Cinema

Paramount’s big-screen version of Watchmen is released on March 6th 2009 and to further whet your appetite here’s some great in-film footage:

A busy week was punctuated by 2 hours of relative calm as I settled down in the Fox screening and enjoyed The Class in which François Bégaudeau spends a school year challenging and daring his class of racially mixed students in a tough Parisian neighbourhood.

What would you do if you saw someone in trouble? Would you help, or turn the other way? That’s the question young couple Zakes (Will Ash) and Beth (Christine Bottomley) find themselves facing in writer and director Mark Tonderai’s Hush.

News reaches us of the upcoming release of Palm D’or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs) later this month. Set for release on 27th February, the film follows François and his fellow teachers as they prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighbourhood

Horror legend Jason Voorhees returns to cinemas next year in a reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise. Slated, appropriately, for release on February 13th 2009 the film stars Derek Mears as Jason and is written by Damian Shannon & Mark Swift and directed by Marcus Nispel who also directed the 2003 remake of The…

Twenty four years after they appeared together in Blame it on Rio, Demi Moore and Michael Caine star in Flawless, a new thriller from director Michael Radford (The Merchant of Venice, Il Postino, White Mischief, 1984) which arrives in cinemas next week.