Friday, 08 January 2010
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Nancy Meyers Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski Certificate: 15 There comes a certain age in your life when you flit about between work and retirement. You drink wine, tart up the garden, go out to bars, stop off at hotels. You sleep with Alec Baldwin. That is, you do if you're rich like Jane (Streep). She owns her own bakery. Not that you'd know it. The other middle aged folks with a small but steady cash flow? They lead a very different life: they watch Nancy Meyers films.
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Friday, 08 January 2010
Written by Ivan Radford

Director: John Hillcoat Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron Certificate: 15 "Soon all the trees in the world will have fallen... I think it's October, but I can’t be sure. I haven’t kept a calendar for years." The post-apocalyptic world is a grey place. Drowned in decaying ash, it sits in ruins, foraged by the few who survived. Among them are a father (Mortensen) and his boy (Smit-McPhee). They wander the wastelands, over the cracked ground, stepping between dead bodies and abandoned lives. It's a sombre scene, which stops you cold. This is The Road they have to walk.
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Thursday, 26 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Oren Peli Cast: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat Certificate: 15 Trailer There's always something scary about bedrooms. Especially your bed. Your one safe place in the world being infiltrated by something unknown? It's an unsettling prospect. The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street - it's all about the beds. So imagine what it would be like if you set up a video camera to record all the stuff that goes on around your pillow at night. That's what Katie (Featherston) and Michah (Sloat) do. What's it like? In places, pretty damn terrifying. In other places, not so much.
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Friday, 20 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Chris Weitz Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Certificate: 12A Trailers/Clips It's been 12 months since the last onslaught of pale-faced emoting emo teens, but just in case the thousands who flocked to the first Twilight film have developed some pigmentation in their skin, here comes its bigger, even more emo sequel. Clocking in at 130 minutes, New Moon gives its giddy groupies plenty of time to sit in the dark and pine. Oh, the pain of it all.
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Friday, 20 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey Certificate: 15 Trailer "Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do they know their noses are black?" Meet Mark Whitacre (Damon), biochemist, businessman and FBI snitch. He works for ADM, an agricultural giant who produce corn byproducts. Yes, corn. Mark's life is surrounded by it. As he drives home past corn fields, he teaches his son all about the yellow stuff. While they travel, the camera flips the car upside down. The world stays like that for the rest of the film.
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Friday, 20 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick Certificate: 15 Translating Homer's Odyssey into a mid-Western road trip. Turning to a barber for some monochrome melodrama. These are not the acts of one auteur. They're the act of two. The Coen Brothers are cinema's most idiosyncratic couple. Who else would jump from Burn after Reading's FBI farce to the Jewish suburbs of 1967? Let alone start the film with a 10 minute fable, entirely in Yiddish. Crazy and creative, they started out mature all those years ago and only get better with age. A Serious Man, their latest, just might be one of their best.
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Friday, 06 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
Yes, it's directed by Guy Ritchie, but we all know we're secretly looking forward to Sherlock Holmes. Reinventing the deerstalker detective in a London full of explosions, black magic and Robert Downey Jr., there's honestly no way it could look any more fun. Throw in Jude Law as Watson and Rachel McAdams as someone who occasionally takes her clothes off and it's a dead cert for silly entertainment. But now we have a new trailer to get us all excited once more.
You may have seen it on MTV the other day. Well, now it's here - clearly the better place to watch it. And, to go with the tasty new teaeser, Warner Bros. have even released 221B, an online adventure game. You can check that out over here. But before you do, head to our videos section for the third Holmes trailer, or read on for the sexy new poster.
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Friday, 06 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth Certificate: 12A "Marley was dead to begin with..." We all know how it goes, that classic Dickens tale of England past. Now, thanks to Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol has gone all Polar Express. Because that's what you do to a beloved book: fill it with motion-capture CGI. Do you remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Robert's work was an animated revolution. But 21 years down the line, his 3-D, previously seen in such stellar fare as Beowulf, is less impressive. Did you know that 19th Century London was populated by the extras from Shrek 2?
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Friday, 06 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Grant Heslov Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Certificate: 15 Be all that you can be. The slogan for the American army. Guts, courage, loyalty, patriotism. That's the kind of stuff they're talking about. Not staring at a goat until it keels over sideways. But there's a secret unit out there. A platoon of psychic soldiers. Trained to harness mother nature (and their own latent telepathic powers), they wage war in the battlefield of the mind. Full-on Jedi Warriors.
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Friday, 06 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Penny Woolcock Cast: Dylan Duffus, Yohance Watson Certificate: 15 Trailer Flash (Duffus) is a dealer with a good life. He has a family, several babymothers, and connections all round. But when Angel (Watson), lead man of the Old Street crew, comes out of prison early, Flash has a problem - he owes Angel £100k. He doesn't have it. What he does have is 24 hours.
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