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This week's film events previews
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Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime Is Our Business. Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at
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A Christmas Carol
- 5 Hours ago
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Year: 2009 USA: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures UK: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures UK Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, Fionnula Flanagan,
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The Fourth Kind
- 5 Hours ago
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Year: 2009 USA: Universal Pictures UK: Entertainment Film Distributors Cast: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Paton, Corey Johnson, Daphne Alexander, Tyne Rafaeli, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Alisha Seaton, Enzo
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A Serious Man
- 83 Minutes ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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Motherhood
- 83 Minutes ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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An Education
- 83 Minutes ago
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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity
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Bright Star
- 8 Hours ago
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BRIGHT STAR (PG)THE BBC finance some awful movies, like Woody Allen's Scoop. For once, however, your licence money has been ideally used by writer-director Jane Campion to tell the moving story of the
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Jennifer's Body
- 16 Hours ago
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Jennifer Cheque and Anita ''Needy'' Lesnicky are lifelong best friends and high school students in tiny Devil's Kettle, Minnesota. Needy is the practical, bookish counterpart to small-town sexpot cheerleader
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An Education
- 16 Hours ago
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day,
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Michael Jackson's This Is It
- 16 Hours ago
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Vue Cinemas - Manchester Lowry Today: 10:00, 12:30, 15:00, 17:30, 20:00, 22:25 ' ' will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created
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The Box
- 19 Hours ago
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What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars... but simultaneously take the life of someone you don't know? Would you do it? And what would be
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Dead Man Running
- 11/3/2009
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A loan shark gives ex-con Nick (Tamer Hassan) twenty-four hours to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate in a desperate bid to raise the cash before it's too late. Related
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The Horseman
- 11/2/2009
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Thirty years ago, Paul Schrader made Hardcore (aka The Hardcore Life), a bold, highly charged reworking of John Ford's The Searchers starring George C Scott as a Midwestern Calvinist making a nightmare
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Endgame
- 11/6/2009
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The great events of history have a tendency to collapse into a few melodramatic snapshots that hardly do justice to the real thing. Just as the collapse of the Berlin Wall was precipitated by a more complex
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Starsuckers
- 11/1/2009
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This lively, ludic documentary about fame, celebrity and the mass media is an entertaining mess that uses epigrammatic chapter headings and graphic tricks to suggest it has a formal argument. It is, in
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Love Exposure
- 11/1/2009
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Four hours is a trifle long for a black comedy, but watching this engaging Japanese picture over three days on DVD was no great chore. Its themes are the interplay between sex and religion and the way
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9
- 11/1/2009
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Made in Canada and co-produced by Tim Burton, this disappointing animated feature is set in a dystopian near future. Just before his death, an eccentric, humane inventor, reminiscent of the character
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Trailer Trash
- 11/1/2009
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The London film festival's inaugural awards ceremony provided an intense finish to a great closing week, writes Jason Solomons As closing night gala, Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy had a tough act to follow
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Public Enemies, Last Chance Harvey and Year One
- 11/1/2009
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Michael Mann may be the most inventive thriller director working in contemporary cinema, but Public Enemies (2009, 15, Universal) is far from his finest work. Despite stand-out performances by Johnny
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It's no Thriller, but it's not half Bad
- 11/1/2009
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With his children in tow, Caspar Llewellyn Smith finds flashes of genius in Michael Jackson's film farewell If Michael Jackson had never developed a taste for surgical anaesthetic rather than his usual
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The Holly and the Ivy
- 11/1/2009
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Closely adapted from a well-made West End play by the largely forgotten playwright and novelist Wynyard Browne, this is a lovable, life-enhancing seasonal movie. Set at Christmas and about the meaning
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