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11:00


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13:00


Step Up 3 (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani and Sharni Vinson star in this dance spectacular. A crew of New York street dancers must win the top prize in a competition or face losing the building where they live and try out their new choreography routines. Along the way, the plot encompasses love stories and even a police chase, but of course it's really all about the dancing - which bursts forth in abundance and enough variety to please any hoofing fan. Indeed, the coruscating dance routines, from a cast composed largely of professional dancers rather than actors, are undoubtedly the film's main strength.
Director: Jon Chu
Starring: Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Keith Stallworth, Kendra Andrews
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 2 Star)

15:10


I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Robert Zemeckis made his directorial debut with this comedy about four girls and their determined efforts to meet the Beatles. It's 1964 and the four lads from Liverpool are surfing a wave of excitement as their music conquers the USA. Now the Fab Four have been booked to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York, and this provides four young women with the opportunity to meet British band. Each woman has a different, but equally pressing, motive for their quest - but will they succeed?
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Wendie Jo Sperber
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1978, PG, 3 Star)

17:05


Flash Gordon (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A glorious update of the 30s comic strip and film series, where the American football star Flash Gordon, is transported with innocent Dale Arden by Dr Zarkov into the realm of the most evil ruler in the universe, the Emperor Ming. Only by uniting those under Ming's merciless rule to join him in final battle can Flash save Earth from destruction and end Ming's tyranny.
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed
(Subtitles, 1980, PG, 3 Star)

19:15


John Tucker Must Die (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Betty Thomas's romcom stars Jesse Metcalfe as John Tucker, high school stud. He romances three very different girls, Heather, Carrie and Beth in rapid succession before dumping each of them. Through Kate, a waitress at the restaurant where he dined them, they find out about his peccadilloes and recruit Kate to date him - then break him. As Kate's confidence in her role grows, so John finds himself wearing women's underwear and ending up in the wrong bed... Director Thomas manages to keep all the characters, even John, endearing enough and with whip-smart one-liners, the film avoids collapsing into clich?
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, Penn Badgley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Men of Steel: Braveheart (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson's film was to take five Oscars.
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Patrick McGoohan
(Subtitles, 1995, 15)

00:20


Diary of the Dead (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
As the mainstream media tries to cover-up a zombie apocalypse, the viewer sees the real truth through the lens of a student filmmaker's camcorder. Interspersed with internet clips and images from surveillance cameras the filmmaker, his girlfriend and his fellow students edit together the ultimate reality video diary.
Director: George A. Romero
Starring: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 3 Star)

02:10


A Dirty Shame (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
With the tagline 'Threatening the very limits of common decency', it's unsurprising that this comedy comes from John Walters. Tracey Ullman stars as Sylvia Stickles, a suburban housewife in Baltimore who is sexually repressed until a bump on the head puts her clitoris 'in crisis'. Ray-Ray Perkins introduces her to an underworld of fetishists, including bear lovers and mallet-whacking enthusiasts, who help her overcome her itch. Walters' sideswipe at American moral duplicity is larded with jokes galore and is cheerfully vulgar in its bad taste.
Director: John Waters
Starring: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd, Mink Stole
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 18, 3 Star)

 

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Sunday 26th January
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11:00


Panic in the Streets (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Widmark stars in Elia Kazan's thriller as Clint Reed, the public health cop on the trail of Blackie and Raymond Fitch, two gangland killers on the loose who are, unknown to them, infected with a deadly plague that could wipe out the city.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star)

13:00


Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gurinder Chadha's charming coming-of-age comedy stars Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicholson, who's about to turn 15 and is eager to meet boys. When brothers Tom and Robbie join her school, she and her best mate Jas set their sights on them, but while Jas scores, Georgia loses out to 'slaggy' Lindsay. And her bickering parents seem to be heading for a divorce. As her birthday approaches, will her life fall apart or into place?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Tommy Bastow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)

14:55


The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
When his bride-to-be is shrunk by an evil magician, Sinbad has no choice but to head for the island of Colossa. There he must overcome a series of daunting adversaries and obstacles in a bid to retrieve both Aladdin's lamp and a piece of eggshell from the giant roc bird, which will restore his fiancé to normal size. Directed by Nathan Juran, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 4 Star)

16:40


Doctor Dolittle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Betty Thomas's remake of the 1967 film is neatly updated with Eddie Murphy playing Dr John Dolittle, who talks to the animals. Dolittle and his pushy partner Mark Weller hope to strike a lucrative deal with a major corporation, but more and more of Dolittle's time is taken up giving CPR to lab rats and talking a suicidal tiger out of jumping from five storeys up. The film works because Murphy's character is played relatively straight while the creatures are allowed to be cynically sarcastic about him, humans and others species. Special plaudits go to the lab rats voiced by Reni Santoni and John Leguizamo, Chris Rock as Rocky the guinea pig and Norm Macdonald as Dolittle's laconic companion Lucky the dog.
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)

18:25


The Way Back (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Based on the bestselling-but-disputed 'true story' by Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, Peter Weir's epic adventure tells the story of a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and making their way 4000 miles to India. Polish prisoner Janusz is the leader, and among his group are the cynical 'Mr Smith', Yugoslavian accountant Zoran and Colin Farrell's gangster Valka, who is escaping gambling debts as much as the prison itself. Once they're out, they're joined by Polish orphan Irena, but the bitterly inhospitable Siberian landscape presents the group with challenges far more formidable than breaching the prison walls. Weir brings the battle of humans versus elements to visceral life, and the compelling drama has a truly panoramic scope.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgård
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Kick-Ass (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Matthew Vaughn's violent-but-hilarious action movie is a knowing take on the superhero genre, based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's comic-book series. Avid comic fan and New York high schooler Dave Lizewski has begun to wonder why his contemporaries are keener on vapid celebrity than wanting to emulate his heroes and try to make the world a better place. Thus Lizewski orders a simply hideous skiing outfit and dons it to become Kick-Ass, scourge of New York's criminals.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Lyndsy Fonseca
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 18, 4 Star)

23:15


Blue Valentine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in Derek Cianfrance's drama that lays bare the final throws of a dying relationship. Cindy holds down a career in nursing, with all its attendant pressures, while her husband Dean has taken on the role of looking after their young daughter Frankie, as well as picking up house-moving or painting jobs when they crop up. When they met, he was an enthusiastic believer in romantic love, she - in addition to being won over by his devotion to her - was keen to avoid the manipulative and chauvinistic influences of her father and her then boyfriend. But now they've been together six years and an everyday event is set to have dramatic consequences, which initially upsets their daughter but quickly lights the touchpaper that finally explodes their marriage.
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

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Monday 27th January
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11:00


Moonfleet (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Stewart Granger stars in Fritz Lang's adaptation of J Meade Falkner's classic novel as the aristocratic smuggler Jeremy Fox. When he ends up looking after John Mohune, the offspring of a previous affair, Fox tries to provent the young lad from discovering his trade. But it's not long before the pair are involved in adventures concerning a treasure map, a valuable diamond and the attentions of the evil Lord Ashwood, as well as the amorous interest of Lady Ashwood.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

12:45


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14:45


Detective Story (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Kirk Douglas stars in William Wyler's claustrophobically powerful police drama. Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler's clever adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's stage hit won them one of the film's four Oscar nominations. The events take place during a single day in a New York police precinct station and focus on Detective James McLeod, whose obsessive pursuit of criminals, whatever the cost to them or himself, finally explodes into violence when he vengefully pursues a seedy abortionist who has been involved with his wife. There are also strong supporting roles from Joseph Wiseman and William Bendix. Wyler picked up a Best Director nomination and Lee Grant's turn as a shoplifter earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon
(Black and White, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

16:55


Ten Tall Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Lively spoof adventure starring Burt Lancaster as Mike Kincaid, a French Foreign Legion sergeant leading nine men on a dangerous mission to prevent a Berber attack on a North African desert fort.
Director: Willis Goldbeck
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias, John Dehner
(1951, 15, 3 Star)

18:50


Sugarland Express (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature, based on a true story, stars William Atherton as a convict who is sprung from prison by his wife to stop the authorities from taking over the care of their baby. Kidnapping the child, along with hostage police officer Slide, they set off for freedom across the plains of Sugarland, Texas, with the law in close pursuit. The film was coolly received on release but has now become a cult classic.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly
(1974, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Gary Oldman stars in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carr?'s classic cold war spy novel about a British intelligence officer who comes out of retirement to track down a Russian operative working within MI6. Following the capture of a British agent in Communist Hungary, veteran spy George Smiley is forced out of his job. However, after a field agent raises suspicions that there's a mole at the top of the chain of command, he is secretly called upon by the government to investigate. He enlists the help of trusted confidant Peter Guillam, and sets about trying to find out if the allegation is true - and if it is, which of his former colleagues is the defector. Also starring Colin Firth. The film received rave reviews upon its release, and at the 84th Academy Awards it received three nominations: for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman as Best Actor.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:35


Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Shane Meadows' spaghetti western homage, set in Nottingham, stars Robert Carlyle as an ex-con back in town to look up old girlfriend Shirley. But Dek, who's also set his sights on her, won't give up without a fight.
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Vanessa Feltz, Ricky Tomlinson, Kathy Burke, Vicki Patterson, Shirley Henderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

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Tuesday 28th January
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11:00


The Professionals (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(1966, PG, 4 Star)

13:25


The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward in Oscar-nominated Mark Robson's dramatic film, loosely based on fact. Rejected for missionary work in China, Aylward makes her own way there and wins over a powerful mandarin to Christianity despite his initial suspicions. But the test of her faith comes when the Chino-Japanese war breaks out in 1940 and she must guide 100 children to safety through enemy territory.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

16:30


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
John Ford's western is the story of greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard, who sets up in a frontier town where everyone, bar the tough-but-decent Tom Doniphon, fears the brutal bully Liberty Valance. As Stoddard's influence grows and Valance's wanes, a confrontation between the two seems inevitable. And it duly comes, with a result that shocks the town.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
(Black and White, 1962, PG, 3 Star)

18:55


The Jewel of the Nile (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito all reprise their roles from Romancing the Stone, in Lewis Teague's comedy action-adventure. Daredevil adventurer Jack Colton and romantic novelist Joan Wilder become embroiled in a white-knuckle race to find a famous jewel that will help restore the rightful heir to the throne of a troubled nation.
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás, Avner Eisenberg, Paul David Magid
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


The Fourth Kind (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
As Spielberg taught the world in his 1977 blockbuster, the third kind of alien encounter is contact. Apparently the fourth kind is abduction, and Olatunde Osunsanmi's sci-fi thriller purports to tell the story of what happened to a number of people who disappeared in Nome, Alaska. Based on real events, the film juxtaposes supposedly archive footage of therapy sessions with dramatic reconstructions as Dr Abigail Tyler investigates the uncanny similarities in the testimony of a number of her insomniac patients. A split screen format is used to establish a sense of authenticity, and fans of the genre should find sufficient jolts and paranoia to satisfy their appetites.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)



22:55


The Negotiator (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
When police hostage negotiator Danny Roman unwittingly gets involved in a colleague's attempt to expose financial fraud within the force he gets into very deep water. With his colleague found shot dead, and the embezzlement being pinned on him, Roman takes hostages from the Internal Affairs Department, including his chief accuser Terence Niebaum, in an attempt to buy himself time to prove his innocence. Roman demands the presence of Chris Sabian, a fellow hostage negotiator who works on the other side of the city, and who Roman hopes is unconnected to the plot to frame him. But can such a reckless strategy have any chance of paying off? F Gary Gray's action-thriller also stars David Morse, Siobhan Fallon and Paul Giamatti.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

01:35


Witness (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
In Peter Weir's tough, Oscar-winning romantic drama, Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford plays detective John Book, who is assigned to guard Amish mother Rachel Lapp and her son Samuel, who witnessed a murder at Philadelphia railway station. But the killers are after them and the three must hide out in Lapp's community, where Book's aggressive, hard-bitten manner clashes with the gentler beliefs of the Amish.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1985, 12, 4 Star)

 

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Wednesday 29th January
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11:00


Bhowani Junction (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Ava Gardner stars in George Cukor's epic period drama as Victoria Jones, the Anglo-Indian assistant to Colonel Rodney Savage, who is charged with keeping things under control during the British handover to India. As riots simmer and terrorists seize trains, so their growing relationship is threatened by her anguished search for her identity, symbolising the cultural and political divides of the time.
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 2 Star)

13:10


The Outrage (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director Martin Ritt's powerful and engrossing western reworking of Kurosawa's 1951 classic Rashomon. Juan Carrasco a Mexican bandit kidnaps a husband and wife, subsequently killing the former and raping the latter. His story is told by four of the protagonists in four different ways.
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva
(Black and White, 1964, 15, 3 Star)

15:00


20 Million Miles to Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A US rocketship, returning from an exploratory flight to Venus, crashes into the sea off Sicily and only Colonel Calder survives. When a sealed container from the wreck is opened by zoologist Dr Leonardo and his granddaughter Marisa, a gelatinous mass inside turns into a clawed monster that doubles in size overnight and escapes, with horrific consequences.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, PG, 3 Star)

16:40


Double Indemnity (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Billy Wilder's classic, Oscar-nominated film noir stars Fred MacMurray as insurance agent Walter Neff. While making a renewal call, he meets the luminous, seductive blonde Phyllis Dietrichson. Soon, the pair are involved in a passionate affair, but it can only be consummated after her husband's death. The murder goes ahead but Neff's boss, Barton Keyes has a niggling doubt about paying out on the policy, causing Walter and Phyllis's passion to slowly sour. Told in flashback through Neff's narrative, the hard-edged, cynical tone matched the mood of the period and, while the censorious Hays Code is followed to the letter, the glimpse of Phyllis's ankle bracelet was one of the era's enduring erotic images.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, PG, 5 Star)

18:50


Grease (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen, who had a summer romance and then meet again at high school. He tries to protect his macho persona from her squeaky clean image, but the tables are turned when Sandy, in a leather costume so tight Newton-John had to be sewn into it, wins his heart. Randal Kleiser's film, based on the original musical, is jammed with show-stopping songs and a stand-out supporting cast, with Stockard Channing as tough girl Rizzo almost eclipsing Sandy.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1978, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


The Eagle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell star in Kevin Macdonald's historical adventure, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth. One of the most unthinkable things that could happen to a Roman legion was the loss of its revered eagle standard. But that was the sorry fate of the Ninth's emblem when it was marched into the mists of Caledonia, only to vanish along with every soldier in the legion.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong, Denis O'Hare, Paul Ritter
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Daredevil (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Mark Steven Johnson's superhero-fantasy morality play stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a guilt-wracked blind vigilante with a penchant for wearing red leather. During his childhood, an accident involving toxic waste blinded Murdock, but it also enhanced his other senses and gave him a kind of 'radar vision'. The incident was partially caused by his discovery that his father was involved with the Mob.
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau, Scott Terra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 15, 2 Star)

01:15


Potiche (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in this flightily satirical French-Belgian comedy about a trophy wife who is asked to take over her husband's factory after he falls ill. Suzzana Pujol is a repressed - and oppressed - provincial housewife in 1970s France. Her husband treats her as he treats the 300 or so employees that work at his umbrella factory - with distain bordering on agression. Her family view her as something of a relic - symbolic of a generation of women content to be seen but not heard - and routinely patronise her when they visit.
Director: François Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, Jérémie Renier
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

 

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Thursday 30th January View listings for the following day
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11:00


A Useful Life (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj's drama is a lovingly droll tribute to cinema itself. Employing a variety of generic styles, from neorealism to slapstick, it tells the tale of Jorge, the middle-aged projectionist and factotum of an art house cinema in Montevideo. But the kind of movies he loves have fallen out of fashion and - through dwindling audiences, mechanical breakdowns, funding withdrawal and other problems - his beloved picture house is suffering death by a thousand cuts. When the inevitable happens and the doors close for good, Jorge finds himself thrust out into the real world. Thus the bachelor gently begins his re-integration into real life by tentatively ****** Paola, a younger lawyer who attended his screenings.
Director: Federico Veiroj
Starring: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto
(Black and White, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2010, U, 3 Star)

12:20


Halls of Montezuma (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Second World War drama starring Richard Widmark as a commanding officer leading US Marines into the Pacific to capture Japanese prisoners and discover the location of a rocket base.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Hylton
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

14:35


Panic in the Streets (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Widmark stars in Elia Kazan's thriller as Clint Reed, the public health cop on the trail of Blackie and Raymond Fitch, two gangland killers on the loose who are, unknown to them, infected with a deadly plague that could wipe out the city.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star)

16:30


The Last Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex his muscles and his acting abilities in this gripping western from Anthony Mann. Notable for some excellent action sequences and its stunning Mexican locations, The Last Frontier is an archetypal cavalry-versus-Indians saga, as three frontiersmen are glad to accept an offer to become Indian scouts for a cavalry fort. But tension arises between the fort's colonel and Jed when the frontiersman displays his clear liking for the officer's wife, Corinna.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1932, PG, 3 Star)

18:25


The Way Back (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Based on the bestselling-but-disputed 'true story' by Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, Peter Weir's epic adventure tells the story of a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and making their way 4000 miles to India. Polish prisoner Janusz is the leader, and among his group are the cynical 'Mr Smith', Yugoslavian accountant Zoran and Colin Farrell's gangster Valka, who is escaping gambling debts as much as the prison itself. Once they're out, they're joined by Polish orphan Irena, but the bitterly inhospitable Siberian landscape presents the group with challenges far more formidable than breaching the prison walls. Weir brings the battle of humans versus elements to visceral life, and the compelling drama has a truly panoramic scope. Edited for content.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgård
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Heat (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Michael Mann's astonishingly accomplished thriller has a wish list of leads including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer and Jon Voight. The plot is simple - Pacino is the cop on the trail of a gang of armed robbers led by De Niro. But it is the characterisations, the multi-layered plotting and the action scenes that stand out in a film that was described by Time Out on its release as 'simply the best American crime movie and, indeed, one of the finest movies, period, in over a decade'.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
(Subtitles, 1995, 15, 5 Star)

00:20


Trees Lounge (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Steve Buscemi stars in, and makes his directorial debut with, this comedy-drama about a Long Island bum whose life is a complete mess. Tommy has been sacked from his engineering job by his boss Rob for 'borrowing' some money from the till; his girlfriend Theresa has taken up with Rob; and Tommy's relatives have him firmly marked down as the black sheep of the family. So it's little wonder that he spends his time in the Trees Lounge bar getting legless with his pal Mike. But, quite unexpectedly, a family tragedy gives Tommy the opportunity to turn his life around... Also starring Chlo? Sevigny, Samuel L Jackson and John Ventimiglia. First screening on Film4.
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Buscemi
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1996, 15, 3 Star)

02:10


Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
A comedy that develops into something darker, Alan Clarke's film stars Siobhan Finneran and Michelle Holmes as Sue and Rita, two teenage friends who babysit for Bob and Michelle. When Michelle goes off sex, Bob starts looking to the babysitters for more than just childcare.
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir, Willie Ross
(Subtitles, 1987, 18, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Murphy's War (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Peter Yates' Second World War drama stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, a merchant seaman whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat in a South American river, towards the end of the war. With all other survivors machine-gunned to death in the water, Murphy staggers ashore and learns that the U-boat is lurking upstream by the banks of the jungle. He swears he won't rest until the U-boat has been destroyed, and enlists the help of Dr Hayden of the local missionary settlement and French engineer Philippe Noiret to complete his personal mission of revenge.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

13:10


Detective Story (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Kirk Douglas stars in William Wyler's claustrophobically powerful police drama. Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler's clever adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's stage hit won them one of the film's four Oscar nominations. The events take place during a single day in a New York police precinct station and focus on Detective James McLeod, whose obsessive pursuit of criminals, whatever the cost to them or himself, finally explodes into violence when he vengefully pursues a seedy abortionist who has been involved with his wife. There are also strong supporting roles from Joseph Wiseman and William Bendix. Wyler picked up a Best Director nomination and Lee Grant's turn as a shoplifter earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

15:15


Sink the Bismarck! (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Lewis Gilbert's Second World War film stars Kenneth More as Captain John Shepherd, charged with masterminding the British attack on Germany's largest battleship, The Bismarck. As the ship, captained by Captain Lindemann, breaks out from its anchorage in Norway to join the rest of the German fleet at Brest, Shepherd, from his control room in London's Admiralty building, sends out the British ships to take on her might. The mix of war footage, newsreels and superb models conveys the climatic sea battles, while More, nursing the loss of his wife in an air raid, gives a strong performance as the unflappable Shepherd.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek, Maurice Denham
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1960, U, 4 Star)

17:10


The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
When his bride-to-be is shrunk by an evil magician, Sinbad has no choice but to head for the island of Colossa. There he must overcome a series of daunting adversaries and obstacles in a bid to retrieve both Aladdin's lamp and a piece of eggshell from the giant roc bird, which will restore his fiancé to normal size. Directed by Nathan Juran, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 4 Star)

19:05


Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gurinder Chadha's charming coming-of-age comedy stars Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicholson, who's about to turn 15 and is eager to meet boys. When brothers Tom and Robbie join her school, she and her best mate Jas set their sights on them, but while Jas scores, Georgia loses out to 'slaggy' Lindsay. And her bickering parents seem to be heading for a divorce. As her birthday approaches, will her life fall apart or into place? Edited for content.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Tommy Bastow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Braveheart (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson's film was to take five Oscars.
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley
(Subtitles, 1995, 15, 4 Star)

00:20


Friday the 13th (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
After his sister goes missing at Camp Crystal Lake, Clay Miller returns to search for her. While there, he comes across a group of carefree teenagers on a camping trip. Unfortunately, the fun-loving friends are unaware that hockey-masked killer Jason is on the loose.
Director: Marcus Nispel
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

02:15


Paprika (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Satoshi Kon directs and co-wrote this animated adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's sci-fi novel about machines that allow dreams to be penetrated. Originally developed for therapeutic purposes, the theft and misuse of these devices kicks off the plot, with scientists, detectives and the winged sprite Paprika among those crossing between dreams and reality, searching for the machines and the rogue employee responsible for their theft and the ensuing chaos. An intelligent, adult anime which reportedly inspired aspects of Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception, Kon's film is a richly surreal and visually distinctive treat.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Destination Moon (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Irving Pichel's sci-fi drama is a landmark in many ways: depicting weightlessness, spacewalks and the technique of moon landing more accurately than films that came later, and winning an Oscar for its special effects. Scripted by science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, the tension comes from various escapades on the way to the moon and the subsequent problems of returning, not least of which is the fact that they are left with insufficient fuel for take-off unless enough weight can somehow be shed.
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

13:00


The Devil Wears Prada (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Anne Hathaway stars in David Frankel's whip-smart comedy as Andy Sachs, a would-be journalist from Ohio who lands a job as assistant to the assistant of Miranda Priestly, editor of the successful fashion magazine Runway and an egomaniac in immaculate clothing. Andy soon learns that her personal life and her partner Nate run a distant second to Miranda's whims. But a mutual respect slowly grows between the two women.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Grenier
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)

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18:40


A Good Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Shooter (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Antoine Fuqua's intelligent action thriller, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Swagger, an ex-special ops sharpshooter. He's called out of retirement by Col Isaac Johnson to help foil an assassination attempt on the president, but ends up framed as the assassin. Injured and on the run, he can only rely on Sara Fenn, his ex-partner's girlfriend, and FBI agent Nick Memphis, who's come across evidence of the conspiracy. The three must evade Johnson and his cohorts as they race to prove their innocence.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:25


The Fourth Kind (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
As Spielberg taught the world in his 1977 blockbuster, the third kind of alien encounter is contact. Apparently the fourth kind is abduction, and Olatunde Osunsanmi's sci-fi thriller purports to tell the story of what happened to a number of people who disappeared in Nome, Alaska. Based on real events, the film juxtaposes supposedly archive footage of therapy sessions with dramatic reconstructions as Dr Abigail Tyler investigates the uncanny similarities in the testimony of a number of her insomniac patients. A split screen format is used to establish a sense of authenticity, and fans of the genre should find sufficient jolts and paranoia to satisfy their appetites.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

01:20


Julia's Eyes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Guillem Morales' mystery horror, which was produced by Guillermo del Toro but is clearly influenced by the early giallo scariness of Italian director Dario Argento. Julia Levin is haunted by the death of her sister Sara. The official verdict was suicide, prompted by Sara's depression over the disease that caused her to go blind. However, Julia is convinced that something more sinister was to blame - and she sets out to discover the truth. But she must act quickly, as Julia suffers from the same hereditary illness and her sight is also fading fast. A variety of creepy people and an even creepier house stand between Julia and the discovery of what really happened.
Director: Guillem Morales
Starring: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau, Julia Gutiérrez Caba
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Party Girl (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Nicholas Ray's thrilling, sharply characterised 1930s-set gangster thriller stars Robert Taylor as Tommy Farrell, a disabled lawyer who has grown rich as a mouthpiece for Chicago mobster Rico Angelo but decides to go straight for the love of 'party girl' Vickie Gaye. But will Angelo accept his decision?
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 4 Star)

13:00


Grease (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen, who had a summer romance and then meet again at high school. He tries to protect his macho persona from her squeaky clean image, but the tables are turned when Sandy, in a leather costume so tight Newton-John had to be sewn into it, wins his heart. Randal Kleiser's film, based on the original musical, is jammed with show-stopping songs and a stand-out supporting cast, with Stockard Channing as tough girl Rizzo almost eclipsing Sandy.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1978, PG, 4 Star)

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17:05


Nacho Libre (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jared Hess's comedy stars Jack Black as Brother Ignacio, a monk in a destitute Mexican monastery who is distressed by the poor quality of the food he is forced, through penury, to offer his orphans. He decides the only way he could make the money to feed them properly is to become a lucha libre wrestler. He becomes 'Nacho' and, with his tag partner 'Esqueleto', begins to fight his way to the top and take a crack at the arrogant Ramses. Ana de la Reguera plays Sister Encarnacion, with whom Ignacio is platonically besotted, but the bulk of the film largely concerns men in tights and their frantic efforts in the ring.
Director: Jared Hess
Starring: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias, Carlos Maycotte
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

18:55


Home Alone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Macaulay Culkin stars as an eight-year-old who is accidentally left at home when his parents, siblings and relatives set off in a mad rush for a Christmas holiday in France. At first, he relishes his solitude and freedom, until his idyll is interrupted by two ham-fisted burglars. Can he defend his family home from them? Directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, both masters of the popular comedy genre, the film made Culkin's name and its title entered common parlance, one of the surest signs of success.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Gary Oldman stars in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carr?'s classic cold war spy novel about a British intelligence officer who comes out of retirement to track down a Russian operative working within MI6. Following the capture of a British agent in Communist Hungary, veteran spy George Smiley is forced out of his job. However, after a field agent raises suspicions that there's a mole at the top of the chain of command, he is secretly called upon by the government to investigate. He enlists the help of trusted confidant Peter Guillam, and sets about trying to find out if the allegation is true - and if it is, which of his former colleagues is the defector. Also starring Colin Firth. The film received rave reviews upon its release, and at the 84th Academy Awards it received three nominations: for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman as Best Actor.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:25


Another 48 Hrs (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Comedy thriller reuniting the crimebusting duo of cop and criminal from 48 Hrs as they come up against a drug dealer known only as the Iceman. The detective, in disgrace after an operation that went wrong, is given 48 hours to come up with enough evidence to bring the criminal kingpin to justice. He can think of no-one better to assist him in his mission than his convict colleague - the Iceman's next target.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross, David Anthony Marshall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 18, 3 Star)

01:20


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11:00


The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward in Oscar-nominated Mark Robson's dramatic film, which is loosely based on fact. Rejected for missionary work in China, Aylward makes her own way there and wins over a powerful mandarin to Christianity despite his initial suspicions. But the test of her faith comes when the Chino-Japanese war breaks out in 1940 and she must guide 100 children to safety through enemy territory.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:05


Double Indemnity (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Billy Wilder's classic, Oscar-nominated film noir stars Fred MacMurray as insurance agent Walter Neff. While making a policy renewal call, Neff meets the luminous, seductive blonde Phyllis Dietrichson. Soon, the pair are involved in a passionate affair, but it can only be consummated after her husband's death. The murder goes ahead but Neff's boss, Barton Keyes, has a niggling doubt about paying out on the policy, causing Walter and Phyllis's passion to slowly sour. Told in flashback through Neff's narrative, the hard-edged, cynical tone matched the mood of the period and, while the censorious Hays Code is followed to the letter, the glimpse of Phyllis's ankle bracelet was one of the era's enduring erotic images.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
(Black and White, 1944, PG, 5 Star)

16:15


Murphy's War (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Peter Yates' Second World War drama stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, a merchant seaman whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat in a South American river, towards the end of the war. With all other survivors machine-gunned to death in the water, Murphy staggers ashore and learns that the U-boat is lurking upstream by the banks of the jungle. He swears he won't rest until the U-boat has been destroyed, and enlists the help of Dr Hayden of the local missionary settlement and French engineer Philippe Noiret to complete his personal mission of revenge.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

18:25


A Knight's Tale (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In the film that made him a box-office star, Heath Ledger plays Will Thatcher, a lowly squire who replaces his dead master at a tournament, which he wins, before deciding he'll go for the big tournament in London. Along the way, he picks up Geoffrey Chaucer, who helps him further his career and hide his lowly roots. Brian Helgeland's film, with Shannyn Sossamon as the love interest, draws inspiration from MTV as much as it does derring-do, to rollicking good effect.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


East is East (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)



22:55


IP Man (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen stars in Wilson Yip's excitingly choreographed period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the mentor of, among others, Bruce Lee. Ip Man, a grandmaster of the wing chun martial art, lives in Foshan in the Guangdong province of southern China. Foshan is famous as a centre of learning for various martial disciplines, and Man is the most respected of the town's teachers. But his life is complicated by his wife's disapproval of his career, as well as the presence in Foshan of Jin Shan Zhao, a master from the north, who is determined to challenge Man for supremacy. Then, in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese march into town and everyone's priorities change... In Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

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11:00


20 Million Miles to Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A US rocketship, returning from an exploratory flight to Venus, crashes into the sea off Sicily and only Colonel Calder survives. When a sealed container from the wreck is opened by zoologist Dr Leonardo and his granddaughter Marisa, a gelatinous mass inside turns into a clawed monster that doubles in size overnight and escapes, with horrific consequences.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, PG, 3 Star)

12:40


The Last Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex his muscles and his acting abilities in this gripping western from Anthony Mann. Notable for some excellent action sequences and its stunning Mexican locations, The Last Frontier is an archetypal cavalry-versus-Indians saga, as three frontiersmen are glad to accept an offer to become Indian scouts for a cavalry fort. But tension arises between the fort's colonel and Jed when the frontiersman displays his clear liking for the officer's wife, Corinna.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1932, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


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16:45


The Outrage (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director Martin Ritt's powerful and engrossing western reworking of Akira Kurosawa's 1951 classic Rashomon. Juan Carrasco a Mexican bandit kidnaps a husband and wife, subsequently killing the former and raping the latter. His story is told by four of the protagonists in four different ways.
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1964, 15, 3 Star)

18:40


Ever After (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Andy Tennant's romcom fantasy is set in 16th-century France, where, following the death of her father, Danielle de Barbarac is assigned kitchen duties in the castle by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. A chance meeting with Prince Henry, heir apparent to the throne, leads to the potential for a romance that she fears could be ruined if he discovers the masquerade. A 'fairy-godmother' in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci eventually smoothes the path of true love. But thanks to Barrymore, this is not another soft retelling of Cinderella but a punchy, energetic film with the star in excellent form as the forthright Danielle.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Black Swan (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Natalie Portman gives an Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's brooding psychological drama. Nina Sayers is an exceptional ballerina who may get her big break when a New York ballet company decides to retire their current star. But to achieve her dream she must overcome three potential obstacles. First there's the suffocating influence of her mother, whose vicarious ambition has relentlessly bulldozed Nina to the brink of success, but which also continues to make her life hellish.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 5 Star)

23:15


IP Man 2 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen again takes the title role in the second part of Wilson Yip's period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the eponymous grandmaster of the wing chun martial art. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong. The penniless martial artist decides to take the obvious career path for someone with his lack of means but wealth of knowledge and starts a school to teach his discipline. He quickly attracts the attention of a group of lads, led by Wong Shun Leung, who, after being given a dramatic and painful demonstration of Man's skills, sign up to the cause. However, Man must also overcome the city's gangs and political factions - and that's not such an easy fight.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Samo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-wong Fan
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:25


Nurse Betty (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Comic thriller about a Kansas City waitress who becomes delusional when she sees her abusive husband murdered. Suffering from shock, she sets off for LA in search of the fictional hospital from her favourite TV soap and the handsome doctor who stars in it, unaware that her husband's very real killers are on her trail, and that the boot of her car is packed with the drugs her husband hoped to sell to his killers.
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart
(Subtitles, 2000, 18, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Helen of Troy (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Robert Wise, better known for West Side Story and The Day the Earth Stood Still, turns his hand to sword-and-sandals in this superior drama. Jacques Sernas plays Paris of Troy, who, sailing to Sparta on a diplomatic mission, falls in love with Helen, wife of Menelaus, and takes her back to Troy. But the lovers are pursued by the vengeful Menelaus whose army besieges the city and, famously, breaches its defences thanks to a huge wooden horse. Stanley Baker plays Achilles, with Cedric Harwicke as Priam, a very young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, and Harry Andrews as Hector.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 2 Star)

13:15


Battleground (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
William A Wellman's Oscar-winning Second World War drama stars, among others, Van Johnson, John Hordiak, Ricardo Montalban and James Whitmore as members of a group of American soldiers who held out against an overwhelming German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. Screenwriter Robert Pirosh had fought at Bastogne himself, and the film brilliantly captures the lurching unpredictability of war, the strained camaraderie of the troops and the horror of combat.
Director: William A. Wellman
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George A. Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star)

15:35


The Towering Inferno (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman star in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie as fire chief Mike O'Hallorhan and architect Doug Roberts, both trying to battle the blaze in Roberts' 135-storey skyscraper, where the guests at a prestigious party are trapped on the top floor. Edited for content.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 3 Star)

18:40


A Good Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans. Edited for content.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

21:00


Layer Cake (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
A clever gangster movie, based on J.J. Connolly's London based crime thriller. Daniel Craig stars as XXXX, a drug dealer who's made his money and plans to retire. He doesn't see himself as a crook, more as a successful businessman about to take a well-earned rest. However, mob boss Mr Big has other ideas, and forces him to do one last job - track down the smack-addicted daughter of a wealthy man.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 15, 3 Star)



23:05


IP Man 2 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen again takes the title role in the second part of Wilson Yip's period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the eponymous grandmaster of the wing chun martial art. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong. The penniless martial artist decides to take the obvious career path for someone with his lack of means but wealth of knowledge and starts a school to teach his discipline. He quickly attracts the attention of a group of lads, led by Wong Shun Leung, who, after being given a dramatic and painful demonstration of Man's skills, sign up to the cause. However, Man must also overcome the city's gangs and political factions - and that's not such an easy fight.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Samo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-wong Fan
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:15


Reindeer Games (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
John Frankenheimer's thriller stars Ben Affleck as Rudy Duncan, an ex-prisoner who assumes a dead cellmate's identity to hijack his romance with Ashley, who had been sending him love letters. But her brother Gabriel knows Nick used to work in a casino and wants the security details so he can stage a spectacular robbery. Now Rudy has to stay one step ahead of the game to stay alive.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, James Frain, Dana Stubblefield, Mark Acheson, Tom Heaton, Isaac Hayes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Yojimbo (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's classic action adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as a lone samurai who causes bloody havoc between two warring criminal factions. During the course of his peregrinations, the ronin Sanjuro Kuwabatake wanders in to a small town whose inhabitants' lives are being ruined by competing crime lords. Spotting the opportunity to bring peace back to the community, Kuwabatake secretly offers his services as a yojimbo to each of the criminal gangs. And, having gained their trust, the yojimbo industriously sets about securing their destruction. The film is yet another of Kurosawa's movie-making masterclasses, and is particularly impressive for its mix of suspense, comedy and sudden violence. Italian director Sergio Leone remade Yojimbo as A Fistful of Dollars, which in turn kicked-off the spaghetti western genre. First screening on Film4.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1961, PG, 4 Star)

13:10


Winchester '73 (Film) Film icon 5 star rating U certificate
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)

15:00


The Valley of Gwangi (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult fantasy adventure, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse-trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame TJ Breckenridge, owner of a run-down circus. He also runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who is stunned to realise that TJ's circus is in possession of a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Pursuing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley, from which the eohippus originated, only to discover that larger, far more deadly creatures have also survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, 12, 2 Star)

16:55


The Rare Breed (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Light-hearted western about an Englishwoman who, along with her daughter, strives to fulfil the wishes of her recently deceased husband to introduce a rare breed of cattle to the American west. They enlist the help of initially sceptical drifter Sam Burnett and set off on their perilous journey.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Jungle 2 Jungle (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered metropolitan WASP life. Edited for content.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


East is East (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)

22:55


Snakes on a Plane (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
The film that does what it says on the tin. Samuel L Jackson plays Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting Sean Jones, a witness to a gangland slaying, from Hawaii to Los Angeles. However, gangster Eddie Kim has secreted crates of venomous serpents in the cargo hold and when they're released, all hell breaks loose. The film earned a reputation for the inclusion of plot lines from blogging fans, including one now infamous line. Despite the novel approach to its production, David R Ellis's thriller is surprisingly well-acted and tense, with both Julianna Margulies as flight attendant Claire Miller and David Koechner as co-pilot Rick receiving a fair share of the cracking dialogue.
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

01:00


Shinjuku Incident (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Chinese/Japanese crime thriller starring Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka and Jinglei Xu. In the early 1990s a wave of illegal Chinese immigrants saw their chance for a better life in Japan, and among them is Xiu-Xiu. But from his viewpoint, back in their homeland, it seems to her fiancé, Steelhead, that she vanished the moment she arrived in Japan. Determined to track her down, Steelhead sets off across the sea to find her. But he soon discovers quite how grim life is for illegal workers in Japan: caught between the police, who are constantly trying to catch and expel them, and the yakuza gangs, who recognize that they are ripe for exploitation. Initially Steelhead shares their fate. However, a sequence of events earns him a tacit truce with the police and the respect of his fellow expats and the local gangsters. The latter offer him a potential route out of the black economy - but it comes at a price... In Mandarin, Japanese and Cantonese with English subtitles, and English.
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Starring: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Masaya Katô, Tôru Minegishi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Sea of Sand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Second World War action movie, directed by Guy Green. The Long Range Desert Group, led by Captain Williams and Captain Cotton, sets out on a dangerous mission to blow up a vital enemy petrol dump behind German lines in North Africa. But once the Group get to their target, they discover that it isn't just petrol that's being stored there.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Mikey Craig, Andrew Faulds, Barry Foster, Wolf Frees
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


Gunman's Walk (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Director Philip Karlson's western is a mature examination of racism, violence and parental ambition, all deftly dealt with within the constraints of the movie's certification. Van Heflin stars as Lee Hackett, a veteran of the Wild West who has failed to adapt to the changing life of the frontier. And his determination to mould his sons Ed and Davy in his gun-totin' image backfires when one of them turns into a murderous desperado.
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert F. Simon
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:50


The 39 Steps (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Kenneth More stars as Richard Hannay in the second film adaptation of John Buchan's ripping espionage yarn. It's more than a simple remake of Alfred Hitchcock's original 1935 movie, played this time for light-hearted excitement rather than suspense. And it certainly fulfils its ambition, as Hannay gamely romps around the Scottish countryside in a 48-hour dash to save the day by cracking an international plot to smuggle defence plans out of Britain.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)

16:40


Bad Day at Black Rock (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Sturges's suspenseful western stars Spencer Tracy as John J Macreedy, a one-armed stranger whose arrival in a small desert town, while looking for a Japanese farmer, arouses hostility and violence among the locals.
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

18:20


The Legend of Zorro (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles from the 1998 western adventure The Mask of Zorro, in a sequel that takes a more slapstick approach to its swashbuckling than the original. The action takes place a decade after our first encounter with Don Alejandro de la Vega, better known in his guise as the masked champion of the poor, Zorro. With California on the verge of joining the Union as its 31st state, it finally looks as though Don Alejandro will be able to spend more of his time raising his son Joaquin and being with his wife Elena. But an unsettling incident and the emergence of a sinister organisation that's determined to keep California separate brings marital ******* for Don Alejandro, danger to his son and a greater need than ever before for Zorro to don his floppy hat, tie on the mask and pick up his sword... Edited for content.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Michael Emerson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alberto Reyes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Shooter (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Antoine Fuqua's intelligent action thriller, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Swagger, an ex-special ops sharpshooter. He's called out of retirement by Col Isaac Johnson to help foil an assassination attempt on the president, but ends up framed as the assassin. Injured and on the run, he can only rely on Sara Fenn, his ex-partner's girlfriend, and FBI agent Nick Memphis, who's come across evidence of the conspiracy. The three must evade Johnson and his cohorts as they race to prove their innocence. Screened to tie in with the release of Mark Wahlberg's new action movie, Lone Survivor.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:25


Bully (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
In Larry Clark's brilliant yet disturbing second feature, Marty Puccio, Lisa Connelly and Ali Willis are just three of a group of teenagers who gang up intending to murder bully Bobby Kent, who uses psychological violence as well as physical and sexual violence against them.
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner
(Subtitles, 2001, 18, 3 Star)

01:40


Crossing Over (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Wayne Kramer's drama focuses on the lives and intertwining stories of illegal aliens who are trying to find ways of staying in the USA - and the variety of immigration authorities and lawyers, whose jobs, responsibilities and morals often put each other at odds. The roving action takes place in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, and the ensemble cast includes Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta.
Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Ramona and Beezus (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Joey King puts in a charming performance as the nine-year-old girl at the centre of this family comedy, which is adapted from a series of cherished children's novels by best-selling author Beverly Cleary. Ramona Quimby and her big sister Beezus are at the heart of this gentle, everyday story about family life in Oregon, where Ramona's biggest ongoing problem is explaining how she really, honestly didn't mean to get into a variety of scrapes at home and at school. But real trouble looms when the Quimby sisters' father Robert loses his job and the family worry about whether they'll be able to keep up the mortgage. Can Ramona find a way to secure their home? Directed by Elizabeth Allen, and also starring Bridget Moynahan, Josh Duhamel, Ginnifer Goodwin and Sandra Oh.
Director: Elizabeth Allen
Starring: Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Duhamel
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Home Alone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Macaulay Culkin stars as an eight-year-old who is accidentally left at home when his parents, siblings and relatives set off in a mad rush for a Christmas holiday in France. At first, he relishes his solitude and freedom, until his idyll is interrupted by two ham-fisted burglars. Can he defend his family home from them? Directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, both masters of the popular comedy genre, the film made Culkin's name and its title entered common parlance, one of the surest signs of success.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


Jungle 2 Jungle (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered, metropolitan WASP life.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)

17:10


Leap Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in this transatlantic romcom from Shopgirl and Red Riding director Anand Tucker. Anna is living a contented life in Boston, or she would be, if only her heart-surgeon boyfriend - currently working in Dublin - would pop that all-important question. Deciding that she's waited long enough, and encouraged by her Irish father, who reminds her of the tradition of women proposing to their beloved on the 29th of February, she hops on a plane to Ireland. However, the Emerald Isle's weather defeats even her steely determination and forces the flight to land on the other side of the country from the capital. Now she has limited time to get to Dublin, a long way to go and a pub-owner-cum-taxi driver, Declan, who, though handsome, is a little too testy for her liking. But as the pair make their slow way towards her goal, they gradually begin to view each other differently.
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Noel O'Donovan, Tony Rohr
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

19:05


Step Up 2 : The Streets (Film) Film icon
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21:00


Slumdog Millionaire (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Dev Patel is the boy from the slums whose life story leads to the jackpot question on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Vibrant, Oscar-winning drama from Danny Boyle.
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, Freida Pinto
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

23:25


Trainspotting (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Danny Boyle's drama stars Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle and unflinchingly explores the lives of a group of young Edinburgh drug addicts and their attendant stories of drugs, survival, scams, friendship and tragedy. The audaciously innovative and darkly comedic Channel Four Films adaption of Irvine Welsh's novel received massive critical acclaim on its release, picked up an Oscar nomination and won Bafta awards, and is now widely viewed as a British classic; indeed, it was voted in a 2012 HMV survey as the best British film of the past 60 years. It also underlined the fact that the team behind Shallow Grave definitely knew what they were about.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 18, 4 Star)

01:15


Paradise Lost (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
John Stockwell's chiller is set in Brazil where a group of young tourists, led by Alex, find themselves stranded on a beautiful beach where sun, sea and sex beckons. But their plans for fun are ended when they are drugged and robbed of their money and possessions. Making their way to the house of Doctor Zamora, they believe they have found a safe haven. But they have more than money and possessions to lose at the hands of an organ-harvesting madman.
Director: John Stockwell
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 18, 2 Star)

 

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11:00


Merrill's Marauders (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Samuel Fuller's Second World War drama is based on the true story of General Merrill and his troops: the 5307th Composite Unit. In his last film, Jeff Chandler takes on the title role as General Frank Merrill, leading his troops behind Japanese lines in Burma, through harsh jungle terrain, and frequent skirmishes with their enemy, to a final showdown at the strategically important town of Myitkyina.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Ever After (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Andy Tennant's romcom fantasy is set in 16th-century France, where, following the death of her father, Danielle de Barbarac is assigned kitchen duties in the castle by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. A chance meeting with Prince Henry, heir apparent to the throne, leads to the potential for a romance that she fears could be ruined if he discovers the masquerade. A 'fairy-godmother' in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci eventually smoothes the path of true love. But thanks to Barrymore, this is not another soft retelling of Cinderella but a punchy, energetic film with the star in excellent form as the forthright Danielle.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)

15:20


The Towering Inferno (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman star in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie as fire chief Mike O'Hallorhan and architect Doug Roberts, both trying to battle the blaze in Roberts' 135-storey skyscraper, where the guests at a prestigious party are trapped on the top floor.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 3 Star)

18:25


A Knight's Tale (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In the film that made him a box-office star, Heath Ledger plays Will Thatcher, a lowly squire who replaces his dead master at a tournament, which he wins, before deciding that he'll enter the big tournament in London. Along the way, he picks up Geoffrey Chaucer, who helps him further his career and hide his lowly roots. Brian Helgeland's film, with Shannyn Sossamon as the love interest, draws inspiration from MTV as much as it does derring-do, to rollicking good effect.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


Black Swan (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Natalie Portman gives an Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's brooding psychological drama. Nina Sayers is an exceptional ballerina who may get her big break when a New York ballet company decides to retire their current star. But to achieve her dream she must overcome three potential obstacles. First there's the suffocating influence of her mother, whose vicarious ambition has relentlessly bulldozed Nina to the brink of success, but which also continues to make her life hellish.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 5 Star)



23:05


Watchmen (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
A dystopian fantasy adventure based on an unusually faithful adaptation of the highly regarded graphic novel by Alan Moore, directed by Zach Snyder. It is 1985 and Richard Nixon continues his tenure in the White House, massively popular with the electorate following his crushing defeat of the Viet Cong. However, it seems that the American public have fallen out of love with their superheroes, one of whom, Dr Manhattan, was largely responsible for the winning the Vietnam War. Now, he and his fellow crime-fighters are regarded as reprehensible vigilantes and have been banned by law. But, when one of their number - the vile, ironically named Comedian - is murdered, the former heroes begin to re-emerge from the shadows to investigate. They discover that a terrifying plan is afoot.
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Siege of the Saxons (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Rousing historical romp in which King Arthur is betrayed and murdered by his champion knight, who assumes the throne in league with the invading Saxons. The only witness is an outlaw, who rescues the King's daughter and goes in search of mystical kingmaker Merlin.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Jerome Willis
(Subtitles, 1963, 12, 2 Star)

12:45


Merrill's Marauders (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Samuel Fuller's Second World War drama is based on the true story of General Merrill and his troops: the 5307th Composite Unit. In his last film, Jeff Chandler takes on the title role as General Frank Merrill, leading his troops behind Japanese lines in Burma, through harsh jungle terrain, and frequent skirmishes with their enemy, to a final showdown at the strategically important town of Myitkyina.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

14:40


The Anderson Tapes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sidney Lumet's thriller stars Sean Connery as a master burglar who moves into Dyan Cannon's plush apartment block, planning to rob the residents. But he doesn't realise that, quite by chance, all his plans are being recorded and observed by a range of planted devices. Also starring Christopher Walken. Edited for content.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

16:35


Battleground (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
William A Wellman's Oscar-winning Second World War drama stars, among others, Van Johnson, John Hordiak, Ricardo Montalban and James Whitmore as American soldiers who are among those facing an overwhelming German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. Screenwriter Robert Pirosh had fought at Bastogne himself, and the film brilliantly captures the lurching unpredictability of war, the strained camaraderie of the troops and the horror of combat.
Director: William A. Wellman
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George A. Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star)

18:55


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
When three consuls on Nimbus III are kidnapped by a Vulcan who has rediscovered his emotions, a Klingon warship sets out to deal with the crisis, and so Kirk, Spock and McCoy are recalled from vacation to help. They are forced to risk their lives by taking the Enterprise into uncharted territory in search of nothing less than the Supreme Being and the meaning of life.
Director: William Shatner
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The A-Team (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Joe Carnahan's big-screen take on the 1980s OTT action-fest TV series is co-produced by Tony and Ridley Scott. This time around, a little brasher and marginally more serious than their first incarnation, cigar-chomping Col 'Hannibal' Smith, wilfully eccentric Murdock, toned babe-magnet Face and, of course, BA Baracus start out on the back foot, having been jailed after a black ops mission in Iraq went disastrously wrong. When they discover that they were framed and that a massive currency counterfeiting operation is afoot, it's time for them to break out of prison and prove their innocence by tracking down the baddies, saving the US dollar, and, of course, blowing up as many objects as possible along the way. Also featuring Jessica Biel as Face's ex-flame and Patrick Wilson as the team's CIA handler.
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:15


The Runaways (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in Floria Sigismondi's rock biopic, based on Cherie Currie's autobiography. It's the mid-1970s and southern Californian teen Joan Larkin has changed her name to Joan Jett. Along with her new dark, edgy identity comes a nascent desire: to create an all-girl rock band. Joan and her aggressive manager Kim Fowley stumble across the perfect face for the band: 15-year-old blonde bombshell Cherie Currie. The two girls become close, with Cherie's sweet melodies slickly harmonizing with Joan's electrifying guitar solos to great effect. They name themselves The Runaways and, after recruiting a lead guitarist and a bass player, are soon signed to Mercury Records, and plunged into the deep end of 70s rock excess.
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

01:20


Blood and Chocolate (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Katja von Garnier's romantic horror film stars Agnes Bruckner as Vivian, a Romanian werewolf promised to the pack's leader, Gabriel, as his seventh wife; according to clan law, he must take a fresh young spouse every seven years. She is reluctant to take on the role, especially as she has fallen in love with graphic novelist Aiden, managing to conceal her secret from him. But Aiden has his own secrets which will threaten both their lives.
Director: Katja von Garnier
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Bailing out over Holland, the crew of a British bomber dodge Nazi patrols to make their way home with the help of the Dutch resistance. Superior propaganda piece with an Oscar-nominated script from maverick filmmakers Powell and Pressberger.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1942, U, 4 Star)

13:05


Winchester '73 (Film) Film icon 5 star rating U certificate
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)

14:55


Helen of Troy (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Robert Wise, better known for West Side Story and The Day the Earth Stood Still, turns his hand to sword-and-sandals in this superior drama. Jacques Sernas plays Paris of Troy, who, sailing to Sparta on a diplomatic mission, falls in love with Helen, wife of Menelaus, and takes her back to Troy. But the lovers are pursued by the vengeful Menelaus, whose army besieges the city and, famously, breaches its defences thanks to a huge wooden horse. Stanley Baker plays Achilles, with Cedric Harwicke as Priam, a very young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, and Harry Andrews as Hector.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 2 Star)

17:10


The Master of Ballantrae (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
William Keighley's adventure film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, stars Errol Flynn as Jamie Durrisdeer, a Jacobite forced to flee Scotland from the English. Joining Irish adventurer Francis Burke in the West Indies, he battles pirates for the English and, in doing so, makes a small fortune. Now free to return home, he hopes to marry his sweetheart Lady Alison, only to find she, thinking him dead, is engaged to his brother Henry, the man who betrayed Jamie to the English.
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

18:55


America's Sweethearts (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Studio publicist Billy Crystal has a problem or two. The latest film he's promoting stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cusack, happily together and loved by America until they split due to her adultery. Meanwhile, director Christopher Walken has spent the $86m budget but won't let anyone see the finished product and the press screening is imminent... Complicating matters is Julia Roberts, Zeta-Jones sister and PA, who pines after Cusack.
Director: Joe Roth
Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci
(Subtitles, 2001, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Run, Fat Boy, Run (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
David Schwimmer's debut directorial feature stars Simon Pegg as Dennis Doyle, seen in the comedy's opening sequence abandoning a very pregnant Libby Odell at the altar. Five years later, he's an overweight security guard with limited access rights to their son Jake, but still holds a torch for her. When he finds she has a new boyfriend, superfit all-round jock Whit, he decides to win her back by entering the same charity marathon as Whit and beating him. With coaching from his landlord and encouragement of sorts from his friend Gordon, he sets off over the start line, but has he prepared enough to make it to the finish?
Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, Ameet Chana
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 12, 3 Star)

22:55


Jackass: Number Two (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius and the rest of the gang return with another series of japes. This time around, they get to swig horse semen, apply leeches to their eyeballs and use Steve-O as human shark bait. These are just some of the stunts, but Johnny Knoxville tops them all, straddling the sort of giant rocket that Wile E Coyote favours - and with almost the same dire consequences... This is the first film in tonight's Spike Jonze double-bill, screened to mark the release of the director's latest film, Her, which is released on Friday 14 February.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Jason Acuña
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 18, 4 Star)

00:45


Adaptation (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Drama about a screenwriter struggling to adapt a novel about an eccentric naturalist who illegally hunts down orchids in the Florida swamps. In an effort to rid himself of writers block he decides to visit the plant thief himself.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star)

 

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Wednesday 12th February
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11:00


The Rare Breed (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Light-hearted western about an Englishwoman who, along with her daughter, strives to fulfil the wishes of her recently deceased husband to introduce a rare breed of cattle to the American west. They enlist the help of initially sceptical drifter Sam Burnett and set off on their perilous journey.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

12:55


Sea of Sand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Second World War action movie, directed by Guy Green. The Long Range Desert Group, led by Captain Williams and Captain Cotton, sets out on a dangerous mission to blow up a vital enemy petrol dump behind German lines in North Africa. But once the Group get to their target, they discover that it isn't just petrol that's being stored there.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Mikey Craig, Andrew Faulds, Barry Foster, Wolf Frees
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:50


Bad Day at Black Rock (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Sturges's suspenseful western stars Spencer Tracy as John J Macreedy, a one-armed stranger whose arrival in a small desert town, while looking for a Japanese farmer, arouses hostility and violence among the locals.
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

16:30


Mysterious Island (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Cy Endfield's science-fiction movie, based on the novel by Jules Verne, stars Michael Craig and Michael Callan as soldiers who try to escape from the American Civil War and inadvertently end up on a South Seas island. Here, accompanied by three other renegades, they encounter two beautiful shipwrecked English ladies and a host of less-than-beautiful monsters. Co-starring Joan Greenwood and with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Cy Endfield
Starring: Mikey Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan
(Subtitles, 1961, U, 3 Star)

18:30


The Legend of Zorro (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles from the 1998 western adventure The Mask of Zorro, in a sequel that takes a more slapstick approach to its swashbuckling than the original. The action takes place a decade after our first encounter with Don Alejandro de la Vega, better known in his guise as the masked champion of the poor, Zorro. With California on the verge of joining the Union as its 31st state, it finally looks as though Don Alejandro will be able to spend more of his time raising his son Joaquin and being with his wife Elena. But an unsettling incident and the emergence of a sinister organisation that's determined to keep California separate brings marital ******* for Don Alejandro, danger to his son and a greater need than ever before for Zorro to don his floppy hat, tie on the mask and pick up his sword... Edited for content.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Michael Emerson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alberto Reyes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Paul (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost both co-wrote and co-star in this sci-fi comedy thriller - directed by Superbad's Greg Mottola - about a couple of geeky British UFO-watchers who encounter a real-life alien. Following a trip to the Comic Con fan gathering, Graeme and Clive are driving an RV around places in the US where UFOs have supposedly been sighted. One night, they witness a car crash, but when they go to inspect the wreckage, they're surprised to discover an extraterrestrial called Paul.
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nicholas Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:05


Attack The Block (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Part-funded and developed by Film4, Joe Cornish's directorial debut is a sci-fi horror-comedy in which extraterrestrials pick the wrong part of London as the 'beachhead' for their invasion. Moses and his crew aren't the most obvious of heroes - they open the movie mugging Sam, a nurse on her way home after a long day caring for others, and their dreams are limited to getting rich from drug dealing. However, just as they have robbed the terrified Sam of her valuables, an alien invader drops from the sky - and is perfunctorily dispatched by Moses. But that was just the first of the creatures and, unlike the rest, it was relatively benign and easy to kill. Now, using the cover of Guy Fawkes' Night, its vicious, blue-fanged compatriots rain down upon the south London council estate, with vengeance on their minds.
Director: Joe Cornish
Starring: Nicholas Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega, Terry Notary, Joey Ansah
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

00:50


Riffraff (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Robert Carlyle stars in Ken Loach's drama as Stevie, a Scottish ex-con who gets a job on a building site and becomes embroiled in the tricks of the trade, namely getting away with doing as little work as possible and keeping an eye open for the main chance.
Starring: Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman, Ricky Tomlinson
(Subtitles, 1990, 15)

 

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Thursday 13th February View listings for the following day
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11:00


Sanjuro (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Akira Kurosawa's producers asked him to resurrect the lead character of his 1961 hit Yojimbo and he duly complied, though with a very different take on the jidaigeki genre. The role of Sanjuro is again taken by the splendid Toshiro Mifune, but this isn't a straightforward sequel: it's set in an earlier time and is played for laughs. While resting at a shrine, the ronin Sanjuro overhears nine young samurai discussing plans to tackle the corruption they believe emanates from the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1962, 18, 4 Star)

12:55


Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
After her acclaimed performance in Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr donned the wimple again, this time for director John Huston, as a nun stranded on a Japanese-held Pacific island with laconic Marine corporal Robert Mitchum, her only companion and hope of salvation.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

15:00


The Mistress of Spices (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In Paul Mayeda Berges's mystical romantic drama, former Miss World Aishwarya Rai plays Tilo, a member of a secret clan of women who draw on the mystical properties of Indian spices to cure anything from heartache to heartburn. Practising her delicate skills in California, she is courted by both homesick taxi driver Haroun and sexy architect Doug but which one will steal her heart? Edited for content.
Director: Paul Mayeda Berges
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Caroline Chikezie, Anupam Kher
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)

16:50


Kim (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Based on Rudyard Kipling's famous tale, Victor Saville's epic adventure stars Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the 'Red Beard', a dashing thief who befriends Kim, the orphaned son of a British soldier, and sees him through escapades including the thwarting of Russian agitators in the Khyber Pass and a sojurn with a holy lama.
Director: Victor Saville
Starring: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)

19:05


Step Up 2: The Streets (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Briana Evigan stars in this musical drama whose focus is firmly on its spectacular dance sequences. Following her mother's death, Andie finds comfort in her love of dancing. She's a member of the Baltimore 410 crew, reigning champions of an underground freestyle dancing competition called The Streets. However, unhappy at her school performance and the 410's shady reputation, Andie's guardian Sarah threatens to send the teen to live with her aunt in Texas. Andie evades that fate by enrolling in the Maryland School of the Arts. But the move alienates her from the 410 and estrangement turns to fierce rivalry when Andie puts together a new crew with her MSA friends, who set their sights on taking The Streets title for themselves.
Director: Jon Chu
Starring: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The Adjustment Bureau (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Film4 kicks off a season of science fiction films that explore everything from altered states to the far-flung reaches of space. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut - a romance meets sci-fi thriller, based on a short story by Philip K Dick. David Norris is a youthful congressman running for the Senate in New York - and everything couldn't be going more smoothly for him, until two events take place: an encounter with Elise Sellas and an episode of public drunkenness.
Director: George Nolfi
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Kastriner, Phyllis MacBryde, Natalie Carter, Chuck Scarborough
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:05


Cypher (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Director Vincenzo Natali, famed for the cult sci-fi classic Cube, keeps his audience on their toes again with this slick psychological thriller. Jeremy Northam plays Morgan Sullivan, who swaps his dull life to become Jack Thursby, an industrial spy for a secretive organisation. But what does the mysterious, beautiful Rita Foster know of his work? Why does he find himself easily persuaded to become a double-agent? What is the secret on the computer disc he must deliver to a top secret facility? And who is the mysterious cyber-mercenary, Sebastian Rooks, who agrees to help him?
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, David Hewlett, Kari Matchett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star)

01:00


35 Shots of Rum (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Claire Denis's drama is set in the Parisian suburbs where, in an apartment block, train driver and single father Lionel and his student daughter Josephine share a flat and perhaps more. Upstairs lives Noe, for whom Josephine has a thing, while, along the corridor, taxi driver Gabrielle has carried a torch for Lionel for years. But changes are coming into their lives, threatening to pull at the ties that bind them all.
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Grégoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Djédjé Apali
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2008, 12, 4 Star)