1 Day

A tough, uncompromising drama from the mean streets of Birmingham.

9

We’re dropped into the world of 9 much like its titular character is: with little sense of where we are and without the words, at first, to describe it. There’s nothing but desolation...

A Christmas Carol

Director Robert Zemeckis uses the motion-capture techniques developed in his previous film, 'Beowulf', to tell re-spin Charles...

An Education

Read an interview with Scherfig here

Bright Star

Reviewed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

Jane Campion’s ‘Bright...

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

The latest bid to fill the looming gap left by the end of ‘Harry Potter’ is this scattershot but entertaining adaptation of ‘The Saga of Darren Shan’, a series of kids’ books narrated by...

Couples Retreat

The residual affection for ‘Swingers’ duo Vince Vaughn and Jon FavreauBrenda Blethyn) to need a wheelchair, doting con Nick Kane (Tamer...

Fantastic Mr Fox

Wes Anderson turns to stop motion animation in this adaptation of Roald Dahl’s heartwarming kids favourite, featuring the...

Grease

The real progenitor of this musical celebrating the rock'n'roll '50s, had it not fudged some of the less adequate dance numbers by shooting above the knees, would be West Side...

Harry Brown

Jennifer's Body

Megan Fox wields her sexuality like a blunt object—a sledgehammer in lipgloss—in the new horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body. It’s the film’s one truly witty joke:...

Michael Jackson's This Is It
Just as the 2007 documentary on the Apollo moon landings ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ struck a blow against all the crackpot theorists who thought Buzz, Neil and the other guy were...

Moon

When it premiered at Sundance, Duncan “Son of Bowie” Jones’s sci-fi thriller came advance-buzzed as a cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey and...

Mysteries of Egypt

Paper Heart

In this slippery bit of postmodern playfulness, Yi plays Charlyne Yi, comedian and actor, who is making a documentary about love, a concept in which she does not believe (Awww). In the...

Saw VI
Although you should hack off your own arm rather than contribute any more money to the undeservedly long-lived Saw franchise, it must be admitted that this fifth sequel is less bad than the fourth....

The Fourth Kind
'Do you honestly believe,' symapthetic psychoanalyst Dr Campos (Elias Koteas) asks his widowed friend and colleague Dr Abbey Tyler (Milla JovovichRicky GervaisJesse Eisenberg), partner him with a bald,...

Odeon Manchester

1 Day

2012

9

A Christmas Carol

An Education

Bright Star

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Couples Retreat

Fantastic Mr Fox

Grease

Harry Brown

Jennifer's Body

Michael Jackson's This Is It

Moon

Mysteries of Egypt

Paper Heart

Saw VI

The Fourth Kind