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The Guard

The Guard
4
Wednesday September 7th, 2011
The Guard is a clever character driven Irish comedy starring Brendan Gleeson as the Guard, Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a local police officer of ambiguous character whose partner mysteriously disappears. Don Cheadle is Wendell Everett, a prim, by-the-book, FBI agent trying to stop a drug smuggling ring with the dubious help…More

The Debt

Helen Mirren in The Debt
3
Saturday September 3rd, 2011
The Debt is a remake of a 2007 Israeli film about 3 Mossad agents given a mission to capture a notorious ex-Nazi doctor who experimented on Jewish prisoners in concentration camps and bringing him to Israel to stand trial. The film goes back and forth between the time of the abduction…More

The Future

The Future
4
Thursday September 1st, 2011
The Future is a surreal, melancholic, character study about a daft, young couple sharing a small apartment in California. Jason (Hamish Linklater)  is a nerdy guy who works at home providing computer tech support. Sophie (Miranda July)  is bored both in her relationship with Jason and with her job at…More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
5
Friday August 26th, 2011
It All Ends..........After 10 years and 7 films J K Rowling's saga of the boy wizard and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft comes to a spectacular conclusion in Deathly Hallows Part II. In IMAX & 3D this film throbs with excitement and great visuals. Daniel Radcliffe and Ralph Fiennes…More

Another Earth

Another Earth
4
Saturday August 20th, 2011
After serving 4 years in prison for vehicular homicide, young Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) decides to reach out to the man whose family perished in a collision with the car she was driving. What she finds is a man twisted by grief into an angry recluse (William Mapother). Undaunted she conceals…More

The Leopard

Burt Lancaster in The Leopard
Wednesday August 17th, 2011
Visconti's 1963 classic The Leopard recently underwent restoration and has been playing art houses in the US. Based on a popular novel of the same name the Italian language film won the 1963 Palme d'Or at Cannes. It's one of those Gotterdammerung type films in which an established ruling class…More

The Arbor

The Arbor
Monday August 1st, 2011
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of British playwright Andrea Dunbar, Clio Barnard took a hard look at the young woman and her legacy. The result is a gritty, dark, fascinating glimpse into the troubled life of Dunbar as told from the perspective of contemporaries and her 3 children:…More

Septien

Septien
Sunday July 24th, 2011
The Rawlings clan is an odd section of humanity. Amos Rawlings (Onur Tukel) appears to be a repressed homosexual who likes to draw pictures of mutilated phalluses when he's not contemplating mutilating himself with a buzz saw. Ezra (Robert Longstreet) is the effeminate, compulsive "mother" surrogate who loves to nag,…More

The Trip

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip
Friday July 15th, 2011
The Trip is a hilarious mockumentary masterfully edited from a 6-episode 2010 BBC TV series featuring comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. We get an early hint of what's coming when Coogan reluctantly calls Brydon, an old acquaintance, and sullenly asks if he wants to accompany him on a junket for…More

Beginners

Beginners
Sunday July 10th, 2011
In Beginners Christopher Plummer plays Hal a recently widowed 75 year old who decides to come out of the closet and pursue a same sex relationship with a much younger man (Goran Visnjic). The other "beginner" is his son, Oliver, played by Ewan McGregor, a lonely young man who's adept…More

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