Cinema & film
Race against time for stars in cars
Published 25 September 2008
DEATH RACE (15, 101 mins) Action/Thriller. Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez, Max Ryan, Justin Mader, Robert LaSardo, Robin Shou, Frederick Koehler, Jacob Vargas, Jason Clarke.LOOSELY based on the 1975 cult favourite Death Race 2000, Paul WS Anderson’s follow-up to Alien Vs Predator is a turbo-charged action-thriller set in a bleak future (2012, no less) in which reality programmes continue to dominate television and the internet.
Legends of the fall
Published 11 September 2008
NOW the summer festival season is over venues are lining up their autumn seasons in a bid to attract audiences.Keswick Film Club’s season opens on Sunday with Mongol. Kazakhstan’s entry for this year’s Academy Awards as Best Foreign Language Film is an epic chronicling the rise of Genghis Khan from orphaned boy to bloodthirsty leader of men. Cockermouth Kirkgate’s Centre’s film season includes Persepolis, the animated tale of a free-spirited Iranian girl sent to live in Europe, shown on Monday, Caramel, a Lebanese comedy set among five women who regularly meet in a Beirut beauty salon, shown on September 22, Mongol on September 29, Priceless on October 13, a French comedy in which Audrey Tautou plays a gold-digger who mistakes a penniless waiter for a millionaire, The Pope’s Toilet on November 3, Man on Wire on November 10, Somers Town on November 24, and Icelandic thriller Jar City, on December 15. Go to www.thekirkgate.com for a complete list. The Rosehill Theatre, in Whitehaven, is showing a season of David Lean films, including Brief Encounter and A Passage to India, as well as as The Italian Job and It’s A Wonderful Life. Visit www.rosehilltheatre.co.uk. The Plaza cinema, in Workington, continues its Independents Day screenings each Wednesday with French comedy Priceless, on September 17. Visit www.workington-plaza.co.uk for the complete list of Independents Day films and general screening times.
Save the planet? What for?
Published 28 August 2008
BABYLON A.D. (12A, 90 mins) Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller. Vin Diesel, Melanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong. Director: Mathieu Kassovitz.FROM its downbeat opening monologue – “Save the planet? What for?” – Babylon A.D. imagines an environmentally ravaged world teetering on the brink of catastrophe.n See The List for times.
Dumb, dumber and Step Brothers
Published 28 August 2008
STEP BROTHERS (15, 97 mins) Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn. Director: Adam McKay.THE biggest laugh in Adam McKay’s comedy of escalating sibling rivalry comes before the opening credits roll.n See The List for times.
Devilish good fun
Published 21 August 2008
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (12A, 119 mins) Action/Sci-Fi/Drama/Comedy/Romance. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, Jeffrey Tambor. Director: Guillermo del Toro.THE sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2004 fantasy, based on Mike Mignola’s comics series, is every bit as fast and furious as its predecessor, melding dazzling production design with wry humour and explosive action sequences.
Never ending story
Published 14 August 2008
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (PG, 98 mins) Action/Sci-Fi/Drama. Featuring the voices of Samuel L Jackson, Christopher Lee, James Arnold Taylor, Matt Lanter, Ian Abercrombie, Anthony Daniels, Tom Kane, Ashley Drane, Matthew Wood. Director: Dave Filoni.JUST when you thought George Lucas had milked his intergalactic cash cow dry with endless re-issues of the Star Wars saga on DVD, he executive produces this computer-animated adventure that slips neatly into the narrative divide between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith.n See The List for times.
Time to call cut
Published 14 August 2008
YOU DON’T WANT TO MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (12A, 112 mins) Comedy/Romance/Action. Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Schneider, John Turturro, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan.Director: Dennis Dugan.DURING the opening chapter of Dennis Dugan’s comedy about an Israeli agent who dreams of becoming a hairdresser, one of the coiffure-crazed hero’s friends barks: “No giggling at the Zohan!”
Comedy of teenage trials and errors
Published 29 July 2008
ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING (12A, 100 mins) Comedy/Romance. Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Georgia Henshaw, Manjeeven Grewal, Sean Bourke, Aaron Johnson, Kimberley Nixon, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Steve Jones. Director: Gurinder Chadha.BASED on the best-selling books by Louise Rennison, Gurinder Chadha’s new film is a comic portrait of growing pains filmed on location in Brighton and Eastbourne.
Be the first to see the new Batman movie
Published 4 July 2008
A west Cumbrian cinema is to show the much-anticipated new Batman film, The Dark Knight, before any other in the county.
Swedish cinema
Published 3 July 2008
There will be more than the usual quotient of lycra and sequins on Botchergate next Thursday, at Vue cinema’s preview of Mamma Mia! The Movie next Thursday.
Ben’s stardom Affleck-tion
Published 5 June 2008
BEN Affleck proves that even the crash and burn of a high profile Hollywood romance can have a silver lining.
Plaza declares its movie independence
Published 5 June 2008
THE Plaza cinema’s new Independent’s Day programme started this week.
Pretty vacant
Published 29 May 2008
SEX AND THE CITY (15, 145 mins) Comedy/Romance. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Noth, Jason Lewis, Evan Handler, David Eigenberg, Mario Cantone, Lynn Cohen, Willie Garson, Candice Bergen. Director: Michael Patrick King.FANS of the trend-setting HBO television series rejoice!
Be part of film history
Published 24 May 2008
THE North West Film Archive, based in Manchester, is the repository for all sorts of films made about and in Cumbria, from promotional films to home movies.
Ford still flexing his bullwhip
Published 22 May 2008
IT’S BEEN almost 20 years since Harrison Ford last flexed his trusty bullwhip but he’s in remarkably good shape for his pensionable years, performing many of his own stunts.
Indiana Jones and the curse of the critics
Published 22 May 2008
Harrison Ford knew he could play Indiana Jones again when he found the iconic leather jacket – and fedora – still fitted him.The Crystal Skull is set in 1957 (19 years on from the previous adventure) and starts with Indy and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) escaping from Soviet agents on a remote airfield.
Rapid fire rapport and explosive violence
Published 15 May 2008
IN BRUGES (18, 107 mins) Comedy/Drama. Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciaran Hinds, Clemence Poesy, Thekla Reuten, Robbie Kay, Hannah Murray, Jeremie Renier, Theo Stevenson, Mark Donovan, Jordan Prentice, Eric Godon, Ann Elsley. Director: Martin McDonagh.BLESSED with the same moribund wit and explosive violence as his Oliver Award-winning stage plays, Martin McDonagh’s feature film directorial debut is a gloriously offbeat jaunt through modern day Belgium in the company of two hopelessly mismatched hit men.
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