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

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:00:00 GMT

CRAZY HEART (15)Rating: lll

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

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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?

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

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

(500) Days Of Summer (12)

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Film Review: All About Steve (12A)

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

George Clooney flying for another Oscar in The Air Up There

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Film Reviews: The Road

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 (15)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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

Cinema listings for your viewing pleasure

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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

This week’s cinema highlights - 13.03.09

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

This week’s cinema highlights - 27.02.09

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

This week’s cinema highlights - 20.02.09

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

BANISH those credit crunch blues by taking a look at this week’s new releases, packed with excitement and comedy to suit every taste!

This week’s latest releases - 18/02/09

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THIS week’s new releases are filled with fun and frolics, courtesy of our four-legged friends.

What’s on at the cinema – 06/02/09

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IS just it me or does Brad Pitt seem to keep getting younger? Well he does in his latest film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which follows the story of a man born in his 80s, who ages backwards.

This week’s cinema highlights - 30/01/09

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THIS week star-crossed lovers Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio are reunited, 12 years after they first set our screens alight in Titanic.

This week’s Cinema highlights: 23/01/09

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THIS week’s new releases are packed with plots and scandals. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen star as Richard Nixon and David Frost in a dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate interviews that gripped the world.