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DIRECTOR Vicenzo Natali considers the horrific consequences of mankind's meddling in his stylish thriller, co-written by Antoinette Terry Bryant and Doug Taylor.Read

Movie review: Drew Barrymore's on a role in directoral debut, Derby Girl

YOUTH springs eternal for Ellen Page. Oscar nominated for her role as a pregnant 16-year-old in the raucous comedy Juno, the 23-year-old Canadian actress has forged a career playing dysfunctional and pithy teenagers.Read

CINEMA REVIEW: Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang (U) Rating: llll

Comedy. Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Lilian Woods, Oscar Steer, Eros Vlahos, Rosie Taylor-Ritson, Dame Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans, Sinead Matthews, Katy Brand, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor. Director: Susanna White.Read

Film review: The Bounty Hunter

THE BOUNTY HUNTER (12A)Rating: lllRead

Film review: I Love You Phillip Morris

JIM CARREY delivers his best dramatic performance since Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in this improbable and utterly incredible true story.Read

Jeff Bridges gives a compelling performance as a washed-out country and western singer in Crazy Heart

CRAZY HEART (15)Rating: lllRead

Tim Burton’s latest offering features Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland

COMBINING a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.Read

Helen Mirren

Film Review: THE LAST STATION (15), Rating: lll

IT’S EASY to appreciate creative genius, but it must be hell to live with.Read

DVD reviews: Love Happens, Ax Men (Season 2) & Attack on Leningrad

OH DEAR. Poor Jennifer Aniston can’t even get her romance right on screen these days, never mind in real life. This pseudo rom-com lacks the key ingredients of either romance or comedy. Aniston is Eloise, a Seattle florist who tends to make poor boyfriend choices. Enter Aaron Eckhart as Burke Ryan, a widower who has turned the death of his wife into a self-help crusade, with packed out seminars and a soon-to-be-signed big TV deal. Can the two find love together? Well, frankly who cares? A dull script and the fact we never really know who the real Ryan is, beyond the annoying American evangelist we see on stage, means this film falls flat on its face. You can actually visibly see the two leads lose any real interest half way through. Avoid. Is Aniston too old for these roles now?Read

Review: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (PG), Rating: III

PERCY Jackson & The Lightning Thief juxtaposes a battle of the Gods on Mount Olympus, and the exploits of a teenage boy destined for greatness, based on the first of five books by Rick Riordan.Read

(500) Days Of Summer (12)

TOM (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has always nurtured a passion for architecture and he is transfixed by New York’s concrete jungle. Read

Film Review: All About Steve (12A)

AMERICA’S sweetheart she may be, but Sandra Bullock should really have thought twice about signing up for this quirky romantic comedy from Phil Traill.Read

George Clooney flying for another Oscar in The Air Up There

UNEMPLOYMENT is no laughing matter . . . although Up In The Air begs to differ. Directed by Jason Reitman, of Juno fame, this portrait of a loveless man, who earns his living flying around America and making total strangers redundant, hardly sounds like cause for merriment.Read

Film review: It’s Complicated - (15) Rating: lll

WRITER-DIRECTOR Nancy Meyers has forged a reputation with smart, insightful comedies that reveal myriad potholes in the road to true love.Read

Film Reviews: The Road

ABANDON hope, all ye who enter here. The future isn't bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat's Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men.Read

The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 (15)

WALTER GARBER (Denzel Washington) is a dispatcher in the busy transit control centre, monitoring New York’s subway trains. Read

Cinema listings for your viewing pleasure

THIS week Vue Cinema launches Mystery Movie Monthly, a screening of cool new films for movie fans.Read

This week’s Cinema highlights: 10/04/09

PLENTY of treats at Vue Cinema for all the family this Easter weekend.Read

This week’s cinema highlights - 13.03.09

THIS week everyone’s favourite Friend Jennifer Aniston makes a welcome return to our screens in the hilarious canine rom-com, Marley and Me.Read

This week’s cinema highlights - 27.02.09

CINEMA fans are in for a treat this week, as two gripping new dramas light up our screens.Read

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