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PAA (Certificate and running time TBC)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

R BALKI writes and directs this touching drama about a father-son relationship. Thirteen-year-old Auro (Amitabh Bachchan), left, suffers from a rare, progeria-like condition, which causes him to age prematurely. Mentally, he is a teenager like all of his school friends, but physically Auro looks five times older. His mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), a gynaecologist, looks after her boy and tries to give him every opportunity to realise his dreams in a world that is sometimes cruel and intolerant. Auro seeks out his father, ambitious politician Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan), who is on a crusade to prove to voters that the men and women in power are not all corrupt and self-serving. Meeting his son, Amol discovers a new-found love of life and, together, man and child forge a new future together.

A space oddity

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTORS: Jorge Blanco, Marcos Martinez, Javier Abad. CAST: Featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman, John Cleese. RUNNING TIME: 90mins. RATING: U.

EVER THE PIN-UP

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater. CAST: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, James Tupper. RUNNING TIME: 113mins. RATING: 12A.

THRILLER’S ON THE BUTTON

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Richard Kelly. CAST: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Sam Oz Stone, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne, Gillian Jacobs. RUNNING TIME: 115mins. RATING: 12A.

THE FOURTH KIND RATING: 15, RUNNING TIME 97mins

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IN 1977, Steven Spielberg introduced audiences around the world to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. The film took its title from a scale devoted to alien encounters: the third kind refers to actual contact with extra-terrestrials. The first kind are mere sightings, while the second kind is any encounter supported by evidence. Olatunde Osunsanmi’s fact-based thriller deals with encounters of the fourth kind – alien abduction. Dr Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich), runs a practice in Alaska where there are an abnormally high number of people claiming to have been subjected to experiments at the hands of aliens. Abigail begins challenging her beliefs about whether we are alone in the universe.

ANTICHRIST (18, 108 mins): With its explicit scenes of sexual intercourse and graphic depiction of genital mutilation, the new film from award-winning Danish director Lars von Trier (Dancer In The Dark) is not for the squeamish.

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT

A husband (Willem Dafoe) and his younger wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) are engaged in lovemaking, oblivious to the actions of their baby son, who is supposedly sleeping. In a tour-de-force prologue shot in slow motion, the infant climbs out of his cot to the strains of an aria from Handel’s first opera Rinaldo, opens the child safety gate and climbs up onto a table, eventually falling out of an open window to his death. The devastated couple seek refuge in a remote woodland cabin where the spirits of the forest have a strange effect on the wife. As tensions between the couple escalate, the grief-stricken mother unleashes her fury upon her spouse, culminating in a shocking act of self-harm.

I spy a comic caper

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Tony Gilroy. CAST: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Thomas McCarthy, Denis O’Hare, Ulrich Thomsen. TIME: 125mins. RATING: 12A

Fat cop comedy is thin fare

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Steve Carr. CAST: Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays, Raini Rodriguez, Shirley Knight, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Gerety. TIME: 90mins. RATING: PG.

DUO’S PUERILE ROMP

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Phil Claydon. CAST: James Corden, Mathew Horne, Paul McGann, MyAnna Buring, Ashley Mulheron, Tiffany Mulheron, Louise Dylan, Lucy Gaskell, Silvia Colloca, Vera Filatova. TIME: 86mins. RATING: 15.

Labradorable!

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: David Frankel. CAST: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Alan Arkin, Kathleen Turner.TIME: 115mins. RATING: PG.

NOT A LOT TO ENJOY

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Nicolas Winding Refn. CAST: Tom Hardy, Amanda Burton, Matt King, James Lance, June Bladon. TIME: 92mins. RATING: 18.

The Young Victoria

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Jean-Marc Vallee. CAST: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Thomas Kretschmann, Rachael Stirling, Michael Maloney. TIME: 104mins. RATING: PG.

Surveillance

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Jennifer Lynch. CAST: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Kent Harper, Josh Strait, Pell James, Mac Miller, Ryan Simpkins, Hugh Dillon, Cheri Oteri, Kent Wolkowski, Michael Ironside, Gill Gayle, Charlie Newmark. TIME: 97mins. RATING: 18.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT

THERE are moments of real beauty in this dark tale set in Nazi Germany.

Pineapple Express

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT

THERE are an awful lot of buddy movies around at the moment — such as Step Brothers and the up-coming Sex Drive — which means there must be a huge appetite for them among movie-goers.

Bangkok Dangerous

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:00:00 GMT

THIS testosterone-fuelled tale of a hit man’s final hurrah on the crime-riddled streets of the Thai capital is an English language remake by Hong Kong film- makers Oxide and Danny Pang.

NOT content with the two hugely popular trilogies, George Lucas serves up yet another chapter in the Star Wars saga with this animated adventure.

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Filling in the gaps between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith, the film seems little more than a glossy teaser for a forthcoming television series.

COMEDY is probably the wrong word to describe this latest Adam Sandler vehicle.

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Despite the brains behind the script — Sandler, plus Robert Smigel and Jud Apatow — the story of an Israeli agent who dreams of becoming a hairdresser is a witless, puerile piece.

Wild Child

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

DROP the square peg of a fashion-obsessed US teen girl into the round hole of a stuffy English boarding school and you have the classic ingredients for a culture clash comedy.

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

DIRECTOR: Gurinder Chadha. CAST: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Georgia Henshaw, Manjeeven Grewal, Sean Bourke, Aaron Johnson, Kimberley Nixon, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Steve Jones. RUNNING TIME: 100 mins. RATING: 12A.