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Invictus

3:19pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

On February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid. His release lit the touchpaper on civil unrest as he worked together with President de Klerk to end apartheid and begin the difficult healing process.

Edge of Darkness

3:51pm Wednesday 27th January 2010

Award-winning, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood. Last year, Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams headlined an accomplished distillation of the Bafta award-winning 2003 mini-series, State of Play. Now, we have more political intrigue and corporate skulduggery in Martin Campbell’s slick reduction of the 1985 BBC mini-series, Edge of Darkness.

Brothers

3:42pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama Brodre, love is war as two siblings – polar opposites – are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.

Up In The Air

10:11am Thursday 14th January 2010

DAMON SMITH says George Clooney is set for yet another Oscar nomination

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Sherlock Holmes

2:01pm Tuesday 22nd December 2009

Guy Ritchie’s reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth should have been a dream new beginning for the director. Starting his career in 1998 with the almighty bang of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, the Hertfordshire-born film-maker has spent most of the past decade in the shadow of then-wife Madonna.

Avatar

3:27pm Wednesday 16th December 2009

It’s been 12 years since James Cameron became king of the world with the Oscar-winning Titanic. The tragic love story between Kate Winslet’s socialite and Leonardo DiCaprio’s scallywag aboard the doomed ocean liner shattered box office records and countless hearts to the warbling of Celine Dion.

Where the Wild Things Are

9:11am Wednesday 9th December 2009

Based on Maurice Sendak’s beloved children's story, Where The Wild Things Are is not a sentimental coming-of-age story viewed through rose-tinted spectacles.

The Box and Cracks

5:40pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009

In our high-tech age, it’s sometimes easy to forget the consequences of our choices when everything is available at the click of a mouse or the touch of a keyboard.

Paranormal Activity and Nativity!

3:38pm Wednesday 25th November 2009

How do you turn 15,000 dollars into $100m? If you’re Israeli-born film-maker Oren Peli, you write and direct a low-budget supernatural horror movie, shoot it at your own house in your spare time and watch as that modest vision becomes a 21st-century Blair Witch Project.