Odeon Manchester

2012

Read the director's guide the perfect disaster movie...

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

Alvin and the Chipmunks
Based on the popular cartoon series, this is a big-screen outing for a trio of chipmunks who sing pop favourites in an inimitable high-pitch vocal style. When their natural habitat is destroyed...

Bunny & the Bull
‘Mighty Boosh’ director King makes his feature-length debut with a comic tale of two mismatched London chums, one hip and dismissive, the other nerdy and sympathetic, who get into all sorts of...

Cracks
As Ridley’s daughter, Scott probably got filmmaking manuals to chew on as a baby and her first directing effort demonstrates their effect. All 1930s films, apparently, must be achingly slow and...

Dorian Gray
Read our report from the set of the film here

Unlike ‘The...

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Read an interview with Anderson here

Glorious 39
Many of British cinema’s grandees (Nighy, Lee, Christie, Redgrave) come out to play for Poliakoff’s first cinema film for over a decade. It’s a Hitchcockian wartime drama whose journey is...

Harry Brown
I ended up feeling a bit sorry for Michael Caine by the time this hateful vigilante flick set in modern-day London came to a...

Law Abiding Citizen
If you can buy ‘300’ star Gerard Butler as a vigilante with a penchant for quoting Prussian military theorist Carl von...

Me and Orson Welles

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Watch our video interview with Cassel

Nativity
Here is a list of things that sprang to mind while watching Debbie Isitt’s festive putting-on-a-show ordeal, in which Jon Harris says his routine sequel is a ‘seamless continuation’ of Neil Marshall’s heart-stopping ‘survival horror’...

The Fourth Kind
'Do you honestly believe,' symapthetic psychoanalyst Dr Campos (Elias Koteas) asks his widowed friend and colleague Dr Abbey Tyler (Milla JovovichRobert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart return in this...