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Identity Thief (15)

Thursday 21 March 2013

This is a film which suffers from its own identity crisis as it can't decide whether it is a comedy drama or a goofy comedy.

Jack The Giant Slayer (12A)

Thursday 21 March 2013

Bryan Singer's lavish film adaptation of one of my least favourite fairy tales Jack and the Beanstalk is surprisingly rousing and a good entertaining romp.

Post Tenebras Lux (18)

Thursday 21 March 2013

The Mexican director Carlos Reygadas always makes idiosyncratic, poetic and provocative films and Post Tenebras Lux - Light After Darkness - starts with a strange sequence of events.

Reality (15)

Thursday 21 March 2013

Matteo Garrone's dark comedy on the seductive power of TV goes some way to explaining why Italians vote Berlusconi

Red Dawn (15)

Thursday 14 March 2013

The enemy may have changed but the name of the game is still the same - the US is invaded by a foreign force and a bunch of youngsters vow to defeat them in this reboot of John Milius's 1984 action film.

Shell (15)

Thursday 14 March 2013

Shell and her dad Pete are two lonely creatures running a petrol station in a desolate yet beautiful part of the Scottish Highlands whose daily monotony is interrupted by a few regular customers.

Welcome To The Punch (15)

Thursday 14 March 2013

James McAvoy and Mark Strong go head to head in this slick and stylish British crime flick set in a hyper-real London.

The Paperboy (15)

Thursday 14 March 2013

Based on Pete Dexter's novel, Lee Daniels's film is set in the 1960s and it's a sexually and racially-charged noir of desire, ambition, prejudice and crime.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Thursday 14 March 2013

Be under no illusions. This is one of those predictable broad-stroke comedies where you see the jokes coming a mile off but you can't help but be entertained by the charismatic comic stars on show.

Beyond The Hills (12A)

Thursday 14 March 2013

This profoundly emotional film by Cristian Mungiu, based on Tatiana Niculescu Bran's books, investigates real events which occurred at the Tanacu monastery in Romania. There a young nun died in 2005 after an exorcism ritual.