Cinema Listings
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a man walks into a gun store, puts a shotgun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. That’s funny, right? Well no, but it’s the way that Sunshine Cleaning opens, which…
The robots in disguise return for a second dose of mechanical carnage this summer in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Set for release on the day marking the 25th anniversary of Transformers,…
Anything For Her (Pour Elle) is the story of Lisa (Kruger), happily married to Julien (Lindon), a bloodhound-faced English professor. We know they are happily married as they can't keep their hands off each other; nonetheless they have a young son…
Just when you thought much-loved film franchises were getting decent reboots, along comes the new Terminator movie to disappoint and frustrate fans and neutrals alike. Star Trek put a new spin on the sci-fi series and Christian Bale has been…
Julia Roberts is now of a certain age and, after Duplicity, its interesting to see her starting to play the ‘mum’ roles in films. Fireflies in the Garden is her second film this year, and she plays Lisa, wife of Charles (Dafoe), an academic and…
Ron Howard could learn a thing or two from Luis Piedrahita and Rodriga Sopeña, co-writer/directors of this engrossing number-crunching thriller. With a brisk running time, tight characterisation and a series of puzzles that cinema audiences can…
Drag Me to Hell slots neatly between Sam Raimi’s two triumphant franchises, combining the energy, shocks and sick laughs of The Evil Dead movies with the slicker, populist thrills of his Spider-Man adventures. The result is one of the most…
It is a puzzle, the obsession that filmmakers have with football hooligans. They seem to believe that they are intrinsically interesting; more, that they are cinematic. In the last few years we’ve had The Football Factory, Green Street Hooligans…
As the title suggests, Fighting is a straightforward film of few surprises and a raw, if intermittent,…
Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a New York theatre director who yearns to create a work of profound significance. He’s just finished directorial duties on an ambitious staging of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, but is unsatisfied with…
Cheri is the story of Lea de Lonval (Pfeiffer), an aging but still beautiful courtesan in fin-de-siecle Paris. Relieved at being free from lovers, Lea is relishing her wealth and hard earned independence when she goes for lunch with an old friend,…
Oh dear. Fans of Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, please look away now. I cannot be held responsible for hoards of teenage girls screaming ‘my eyes, my eyes’ after seeing him in some of the clobber he affects for Little Ashes, where he plays Salvador…
Sunshine Cleaning
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Anything For Her (Pour Elle)
Terminator Salvation
Fireflies In The Garden
Fermat's Room
Drag Me to Hell
Awaydays
Fighting
Synecdoche, New York
Chéri
Little Ashes
