Cinema

  • Filming commences on David Nicholls’ Great Expectations adaptation

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    Filming for David Nicholls’ big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Great Expectations gets underway next week with Four Weddings and A Funeral director Mike Newell at the helm. The film features an impressive ensemble cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane. Dickens’ classic novel has been adapted by acclaimed screenwriter and…

  • New Michael Sheen movie tells story of a Britain under Nazi occupation

    New Michael Sheen movie tells story of a Britain under Nazi occupation

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    Michael Sheen leads the cast in alternate-history war flick Resistance, which heads to cinemas next month. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers and also stars Andrea Riseborough (Brighton Rock, Made In Dagenham), and Tom Wlaschia (Enemy At The Gates, Valkyrie, Brideshead Revisited).

  • Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark – review

    Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark – review

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    Scary critters lurking in the dark must be one of horror’s most used plot devices. Done well it can produce a truly chilling, end of your seat experience. Done badly it can produce a lot of unintended laughs. Thankfully for the most part Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark manages to do it well with…

  • Trailer: Premium Rush

    Trailer: Premium Rush

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    Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers.  When Wilee picks up his last envelope of the day on a premium rush run, he discovers this package is different.  This time,…

  • Real life tale of bravery told in Soul Surfer

    Real life tale of bravery told in Soul Surfer

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    Out this week is Soul Surfer, the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again.

  • Friends with Benefits – clips

    Friends with Benefits – clips

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    Heading to cinema next week is the very modern romcom Friends with Benefits in which Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake play two friends who dabble in a little under the duvet, no strings attached fun.