Danny Boyle is dancing in the street

10:50am Wednesday 7th January 2009

Read Danny Boyle's thoughts on making Slumdog millionaire and vote for your favourite Danny Boyle film.

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Review: The Spirit (12A)

11:04am Friday 2nd January 2009

Frank Miller, the creator of Sin City and 300, directs this visually arresting adaptation of the comic series about a rookie cop (Gabriel Macht) in the crime-riddled metropolis of Central City, who returns from the dead as the masked avenger The Spirit.

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Review: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (12A)

11:03am Friday 2nd January 2009

Audiences who looked past the unwieldy title of the original The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants back in 2005 were rewarded with a well written and impeccably acted coming of age story.

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Review: The Reader (15)

11:01am Friday 2nd January 2009

The collective guilt of Germany’s ‘second generation’, struggling to come to terms with their parents’ role in the Holocaust, underscores every elegant frame of The Reader.

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Review: Bedtime Stories (PG)

11:17am Tuesday 30th December 2008

DIRECTOR Adam Shankman follows up the global smash Hairspray with this colourful family feature, proving that sometimes dreams do come true.

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Review: Yes Man (12A)

11:19am Tuesday 30th December 2008

BASED on Danny Wallace’s humorous memoir, Yes Man is a comedy about what would happen if one man said "yes" to everything that he would have previously dismissed with a cursory "no".

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Review: Australia (12A)

5:04pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

SINCE his eye-catching 1992 debut, the ugly duckling fairy-tale Strictly Ballroom, Australian writer/director Baz Luhrmann has left us in a swoon with beautifully crafted stories of romance across the social and cultural divide.

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Review: A Bunch of Amateurs (15)

11:50am Friday 19th December 2008

CHOSEN as this year’s Royal Film Performance, David Parfitt’s comedy examines the clash of cultures when an arrogant American star descends on a sleepy English village.

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Review: Twilight (12A)

11:48am Friday 19th December 2008

STEPHENIE Meyer’s best-selling Twilight novels, a series of teen fantasies in which vampires and mortals live side by side, have become one of the biggest publishing phenomena since Harry Potter.

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Review: The Tale Of Despereaux (U)

11:49am Friday 19th December 2008

DIRECTOR Sam Fell (Flushed Away) returns to the rodent underworld with first-time co-director Robert Stevenhagen for this visually colourful yet emotionally hollow fable based on the award-winning book by Kate DiCamillo.

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Review: Dean Spanley (U)

2:49pm Friday 12th December 2008

Every dog has its day and in Toa Fraser’s gently paced tale of fractious father-son bonding in Edwardian England, it’s certainly a day to remember.

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Review: Inkheart (PG)

2:50pm Friday 12th December 2008

Reading is a deeply personal and intensely visceral experience.

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Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still (12A)

2:52pm Friday 12th December 2008

Based on Robert Wise’s 1951 classic, Scott Derrickson’s sci-fi drama unfolds against the backdrop of Washington DC’s corridors of power.

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Review: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

4:35pm Friday 5th December 2008

Animal magic is in short supply in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, a colourful computer animated sequel for the entire family which cheekily recycles the plot of The Lion King.

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Review: Lakeview Terrace (15)

4:25pm Friday 5th December 2008

Neil LaBute’s provocative, modern day drama looks at racial tensions in a desirable Californian cul-de-sac.

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Review: Transporter 3 (15)

4:23pm Friday 5th December 2008

Jason Statham returns to what he does best — taking his shirt off as he whips bad guys to a pulp — in Olivier Megaton’s brawny yet brainless sequel.

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Review: Four Christmases (12A)

5:50pm Friday 28th November 2008

RUMOURS of an on-set feud between lead stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn hardly echo the tidings of comfort and joy espoused by Seth Gordon’s romantic comedy.

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Review: What Just Happened? (15)

5:52pm Friday 28th November 2008

Based on noted film producer Art Linson’s memoir, What Just Happened? satirises the inner workings of Hollywood, as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged producer suffering a crisis of confidence.

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Review: Changeling (15)

5:50pm Friday 28th November 2008

ANGELINA Jolie makes a strong bid for an Oscar nomination with her portrayal of a crusading mother in Clint Eastwood’s harrowing drama.

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Review: Body Of Lies (15)

5:10pm Friday 21st November 2008

IN the war on terror, there are no winners, only victims.

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Review: Choke (18)

5:12pm Friday 21st November 2008

THE first step to conquering any addiction is admitting the problem.

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Review: Quarantine (18)

5:13pm Friday 21st November 2008

TV reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) is despatched to a fire station with a cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) to make a behind the scenes segment on daily life for these brave men and women.

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Review: Max Payne (15)

5:16pm Friday 21st November 2008

“I DON’T believe in heaven. I believe in pain, I believe in fear, I believe in death,” growls the titular, gun-toting hero in voiceover at the beginning of John Moore's tiresome video game-to-movie adaptation.

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Review: Zack And Miri Make A Porno (18)

5:15pm Friday 21st November 2008

Almost 20 years ago, Rob Reiner's seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... posed the age-old question: can men and women truly be friends without sex getting in the way?

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Review: The Baader Meinhof Complex (18)

5:17pm Friday 21st November 2008

In June 1967, a demonstration in Berlin against the state visit of the Shah of Persia descended into chaos when baton-wielding police apparently charged the protesters, causing crowds to spill onto the streets.

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Review: Pride And Glory (15)

3:56pm Friday 7th November 2008

Gavin O’Connor directs this gritty crime thriller, set on the mean streets of New York.

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Review: Easy Virtue (PG)

3:55pm Friday 7th November 2008

Writer-director Stephan Elliott (The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert) revives Noel Coward’s comedy across the class divide with this handsome jaunt into the British countryside.

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Review: W (15)

3:53pm Friday 7th November 2008

Oliver Stone has cultivated a reputation as the bruiser of modern cinema.

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Review: Quantum of Solace (12A)

2:52pm Friday 31st October 2008

THE picture opens with a spectacular car chase through the historic streets of Siena, Italy, culminating in a pursuit over the rooftops which recalls the breathtaking Morocco sequence from The Bourne Ultimatum.

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Review: Hunger (15)

3:05pm Friday 31st October 2008

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen makes his narrative feature-film debut with a harrowing recreation of the hunger strikes of the early 80s in the Maze Prison just outside of Belfast.

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