Cineworld Runcorn

88 Minutes

All great actors have films they’d rather forget, and Al Pacino isn’t exempt from starring in his share of...

The Apartment

Diamond-sharp satire with a brilliant performance from Lemmon as the insurance clerk who forges ahead in the rat race by lending his apartment out to philandering senior executives, only to...

City of Ember

Gil Kenan’s scary animated movie ‘Monster House’ acknowledged its young audience’s ability to engage with a surprisingly...

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...

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...

Igor

‘I’d rather be a good nobody than an evil somebody’ is the mantra for this undistinguished animated Frankenstein comedy spin-off. Igor is one of many identical-looking hunchbacks who aid the...

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...

Space Chimps

If chimps can travel to space, can they also write animated films? This conceptual hodgepodge is essentially what you’d expect—a Saturday-morning-TV plot decked out with references to...

Taken

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

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The son of a Nazi officer befriends a concentration camp inmate in this harrowing, inspiring drama.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

'The Chronicles of Narnia' continue with this action packed sequel to the hugely succesful 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'. The four Pevensie children return to Narnia to find that 1,000...

The House Bunny

Faris, last seen through a haze of pot smoke in Smiley Face, plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris’s movies fail her total...

The Women

Diane 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....

WALL-E

Lonely cleaning robot Wall-e is the last sentient being on Planet Earth, now an intergalactic waste disposal site. But one night a gleaming ship appears, whisking Wall-e away on a dizzying...