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The much anticipated second chapter of Christopher Nolan's reimagining of the caped crusader sees Bruce Wayne pitted against his old arch-nemesis, the Joker. Paul Greenwood loads up on overpriced popcorn for two and a half hours in the brooding company of The Dark Knight.

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The Strangers

The Strangers

Film :: Review 22 Aug 2008

Kevin McHugh: In The Strangers, a simple-enough plot revolves around a couple returning to their home in the country. But once back, their every move is watched, by strangers in the dark waiting to terrorise them on the longest nights of their lives. The climax may ...

Fashion Vicitims

Fashion Victims

Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...

Bernie Mac

Ocean's Eleven star buried in (relative) peace

Film :: Heads Up 20 Aug 2008

Erin McElhinney: A host of stars, including Samuel L Jackson and Chris Rock, were a few amongst thousands who started arriving nearly four hours early on Saturday for the funeral of Bernie Mac. Legendary comedian Mac died on 9 August following complications from a bout...

Lion In Winter

The Lion in Winter

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 17 Aug 2008

Cara McGuigan: Vicious, vitriolic, scheming, manipulative: The Lion in Winter paints a portrait of an utterly venomous royal family. King Henry II (O’Toole) lets his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (Hepburn) out of her castle prison twice a year at Easter and Christm...

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Film :: Review 11 Aug 2008

Laura Smith: A wonderfully breezy, champagne cocktail of an old-fashioned comedy, that fizzes away with all the madcap, feel-good fun of a 1930s screwball classic, Miss Pettigrew is largely buoyed by the charms of a wigglesome, wide-eyed Amy Adams, doing her ditzy ...

You Don't Mess With The Zohan

You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Film :: Comedy :: Review 08 Aug 2008

Kevin McHugh: 'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want to, you know, bed. But his dream is moving to New York and becoming a famous stylist, so he fak...

The Rocker

The Rocker

Film :: Comedy :: Review 08 Aug 2008

Laura Smith: Original, inspired, staggeringly unpredictable – The Rocker is none of these things and less. Feeling like a Saturday Night Live skit stretched until it cries out in pain, the plot of a film about a slacker has-been who finds a new lease of life ...

Unearthed

Unearthed

Film :: DVD Review 07 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: For those of you who, like me, fondly remember '80s pop legends Bros as a formative part of your early sexual development, you might be interested to learn that chief percussionist, Luke Goss, is not dead. Apparently having spent his 15-year hiatus in ...

Vampire Diary

Vampire Diary

Film :: DVD Review 05 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Probably made mindful only of those who thought the lesbian action in Buffy didn't quite go far enough, Vampire Diary is one of those wonderful British movies made thanks to the Hollyoaks school of the dramatic arts (see Donkey Punch): an am-dram cast ...

Elite Squad

Elite Squad

Film :: Review 31 Jul 2008

Laura Smith:   A tough, uncompromising look at police corruption and street crime in the drug saturated favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Elite Squad blasts across the screen with both barrels, blending the sweaty, frenetic, visual flamboyance of co-writer Brá...

Man On Wire Re

Man On Wire

Film :: Review 28 Jul 2008

Paul Greenwood: On 7 August, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre. Though he was arrested on completion, all charges were dropped and he quickly became celebrated througho...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Film :: DVD Review 25 Jul 2008

Paul Greenwood: It seems every other review I'm writing these days is loaded with “best such-and-such ever”, but in the case of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, every overstated commendation is entirely justified. Not only is it one of the best westerns eve...

Death Note

Death Note

Film :: DVD Review 24 Jul 2008

Alastair Roy: A notebook falls from the sky into the path of too-cool-for-school law student Light (Fujiwara). Its opening page explains that if someone's name is written in it then they will die. Unconvinced and with a sneer, Light gives it a go. A hapless criminal...

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Man On WIre

Film :: Feature 24 Jul 2008

Paul Greenwood: How did you first hear about Philippe and how did you come to be involved in making the film? Everyone in New York knows about it in some shape or form, it’s one of those folk memories that people have. I've lived there for 14 years and it&rsquo...

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The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams

Film :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jul 2008

Jaco Justice: Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by childhood big-screen epiphanies, over eight and a half magical days celebrating the romanticism...

Eden Log

Eden Log

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 23 Jul 2008

Alastair Roy: In today's film universe of blue screens and CGI, Eden Log is a kick in the hard drive, matching money with painstaking set design on a shoe-string budget. Our hero awakens in a dark, muddy pit, a flickering light guiding the way to a distant exit, jus...

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

Film :: Review 22 Jul 2008

Paul Greenwood: At the time of writing, The Dark Knight has just had the largest opening weekend in US box office history and leapt straight to the top of the IMDb list of the top 250 movies of all time. The first fact can be attributed to many things, fanboys and the...

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A Dark Knight in Jail: Christian Bale Arrested

Film :: Heads Up :: News 22 Jul 2008

Erin McElhinney: The internet is buzzing with reports that Christian Bale, the latest actor to assume the role of Gothan City's caped crusader, has gone from red carpet to jail cell - almost literally. Present last night at the European premiere of the latest movie in...

Christian Bale as John Connor

First Look at Terminator 4

Film :: Heads Up :: News 18 Jul 2008

Dave Kerr: Are you Sarah Connor? No? Then perhaps you'll be interested in the return of the Terminator. Yes, filming for the forthcoming fourth installment of the franchise - dubbed Terminator Salvation - recently got under way, and no sooner can you say 'da da d...

Baby Mama

Baby Mama

Film :: Comedy :: Review 18 Jul 2008

Laura Smith: Re-treading the ol’ nine month story arc familiar to knocked-up waitresses called Juno and the like, Saturday Night Live alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play off each other beautifully as, respectively, a tightly-wound businesswoman who desperate...

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