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- DirectorNimród AntalStarsAdrien BrodyLaurence FishburneTopher GraceA group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsNicolas CageJay BaruchelAlfred MolinaA protege of the magician Merlin must train his teacher's successor - an introverted but resourceful physics prodigy - in the art of sorcery to prevent the return of Morgana le Fay.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Ian Nathan - DirectorSylvester StalloneStarsSylvester StalloneJason StathamJet LiA CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Genevieve Harrison - DirectorTom SixStarsDieter LaserWinter WilliamsAshlynn YennieA mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsAngelina JolieLiev SchreiberChiwetel EjioforA CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by William Thomas - DirectorThor FreudenthalStarsZachary GordonRobert CapronRachael HarrisGreg Heffley is a 12 year old who is fresh out of elementary and transitions to middle school, where he has to learn the consequences and responsibility to survive the year.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Ian Freer - DirectorNanette BursteinStarsDrew BarrymoreJustin LongRon LivingstonA romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Ian Freer - DirectorSacha BennettStarsSiobhan HewlettVincent ReganNeil MaskellIn 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by David Hughes - DirectorLaura GabbertJustin ScheinStarsColin BeavanMichelle ConlinFollow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Patrick Peters - DirectorBobcat GoldthwaitStarsRobin WilliamsDaryl SabaraMorgan MurphyWhen his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Dan Jolin - DirectorFloria SigismondiStarsKristen StewartDakota FanningMichael ShannonA coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.Issue 255 - September 2010
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreAs computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsElisabeth ShueJerry O'ConnellRichard DreyfussAfter a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorSanaa HamriStarsQueen LatifahCommonPaula PattonA physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorNick MoranStarsNatascha McElhoneRupert FriendAugustus PrewAbout Kevin Lewis who grew up in poverty but survived to make a better life for himself and his family.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Paul Webster - DirectorAdam McKayStarsWill FerrellMark WahlbergDerek JeterTwo mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops, whom they idolize, only things don't quite go as planned.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by James White - DirectorRyan MurphyStarsJulia RobertsJavier BardemRichard JenkinsA married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by TH - DirectorAdam GreenStarsShawn AshmoreEmma BellKevin ZegersThree skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorAnusha RizviMahmood FarooquiStarsOnkar Das ManikpuriRaghubir YadavShalini VatsaAn impoverished farmer's threat to end his life invites attention from politicians and media.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Anna Smith - DirectorChris SmithStarsMichael RuppertA documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorNigel ColeStarsSally HawkinsBob HoskinsAndrea RiseboroughA dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.Issue 256 - October 2010
Reviewed by Liz Beardsworth - DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsChris MessinaCaroline DhavernasBokeem WoodbineA group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorCasey AffleckStarsJoaquin PhoenixAntony LangdonCarey PerloffDocuments Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Damon Wise - DirectorOliver StoneStarsShia LaBeoufMichael DouglasCarey MulliganNow out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorBurr SteersStarsZac EfronKim BasingerCharlie TahanAfter Charlie survives a car crash that kills his younger brother, he is given the gift of seeing the spirits of his brother and others who he has lost, and must use his powers to save the woman he loves from impending disaster.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Andrew Male - DirectorGreg BerlantiStarsKatherine HeiglJosh DuhamelJosh LucasTwo single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Anna Smith - DirectorBernard RoseStarsRhys IfansChloë SevignyDavid ThewlisThe life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Dan Jolin - DirectorFatih AkinYvan AttalRandall BalsmeyerStarsShia LaBeoufNatalie PortmanBradley CooperEleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Liz Beardsworth - DirectorPierre CoffinChris RenaudStarsSteve CarellJason SegelRussell BrandGru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorSophie FiennesStarsAnselm KieferBill KatzKlaus DermutzStarting in 2000, German artist Anselm Kiefer began constructing a series of large elaborate structures, comprising 48 buildings, a labyrinth of tunnels, bridges, lakes and towers. The film bears witness to an incredible creative process.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorDebs PatersonStarsEriya NdayambajeRoger Jean NsengiyumvaSanyu Joanita KintuThe story of four children who walk three thousand miles to get to the world cup. On the way they encounter many things such as HIV and child prostitution.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Ian Nathan - DirectorRobert SchwentkeStarsBruce WillisHelen MirrenMorgan FreemanWhen his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorRafi PittsStarsRafi PittsJavad NazariMitra HajjarIn an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsVillmar BjörkmanLola EwerlundMaria LundqvistIn several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down - or failing to do so - are explored.Issue 257 - November 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorZack SnyderStarsJim SturgessHugo WeavingDavid WenhamSoren, a young owl, is kidnapped by the evil owls of St Aegolious and want to turn him into a soldier. He escapes with some of his friends and warns the mythical guardians about the evil plan.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Dan Jolin - DirectorTod WilliamsStarsKatie FeatherstonMicah SloatMolly EphraimAfter experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorJeff TremaineStarsJohnny KnoxvilleSteve-OBam MargeraJohnny Knoxville and company return for the third installment of their TV show spin-off, where dangerous stunts and explicit public displays rule.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by James White - DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsGael García BernalMichelle WilliamsMarife NecesitoWhen a father has to leave his family in New York, for a business trip to Thailand in the gaming industry, fatal destinies collid.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Ian Freer - DirectorAshley HornerStarsNancy Trotter LandryLiam BrowneJack DawsonA photographer and a taxidermist have a summer relationship.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Anna Smith - DirectorMichael MadsenStarsCarl Reinhold BråkenhjelmMikael JensenBerit LundqvistA documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Sam Toy - DirectorJean BeckerStarsGérard DepardieuGisèle CasadesusMauraneA semi-literate and lonely odd-job man bonds with a much older and well-read woman.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Anna Smith - DirectorHeitor DhaliaStarsLaura NeivaVincent CasselCamilla BelleA 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Anna Smith - DirectorHo-Cheung PangStarsJosie HoChing WongHelen ToCheng Li-sheung is a young, upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through, she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors dead.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorPatrick KeillerStarsVanessa RedgraveA tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsThanapat SaisaymarJenjira PongpasSakda KaewbuadeeDying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Simon Crook - DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsGeorge ClooneyPaolo BonacelliViolante PlacidoAn assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Nev Pierce - DirectorMichael RoweStarsMónica Del CarmenGustavo Sánchez ParraMarco ZapataLaura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Paul Webster - DirectorEthan ManiquisRobert RodriguezStarsDanny TrejoMichelle RodriguezRobert De NiroAfter being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Simon Braund - DirectorMarc DugainStarsAndré DussollierMarina HandsEdouard BaerMoscow, 1952. Anna is taken to the Kremlin where she has to cure Stanlin himself. She needs to keep the secret at all costs and as her relationship with the URSS leader grows, her couple with Vassilli tumbles.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by Phil de Semlyen - DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsFreida PintoHiam AbbassWillem DafoeA drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by David Hughes - DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsRiccardo ScamarcioNicole GrimaudoAlessandro PreziosiTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.Issue 258 - December 2010
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorJohn LandisStarsBill BaileyTom WilkinsonMichael SmileyA black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Nick de Semlyen - DirectorColin StrauseGreg StrauseStarsEric BalfourDonald FaisonScottie ThompsonStrange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorBruce WebbStarsNeve McIntoshLeanne BestJosh BoltAt fifteen, Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfill his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Simon Crook - DirectorTom McGrathStarsWill FerrellJonah HillBrad PittEvil genius Megamind finally defeats his do-gooder nemesis, Metro Man, but is left without a purpose in a superhero-free world.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Sam Toy - DirectorMathieu AmalricStarsMiranda ColclasureSuzanne RamseyDirty MartiniWith a group of American strip-tease performers, the veteran impresario Joachim attempts to make his comeback touring a Burlesque show around France. But once on tour, Joachim has to keep his wits if he wants to be paid.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorColm McCarthyStarsKate DickieNiall BrutonHanna StanbridgeA beast stalks an estate where two lovers are breaking up and two magic users are on a hunt.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorSteve AntinStarsCherChristina AguileraAlan CummingA small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Helen O'Hara - DirectorPeter WeirStarsJim SturgessEd HarrisColin FarrellSiberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by David Hughes - DirectorEdward ZwickStarsJake GyllenhaalAnne HathawayJudy GreerIn 1990s Pittsburgh, a medicine peddler starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from Parkinson's disease.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Olly Richards - DirectorPaul HaggisStarsRussell CroweElizabeth BanksLiam NeesonA married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.Issue 259 - January 2011
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorMichael AptedStarsBen BarnesSkandar KeynesGeorgie HenleyLucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Dan Jolin - DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsJeff BridgesGarrett HedlundOlivia WildeThe son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Nick de Semlyen - DirectorHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsCassandra ForêtCharlotte Eugène GuibeaudMarie BosAs a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Sam Toy - DirectorTony GoldwynStarsHilary SwankSam RockwellMelissa LeoA working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorJosh FoxStarsJosh FoxDick CheneyPete SeegerAn exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Patrick Peters - DirectorMichèle HozerPeter RaymontStarsCornelia FossGlenn GouldA documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorCol SpectorStarsGerard KearnsChris CoghillAl WeaverYearning to be married Fran Goldman is forced to reassess his strategy of love after being dumped by his fiancée four weeks before the wedding.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Ian Freer - DirectorSteven R. MonroeStarsSarah ButlerJeff BransonAndrew HowardA writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsAmber HeardMamie GummerDanielle PanabakerAn institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorIsabelle CzajkaStarsAnaïs DemoustierPio MarmaïLaurent PoitrenauxJulie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Patrick Peters - DirectorPeter MullanStarsConor McCarronGreg ForrestJoe SzulaEncompassed by violent street gangs, neglectful parents, bullying teachers and a dearth of positive role models, a studious but emotionally abandoned kid turns thug.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Paul Webster - DirectorCarlos CarcasNorberto López AmadoStarsNorman FosterDeyan SudjicThe film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorRowan JoffeStarsSam RileyAndrea RiseboroughHelen MirrenCharts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by Phil de Semlyen - DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsJudit KeleNénetteA documentary on a 40-year-old orangutan that is locked behind bars.Issue 260 - February 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorRon HowardStarsVince VaughnKevin JamesWinona RyderA man discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Genevieve Harrison - DirectorAaron SchneiderStarsRobert DuvallBill MurraySissy SpacekA movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Adam Smith - DirectorSimon WestStarsJason StathamBen FosterDonald SutherlandAn elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by David Hughes - DirectorKelly AsburyStarsJames McAvoyEmily BluntMaggie SmithSeparated by a garden fence and a feud, are blue gnomes on one side and red gnomes on the other. This doesn't stop blue Gnomeo and red Juliet from falling in love with each other. Do they have a future together?Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by David Hughes - DirectorMark HendersonKate HorneIn 2003 Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage in Colombia. One year after his release one of his kidnappers contacted him by email. Now he's going back to meet him and finally close this chapter in his life.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsShazada HusseinYasser TalibBashir Al MajidA willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Patrick Peters - DirectorEmmanuel LaurentStarsIsild Le BescoAnouk AiméeJean-Pierre AumontJean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, their careers, their friendship and their impact on the French New Wave of the 1960s.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsJames FrancoTodd RotondiJon PrescottAs Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Adam Smith - DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsColin O'DonoghueAnthony HopkinsCiarán HindsAmerican seminary student Michael Kovak travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by James White - DirectorJoanna HoggStarsChristopher BakerKate FahyTom HiddlestonDeep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by David Parkinson - DirectorDoug LimanStarsNaomi WattsSean PennSonya DavisonCIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorJonathan EnglishStarsPaul GiamattiJason FlemyngBrian CoxIn thirteenth-century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.Issue 261 - March 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorD.J. CarusoStarsAlex PettyferTimothy OlyphantDianna AgronAliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Olly Richards - DirectorAlister GriersonStarsRhys WakefieldAllison CratchleyChristopher James BakerAn underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Nick de Semlyen - DirectorJaume Collet-SerraStarsLiam NeesonDiane KrugerJanuary JonesWhen a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Kim Newman - DirectorJulian NapierStarsChristine RiceBryan HymelAris ArgirisAn astounding live performance of Bizet's opera masterpiece.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Angie Errigo - DirectorJohn WellsStarsBen AffleckChris CooperTommy Lee JonesThe story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by James White - DirectorBobby FarrellyPeter FarrellyStarsOwen WilsonJason SudeikisChristina ApplegateRick and Fred, two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages, are given a Hall Pass by their wives: for one week, they can do whatever they want.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by James White - DirectorSangeeta DattaStarsSharmila TagoreGirish KarnadOm PuriA doctor faces challenges in life as well as from his daughters after the sudden passing of his wife.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Patrick Peters - DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaRinko KikuchiKiko MizuharaToru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Andrew Male - DirectorPhil TraillStarsFelicity JonesEd WestwickBill NighyFormer skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Chris Hewitt - DirectorWoody AllenStarsAnthony HopkinsNaomi WattsJosh BrolinSally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Dan Jolin - DirectorShana FesteStarsGarrett HedlundGwyneth PaltrowLeighton MeesterA rising country-music songwriter works with a fallen star to work their way to fame, causing romantic complications along the way.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Simon Braund - DirectorAlexander HoltLance RoehrigStarsLuke de WoolfsonCharlie CovellSusie HarrietLove Happens. When you least expect it. Forget Me Not is a moving, modern day love story set over twenty four hours against a stunning London backdrop.Issue 262 - April 2011
Reviewed by Ian Freer