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Is 'Paranormal Activity' the new 'Blair Witch'?
How does a film go from DIY experiment to box-office smash? 'Paranormal Activity' director Oren Peli explains
Still running
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The second instalment of Stephanie Meyer's teen fantasy turns the franchise into a juggernaut.
2012
Roland Emerich's latest ditches feasible plot and character for FX bombast.
Glorious 39
A daft, creepy political yarn in the Hitchcockian vein from TV dramatist-playwright Stephen Poliakoff
Harry Brown
Michael Caine cleans up the streets with his trusty shooter in this hateful, London-set vigilante flick
A Christmas Carol
Bob Zemeckis places a digitally animated Jim Carrey into Dickens’s seminal Christmas tale
The First Day of the Rest Of Your Life
The classic French family drama gets a modern reboot in this entertaining saga of life, love, death, pop music
Michael Jackson's This Is It
A last hurrah for the troubled entertainer in this surprisingly thrilling and uplifting doc
Fantastic Mr Fox
Wes Anderson thrillingly mixes Roald Dahl's England with Upper East Side New York
Critics' choice
A Serious Man
The Coens' latest takes in marriage, maths, modern Judaism and mail-order record clubs
The Informant!
Soderbergh's underrated corporate comedy boasts a career best performance from Matt Damon
The White Ribbon
Haneke’s extraordinary new film is a monochrome ensemble piece set in a German village on the eve of World War I.
Machan
Sweet Sri Lankan underdog tale directed by Uberto Pasolini
Examined Life
Interesting but un-cinematic attempt to bring philosophy to the big screen
Bright Star
Jane Campion’s breezy and beautiful film about the last days of John Keats
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Doc that charts the development of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 folly
An Education
Lone Scherfig's ‘Fish Tank’ for the suburbs rides on a superb performance from Carey Mulligan
News & Features
Steven Soderbergh on 'The Informant!' and 'The Girlfriend Experience'
We talk to Steven Soderbergh about his two forthcoming films: one featuring a porn star, the other a chubby Matt Damon
The films that deserve a TV spin-off
With Roland Emmerich suggesting he'd like to make a '2012' TV spin-off, we propose some more movie-to-TV serialisations
Michael Haneke discusses 'The White Ribbon'
Dave Calhoun met with Michael Haneke in Munich to discuss the details of his Palme d'Or winner, 'The White Ribbon'
The Coen brothers discuss 'A Serious Man'
Masters of contrary comedy, Joel and Ethan Coen have struck gold again with their latest, ‘A Serious Man’
Roland Emmerich's guide to disaster movies
Emmerich gives David Jenkins tips on creating the perfect global catastrophe
Michael Haneke: The man behind the menace
From Cannes to Munich to London, Dave Calhoun tours Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner, 'The White Ribbon'
Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts
Time Out lists the 50 finest, most fully formed debuts of all time
Classic Film Club
Classic Film Club: 'Grave of the Fireflies'
Each week Tom Huddleston watches a classic film he's never seen before. This week: Isao Takahata's 'Grave of the Fireflies'
Ten spot
Cinema's best stand-ups
As 'Funny People' hits cinemas, Adam Lee Davies looks back over a century of cinematic stand-ups
Cinema's craziest car chases
With the release of petrol-head actioner 'Fast & Furious', Time Out look back over some of cinema's craziest car chases
Bad dog movies
The crazy mutt in 'Marley and Me' got Time Out thinking about some other bad dog movies...
Footlight follies - films ripe to be made into musicals
Time Out offers some suggestions for films that that could be given the Broadway treatment
London cinemas
London's first in-store cinema
Later this month, Wimbledon will play host to the country’s first in-store cinema. Dave Calhoun was given an exclusive guided tour
The best film quizzes in London
David Jenkins puts aside his well-thumbed film encyclopedia and rounds up the city’s best film quizzes
Outdoor film screenings in London 2009
Our guide to the best places to see films outside in London this summer.
The essential guide to filmgoing in London
Hate popcorn? Like to drink wine in the cinema? Need Bollywood? Love short films? We present Time Out’s essential guide to London filmgoing
Blogs and videos
Features
Stephen Poliakoff discusses 'Glorious 39'
Stephen Poliakoff’s ‘Glorious 39’ is his first film for cinema since ‘Food of Love’ in 1997. Time Out met him
London Children's Film Festival
Read our exclusive reviews of films playing at the 2009 London Children’s Film Festival
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 might have been
List
Time Out's 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam
In celebration of the release of Pixar's 'Up' and Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr Fox', read our rundown of fifty classic feature length animations
Profile
Sam Rockwell: a life in film
Sam Rockwell shows us his acting mettle in 'Moon', but isn't it high time he made it on to the Hollywood A-list?
Nicolas Cage: a life in film
To celebrate the release of his latest movie, 'Knowing', Time Out takes a look at the enduring box office appeal of Nicolas Cage