Film
What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases
The road to the Oscars starts here…
We'll have to wait till February to hear the nominations for this year's Oscars, but here are the front-runners
Opening this week
Still running
The Descent: Part 2
Jon Harris's routine sequel toNeil Marshall’s heart-stopping, femme-fronted spelunking movie
Paranormal Activity
The film touted as 'the new "Blair Witch" more than delivers in the low-fi scares department
Planet 51
Middling kiddie digimation about an all-American astronaut landing on an alien planet.
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.
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
Critics' choice
Me and Orson Welles
Richard Linklater’s charming new film about the insecurities and comradeship of actors
The Girlfriend Experience
Soderbergh's latest looks at sex and money via the day-to-day travails of a high end call girl played by pornstar Sasha Grey
Séraphine
Winner of Best Film at France’s César awards, Martin Provost offers an utterly beguiling biopic of Séraphine de Senlis
Disgrace
JM Coetzee’s 1999 examination of post-apartheid South Africa gets a fine film treatment
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
An Education
Lone Scherfig's ‘Fish Tank’ for the suburbs
News & Features
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
Jim Jarmusch on 'The Limits of Control'
Jim Jarmusch has followed ‘Broken Flowers’ with an esoteric crime mystery. Dave Calhoun speaks to him from his New York office
On the set of Ken Loach's 'Route Irish'
Dave Calhoun meets Ken Loach on the set of his forthcoming Iraq war movie
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
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
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
Richard Linklater on 'Me and Orson Welles'
Dave Calhoun meets the 49-year-old, Houston-born filmmaker Richard Linklater to discuss his new comedy
Martin Provost discusses 'Séraphine'
Trevor Johnston talks to the director of 'Séraphine' about bringing a little known French painter back to life
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












