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DVD: Terminator Salvation (12) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
Though it may have no more than a few seconds of Arnie (and a digitally reconstructed version, no less), Salvation proves the Terminator franchise is still alive and just about kicking.
DVD: Supernatural: Season 4 (15) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
The boys from the dark side are not only decking demons but, God forbid, kicking angel ass through season 4 of Supernatural.
DVD: Star Trek (12) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
James T Kirk hotwires cars and gets into bar brawls; Spock loses his cool and tries to strangle Kirk to death.
DVD: The Sopranos: Season 1 (18) (Rated 5/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
HBO's finest achievement – The Wire was excellent, this was better – gets the Blu-ray treatment.
DVD: Ice Age 3 (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
Perhaps not quite as witty as the previous films, Ice Age 3 is great for post Sunday lunch viewing.
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (15) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
Remi Bézançon's intimate drama examines the fractures and foibles of an ordinary bourgeois French family over the last 12 years of the 20th century.
Glorious 39 (12A) (Rated 1/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
How does Stephen Poliakoff get away with this stuff? Glorious 39 begins, in mildly intriguing fashion, in the run-up to the Second World War, positing an appeasement conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of toffs who believe Britain hasn't a chance against Hitler.
The Sea Wall (NC) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
Isabelle Huppert's brittle poise dominates this adaptation of Marguerite Duras's novel of colonialism in eclipse.
Southern Softies (U) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 20 November 2009
Graham Fellows follows up his earlier spoof It's Nice Up North with another investigative outing for his alter ego John Shuttleworth, Sheffield's least fashionable singer-songwriter.
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An Education, 12A
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina star in this adaptation of a Lynn Barber essay from Granta magazine about the relationship between a precociously clever 16-year-old and an older man in the Sixties.
Nationwide
Bright Star. PG
Jane Campion’s film is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star.
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The White Ribbon, 15
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner is a brooding, cool-handed and gripping parable about repression and violence, set in a Protestant German village before the First World War.
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Welcome, 15
A sad, completely involving film about the relationship between a laconic French swimming instructor and a teenage Iraqi refugee so desperate to get to England that he’ll even attempt to swim the channel.
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Up, U
Pixar’s latest animation is imbued with texture, detail, warm humour and physics-defying action sequences, and has a genuinely touching story about old age and new beginnings.
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