Diary of the Dead (18)

12:50am Thursday 6th March 2008

It’s a long march to the grave whenever George A Romero is around. Diary of the Dead, the director’s latest zombie chiller, drags its weary carcass into view behind Day of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Coach Trip of the Dead (okay, that last one was made up).

Lack of wedded bliss poses a knotty problem

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

Margot at the wedding (15): How accustomed we’ve grown to Nicole Kidman’s face. Taking the Australian-made thriller Dead Calm as her breakthrough, she has been at the top of the movie game for 20 years. Quite an achievement when the career expectancy of the average actress ranks behind that of a bacon-wrapped lion tamer.

The Bank Job (15)

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

It's "Get yer trousers on, you're nicked" time again in this seventies-set British crime caper, based on a true story hushed up by the Establishment at the time.

The Accidental Husband (12a)

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

Fancy a fluffy romantic comedy that will send you into the mother of all bad moods? Then try Griffin Dunne's smug clunker.

Semi-Pro (15)

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

With this kitsch 1970s-set basketball comedy, "frat pack" comedian Will Ferrell adds to his gallery of caricatures Jackie Moon, owner, coach and power forward of the ailing Flint, Michigan Tropics.

Don’t Touch the Axe (PG)

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

Jacques Rivette's drama has it all - an impassioned suitor, a torn woman, class, religion, revenge and war.

Untraceable (18)

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

No trouble in tracing the origins of this copycat serial killer chiller. Untraceable combines the noirish gloomy atmosphere and glum police investigation of a series of horrific homicides made popular by Se7en with the ingenious designs for death and torture porn-style execution of the victims from the Saw series.

Fruitless search for the meaning of love... and pie

12:06am Thursday 21st February 2008

My Blueberry nights (12A): Odd that Wong Kar-wai’s romantic drama wasn’t out in time for Valentine’s Day, as it’s as drippy as a Channel-swimming Labrador. Like his previous films, the Hong Kong director’s English-language debut aims to appeal to the head, the heart and the eye.

Be Kind Rewind (12A)

12:03am Thursday 21st February 2008

In this Prozac nation of ours, the government should consider mass prescribing Michel Gondry’s movies as a way of lifting the general mood.

	Rambo (18)
	12:04am Thu 21 Feb 08
	Exploding heads, bullets tearing through flesh, throats being ripped out. Ah, haven’t you missed Rambo? After resurrecting Rocky, Sylvester Stallone has disinterred his other famous creation.

Sharkwater (PG)

12:01am Thursday 21st February 2008

Underwater photographer Rob Stewart attempts an extreme makeover on one of the planet’s most feared creatures. As Stewart points out, sharks kill fewer people each year than elephants and tigers, illegal drugs, and – weird statistic alert! – vending machines.

W∆ Z (18)

12:59am Thursday 21st February 2008

A woman’s body is found with letters and a symbol carved into her belly. As other corpses turn up, detective Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgard) realises he has a serial killer on his patch and must solve the riddle fast.

Gamerz (15)

12:02am Thursday 21st February 2008

Robbie Fraser’s made-in-Scotland comedy arouses mixed feelings. Half of you admires the obvious effort that has gone into getting the thing made. The other half wants to shake everyone concerned firmly by the throat for not doing a better job of it.

U2 3D (U)

Thursday 21st February 2008

If you can’t get to a U2 concert, let it come to you via 3D. That’s the thinking behind this rock doc shot in Buenos Aires. Whether you wave a lighter in the air at the thought of seeing Bono in the round depends on your liking of the warbling munchkin with the big bank balance.

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