New Films
FIGHT CLUB (18, 134 mins)
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
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West End: Clapham Picture House, Empire Leicester Square, Gate Notting Hill, Odeon Camden Town, Odeon Kensington, Odeon Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss Cottage, Ritzy Cinema, Screen on the Green, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea, Virgin Trocadero And local cinemas
RATCATCHER (15, 97 mins)
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan
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West End: Clapham Picture House, Curzon Soho, Renoir, Richmond Filmhouse, Virgin Fulham Road and Repertory: Rio
THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT (PG, 98 mins)
Director: David Yates
Starring: John Kani, Robert Pugh
The Tichborne Claimant plays out in a standard Merchant-Ivory landscape of country homes, pretty frills and sculpted social etiquette. But it's an altogether more savvy affair than the period pictures of yore. Yates's Victorian-era satire has its wily African manservant (Kani) grooming a coarse, boozy Australian (Pugh) to pass himself off as the long-lost heir to an English fortune. This is the cue for playful musing on notions of identity, all brightly conveyed by a gilt-edged cast.
West End: ABC Shaftesbury Avenue, Clapham Picture House, Curzon Minema, Odeon Swiss Cottage, UCI Whiteleys Repertory: Watermans Arts Centre
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