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Youth in Revolt, Miguel Arteta, 90 mins (15)
Astro Boy, David Bowers, 94 mins (PG)
A nerdy fantasy, but still smarter than the average teen comedy
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Invictus, Clint Eastwood, 134 mins (12A)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Mandela is the inspiring coach in a beating-the-odds sports tale
DVD: The Beaches of Agnes, For retail & rental (Artificial Eye)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
In Agnès Varda's sprightly memoir, the eightysomething New Wave grande dame tells her life story in delightfully offbeat, inventive fashion, interweaving chats with friends and relatives, clips from old films and documentaries, and scenes from her past re-created as surreal tableaux.
DVD: The Time Traveler's Wife, For retail & rental (EIV)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams play a married couple with an unusual problem: he has a "genetic anomaly" which keeps yanking him into the near future or past for short periods before depositing him back in his own timestream.
DVD: Wallander: Series Two, For retail (2 Entertain)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Kenneth Branagh is a bit Marmite: you either love him or loathe him.
Astro Boy (PG) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 5 February 2010
Based on Osamu Tezuka's manga icon – a Japanese legend since 1951 – this American version of the airborne android has a likeable comic zip that just about carries off its runaway sci-fi extravagances.
Holy Water (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 5 February 2010
This jolly Irish heartwarmer is a close descendant of Waking Ned, with a slightly more risqué plotline.
The Island (nc) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 5 February 2010
The spirit of Tarkovsky is never far from this rebarbative fable of guilt and atonement by Pavel Lounguine.
Tony (18) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 5 February 2010
Gerard Johnson's low-budget streets-of-London downer is nominally about a serial killer, but in Peter Ferdinando's remarkable title-role it becomes rather more about urban loneliness and alienation.
Youth in Revolt (15) (Rated 3/ 5 )
Friday, 5 February 2010
The impression that Michael Cera, star of Superbad and Juno, had overdrawn on his gawky, sweet-faced charm seemed unarguable in the light of the daft caveman comedy Year One.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Princess and the Frog, U
A jolly take on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, hand-drawn in glorious 2D, about a hard-working waitress who dreams of opening a restaurant in olden-days New Orleans.
Nationwide
Tony, 15
Gerard Johnson’s low-budget streets-of-London downer is nominally about a serial killer, but so remarkable is Peter Ferdinando in the title role that it becomes rather more about urban loneliness and alienation.
Limited release
A Prophet, 18
A thrilling, visceral and intense prison-gangster drama, charting the rise to criminal prominence of a French-Arab man while he serves a six-year sentence.
Nationwide
Up in the Air, 15
George Clooney stars as a frequent-flying businessman in a smart comedy about the depersonalisation of corporate life by the director of Juno, which lightens its satire with the right amount of romanticism.
Nationwide
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.
Nationwide