Lexi Cinema

A Hijacking

Danish telly has taught us much: the attraction of good knitwear (‘The Killing’); the finer points of Danish politics (‘Borgen’). Now, from this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and – perhaps more usefully – how to...

My Neighbour Totoro (Dubbed)

Satsuki and her sister Mei move into an old house in 1950s Tokyo with their father, university professor Tatsuo Kusukabe, whose wife Yasuko is recovering from serious illness. The children are delighted to find that tiny dust creatures inhabit their...

My Neighbours The Yamadas

The Great Gatsby

‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ showed us that Australian director Baz Luhrmann can throw a hell of a party. Now, after the epic drabness of ‘Australia’ he pulls the stereo out of storage and does it again. The best scene in this fast and furiou...

Oz the Great and Powerful

It’s been 28 years since Disney last followed the Yellow Brick Road – and given the critical and commercial whipping endured by 1985’s tangled, terrifying ‘Return to Oz’, you can hardly blame them for being cautious. Such is the cultural landmark sta...

Gimme the Loot

This debut indie by young New Yorker Adam Leon has energy, humour and ideas to spare. What ‘Gimme the Loot’ also has going for it is a very strong sense of time and place. Two frustrated and ballsy teens, Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Wash...

Little Miss Sunshine

For a movie generated from the Amerindie algorithm of family dysfunction, road-trip catharsis and studied quirk, this dark-edged ensemble comedy often borders on the loveable – as if a long-division problem had somehow become self-aware and started p...

The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone