Odeon Bromborough

Appaloosa

It ain’t easy being a lawman in a Western mining town like Appaloosa, home to a slimy rancher named Bragg (Irons). For starters, Bragg just shot three deputies who tried to arrest him,...

Death Race

It would take a team of semioticians to explain why Statham is somehow more compelling when obscured by an iron mask. But he is, as “Frankenstein,” this vicious thriller’s Web-celeb racer,...

Disaster Movie

At least the title is partly true: This would-be satire is indeed a disaster. Scary Movie creators Friedberg and Seltzer return to their hit-or-miss formula of bite-sized...

Get Smart

Big-screen version of the hit 1960s comedy about an accident-prone spy called Max Smart. The film version sees Smart, who works for the secretive government agency CONTROL, battling the...

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sally Hawkins is a real delight in Mike Leigh’s new...

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People

Conflicted British journo Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) used to poke fun at celebrity culture in his left-field London mag, but, now...

Mamma Mia!

Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanAl Pacino and Robert De...

Taken

Written by ‘Leon’ director Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel (‘The Transporter’), ‘Taken’ is a...

The Duchess

If you’ve seen the posters for ‘The Duchess’, you’ll know that they recall the marital woes of another Spencer, Princess Diana, born two centuries after Georgiana (David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

The Strangers

To paraphrase H.P. Lovecraft, terror comes from the anticipation of intense fear, while horror is what happens when such promises are delivered upon. Writer-director Tom McCarthyDiane English’s abysmal remake of George Cukor’s 1939 femme classic will have fans of the original growing claws....

Tropic Thunder

Attention, fans of Pineapple Express: Here’s the real transgressive comedy of the summer—more or less Stiller’s version of The Last Movie....