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Untraceable

Our entire lives are stored online. Names, addresses, bank details, medical records: all easily accessible with a few taps of a computer keyboard. Read

Semi-Pro

WHEN a nonsensical 60-second cameo by soul diva Patti LaBelle is the highlight of a sports comedy, you know you’re in trouble. Read

The Bank Job

DICK Clement and Ian Le Frenais, the writing partnership behind The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, pen this dramatisation of true-life unsolved crime in 1971 London.Read

Rambo

TWENTY years after Rambo’s last bloodthirsty tour of duty, Sylvester Stallone’s iconic warrior stumbles out of retirement to wreak havoc on the oppressive Burmese military.Read

BITTERSWEET like the fruit of its title, Wong Kar Wai’s meandering love story is notable as the first English language feature from the acclaimed Chinese director of Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love.Read

Cloverfield

WITH increasing numbers of films flooding our cinemas, opening weekend box office takings have become increasingly important in determining the success of a feature. Read

Things We Lost In The Fire

LIKE so many European filmmakers before her, celebrated Danish director Susanne Bier makes an uneasy transition to Hollywood with this muted yet powerful study of grief and redemption. Read

Underdog

IT WAS almost inevitable that man’s best friend would eventually don a Superman-style cape and save mankind from tricksters and thieves. Read

Penelope

IN Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, Jessica famously declares, “Love is blind and lovers cannot see/The pretty follies that themselves commit...”Read

In the Valley of Elah

THE true cost of war is incalculable. It is not just astronomical military budgets and rising death tolls. Nor does it begin and end on the battlefield. Read

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

STEPHEN Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony Award-winning musical fits visionary director Tim Burton like a glove.Read

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

DRUG addiction, physical disability, poverty and infidelity are the lifeblood of any compelling music biopic, from Sissy Spacek’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter to Jamie Foxx and Joaquin Phoenix’s exuberant turns as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash.Read

Aliens Vs Predator – Requiem

IN SPACE, no-one can hear you scream. So, in Aliens Vs Predator – Requiem, two of the big screen’s most feared extra-terrestrial killing machines descend on American suburbia, where the blood-curdling cries can be heard for miles. Read

No Country For Old Men

WRITER-DIRECTORS Joel and Ethan Coen orchestrate an unbearably tense game of cat-and-mouse against the barren Texan borderlands in this frequently bloody thriller based on the book by Cormac McCarthy. Read

Charlie Wilson's War

ALTHOUGH it stops tantalisingly short of drawing explicit links between American involvement in Afghanistan during the early 80s and the rise of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, Mike Nichols’s starry political satire draws a trickle of blood with its timely references to conflict in the Middle East. Read