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11:00


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.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

12:55


Danger Within (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Don Chaffey's intriguing thriller is set in a Second World War POW camp where all attempts to escape are stopped suspiciously quickly by the Germans. Suspecting a planted stool pigeon is revealing their plans, Lt Col David Baird, head of the escape committee, overrides senior British officer Lt Col Huxley with an audacious plan for a daylight escape of 400 prisoners - which will also expose the traitor in their midst.
Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1958, U, 3 Star)

15:00


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)

17:05


The Lady Vanishes (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Anthony Page's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic throws Richard Condon and Amanda Kelly together on a train travelling from pre-war Germany. They find themselves embroiled in a political conspiracy when a mysterious English nanny, Miss Froy, enlists their help and then disappears. With Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott.
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1979, PG, 2 Star)

19:00


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... Edited for content.
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)



21:00


Battle: Los Angeles (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Aaron Eckhart stars in this explosive action thriller about a group of soldiers caught up in the chaos when aliens invade Los Angeles. The world watches in awe as meteors rains down upon Earth from outer space. But when it's observed that these 'meteors' slow down before hitting their targets, it's clear they're anything but a natural phenomenon. Earth is under attack. Cue the arrival of Staff Sergeant Nantz - a grizzled war vet with a troubled combat history. Just days away from retirement, he's called in to help evacuate a group of civilians trapped within an alien-controlled area in Santa Monica beach.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

23:15


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)

02:20


Pi (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Max is a reclusive mathematician who has built a supercomputer that promises to provide him with the key to cracking the stock market. But it could also reveal the true name of Jehovah, a discovery that could lead to the end of the world. And it's not long before his project brings him to the attention of both Hassidic priests and Wall Street gurus.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman, Samia Shoaib
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Hills of Home (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Family adventure starring Lassie and Edmund Gwenn. Dr William MacLure becomes Lassie's new owner after taking the collie off the hands of a farmer who's frustrated at her strange aversion to water. The Scottish doctor then embarks on a seemingly unsuccessful attempt to overcome the canine's phobia. But his efforts will prove worthwhile in the end... Also starring Tom Drake and Janet Leigh as the movie's two romantic leads. Directed by Fred M Wilcox.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen
(Subtitles, 1948, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Love Happens (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in Brandon Camp's directorial debut, which he co-wrote with long-time collaborator Mike Thompson. The romantic drama tells the story of Burke Ryan, who wrote a best-selling self-help manual following his wife's death in a car crash three years earlier. He's currently, under the guidance of his manager Lane, touring a seminar for the bereaved, which has brought him to Seattle, his late wife's hometown. And it's here, at his hotel, that he bumps into Eloise Chandler, the local florist who supplies the establishment's flowers. He's clearly taken with her, but she's quite frosty towards him. Even so, he pursues her - but it soon transpires that, despite his new career, both he and she have a lot of emotional baggage that will need to be dealt with before a relationship is likely to succeed.
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

15:10


California Man (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Comedy about two Californian high-school students who, having discovered a frozen neolithic caveman while digging a pit for a swimming pool, thaw out their find and introduce him to the 1990s. The caveman adapts only too well to the weird and wonderful lifestyles of contemporary American youth and causes the pair no end of comical nightmares.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, PG, 2 Star)

16:50


Brewster's Millions (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who suddenly finds out that a distant relative has left him $300m. But he can only get it if he can waste $30m in just 30 days without anyone knowing he's doing it, without investing it and without banking it. And his best friend John Candy is no help, trying to make his friend's money earn interest... Walter Hill, better known for tough dramas, turns his hand to comedy for this much-loved and filmed stage play, scripted in this case by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod of Trading Places fame.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 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


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Michael Bay returns with his second instalment of the sci-fi action romp that pits humans against some big, bad alien robots, the Decepticons. In this sequel, which manages to be even louder and more prone to explosions than the initial outing, Sam Witwicky and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes are once more at the centre of the action. Witwicky is being hunted down by the Decepticons, who recognise that he is the main impediment to them gaining control of an awesome source of energy. As the Decepticons' plan would result in the destruction of the sun, mankind's fate rests on the shoulders of our oddly named hero.
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Ramon Rodriguez
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

23:50


Scanners (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
David Cronenberg's classic horror posits the idea that some people can 'lock' into other people's nervous systems and manipulate their functions for their own ends, be it good or evil. Celebrated for the then-shocking 'exploding heads' special effects, this early work was to establish Cronenberg as a major horror director.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman
(Subtitles, 1981, 18, 4 Star)

01:50


The Arrival of Wang (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
This intriguing low-budget Italian sci-fi mystery tells the story of a translator who is given a very unusual assignment. Gaia makes her living translating Chinese into Italian. Her latest job offer is a lucrative one, though it quickly becomes apparent that it won't be a run-of-the-mill movie translation this time around, as she's blindfolded and taken to an undisclosed location in the Italian capital. Her curiosity deepens as she's placed in a completely dark room and instructed to act as the intermediary between her employers and whoever else is in the room. As soon as the assignment begins it's apparent that she's now facilitating a harsh interrogation rather than an interview. But whatever she may have thought was going on cannot possibly prepare her for the eventual discovery of who she is actually talking to. And that's just the first of the shocking challenges to her world view.
Director: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti
Starring: Ennio Fantastichini, Francesca Cuttica, Juliet Esey Joseph, Antonello Morroni, Li Yong, Jader Giraldi
(In Italian and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Please Sir! (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


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)

15:10


The Love Bug (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Robert Stevenson's much-loved family fantasy stars Dean Jones as Jim Douglas, a struggling racing driver. He 'rescues' a VW Beetle from rival racer Peter Thorndyke and in gratitude the car, which has a 'life' of its own, starts winning races for Jim. Infuriated, Thorndyke tries to reappropriate the car, now christened Herbie; can Jim and Herbie outwit him?
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn, Benson Fong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, U, 3 Star)

19:10


Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eric Brevig's sci-fi adventure-fantasy adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Trevor Anderson, whose geologist brother Max vanished ten years previously, learns that the university is about to close the department named after the missing man, which would place his own career on an uncertain footing. When Trevor's nephew Sean arrives for a visit, he brings some of Max's most treasured belongings, including a heavily annotated copy of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Director: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Scott Derrickson's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic replaces the original's theme of fear of impending nuclear war with current concerns about environmental catastrophe. Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an alien sent by a confederation of extraterrestrial beings to warn the inhabitants of Earth that the biosphere is on the verge of collapse. Predictably, as soon as he emerges from his spaceship a trigger-happy soldier ignores his instructions and takes a shot at the visitor. The wounded Klaatu asks for access to the United Nations to deliver his message, but the Secretary of Defence, Regina Jackson, instead orders that he should be taken away for further investigations. And so Klaatu becomes increasingly convinced that Earth can only survive if mankind is eradicated.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



23:05


Splice (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Canadian director Vincenzo Natali's visceral horror film is a sophisticated study of the consequences of genetic engineering, in which Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play scientists and lovers pushing against ethical and legal boundaries in their determination to create new life. With nods to Frankenstein, Alien, Species and the body horror of early David Cronenberg, the plot sees the pair secretly splicing human DNA into a cocktail of other genetic material, with consequences that highlight the scientists' character flaws as much as the danger posed by the result of the experiment.
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon, Simona Maicanescu, David Hewlett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

01:10


Hotel Rwanda (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 12 certificate
In 1994 Rwanda is ravaged by bloodshed and a hotel becomes a refugee camp for Tutsis escaping the Hutu militia. Oscar nominees Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo star in the true story of 'the African Schindler'.
Director: Terry George
Starring: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 12, 5 Star)

 

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Monday 17th February
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11:00


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)

12:50


First Men in the Moon (Film) Film icon U certificate
Sci-fi adventure. On what is ostensibly the first trip made to the moon, an exploration team discovers that someone else had got there first, back in 1899. Back on earth, the sole survivor of that trip, Arnold Bedford, is tracked down. Arnold tells in flashback how he, his girlfriend Katherine and inventor Joseph Cavor had flown to the moon in a gravity-deflecting sphere. There, they encounter grotesque bipedal ant-like creatures, the Selenites, who live in immense crystal caverns, but who are far from friendly to the three human intruders... Directed by Nathan Juran, based on the novel by HG Wells.
Director: Nigel Kneale, Jan Read
Starring: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Gladys Henson
(Subtitles, 1964, U)

14:55


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)

17:00


Carry on Up the Khyber (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Classic Carry On fun from stalwart director Gerald Thomas, featuring the core team of regulars. Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond is in charge of the motley kilted crew of the Third Foot and Mouth regiment at a British outpost in the Khyber Pass. The Khasi of Kalabar has other ideas and wants the 'British devils' dead, but his troops fear what they may or may not have under their 'skirts'. But when one of the regiment is seen wearing underpants the fate of the British in India is at stake.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Nicholas Meyer, who directed Wrath of Khan, returns for the last film featuring the 'old' crew. The Klingon Empire is falling apart and they want to sue for peace. Kirk commands the USS Enterprise, which is sent to escort the race's representatives to a peace conference. But when an unprotected Klingon craft is attacked, Kirk and Dr McCoy are placed on trial for murder. Spock, now in command, has to prove their innocence by finding the traitor aboard the ship.
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1991, 12, 4 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. He tells them that he's been held captive at Area Fifty One, and says he needs transport so he can make contact with a spacecraft that will rescue him. Once the men are over their shock, it's agreed that Paul can come along - after all, how much closer an encounter can you get?
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


AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Colin and Greg Strause's sci-fi thriller sees a small American town as the battlefield for a showdown between Aliens, who have escaped from captivity, and Predators, tasked with tracking them down. Caught up in the middle are the innocent townsfolk who, led by ex-con Dallas, sheriff Morales and army officer Kelly, have to first survive and then fight back.
Starring: Steven Pasquale, John Ortiz, Reiko Aylesworth
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15)

00:55


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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Tuesday 18th February View listings for the following day
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11:00


The Lady Vanishes (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Anthony Page's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic throws Richard Condon and Amanda Kelly together on a train travelling from pre-war Germany. They find themselves embroiled in a political conspiracy when a mysterious English nanny, Miss Froy, enlists their help and then disappears. With Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott.
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1979, PG, 2 Star)

12:55


At the Earth's Core (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Doug McClure and Peter Cushing star in this sci-fi adventure that's based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. A Victorian scientist and the wealthy American he works for accidentally burrow into a vast subterranean domain when their digging machine runs out of control. There, deep beneath the planet's surface, they discover a world that's ruled by bird-creatures who have enslaved human beings.
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Sean Lynch
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1976, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


Ladyhawke (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Medieval fantasy adventure about a mysterious black-clad knight and his mistress, both victims of a curse that turns him into a wolf by night and her into a hawk by day so they can never meet as humans. With help from a young pickpocket rescued by the knight, they try to break the curse in a dramatic confrontation with their enemy.
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Ken Hutchison
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)

17:05


California Man (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Comedy about two Californian high-school students who, having discovered a frozen neolithic caveman while digging a pit for a swimming pool, thaw out their find and introduce him to the 1990s. The caveman adapts only too well to the weird and wonderful lifestyles of contemporary American youth and causes the pair no end of comical nightmares.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, PG, 2 Star)

18:50


Love Happens (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in Brandon Camp's directorial debut, which he co-wrote with long-time collaborator Mike Thompson. The romantic drama tells the story of Burke Ryan, who wrote a best-selling self-help manual following his wife's death in a car crash three years earlier. He's currently, under the guidance of his manager Lane, touring a seminar for the bereaved, which has brought him to Seattle, his late wife's hometown. And it's here, at his hotel, that he bumps into Eloise Chandler, the local florist who supplies the establishment's flowers. He's clearly taken with her, but she's quite frosty towards him. Even so, he pursues her - but it soon transpires that, despite his new career, both he and she have a lot of emotional baggage that will need to be dealt with before a relationship is likely to succeed. Also starring Martin Sheen and John Carroll Lynch. Edited for content.
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Independence Day (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Roland Emmerich's landmark science-fiction blockbuster. Aliens reach Earth and they're clearly hostile: their plan is to suck the planet dry of all its resources, leave behind a burnt cinder circling the sun, and move on. Planting giant ships above the world's major cities, they unleash destruction on an unprecedented scale. All attempts to fight back are met by hordes of fighter craft until pilot Steven Hiller manages to down one and capture its pilot. Meanwhile, scientist David Levinson, having worked out the aliens' purpose, finds a way to destroy them, but he and Hiller need a spacecraft - which brings them to a secret base near Las Vegas... The child of countless science-fiction movies, Independence Day is rollicking, fast-moving action all the way.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Will Smith
(Subtitles, 1996, 12, 4 Star)

23:45


Sunshine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Danny Boyle's science fiction epic is set 50 years in the future. The sun is dying, Earth suffers a perpetual winter and humanity's only hope is a spaceship that will deliver an atomic device into the heart of the Sun to 'kick-start' it again. Icarus II is captained by Kaneda, with Capa, a physicist, and Corazon in charge of the ship's environment. But as Icarus II approaches Mercury, it begins to receive signals from Icarus I, and when they board the supposedly lost craft, they encounter an entity that endangers the whole mission. Sunshine is written by Alex Garland, who also collaborated with Boyle on 28 Days Later.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

01:55


Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary) U certificate
Werner Herzog's award-winning documentary about the Chauvet Cave. Situated among the beautiful gorges of the south of France, the cave is famous for its extraordinary prehistoric paintings. In a way, the film is a documentary about documentary, as, in addition to revealing the splendour of the Paleolithic artwork that was discovered within the cave system in 1994, it also probes why mankind has had, and acted upon, a seemingly innate urge to record everyday life for at least the past 32,000 years. In English, and German and French with English subtitles.
(Subtitles, 2010, U)

 

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11:00


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)

13:15


City of Ember (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Gil Kenan's fantasy adventure, adapted from Jeanne DuPrau's children's book, sees two adolescents try to rescue their underground city from an impending power failure that will plunge their world into permanent darkness. The City of Ember was built 200 years before as a subterranean refuge for humanity from some unspecified threat. But now the generator that lights the city is breaking down, and the city is starting to fall apart. Youngsters Lina and Doon are unconvinced by the assurances of the smug, incompetent mayor. When Lina finds some long-lost information from the city's builders, she and Doon decide to stave off the beckoning darkness. But can they manage it before the lights go out for the last time? The dystopian world is imaginatively realised, reminiscent of work by Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton and Fritz Lang. An impressive cast includes Tim Robbins as Doon's inventor father, as well as Toby Jones, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Landau, Liz Smith and Mackenzie Crook.
Director: Gil Kenan
Starring: David Ryall, Ian McElhinney, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, B.J. Hogg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


Treasure Island (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Orson Welles stars in this curious production directed by John Hough, an adaptation by Welles of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure novel. Orson Welles plays Long John Silver, the ship's cook who, seeing an opportunity to enrich himself, will rise above his station to orchestrate a mutiny, and Kim Burfield stars as Jim Hawkins, the lad who acquires the treasure map that sets the whole escapade in motion. Also starring Walter Slezak, Angel del Pozo, Rik Battaglia and Paul Muller. Shot entirely in Spain, with a Spanish crew, Treasure Island began its life as a 'two for one' deal Welles struck in order to gain access to the finances he needed for another of his projects, Chimes at Midnight. The latter movie subsequently became one of Welles's proudest achievements, though it also became mired in rights issues, which kept it from being screened for many years. First screening on Channel 4.
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Finlay Currie
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

16:55


Coraline (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Director Henry Selick delivers a deliciously dark stop-motion animated adventure, based on Neil Gaiman's much-praised book. Coraline Jones and her parents move into the Pink Palaces Apartments in Oregon, where they find themselves surrounded by eccentric neighbours, including a pair of ageing burlesque performers. It should be an exciting time, but Coraline's parents are too busy working to spend any time with her, so she is deeply bored. That is until she discovers a mysterious door that only appears after dark.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)

19:00


Brewster's Millions (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who suddenly finds out that a distant relative has left him $300m. But he can only get it if he can waste $30m in just 30 days without anyone knowing he's doing it, without investing it and without banking it. And his best friend John Candy is no help, trying to make his friend's money earn interest... Walter Hill, better known for tough dramas, turns his hand to comedy for this much-loved and filmed stage play, scripted in this case by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod of Trading Places fame. Edited for content.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 Star)



21:00


The Adjustment Bureau (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
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. The former should spell happiness for him, as he and the attractive dancer hit it off immediately, but all attempts to further the relationship are consistently thwarted; the latter incident was bad enough to spell the end of his political career - but however much he subsequently tries to walk away from high office, the more he seems destined for it.
Director: George Nolfi
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Kastriner, Phyllis MacBryde, Natalie Carter, Chuck Scarborough
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:05


Repo Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in this blood-drenched thriller-cum-satire set in a grimy vision of the near future. Technology has finally solved the problem of organ transplants, at least for those who can afford them. But beware: fall behind on the payments and the organ provider will dispatch repo men with sharp blades to reclaim their property in a swift but grisly operation. Remy and Jake work for one such company, The Union, and are among its best 'bailiffs', performing their allotted tasks ruthlessly. Until, that is, Remy is forced to rely on one of The Union's products himself - at which point his perspective is radically reassessed and he goes on the run, hotly pursued by his erstwhile colleague. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Alice Braga.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice Van Houten, Chandler Canterbury
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 18, 3 Star)

01:15


The Marine (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
John Bonito's all-action movie stars John Cena as John Triton, an ex-army soldier sent home in disgrace from Iraq for disobeying orders, despite the fact that his insubordination saw him destroy a terrorist outpost and rescue captured Marines. But trouble continues to stalk him back home in the US: while on a camping trip with his wife Kate, she's taken hostage by a gang of on-the-run jewel thieves led by Rome. But what they haven't realised is that they've just taken on a one-man commando unit.
Director: John Bonito
Starring: John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Anthony Ray Parker, Abigail Bianca, Jerome Ehlers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 2 Star)

 

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11:00


The Hidden Fortress (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's jidaigeki stars Toshiro Mifune in a swashbuckling tale of medieval derring-do. The action begins with peasants Tahei and Matashichi, mismatched in physical bulk, bickering their way across a wide, dusty plain; they chose the wrong side in the recent war and are making their eventful way home. After escaping a brief internment, they spot gold bars hidden in some shrubs. Unfortunately the bars are part of a trove belonging to Princess Yukihime, heiress to the defeated Akizuki family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa, Roger Cantin
Starring: Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
(Black and White, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1958, PG, 4 Star)

13:50


Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eric Brevig's sci-fi adventure-fantasy adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Trevor Anderson, whose geologist brother Max vanished ten years previously, learns that the university is about to close the department named after the missing man, which would place his own career on an uncertain footing. When Trevor's nephew Sean arrives for a visit, he brings some of Max's most treasured belongings, including a heavily annotated copy of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Director: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

15:40


The Time Machine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
George Pal's Oscar-winning film stars Rod Taylor as Victorian scientist H George Wells, who invents a time machine. Travelling through the far distant future, with stopovers for World Wars I, II and III, he finally ends up in the year 802,701. Here, he encounters the peaceful Eloi race and falls for the beautiful Weena. But then he discovers that another race exists: the underground-dwelling, Morlocks, who are as vicious as the Eloi are peaceable. Can Wells save the Eloi - and Weena - from the grisly fate the Morlocks have in store for them?
Director: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Hel, Whit Bissell
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 4 Star)

17:45


Inspector Gadget (Film) Film icon PG certificate
It's the comedy with a thousand moving parts, the story of the crazy, crackpot crime fighter who's not so much a detective, more a toolbox! Wowser, you'll thrill to the tall tale of a naïve and inept security guard who dreams of becoming the world's greatest law enforcement officer. Then one day he gets involved in a top secret project with a leading robotics scientist, and becomes a man of many parts - all of them moving! With the help of the pretty scientist, our bumbling, accident prone hero fights the nefarious, villainous Claw in this Disney big screen adaptation of the much loved cartoon series.
Director: David Kellogg
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick, Cheri Oteri
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, PG, 2 Star)

19:20


The Man (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Les Mayfield's crime caper makes the most of the trusted formula of uniting two misfit characters to comedic effect and also features some smart action. When dental supplies salesman Andy Fiddler arrives in Detroit, he's mistaken by smooth-talking career criminal Joey for the international arms dealer he's due to meet. At the same time, federal agent Derrick Vann is after the gang who were responsible for the theft of weapons from the agency's storage unit. Vann lifts Fiddler, but soon realises he's innocent. However, if he can get Fiddler to keep up the pretence, he'll be able to bust Joey's gang... Edited for content.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Luke Goss, Miguel Ferrer, Susie Essman, Anthony Mackie
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 12, 2 Star)



21:00


Battle: Los Angeles (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Aaron Eckhart stars in this explosive action thriller about a group of soldiers caught up in the chaos when aliens invade Los Angeles. The world watches in awe as meteors rains down upon Earth from outer space. But when it's observed that these 'meteors' slow down before hitting their targets, it's clear they're anything but a natural phenomenon. Earth is under attack. Cue the arrival of Staff Sergeant Nantz - a grizzled war vet with a troubled combat history. Just days away from retirement, he's called in to help evacuate a group of civilians trapped within an alien-controlled area in Santa Monica beach.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

23:15


Brazil (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Terry Gilliam's wonderfully realised vision of a dystopian alternative world stars Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, a clerk at the Ministry of Information investigating the condemnation of an innocent man to death. Also starring are Robert De Niro as a guerrilla engineer, Bob Hoskins as Lowry's sworn enemy, Katherine Helmond as Lowry's eternally youth-seeking mother and Michael Palin as Lowry's friend, and friendly torturer.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert de Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin
(Subtitles, 1985, 15, 5 Star)

02:05


Last Night (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
There are just six hours left before the end of the world. Their impending, inescapable doom concentrates the minds of Toronto's inhabitants on how best to use their remaining time. Choices include holding family dinners; trying out that sexual fantasy for real; finishing off a final piece of work; or just trying to get to a loved one, when a taxi can't be had for love nor money. Don McKellar's haunting directorial debut stars Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie and David Cronenberg.
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Doctor Dolittle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Rex Harrison stars in Richard Fleischer's charming adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic children's book as the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, who can converse with animals in 849 languages. Wrongly imprisoned for releasing a captive seal into the wild, he is rescued by his friend Tommy and the pair set off with Matthew Muggins in search of the mythical pink sea snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1967, U, 3 Star)

13:50


Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Nicholas Meyer, who directed Wrath of Khan, returns for the last film featuring the 'old' crew. The Klingon Empire is falling apart and they want to sue for peace. Kirk commands the USS Enterprise, which is sent to escort the race's representatives to a peace conference. But when an unprotected Klingon craft is attacked, Kirk and Dr McCoy are placed on trial for murder. Spock, now in command, has to prove their innocence by finding the traitor aboard the ship. Edited for content.
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1991, 12, 4 Star)

16:00


Rat Race (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gag-meister Jerry Zucker's cracking comedy has a cast to die for. Las Vegas casino owner Donald P Sinclair decides to set up a special event for his highest rollers. Lucky tokens in his slot machines entitle six punters to enter a race across America with $2million as the prize. He'll make a killing on the bets placed on the players while the contestants dash for the cash. Any comparisons to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World are completely deserved but director Jerry Zucker keeps the action flowing while making sure the film, unlike... Mad..., doesn't outstay its welcome. Look out for Kathy Bates as a psychopathic roadside squirrel-seller. Edited for content.
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Lanei Chapman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 12, 3 Star)

18:10


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Michael Bay returns with his second instalment of the sci-fi action romp that pits humans against some big, bad alien robots, the Decepticons. In this sequel, which manages to be even louder and more prone to explosions than the initial outing, Sam Witwicky and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes are once more at the centre of the action. Witwicky is being hunted down by the Decepticons, who recognise that he is the main impediment to them gaining control of an awesome source of energy. As the Decepticons' plan would result in the destruction of the sun, mankind's fate rests on the shoulders of our oddly named hero... Edited for content.
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Ramon Rodriguez
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

21:00


Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Judgement Day.
Director James Cameron and lead actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton return for part two of the sci-fi franchise. The film is set 11 years after Sarah Connor's first, all-too-close brush with death at the hands of an android assassin. She's incarcerated in a mental health institution for her insistent, passionately held belief that mankind is on the verge of extinction instigated by the soon-to-go-rogue Skynet automated US defence network. Meanwhile, her young son, John Connor, is living with his grandparents. Having failed at the first attempt to eradicate its future nemesis, Skynet sends another deadly envoy, a shape-shifting T-1000 Terminator, back in time to the present to murder John.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton
(Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, 18, 5 Star)



23:40


The X Files (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Rob Bowman's sci-fi thriller feature, based on the popular TV series, stars David Duchonovy and Gillian Anderson as special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The two are in disgrace after failing to stop the bombing of a Federal building in Dallas. But conspiracy theorist Alvin Kurtzwell believes the bodies caught up in the explosion were not only already dead but killed by something agelessly evil. Aided by Cigarette Smoking Man, the duo find themselves caught up in a worldwide conspiracy that could change the future of mankind.
Director: Rob Bowman
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)

02:00


Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Colin and Greg Strause's sci-fi thriller sees a small American town as the battlefield for a showdown between Aliens, who have escaped from captivity, and Predators, tasked with tracking them down. Caught up in the middle are the innocent townsfolk who, led by ex-con Dallas, sheriff Morales and army officer Kelly, have to first survive and then fight back.
Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Ariel Gade, Kristen Hager
(Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 2 Star)

 

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11:00


Arabian Adventure (Film) Film icon U certificate
Fantasy adventure. Prince Hasan and his helpers set out to find the magical Rose of Elil. The prince has been promised the hand of Princess Zuleira if he brings back the legendary trophy for the sorcerer Alquazar. But the villainous magus doesn't share his evil plans with the love-struck royal, nor does he warn Hasan of the genies and other monsters that lie ahead of him.
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puneet Sira, John Wyman
(Subtitles, 1979, U, 2 Star)

13:00


The Golden Compass (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards star in Chris Weitz's family fantasy-adventure, based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives in an Oxford college, where the academic and domestic staff do their best to push her enquiring mind down conventional educational routes and quell her tomboy tendencies; it's a losing battle. One day, having sneaked into a private meeting of the college's dons, Lyra learns of mysterious events taking place in the Arctic. Soon after, amid news of mysterious child abductors called the 'Gobblers', her best friend Roger vanishes.
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)

15:10


Carry on Up the Khyber (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Classic Carry On fun from stalwart director Gerald Thomas, featuring the core team of regulars. Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond is in charge of the motley kilted crew of the Third Foot and Mouth regiment at a British outpost in the Khyber Pass. The Khasi of Kalabar has other ideas and wants the 'British devils' dead, but his troops fear what they may or may not have under their 'skirts'. But when one of the regiment is seen wearing underpants the fate of the British in India is at stake.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

16:55


Coraline (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Director Henry Selick delivers a deliciously dark stop-motion animated adventure, based on Neil Gaiman's much-praised book. Coraline Jones and her parents move into the Pink Palaces Apartments in Oregon, where they find themselves surrounded by eccentric neighbours, including a pair of ageing burlesque performers. It should be an exciting time, but Coraline's parents are too busy working to spend any time with her, so she is deeply bored. That is until she discovers a mysterious door that only appears after dark.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)

18:55


The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Scott Derrickson's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic replaces the original's theme of fear of impending nuclear war with current concerns about environmental catastrophe. Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an alien sent by a confederation of extraterrestrial beings to warn the inhabitants of Earth that the biosphere is on the verge of collapse. Predictably, as soon as he emerges from his spaceship a trigger-happy soldier ignores his instructions and takes a shot at the visitor. The wounded Klaatu asks for access to the United Nations to deliver his message, but the Secretary of Defence, Regina Jackson, instead orders that he should be taken away for further investigations. And so Klaatu becomes increasingly convinced that Earth can only survive if mankind is eradicated.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Babylon A.D. (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Mathieu Kassowitz's science fiction film is set in a dystopian future where corporations rule the cities. Mercenary Toorop is hired by Gorsky to pick up a 'package' from Russia and deliver it, via Alaska and Canada, to the high priestess of a new religion in New York. The package turns out to be a young woman, Aurora, accompanied by a nun, Sister Rebeka. But as the journey progresses, Aurora demonstrates other-worldly powers and, for Toorop, what was simply a job becomes a quest for redemption, as he tries to guard Aurora from the various factions that either wish her harm or want to claim her powers for their own use.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 3 Star)

22:45


Carriers (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Chris Pine stars in writer-directors Alex and David Pastor's bleak post-apocalypse horror-thriller. A deadly viral pandemic has hit America and taken a devastating toll on the population. Brothers Danny and Brian Green decide to see if they can make it from their landlocked home to the isolated beach at which they spent happier times in their youth, and where they hope to hunker down and wait for the lethal contagion to peter out. Along for the ride, and the chance of survival, are their girlfriends Bobby and Kate. But can they really traverse the country without any of them coming into contact with the infected, and just how far are they prepared to bend their morals and the normal rules of human interaction in order to safely make it to their goal?
Director: Àlex Pastor, David Pastor
Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp, Christopher Meloni, Kiernan Shipka
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

00:25


The X Files I Want to Believe (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Mulder and Scully have left the FBI and gone their separate ways. Mulder is living in seclusion, while Scully has returned to her medical career. But when an FBI agent goes missing, they're called back to duty. The only person who may be able to track her down is Father Joseph Crissman, a convicted paedophile who professes to be psychic and claims to have already found part of the missing agent's body. But is he telling the truth? Mulder and Scully must overcome their revulsion for his crimes as more agents go missing and saving them becomes a race against time.
Director: Chris Carter
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15)

02:25


Dark Star (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
John Carpenter's first feature stars Dan O'Bannon as the leader of four astronauts aboard deep space cruiser Dark Star, whose mission is to seek out and destroy planets which contain life forms that could threaten Earth. With just one of their craft's payload of sentient bombs left, it's nearing time to head home. But then one of the bored, put-upon crew decides to go and feed the pet alien they picked up along the way - and inadvertently sets them all on a potentially disastrous course. The special effects may be laughably unsophisticated by present standards and the film is definitely of its time, but the narrative is quirkily gripping throughout.
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon
(Subtitles, 1974, PG, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Treasure Island (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Orson Welles stars in this curious production directed by John Hough, an adaptation by Welles of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure novel. Orson Welles plays Long John Silver, the ship's cook who, seeing an opportunity to enrich himself, will rise above his station to orchestrate a mutiny, and Kim Burfield stars as Jim Hawkins, the lad who acquires the treasure map that sets the whole escapade in motion.
Director: Steven L. Barron
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Rupert Penry-Jones, Philip Glenister, Donald Sutherland, Elijah Wood, Daniel Mays
(Subtitles, 2012, PG, 5 Star)

13:00


Inspector Gadget (Film) Film icon PG certificate
It's the comedy with a thousand moving parts, the story of the crazy, crackpot crime fighter who's not so much a detective, more a toolbox! Wowser, you'll thrill to the tall tale of a naïve and inept security guard who dreams of becoming the world's greatest law enforcement officer. Then one day he gets involved in a top secret project with a leading robotics scientist, and becomes a man of many parts - all of them moving! With the help of the pretty scientist, our bumbling, accident prone hero fights the nefarious, villainous Claw in this Disney big screen adaptation of the much loved cartoon series.
Director: David Kellogg
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick, Cheri Oteri
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, PG, 2 Star)

14:35


At the Earth's Core (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Doug McClure and Peter Cushing star in this sci-fi adventure that's based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. A Victorian scientist and the wealthy American he works for accidentally burrow into a vast subterranean domain when their digging machine runs out of control. There, deep beneath the planet's surface, they discover a world that's ruled by bird-creatures who have enslaved human beings.
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Sean Lynch
(Subtitles, 1976, PG, 3 Star)

16:20


Freaky Friday (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Fast-moving 'Disney-style' comedy about a mother and daughter who wish they could change places for a day just so the other new how hard it was. However, on this particular day, their innocent wish is granted thanks to a magical talisman, and they find themselves switched into each other's bodies with disastrous results.
Director: Gary Nelson
Starring: Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1977, U, 3 Star)

18:15


Independence Day (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Roland Emmerich's landmark science-fiction blockbuster. Aliens reach Earth and they're clearly hostile: their plan is to suck the planet dry of all its resources, leave behind a burnt cinder circling the sun, and move on. Planting giant ships above the world's major cities, they unleash destruction on an unprecedented scale. All attempts to fight back are met by hordes of fighter craft until pilot Steven Hiller manages to down one and capture its pilot. Meanwhile, scientist David Levinson, having worked out the aliens' purpose, finds a way to destroy them, but he and Hiller need a spacecraft - which brings them to a secret base near Las Vegas... The child of countless science-fiction movies, Independence Day is rollicking, fast-moving action all the way.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Will Smith
(Subtitles, 1996, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Unknown (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger star in this dynamic action mystery from Jaume Collet-Serra, director of the stylishly creepy horror Orphan. Botanist Dr Martin Harris is attending a science conference in Berlin when, realising he's left his papers at the airport, he jumps in a cab and sets off to retrieve them. But en route he's involved in a massive pile-up which leaves him unconscious and hospitalised. Coming round, he discovers that, lacking proof of identity, no one knows who he is. Worse, back at the hotel, his wife Elizabeth not only claims not to recognise him but also says another man is her husband. Bewildered, Harris sets out to unpick what the hell is going on, aided by taxi driver Gina, who rescued him from the accident. And the further he investigates, the clearer it becomes that something is seriously amiss - and that dark forces are out to put a permanent end to his search for the truth.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, Frank Langella
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:15


The Talented Mr. Ripley (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Tom Ripley craves the life led by Dickie Greenleaf. When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood, never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Tom will go to make their lifestyle his own. After all, it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)

01:55


Hard Eight (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Paul Thomas Anderson's drama stars Philip Baker Hall as Sydney who picks up John, a drifter, at a coffee shop. John needs $6000 to bury his mother, Sydney is an itinerant gambler who's happy to teach him ways to lightly scam casinos so they don't suspect anything. Two years pass and the pair are still operating, and John is now in a relationship with waitress Clementine and also befriended a shady security advisor Jimmy, whom Sydney instinctively mistrusts. As the four individuals' lives intersect, Anderson observes their characters through circumstances which, as they affect one, begin to affect all.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 18, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


The Admirable Crichton (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy, based on JM Barrie's play, stars Kenneth More as the admirable Crichton, butler to Lord Loam and his family. When, while cruising in the South Seas, they are shipwrecked on a desert island, his Lordship takes command but it slowly emerges that Crichton possesses the skills for survival. As the master/servant roles are reversed, even romance is turned upside down; but surely rescue will reassert the status quo?
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Jack Watling
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)

12:55


Broken Lance (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Edward Dmytryk's Oscar-winning western stars Spencer Tracy as Matt Devereaux, a strict disciplinarian who treats his sons Joe, Ben, Denny and Mike little better than employees on his ranch. However, when he leads a raid on a copper mine that's destroying his land, it's Joe who takes the blame. But returning home after three years in prison, he finds his father dead and his brothers unwilling to recognise his sacrifice.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 3 Star)

14:50


Kidnapped (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Following a bloody defeat for the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, naive young David Balfour is cheated of his inheritance by his avaricious Uncle Ebenezer, who then arranges for the lad to be kidnapped and sold into slavery by Captain Hoseason. But, fortunately for Balfour, he meets the fleeing Jacobite rebel Alan Breck who is also aboard the slave ship that's starting on its way to America. But it doesn't get far and, after the vessel runs aground, the pair are thrown into a succession of adventures that lead them to Edinburgh and a fight for justice. Based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Vivien Heilbron
(Subtitles, 1971, U, 3 Star)

16:55


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18:40


Ladyhawke (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Medieval fantasy adventure about a mysterious black-clad knight and his mistress, both victims of a curse that turns him into a wolf by night and her into a hawk by day so they can never meet as humans. With help from a young pickpocket rescued by the knight, they try to break the curse in a dramatic confrontation with their enemy.
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Ken Hutchison
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Sanctum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield and Ioan Gruffudd star in Alister Grierson's caving drama. Frank McGuire is a vastly experienced cave diver who is leading the exploration of the world's largest unexplored cave system in Papua New Guinea. But when a huge cyclone hits the area, he and the team - which includes his rebellious teenage son Josh, the expedition's financier Carl Hurley and Hurley's girlfriend Victoria Elaine - are cut off from their support team up on the surface by torrential influxes of storm water. Trapped, with no hope of safely returning the way they entered, and carrying precious few supplies to sustain themselves, the cavers are forced to see if they can find another way out of the labyrinth... First screening on Film4.
Director: Alister Grierson
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie, Christopher Baker
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

23:10


Antichrist (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Lars von Trier's horror-drama about a marriage that violently implodes after a tragic accident; and, featuring scenes of explicit sex, disturbing violence and graphic genital mutilation, it's not for the squeamish. Dafoe and Gainsbourg, the unnamed protagonists, are making love in their lofty apartment when their young child manages to crawl out of an open window and plunge fatally to the pavement below. Naturally, their lives fall apart. However, the father is a psychiatrist, and he persuades his wife to forgo anti-depressants and travel with him to an isolated house in the woods, where he can put his own therapeutic theory into effect. But instead of healing their hurt, their isolation, and her research into witchcraft and pagan religions, results in them succumbing to otherworldly influences and a grisly descent into brutal savagery.
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

01:20


Internal Affairs (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
This intense thriller from Mike Figgis stars Andy Garcia as Sergeant Raymond Avilla, an ambitious police officer in the Los Angeles Internal Affairs Department. Avilla is assigned to investigate a brutality case and rapidly comes into conflict with unscrupulous and violent cop Dennis Peck, whose corrupt influence seems to stretch far and wide. A vicious battle of wills between the two men ensues and, as the plot progresses, their strengths and weaknesses are revealed to be remarkably similar, blurring the conventional boundaries between good cop and bad cop. Strong supporting turns are provided by Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf and William Baldwin.
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Bradford, William Baldwin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 18, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


The Black Knight (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
British adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a sword-maker who is tutored at the court of King Arthur, becoming the Black Knight. He needs his new skills to defeat two conspirators who are attempting to overthrow Camelot, and to win the hand of an Earl's daughter.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Anthony Bushell
(Subtitles, 1954, 15, 2 Star)

12:45


The Time Machine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
George Pal's Oscar-winning film stars Rod Taylor as Victorian scientist H George Wells, who invents a time machine. Travelling through the far distant future, with stopovers for World Wars I, II and III, he finally ends up in the year 802,701. Here, he encounters the peaceful Eloi race and falls for the beautiful Weena. But then he discovers that another race exists: the underground-dwelling, Morlocks, who are as vicious as the Eloi are peaceable. Can Wells save the Eloi - and Weena - from the grisly fate the Morlocks have in store for them?
Director: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Hel, Whit Bissell
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 4 Star)

14:50


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16:25


They Who Dare (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Lewis Milestone, who was responsible for classics such as Mutiny on the Bounty and All Quiet on the Western Front, directs this World War II drama, set in the Aegean Sea and extolling the Special Boat Service. Led by Lieutenant Graham, the squadron of English and Greek operatives secretly hop from island to island, sabotaging Axis air bases. But their biggest mission comes when they are called upon to dynamite air bases on heavily-defended Rhodes.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gérard Oury, Eric Pohlmann, Alec Mango
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 3 Star)

18:35


Stardust (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Matthew Vaughn's delightful family fantasy starring Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes. The village of Wall nestles alongside a mysterious wall that must not be crossed. But when Tristan promises to bring his beloved Victoria a star that has fallen from the sky and landed on the other side of the divide, he finds himself caught up in a mystical world. Four treacherous sons also seek the star to gain their dying father's throne, as do three evil witches, for more nefarious reasons. When the star takes the human form of Yvaine, Tristan sets out to take her to Victoria. But, along the way, they face deadly enemies and make unlikely allies.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Robert de Niro, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Enemy at the Gates (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Fact-based war drama set during the 1942-3 battle of Stalingrad. A Russian marksman is given the task of killing a German major, whose own expert shooting skills make him a formidable enemy. Supported by a propaganda officer, the Russian soldier takes up the challenge with resilient determination. But a personal battle develops between the two allies when they both fall for an attractive Jewish comrade.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 4 Star)

23:35


Repo Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in this blood-drenched thriller-cum-satire set in a grimy vision of the near future. Technology has finally solved the problem of organ transplants, at least for those who can afford them. But beware: fall behind on the payments and the organ provider will dispatch repo men with sharp blades to reclaim their property in a swift but grisly operation. Remy and Jake work for one such company, The Union, and are among its best 'bailiffs', performing their allotted tasks ruthlessly. Until, that is, Remy is forced to rely on one of The Union's products himself - at which point his perspective is radically reassessed and he goes on the run, hotly pursued by his erstwhile colleague. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Alice Braga.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice Van Houten, Chandler Canterbury
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 18, 3 Star)

01:45


Cold Weather (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director Aaron Katz blends drama, mystery and comedy in this story about Doug's investigation of the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Rachel. After dropping out of his forensic science university course, Doug returns to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, where he settles into a new life living with his sister Gail, reading detective novels and working at the local ice factory. His colleague Carlos quickly becomes a close friend. When Rachel suddenly disappears, Doug finally gets to put his expertise to work. With Gail and Carlos eagerly in tow, Doug's investigation delves into the mysteries of personal relationships and uncovers more than one secret.
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raúl Castillo, Robyn Rikoon, Jeb Pearson, Brendan McFadden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Battle Cry (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training in Saipan to combat in New Guinea. Based on the novel by Leon Uris. The music by Max Steiner was nominated for an Oscar.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whit, Raymond Massey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

13:50


The Big Trees (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Felix Feist's western stars Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon, an unscrupulous lumberman who goes to northern California to part Quaker settlers from their Giant Redwoods. But he has a change of heart when he falls for Alicia Chadwick.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wy, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr.
(Subtitles, 1952, PG, 3 Star)

15:35


Comanche Station (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Budd Boetticher's tough western follows Jefferson Cody's quest to find the wife of a settler who has been held captive by the Comanches. He frees her, but they're soon ambushed by gunslingers intent on receiving a reward for her return, dead or alive.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust, Rand Brooks
(Subtitles, 1960, 15, 4 Star)

17:05


Carry on Up the Khyber (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Classic Carry On fun from stalwart director Gerald Thomas, featuring the core team of regulars. Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond is in charge of the motley kilted crew of the Third Foot and Mouth regiment at a British outpost in the Khyber Pass. The Khasi of Kalabar has other ideas and wants the 'British devils' dead, but his troops fear what they may or may not have under their 'skirts'. But when one of the regiment is seen wearing underpants the fate of the British in India is at stake.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Rat Race (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gag-meister Jerry Zucker's cracking comedy has a cast to die for. Las Vegas casino owner Donald P Sinclair decides to set up a special event for his highest rollers. Lucky tokens in his slot machines entitle six punters to enter a race across America with $2million as the prize. He'll make a killing on the bets placed on the players while the contestants dash for the cash. Any comparisons to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World are completely deserved but director Jerry Zucker keeps the action flowing while making sure the film, unlike... Mad..., doesn't outstay its welcome. Look out for Kathy Bates as a psychopathic roadside squirrel-seller. Edited for content.
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Lanei Chapman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Seth Green
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Road to Perdition (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sam Mendes' thriller stars Tom Hanks as killer Michael Sullivan, who is in the employ of crime boss John Rooney. But Newman's son is jealous of the closeness the two share and kills Sullivan's family, apart from his oldest child. The remaining Sullivans go on the road seeking revenge and then a new life. But Rooney knows the only way to save his son is to eliminate Sullivan, and sets another hit man on their trail.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
(Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

23:15


The Company Men (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
The feature debut from director John Wells stars Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Ben Affleck as three company management types about to feel the sharp end of the global financial crash. All three work, at varying levels of the upper echelons, for the Boston global transportation systems giant GTX, which is keen to boost its share prices. But in the middle of a recession that's not easy - so it opts for a round of redundancies in a brutal downsizing programme. One of the first to go is sales director and family man Bobby Walker, who's offered a lifeline by his brother-in-law, self-employed carpenter Jack Dolan, but appears too proud to take it.
Director: John Wells
Starring: Ben Affleck, Thomas Kee, Craig Mathers, Gary Galone, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15)

01:20


4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Cristian Mungiu's drama, which can be seen as a companion piece to Cristi Puiu's The Death Mr Lazarescu, stars Laura Vasiliu as Gabita who seeks an abortion in 1980s Romania, which is still firmly under the Ceausescu dictatorship, and where the operation is still illegal. Calling on her roommate Otilia for support, the relationship between the two shifts, as Gabita begins to rely more and more on Otilia as the duo embark on a 24-hour journey to meet an illegal abortionist in a hotel. It's a journey that's beset by both state-imposed perils and Gabita's emotional vacillations.
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Ion Sapdaru, Teodor Corban
(In Romanian with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Throne of Blood (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's classic drama is an atmospheric, pared-down reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the feudal Japan of the Middle Ages. Toshiro Mifune stars as Taketoki Washizu, a distinguished warrior who, in an encounter with a mysterious woman in a woodland glade, learns that he is fated for glory and power, but his rise to the top will be fleeting. He's subsequently goaded by his ambitious wife Lady Asaji Washizu into fulfilling the prophecy by becoming lord of the lofty, cloud-shrouded castle that dominates the landscape. It's a tale of ruthless assassination, and not only for those who block his path. In addition to being another example of Kurosawa's innovation and mastery of the medium, Throne of Blood was also said to have been American poet TS Eliot's favourite film. First play on Film4.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Isuzu Yamada
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

13:15


They Might be Giants (Film) Film icon U certificate
George C Scott and Joanne Woodward star in this curious comedy-drama, directed by Anthony Harvey and written by James Goldman. Justin Playfair is a New Yorker who made a fortune as a lawyer but, following his wife's death, has started to believe that he is Sherlock Holmes. His brother Blevins realises that if he can get power of attorney he can help himself to Justin's wealth - and attempts to get the delusional man committed. But, unfortunately for Blevins, the psychiatrist assigned to the case is Dr Meredith Watson. Not only does her name fit the bill, but she finds herself being caught up in her violin-playing, deerstalker-wearing patient's world, and sets off with him on a series of surreal, peril-imbued adventures around Manhattan.
Starring: Lester Rawlins
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U)

15:00


They Rode West (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
When Allen Seward, the new medical officer at a remote cavalry fort, discovers a Native American tribe infected with malaria and in danger of dying, he decides to help them. But he faces a battle of wills with his less-enlightened captain, Peter Blake, in Phil Karlson's exciting western.
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey, Onslow Stevens, Peggy Converse
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 3 Star)

16:45


Please Sir! (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


The Golden Compass (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards star in Chris Weitz's family fantasy-adventure, based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives in an Oxford college, where the academic and domestic staff do their best to push her enquiring mind down conventional educational routes and quell her tomboy tendencies; it's a losing battle. One day, having sneaked into a private meeting of the college's dons, Lyra learns of mysterious events taking place in the Arctic. Soon after, amid news of mysterious child abductors called the 'Gobblers', her best friend Roger vanishes.
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Sci-fi sequel unfolding a life-and-death battle to avert a nuclear holocaust. A supercomputer that sought to destroy humankind sends a virtually indestructible, shape-shifting cyborg back to our time to kill the human resistance leader in his youth. Aided by another cyborg, the boy and his mother try to alter the events that led to the computer's creation and the nuclear war it triggered.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, 18, 5 Star)

23:40


Harsh Times (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Christian Bale plays Jim Luther Davis, a disturbed Iraq veteran back on Civvy Street and looking for easy money. He and his childhood buddy, the easily led Mike Alonzo, are out on the streets, juiced up on beer and dope, but when they find a gun, things take a darker turn as they get involved with the Mexican drugs dealers who owned the piece. David Ayer's stark drama also contains an intriguing subplot as agents from the Department of Homeland Security approach Davis, hoping to use his skills for their own purposes.
Director: David Ayer
Starring: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodríguez, Eva Longoria Parker, Chaka Forman, Tammy Trull, J.K. Simmons
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 4 Star)

01:55


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.
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Buscemi
(Subtitles, 1996, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Kidnapped (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Following a bloody defeat for the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, naive young David Balfour is cheated of his inheritance by his avaricious Uncle Ebenezer, who then arranges for the lad to be kidnapped and sold into slavery by Captain Hoseason. But, fortunately for Balfour, he meets the fleeing Jacobite rebel Alan Breck who is also aboard the slave ship that's starting on its way to America. But it doesn't get far and, after the vessel runs aground, the pair are thrown into a succession of adventures that lead them to Edinburgh and a fight for justice. Based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Vivien Heilbron
(Subtitles, 1971, U, 3 Star)

13:05


The Moonraker (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
This cavalier romantic thriller is essentially the Scarlet Pimpernel relocated in place and time across the Channel during the English Civil War. George Baker plays the eponymous hero, fighting off the Roundhead foe as he single-handedly saves the country's aristocracy, smuggling them to safety in France. But when Charles II decides to take the trip, Cromwell's cronies are waiting in the wings. Marius Goring and John Le Mesurier beef up the supporting cast, while Sylvia Syms provides the romantic interest in a dashing yarn of love, courage and betrayal.
Director: David MacDonald
Starring: George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Peter Arne, Marius Goring, Richard Leech, Clive Morton
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


The Admirable Crichton (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy, based on JM Barrie's play, stars Kenneth More as the admirable Crichton, butler to Lord Loam and his family. When, while cruising in the South Seas, they are shipwrecked on a desert island, his Lordship takes command but it slowly emerges that Crichton possesses the skills for survival. As the master/servant roles are reversed, even romance is turned upside down; but surely rescue will reassert the status quo?
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Jack Watling
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)

16:35


Winning (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Motor-racing drama about a driver who is single-minded enough to let nothing come between him and the Indy 500 championships - not even his wife. Some exciting racing sequences pile on the thrills.
Director: James Goldstone
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner, Clu Gulager
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

19:10


Down to You (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Whimsical romantic comedy about two college students, Al and Imogen, who fall in love. However, a youthful fear of commitment threatens to destabilise their romance, and when Imogen gets an opportunity to study elsewhere, Al breaks up the relationship - only to realise that he has made a huge mistake.
Director: Kris Isacsson
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Ashton Kutcher
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 12, 2 Star)



21:00


Unknown (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger star in this dynamic action mystery from Jaume Collet-Serra, director of the stylishly creepy horror Orphan. Botanist Dr Martin Harris is attending a science conference in Berlin when, realising he's left his papers at the airport, he jumps in a cab and sets off to retrieve them. But en route he's involved in a massive pile-up which leaves him unconscious and hospitalised. Coming round, he discovers that, lacking proof of identity, no one knows who he is. Worse, back at the hotel, his wife Elizabeth not only claims not to recognise him but also says another man is her husband. Bewildered, Harris sets out to unpick what the hell is going on, aided by taxi driver Gina, who rescued him from the accident. And the further he investigates, the clearer it becomes that something is seriously amiss - and that dark forces are out to put a permanent end to his search for the truth.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, Frank Langella
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:15


Idiocracy (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Mike Judge's sci-fi comedy, Corporal Joe Bauers is selected as the US Army's most unremarkable, average individual and plucked from the ranks to participate in a top-secret experiment that aims to put him into hibernation for a year. Bauers is joined in the research project by prostitute Rita, who hopes to escape pending criminal charges if she takes part in the project. But, after a series of mishaps, the unlucky pair are abandoned and forgotten, only to wake up 500 years later in a world populated by a universally dumb society ruled by halfwits. Thus Joe and Rita find themselves in a brave new world, where they are the two most towering intellects on the planet.
Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony 'Citric' Campos, David Herman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

00:55


Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Jim Jarmusch's film marries up the ancient, honourable traditions of the Samurai with the less honourable traditions of mid-ranking Mafiosi through the enigmatic Ghost Dog. His life having been saved by mobster Louie, Ghost Dog is now beholden and becomes their hit-man, reachable only by carrier pigeon, but deadly efficient. But when a hit goes wrong thanks to Louie, Ghost Dog is the target and now is the time for the Samurai lore to come to the fore to ensure his survival. Part thriller, part meditation on the human condition, the film is also garnished by a wonderful collection of character actors who have spent their lives playing mobsters including Cliff Gorman, Henri Silva and Gene Ruffini.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Dennis Liu, Frank Minucci, Richard Portnow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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13:00


Marley and Me (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel's light comedy-drama - based on a best-selling autobiography - stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as two journalists who welcome an unruly dog into their lives. Relocating to Florida, newly-weds John and Jenny Grogan end up working for rival newspapers, with Jenny landing the more high-profile job. When she starts to get broody, one of John's colleagues suggests they see how they cope with a puppy before trying for a baby, so John picks a cute yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, as a gift for Jenny. Marley is a double-edged sword: he's an untrainably anarchic source of destruction; but he also gives John the material for a wry newspaper column, which improves his standing and the paper's circulation figures. The film follows the Grogans' marriage, through good times and bad, with Marley providing comic relief, and the leads turning in convincing, heart-warming performances.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Ann Dowd
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 4 Star)

15:15


Imagine That (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary friends begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson finds himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)

17:20


The Phantom (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Simon Wincer's retro fantasy adventure, based on Lee Falk's classic comic strip, stars Billy Zane as Kit Walker, otherwise known as the Phantom. The crimefighter, who unlike other superheroes must rely solely on his human strength and ingenuity, is committed to battling all forms of injustice, cruelty and piracy. However, his immediate concern is to keep out of the hands of criminal genius Xander Drax three skulls which, if used together, can confer ultimate power. When Kit's ex-girlfriend Diana Palmer is sent to investigate claims of piracy against Xander, she is captured by female pirates led by Sala. Can the Phantom win the race to unite the skulls? And can he rescue Diana without revealing his secret identity to her?
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 12, 2 Star)

19:10


Bedazzled (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
John Travolta and Denzel Washington star in Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 thriller. It's a day the passengers on a New York subway train are unlikely to forget. And it's one that could rescue the professional life of subway employee Walter Garber, whose glittering career has been derailed by allegations of corruption. Garber is languishing on duty as a train dispatcher when all hell breaks loose after one of the Lexington Avenue line trains is hijacked by a gang led by the supremely self-assured, dispassionately ruthless Ryder. Ryder issues a demand for $10m and makes it clear that he won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in his way. Garber and NYPD hostage negotiator Lieutenant Camonetti attempt to get to grips with the crisis but, as events progress, suspicions arise as to whether there's more to the hijacking than first meets the eye. Also starring James Gandolfini as New York's mayor and Luis Guzman as a disgruntled subway worker who has joined Ryder's gang.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro, Michael Rispoli
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

23:05


28 Days Later (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Horror about Cillian Murphy,one of those unaffected by a plague which has turned most of humanity into blood-crazed zombies. As he and a growing band of survivors group together in London and try to reach the military stronghold commanded by Chris Eccleston in Manchester, they face the most dangerous journey of their lives.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns
(Subtitles, 2002, 18, 4 Star)

01:20


Spanking the Monkey (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Jeremy Davies and Alberta Watson star in David O Russell's directorial debut, a witty, wry drama about a student who is made to abandon his studies in order to look after his mother, who has broken her leg. But, while tending to her post-injury needs, he finds they both have other needs, and they're ones which neither should act upon.
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Jeremy Davies, Elizabeth Newett, Benjamin Hendrickson, Alberta Watson, Carla Gallo, Liberty Jean
(Subtitles, 1994, 18, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Broken Lance (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Edward Dmytryk's Oscar-winning western stars Spencer Tracy as Matt Devereaux, a strict disciplinarian who treats his sons Joe, Ben, Denny and Mike little better than employees on his ranch. However, when he leads a raid on a copper mine that's destroying his land, it's Joe who takes the blame. But returning home after three years in prison, he finds his father dead and his brothers unwilling to recognise his sacrifice.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 3 Star)

13:00


St. Trinian's (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's overhaul of the comedy franchise about the rebellious pupils of a girls' boarding school stars Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett and Gemma Arterton. Annabelle Fritton, daughter of dodgy art dealer Carnaby, enrols at the shabby country boarding school, St Trinian's, run by her aunt Camilla. Head Girl Kelly introduces Annabelle to the school's various factions. And when Annabelle discovers the crazy, raucous 'curriculum', she realises that this is a school like no other. However, once she's past a cruel initiation prank, she settles down and enjoys being part of the chaos. But then disaster strikes: the school lacks the funds to continue. The institution's finest brains come up with a rescue plan... which involves the theft of a world-famous artwork. Also starring in the madness are Colin Firth, as a beleaguered school inspector, and Russell Brand, as Flash Harry, who helps the girls in their myriad nefarious deeds.
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Jonathan Bailey, Mischa Barton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 3 Star)

14:55


Stardust (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Matthew Vaughn's delightful family fantasy starring Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes. The village of Wall nestles alongside a mysterious wall that must not be crossed. But when Tristan promises to bring his beloved Victoria a star that has fallen from the sky and landed on the other side of the divide, he finds himself caught up in a mystical world. Four treacherous sons also seek the fallen star to gain their dying father's throne, as do three evil witches, for more nefarious reasons. When the star takes the human form of Yvaine, Tristan sets out to take her to Victoria. But, along the way, they face deadly enemies and make unlikely allies.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Robert de Niro, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 4 Star)

17:20


Fantastic Mr. Fox (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
A witty stop-motion animated version of the Roald Dahl children's classic from offbeat comedy writer-director Wes Anderson. Now that Mr Fox has become the proud father of a cub, he declares to his wife that he will finally grow up and stop his chicken-pilfering ways. But when some wicked farmers move in to Mr Fox's neck of the woods, it starts to look as though temptation will prove too hard to resist for our hero... Also featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)

19:05


The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Zac Efron takes the title role in this supernatural romantic fantasy from director Burr Steers. Life is looking good for teenager Charlie St Cloud: in spite of his relatively humble origins, his competitive yachting career is progressing nicely and he has just gained acceptance to an Ivy League university. But all this good stuff is destroyed in an instant when his brother Sam is killed in a car crash. Charlie turns his back on the world and takes a job in the cemetery where Sam is buried. It's here that the supernatural element kicks in, as Charlie can see and interact with the spirits of the dead, which means he can continue to spend time with his beloved sibling. But Charlie's world isn't entirely ethereal and, when he falls for his former classmate - and sailing equal - Tess Carroll, he finds himself forced to choose between his love for her and that for Sam, between the living and the dead.
Director: Burr Steers
Starring: Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew, Augustus Prew, Donal Logue, Kim Basinger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Sanctum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield and Ioan Gruffudd star in Alister Grierson's caving drama. Frank McGuire is a vastly experienced cave diver who is leading the exploration of the world's largest unexplored cave system in Papua New Guinea. But when a huge cyclone hits the area, he and the team - which includes his teenage son Josh, the expedition's financier Carl Hurley and Hurley's girlfriend Victoria Elaine - are cut off from their support team up on the surface by torrential influxes of storm water. Trapped, with no hope of returning safely the way they entered, and carrying precious few supplies to sustain themselves, the cavers are forced to see if they can find another way out of the labyrinth.
Director: Alister Grierson
Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie, Christopher Baker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

23:10


Pride and Glory (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Gavin O'Connor's New York-set police corruption thriller stars Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight. When four cops are shot dead in a drugs bust gone bad, detective Ray Tierney is persuaded by his father, NYPD chief Francis Sr, to lead the investigation into what went wrong. But as Ray delves further, it becomes ever more apparent that the corruption he uncovers not only threatens scandal for the Washington Heights precinct, but is also likely to rip apart his own family, most of whom are also in the force.
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ortiz
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

01:45


Thumbsucker (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Lou Taylor Pucci stars in Mike Mills' comedy-drama about a teen's difficult passage into adulthood. Justin Cobb is 17 and suffering the trials of every other kid his age. But his default coping mechanism, sucking his thumb, both singles him out from his cohort and enrages his father, Mike, who seems to take the aberration as a personal affront. A cure clearly needs to be found. But, when Mike's humiliating home-grown solution fails and the efforts of Justin's holistic orthodontist Dr Perry Lyman have just as little effect, it's decided it's time for the lad to see a doctor. He's diagnosed with ADHD and the prescribed drugs do indeed tackle the problem. Unfortunately they also radically, and negatively, transform the mild-mannered teen's character... Also starring Tilda Swinton, as Justin's mum, and Vince Vaughn, as his highly unconventional school debating team coach.
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Keanu Reeves, Ted Beckman, Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


The Big Trees (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Felix Feist's western stars Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon, an unscrupulous lumberman who goes to northern California to part Quaker settlers from their giant redwood trees. But will his attitude be softened when he falls for local lass Alicia Chadwick?
Director: Felix E. Feist
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wy, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr.
(Subtitles, 1952, PG, 3 Star)

12:50


The Big Blockade (Film) Film icon U certificate
This World War II propaganda piece marked the directorial debut of Charles Frend and tells, through interweaving strands, the tale of Britain's blockade of Axis powers and its effects on Germany's economy and morale. Produced by the Ealing Studios for the Ministry of Information, it was originally intended as a two-reel documentary dramatising the work of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. However, Ealing co-funded the film and built it up to feature length, incorporating fictionalised material alongside the documentary footage. The strong cast of British actors includes Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Michael Rennie and Will Hay. Alfred Drayton and Robert Morley appear as somewhat improbable Nazis, in roles that, given its period and the film's brief, are inevitably caricatured. The commentary was spoken by Frank Owen, who was then editor of the Evening Standard.
(Subtitles, U)

14:25


The Black Knight (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
British adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a sword-maker who is tutored at the court of King Arthur, becoming the Black Knight. He needs his new skills to defeat two conspirators who are attempting to overthrow Camelot, and to win the hand of an Earl's daughter.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Anthony Bushell
(Subtitles, 1954, 15, 2 Star)

16:10


Battle Cry (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training in Saipan to combat in New Guinea. Based on the novel by Leon Uris. The music by Max Steiner was nominated for an Oscar.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whit, Raymond Massey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

19:05


The Phantom (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Simon Wincer's retro fantasy adventure, based on Lee Falk's classic comic strip, stars Billy Zane as Kit Walker, otherwise known as the Phantom. The crimefighter, who unlike other superheroes must rely solely on his human strength and ingenuity, is committed to battling all forms of injustice, cruelty and piracy. However, his immediate concern is to keep out of the hands of criminal genius Xander Drax three skulls which, if used together, can confer ultimate power. When Kit's ex-girlfriend Diana Palmer is sent to investigate claims of piracy against Xander, she is captured by female pirates led by Sala. Can the Phantom win the race to unite the skulls? And can he rescue Diana without revealing his secret identity to her?
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 12, 2 Star)



21:00


Knight and Day (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
James Mangold's action-comedy is a jet-setting caper that opens with June Havens crossing paths with Roy Miller at an airport. He's a CIA assassin whose colleagues think has turned rogue agent and are now out to put him permanently out of the game. He realises that, now she's met him, June's life is also in danger from those chasing him, so he kidnaps her to keep her safe. Forced to flee with him, the duo dash around the globe - with locations sweeping from the South Pacific to Seville - and must survive chase after chase in the fight to clear his name and return June to her 'regular' life in Wichita, Kansas.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Elizabeth (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Cate Blanchett received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's award-winning Film Four production. The historical drama traces the monarch's early years, from her battle for the throne against her stepsister Mary Tudor through political and emotional intrigues to her seizure of absolute power as the Virgin Queen, answerable to no man.
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox, Terence Rigby, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Stockbridge
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

01:35


Hunger (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Director Steve McQueen's Film4-funded award-winning drama focuses on the 1981 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Michael Fassbender plays Bobby Sands, one of a group of prisoners who first 'took to the blanket' with a 'dirty protest' in pursuit of their claims for recognition as political prisoners. Sands then became the first one of the group to embark on a hunger strike, which would ultimately end in his death. McQueen's film captures the reek of the urine-flooded, excrement-smeared cells, the intransigence of both sides and, at centre of the film, uses a bravura extended dialogue between Sands and Father Moran to question whether the strike and its resultant deaths would have any effect at all.
Director: Steve McQueen II
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon, Brian Milligan, Lalor Roddy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Comanche Station (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Budd Boetticher's tough western follows Jefferson Cody's quest to find the wife of a settler who has been held captive by the Comanches. He frees her, but they're soon ambushed by gunslingers intent on receiving a reward for her return, dead or alive.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust, Rand Brooks
(Subtitles, 1960, 15, 4 Star)

12:35


Winning (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Motor-racing drama about a driver who is single-minded enough to let nothing come between him and the Indy 500 championships - not even his wife. Some exciting racing sequences pile on the thrills.
Director: James Goldstone
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner, Clu Gulager
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

15:00


Laughter in Paradise (Film) Film icon U certificate
British comedy directed by Mario Zampi and written by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies. Ernest Thesiger plays the eccentric Endicot, who dies leaving £50,000 to each of his four surviving relatives. But there are strings attached: the inheritors must carry out various tasks, unsuited to their natures, in order to inherit.
Starring: Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Alastair Sim
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1951, U)

16:55


Silent Running (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Bruce Dern stars in this ecological sci-fi drama as Freeman Lowell, the lone human crew member on the Valley Forge, a vast spacecraft carrying the remnants of post-apocalypse Earth's plant life. But when he's ordered to destroy his precious cargo, and his robot crewmates are ready to comply, Lowell must take drastic action. It's unsurprising that the film is visually impressive, given that it was the directorial debut of special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull, but Silent Running's greatest strength is perhaps its poignant pathos, and its environmental message is as relevant now as it was when the film was released.
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Steve Brown, Mark Persons
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

18:45


Marley and Me (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel's light comedy-drama - based on a best-selling autobiography - stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as two journalists who welcome an unruly dog into their lives. Relocating to Florida, newly-weds John and Jenny Grogan end up working for rival newspapers, with Jenny landing the more high-profile job. When she starts to get broody, one of John's colleagues suggests they see how they cope with a puppy before trying for a baby, so John picks a cute yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, as a gift for Jenny. Marley is a double-edged sword: he's an untrainably anarchic source of destruction; but he also gives John the material for a wry newspaper column, which improves his standing and the paper's circulation figures.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Ann Dowd
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Along Came a Spider (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
World-weary criminal profiler Alex Cross is challenged to a nasty game when a senator's daughter is kidnapped whilst under Secret Service protection. Cross is still bruised from his last assignment and the loss of his partner, but he needs his wits about him ... as this new case is not as it seems.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 15, 3 Star)

23:00


Road to Perdition (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sam Mendes's thriller stars Tom Hanks as killer Michael Sullivan, who is in the employ of crime boss John Rooney. But Newman's son is jealous of the closeness the two share and kills Sullivan's family, apart from his oldest child. The remaining Sullivans go on the road seeking revenge and then a new life. But Rooney knows the only way to save his son is to eliminate Sullivan, and sets another hit man on their trail.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
(Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

01:15


This Boy's Life (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Leonardo DiCaprio makes his major feature debut in Michael Caton-Jones's drama, which is based on the autobiography of university professor Tobias Wolff. Teenager Tobias's divorced mother Caroline is looking for a new start after yet another failed relationship. They head west, ending up in the town of Concrete, Utah, where she hooks up with Dwight Hansen, a smooth-talking character with children of his own. But when Tobias spends time alone with his future stepfather he experiences the man's dark side, and learns to both assert himself and search for a more positive future. Screened to tie in with this year's Academy Awards ceremony. Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Wolf of Wall Street.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Robert de Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper
(Subtitles, 1993, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


They Rode West (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Western directed by Phil Karlson. When Allen Seward, the new medical officer at a remote cavalry fort, discovers a Native American tribe infected with malaria and in danger of dying, he decides to help them. But he faces a battle of wills with his less-enlightened captain, Peter Blake.
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey, Onslow Stevens, Peggy Converse
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 3 Star)

12:45


Please Sir! (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

14:50


Crooks Anonymous (Film) Film icon U certificate
Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie star in this comedy from director Ken Annakin. When petty thief Dandy Forsdyke is coerced into going straight by his stripper girlfriend, he joins an unofficial organisation for reforming criminals called Crooks Anonymous. After resisting the urge to steal, he's declared 'cured', but the group is proffered great temptation when circumstances conspire to leave Dandy alone with £250,000.
Starring: Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, James Robertson Justice, Julie Christie
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1962, U)

16:35


Edge of Darkness (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Wartime drama following the fortunes of a group of Norwegian townspeople gradually galvanising their resistance to the occupying Nazis. Starring Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness underground, and Anne Sheridan as Karen Stensgard, his love interest, with Walter Huston as her father, Dr Martin Stensgard, the village doctor.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1943, U, 4 Star)

18:55


Imagine That (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary friends begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson finds himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
John Travolta and Denzel Washington star in Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 thriller. It's a day the passengers on a New York subway train are unlikely to forget. And it's one that could rescue the professional life of subway employee Walter Garber, whose glittering career has been derailed by allegations of corruption. Garber is languishing on duty as a train dispatcher when all hell breaks loose after one of the Lexington Avenue line trains is hijacked by a gang led by the supremely self-assured, dispassionately ruthless Ryder. Ryder issues a demand for $10m and makes it clear that he won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in his way. Garber and NYPD hostage negotiator Lieutenant Camonetti attempt to get to grips with the crisis but, as events progress, suspicions arise as to whether there's more to the hijacking than first meets the eye. Also starring James Gandolfini as New York's mayor and Luis Guzman as a disgruntled subway worker who has joined Ryder's gang.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro, Michael Rispoli
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

23:05


Copycat (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Sigourney Weaver stars in Jon Amiel's lauded thriller as Helen Hudson, an agoraphobic psychologist working with cop MJ Monahan and her partner Reuben Goetz. The trio are on the trail of a serial-killer with a difference: each of his murders is based on the modus operandi of famous serial killers from the past. And in order to track him down, they must call upon the opinions and insights of convicted killer Daryll Lee Cullum, with whom Hudson shares an unsettling past.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick Jr., J.E. Freeman
(Subtitles, 1995, 18, 3 Star)

01:25


The Darjeeling Limited (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Wes Anderson's comedy stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as brothers Francis, Peter and Jack Whitman, who used to be close but haven't spoken to each other since their father's funeral. But when Francis survives a bad motorcycle crash, he is inspired to ask his siblings to join him on a train journey across India on The Darjeeling Limited train to visit their mother, who lives in a convent in the Himalayan foothills. However, the trio are thrown off the train after a misunderstanding involving pepper spray, and then encounter cobras, crocodiles and a village funeral. But in the course of their adventures, they learn to shed their emotional luggage as they attempt to re-establish a family bond. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March. Film4 viewers can also catch Anderson's Rushmore on Friday night.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky, Waris Ahluwalia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)