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What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases


Cinema food: the ultimate survey

Cinema food: the ultimate survey

Find out everything you always wanted to know about cinema food, but were afraid to ask.

 

The A-Team
Rated 3 star(s)

The '80s TV mercenaries get an explosive overhaul

The A-Team

Gainsbourg
Rated 3 star(s)

Magical realist biopic of the late Gallic chanteur

Gainsbourg

The Karate Kid
Rated 2 star(s)

Classic weedy-kid-makes-good parable remade

The Karate Kid

South of the Border
Rated 4 star(s)

Oliver Stone's combative doc on South American politics

South of the Border

Down Terrace
Rated 4 star(s)

The wait is over: a decent British gangster movie!

Down Terrace

Separado!
Rated 3 star(s)

Wry missives from Patagonia, c/o Gruff Rhys

Separado!
 

Still running

Inception

Inception

Chris Nolan's flawed but fantastic heist thriller is a triumph of individual artistic endevour

Toy Story 3

Pixar pulls another heatbreaking gem out of the bag for the closing chapter of this much-loved franchise

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The third chapter of this tween behemoth franchise is as duff as the previous two

Predators

Nimrod Antal delivers hard core sci-fi thrills in this superior, belated action sequel

Shrek Forever After

The series returns for a fourth film – and this time, it’s gone sci-fi

Get Him to the Greek

Russell Brand earns his Hollywood spurs in this raucous music industry road movie

Whatever Works

Woody Allen returns with a light philosophical comedy and Larry David as his lead

Sex and the City 2

Carrie Bradshaw and her fashion-conscious gal pals are back, and they’re goin' to Abu Dhabi

Death at a Funeral

A modest British romp gets a Hollywood makeover a mere two years later


Critics' choice

My Night with Maud

My Night with Maud

Eric Rohmer's 1969 movie about the erotic and psychologically consoling nature of talking returns

Ivul

Brit iconoclast Andrew Kötting returns with a fable about a family breakdown and eccentric protest

Rough Aunties

Globe-hopping British documentarian Kim Longinotto turns in a harrowing, though life-affirming Durban-set film

Bluebeard

French provocatrice Catherine Breillat turns Charles Perrault's fairytale into a study of erotic power games

Went the Day Well?

British paranoia masterpiece from Brazilian expatriate director, Alberto Cavalcanti

Leaving

The career renaissance of Kristin Scott-Thomas continues apace with this steamy French drama

White Material

Claire Denis returns to Africa for a mesmerising portrait of civil war, racial tension and one woman’s resistance to change

Heartbreaker

A smooth French take on the classic Hollywood romcom


News & Features

The week's new films reviewed and rated

The week's new films reviewed and rated

Two '80s re-imaginings are this week's big cinema releases, but don't miss Gruff Rhys's travels in Patagonia

The Illusionist: trailer preview

Watch the trailer for Sylvain Chomet's long-awaited follow-up to 'Belleville Rendez-vouz'

Andrew Kötting discusses 'Ivul'

One of Britain's most interesting and idiosyncratic directors, Andrew Kötting, talks to Dave Calhoun about his new film, 'Ivul'

Why Christopher Nolan is not the new Stanley Kubrick

Tom Huddleston explains why the director of 'Inception' hasn't yet scaled the great heights of Kubrick

'Toy Story 3' director Lee Unkrich talks to Time Out

Pixar’s frolicsome sequel ‘Toy Story 3’ is as good as anything the animated studio has produced. Derek Adams spoke to director Lee Unkrich

How to make your own 3D film

Tom Huddleston shows you how to make your own ‘Avatar’ in five easy stages

Time Out Live's Evening with Oliver Stone

He talks to Time Out Film Editor Dave Calhoun about 40 years of filmmaking

Francis Ford Coppola: My Hollywood exile

The director of ‘The Godfather’ returns with his new film 'Tetro'. David Jenkins finds out what makes the man tick



Best of 2009

Critics' choices: the films of 2009

Critics' choices: the films of 2009

Time Out's film critics pick their five best (and one worst) offerings from the year in movies, from talking foxes to the cheekiest gay Austrian ever

The DVDs of 2009

Time Out's Film team select the ten best (and one worst) DVD film releases of 2009


Ten spot

An A-Z of Ozu

An A-Z of Ozu

To celebrate a retrospective of the films of Yasujiro Ozu's, Time Out offer a bluffer's guide to the director's stylistic and thematic tropes

The art of the film franchise reboot

Time Out offers the ultimate past, present and future guide to reviving a film franchise

Ten inspirations behind 'Avatar'?

As a new trailer for James Cameron's highly-anticipated CG space-opera 'Avatar' is released, Time Out ponders what the influences behind the film...


Big lists

The 50 greatest sports movies

The 50 greatest sports movies

Time Out decided to dust off its jockstrap to bring you our list of the 50 triumphs of sporting cinema

Time Out's 50 greatest monster movies

Time Out lists our 50 favourite cinematic stalkers, growlers, slashers and biters.

Time Out's 101 Films of the Decade

Ten years, thousands of movies and millions of dollars in international box office, and it all boils down to this

Time Out's 50 greatest animated films

Our definitive rundown of fifty classic feature length animations

The 50 greatest World War II movies: part one

The greatest film's set during and about WWII

50 essential sci-fi films

The 50 sci-fi films you need to see in order to understand the genre





Summer film preview

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    Inception Chris Nolan distorts time, space and dreams

     
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    Knight and Day The Cruiser returns in this sexy spy thriller

     
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    Gainsbourg The French pop icon gets a lavish biopic

     
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    The A-Team The eighties TV mainstay gets a noughties reboot

     

Features

Gruff Rhys on Penguins, Patagonia and Folk Rock

Gruff Rhys on Penguins, Patagonia and Folk Rock

The lead singer of Welsh indie band Super Furry Animals discusses his debut movie, ‘Separado!’.

Flops! Follies! Failures! Cinema's 50 Greatest Disasters!

Flops! Follies! Failures! Cinema's 50 Greatest Disasters!

We present our list of cinema's most spectacular follies, most saddening flops and most unbearable failures

Hard talk with Oliver Stone

Hard talk with Oliver Stone

The director of 'JFK' and 'Wall Street' talks to Wally Hammond about the US elite, Chávez, Bush and Nixon

East v West – Two new London cinemas

East v West – Two new London cinemas

Dave Calhoun checks out two alternatives to the multiplex: the Aubin in Shoreditch and the down ’n’ dirty Portobello Pop-Up




Obituary

Eric Rohmer: 1920 – 2010

Eric Rohmer: 1920 – 2010

The master French filmmaker Eric Rohmer has died. Geoff Andrew celebrates his life and films


Application

Time Out iPhone app!

Time Out iPhone app!

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