Nim’s island (U)

12:08am Thursday 1st May 2008

Jodie Foster, last seen pounding New York’s meaner streets in vigilante thriller The Brave One, takes a break from reality in this likeable fantasy adventure. The double-Oscar winner plays author Alexandra Rover, creator of an Indiana Jones-style fictional hero.

User Rating: 10/10

P2 (18)

12:06am Thursday 1st May 2008

Franck Khalfoun’s shlock horror is the latest in the rapidly growing young-women-being-terrorised-by-striplight genre. Rachel Nichols is the blonde simply asking for trouble by being hard-working, ambitious, and parking her car under the office on Christmas Eve.

It’s all there in black and white

12:05am Thursday 24th April 2008

Persepolis (12A): Persepolis won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, then cleaned up at the box office across France and was subsequently nominated for Best Animated Film at this year’s Oscars.

Stop-loss (15)

12:02am Thursday 24th April 2008

Hollywood has been quick off the mark to make movies that directly engage with the Iraq War, compared to the 10 years it took Tinseltown to start on Vietnam, but none of them have proved popular with cinema-goers.

The Oxford murders (15)

12:59am Thursday 24th April 2008

The English whodunnit meets The Da Vinci Code in this mathematical murder mystery set in and around the the dreaming spires of Oxford. John Hurt and Elijah Wood play a professor and student who apply their shared passion for logic to the investigation of a series of killings.

Deception (15)

12:57am Thursday 24th April 2008

As glossy and sleazy as a pornographic magazine, this erotic thriller is a throwback to trashy American movies of the 1980s such as 91/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

The Judd Apatow film factory continues to churn out slacker/ nerd comedies whose quality runs in inverse proportion to their frequency. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, produced by Apatow and written by its star Jason Segel, represents a new low.

Three and out (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

Slapstick comedy and soul-searching drama are uneasily wed in this tonally uneven but engaging Britflick. Skinny Englishman Mackenzie Crook and burley Irishman Colm Meaney make a watchable odd couple.

User Rating: 10/10

I’m a cyborg (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

This weird and whimsical film from South Korea’s Chan-wook Park marks a change of tone – if not style – for the feted filmmaker who secured his place in world cinema with his shocking revenge trilogy Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy, and Lady Vengeance.

The eye (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

Hollywood’s pillaging of Asian horror cinema continues apace with this remake of Hong Kong filmmaking brothers Danny and Oxide Pang’s exercise in ocular terror.

A glass half-full of bubbly

12:56am Thursday 17th April 2008

Happy-go-lucky (15): Just how bubbly is the heroine of Happy-Go-Lucky? Well, if you parachuted her into EastEnders she’d be greeted as the Antichrist. If you could bottle her spirit the makers of anti-depressants would go bust in a day.

	In Bruges (18)
	12:56am Thu 17 Apr 08
	Playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh follows his Oscar-winning short Six Shooter with a firecracker first feature so savvy it almost makes Belgium seem cool.

Street kings (15)

12:56am Thursday 17th April 2008

From the writer of Training Day comes another expedition into the LAPD’s murky recesses. This time it’s Keanu Reeves playing against type as the cop finding it hard to toe the line between right and wrong.

Fool’s gold (12A)

12:09am Thursday 17th April 2008

Who knows why Donald Sutherland agreed to star in this tedious adventure comedy? Not only is he subjected to a script so awful it hurts, they make him adopt a British accent straight out of Noel Coward.

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