, one in the mind of its heroine, the other in the collective decision-making of its creators.
Comment: 1

Chloe (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

Julianne Moore stars in this (uncredited) remake of the erotic thriller Nathalie, playing a Toronto gynaecologist who fears that hunky lecturer husband Liam Neeson is playing away.
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Legion (15) (Rated 1/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

More apocalyptic twaddle, this time the setting a scuzzy diner named Paradise Falls – groan – on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Comments: 2

Father of My Children (12A) (Rated 5/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

This remarkable film by Mia Hansen-Løve is so deceptively quiet you could miss the dreadful anguish at its heart.
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From Paris With Love: reader review (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays James Reece, a personal aide to the US Ambassador in France, who has aspirations of becoming a Special Forces agent.
Comments: 7

The Crazies: reader review (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 5 March 2010

In the peaceful little town of Ogden Marsh, Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) prepares to watch the baseball season’s opening match.
Comments: 25

Edge of Darkness: reader review (Rated 3/ 5 )

Monday, 1 March 2010

Mel Gibson stars as cop Thomas Craven, a single Father who looks forward to renewing his relationship with long absent daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic).
Comments: 19

Invictus: reader review (Rated 3/ 5 )

Monday, 1 March 2010

Released from prison and newly elected South Africa’s President, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) faces the challenge of bringing unity to the divided nation.
Comments: 8

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief: reader review (Rated 2/ 5 )

Monday, 1 March 2010

Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is just an ordinary teenager who doesn’t do very well in school but can do extraordinary things such as hold his breath under water for 7 minutes.
Comments: 4

First Night: Alice in Wonderland, Odeon Leicester Square, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Friday, 26 February 2010

"You're mad, bonkers... but I'll tell you a secret – all the best people are." This line early on in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland expresses perfectly what seems to be the director's guiding philosophy.
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Extraordinary Measures (PG) (Rated 2/ 5 )

Friday, 26 February 2010

The fact that it's based on Geeta Anand's book, The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million – and Bucked the Medical Establishment – in a Quest to Save His Children, should warn you what to expect, as well as telling you the plot.
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