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Bright Star (PG)
This delicate romance between Keats and Fanny Brawne is much more than a simpering costume drama
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A Christmas Carol (PG)
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Christmas has come early, and it's a thoroughly ghoulish affair
Jennifer's Body (15)
Sunday, 8 November 2009
When Diablo Cody won an Oscar for her Juno screenplay, she was suddenly the coolest woman in Hollywood.
The Men Who Stare at Goats (15)
Sunday, 8 November 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson's book about the Pentagon's secret experiments in psychic combat, has been adapted into a film in the least satisfying way possible.
DVD: Brüno
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Watching Sacha Baron Cohen disguised as a camp Austrian fashion guru, the viewer can snort with laughter, gawp in disbelief at the rudeness,marvel at the star's physicalcomedy and death defying bravery ... and still end up being disappointed.
DVD: The Informers
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Adapted from an early Bret Easton Ellis novel –essentially an anthology of overlapping short stories – The Informers is a failed attempt ata Robert Altman-style web of vignettes set in Los Angeles in 1984.
DVD: Russell Brand, Scandalous
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Ooh, you are naughty. At times during this 80-minute set, it all gets a bit Carry On.
1 Day (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 6 November 2009
Penny Woolcock's Birmingham-set drama seeks to meld the black gangsta flick with a hip-hop musical, which some will find a challenge.
A Christmas Carol (PG) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 6 November 2009
Robert Zemeckis extends the performance-capture 3D technology he deployed on Beowulf to this version of the Dickens story, and if there's nothing here quite as eye-catching as Grendel's mum (Angelina Jolie in heels), it scores high on swooping visuals and meticulous draughtsmanship.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (15) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 6 November 2009
Henri-Georges Clouzot's reputation is founded on The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), and it might have been enhanced if he had completed his 1964 project, Inferno, about a jealous husband driven towards insanity.
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