FIFTY DEAD MAN WALKING ****
A young man is recruited by Special Branch to infiltrate the brutal and life-threatening high echelons of the IRA terrorist organisation in 1980s Belfast at the height of the northern Irish 'Troubles'. Inspired by the real-life story of informer Martin McGartland.
When writer and director Kari Skogland first began considering a film version of Martin McGartland's autobiographical account of his days as a British informer in Northern Ireland, she realised that the best way to approach the re-telling was to maintain a neutrality and offer the audience the opportunity to make up their own minds about McGartland's actions. 
McGartland's story offered Skogland everything - a spy story, a love story, an internal struggle reflected in the historical conflict - but it was McGartland's journey from small-time cheeky opportunist to top level informant that inspired Canadian filmmaker Skogland to humanise and analyse the man.
Jim Sturgess had recently finished shooting '21' set in Las Vegas in which he plays a young American.  Originally from Surrey, he was determined to master the local accent to enable him to feel he was fully representing the character.  "I knew Kevin [Zegers, co-star] was in Belfast a week before I was and then I came and joined him here.  And at that point there was nothing planned for us.  We didn't have to go and do rehearsals or anything like that.  We literally just lived in Belfast.  At that point we just integrated with the people and the community.  We just went out and went to pubs and clubs and house parties and stuff like that and stuck with the accent all the time, like a hundred percent." Go behind the scenes

HALLOWEEN 2 ****
Rob Zombie's bloody horror picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, HALLOWEEN stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton).
Evil has a new destiny.  Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide.  It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business.  Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past.  But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.

XIII - The Conspiracy ***
A high-stakes cat-and-mouse thriller starring Stephen Dorff ("World Trade Center"), Val Kilmer ("The Doors"), Stephen McHattie ("Watchmen") and Jessalyn Gilsig (NBC's "Heroes").
The adrenaline-charged miniseries begins dramatically as the first female U.S. president is shot dead by a sniper during her Veteran's Day speech. Three months later, a wounded man is found tattered in a forest with no memory of his identity. The only clue is a tattoo on his neck - "XIII." Could his lightning-fast reflexes and killer instincts betray him as the presidential assassin that the U.S. is desperately searching for?
Submerged in a far-reaching conspiracy, which threatens to overthrow the entire government, XIII's identity becomes the key to unraveling a complex and dangerous secret that will shock and excite.
From the first bullet, this gripping action-thriller will leave audiences gasping for more. Ted Atherton ("Max Payne"), John Bourgeois ("Burn Up"), Greg Bryk ("ReGenesis"), Lucinda Davis ("Wargames: The Dead Code"), and Caterina Murino ("Casino Royale") also star.
"XIII", was shown on television as a mini series and is based on the comic book series of the same title.

RAINBOW SKELLUMS
Security guards, pizza delivery men, motorists, a bride, restaurant owners, taxi passengers, businessmen and Kurt Darren 'bites the dust'' in the new candid camera movie Rainbow Skellums.  Well known movie producer Andre Scholtz and his experienced team travelled throughout South Africa to catch a few "victims". TV-cameras were cleverely installed in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Heidelberg, Ventersdorp, Strand, Cape Town, Eersterivier and Gordon's Bay while the three "skellums"", Kevin Ehrenreich, Alexa Strachan and Louw Venter tried to catch their victims. The "victims" (people on the street) which were caught off guard, are the actual actors in this hilarious candid camera movie. Read more

PASSCHENDAELE ***
In 1917, in World War I, the veteran Sergeant, Michael Dunne, is wounded at the front and nursed by Sarah Mann. He is diagnosed as neurasthenic and returns to his hometown, Calgary, to work in the recruitment section. When Sarah's asthmatic brother, David, is enlisted and demands that this be recognized by the father of his girlfriend, Cassie Walker. Sarah believes that Michael is responsible, and blames him for the engagement of her brother in the army. Michael re-enlists, using his mother last name, in order to protect David and they are sent to the no man's land at the front line of the Battle of Passchendaele
Passchendaele is Canadian war film from  written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Paul Gross. The film focuses on the experiences of Gross's grandfather, Michael Dunne, a soldier who served in the 56th, 5th, 14th and 23rd Reserve Battalions, CEF in the First World War at the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres. This film was inspired by Gross's relationship with his grandfather. Like many veterans, he was reticent about sharing his experiences with his family. In a rare conversation on a fishing trip, Dunne told the story of bayonetting a young German soldier who had eyes like water, through the head and killing him during a battle. A long time later, as Dunne lay in a hospital bed in the last days of his life, his family was mystified by Dunne's behaviour, asking forgiveness over and over. Only Gross knew that he was speaking to the young German he had killed

AUGUST ****
The intriguing story of two brothers, Tom and Joshua Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott) whose Internet start-up, Landshark, is as hot as a New York City summer - only this is the summer of 2001, their company is in lock up, its stock price is plunging and, in a few weeks, the world will change forever

CHÉRI ****
Set in the luxurious demi-monde of pre-First World War Paris, CHÉRI is the story of the love affair between the beautiful retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Chéri (Rupert Friend), the son of her old colleague and rival, Mme Peloux (Kathy Bates).
Léa has educated the spoilt and callow boy in the ways of love, but after six years Mme Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmée (Felicity Jones), daughter of another rich courtesan, Marie Laure (Iben Hjejle).
As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Léa and Chéri try to come to terms with their imminent separation, but the roots of their life of ease and pleasure reach deeper than even they imagine and they begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.

THE HUNTING PARTY ***
A film very much in the tradition of M.A.S.H., Welcome to Sarajevo or Three Kings is a docudrama spiked with jet-black wit. It provides writer/director Richard Shepard, late of the Pierce Brosnan/Greg Kinnear vehicle The Matador, another chance to explore the mysteries and melancholies of male relationships.
Based on "What I Did on My Summer Vacation," an Esquire article by Scott K. Anderson, The Hunting Party follows fictional news reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere), a once-proud network newsman whose on-air meltdown led to a steady, sad fall from grace. His cameraman, Duckie (a terrific Terrence Howard), rebounded from that snafu and found himself working a cushy corporate job with the network, paired up with star anchor Franklin Harris (James Brolin).
Simon and Duckie, who covered the Bosnian conflict together in the Nineties, find themselves reunited in 2000 upon the conflict's fifth anniversary. Simon, a now-disgraced reporter, has a lead on one of Bosnia's most wanted war criminals, enlisting Duckie and Benjamin (Jesse Eisenberg) to help track him down. As the film says in its opening moments, only the most ridiculous moments of this story are true ... and some pretty insane things happen before the credits roll.
As he did in The Matador, Shepard deftly blends comedy, drama and thriller elements, often in the same scene, letting the laughs catch in your throat. He also weaves satirical jabs into his screenplay, making barbed observations about the mercenary nature of the media and the futility of American involvement abroad.

LAST CHANCE HARVEY ***** 
Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) reunite in this magnificent romance that celebrates new beginnings - at any age.
The film is written and directed by Joel Hopkins (Jump Tomorrow).
New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's (Liane Balaban) wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else.   
Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather (James Brolin) walk her down the aisle. Trying to hide his devastation, Harvey leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses the plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, Harvey is fired on the spot.
Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a sensitive, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother (Eileen Atkins), is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion.
The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives. Go behind the scenes Read an interview with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson

LOADED
Hottie Jesse Metcalfe packs heat in this sexy action-thriller!  Metcalfe plays Tristan Price, an appropriate name for a rich, Malibu kid getting caught up with the wrong crowd. Price has everything: money, privilege, loving parents (Erin Gray, John Bennet Perry), a beautiful girlfriend (Monica Keena), and a bright future. But he has always had a need for something more, something wilder. Enter Sebastian Cole (Corey Large), a handsome, charismatic, ruthless coke dealer with a taste for fast cars, fast women, rapid-fire weapons...and revenge. Soon, Tristan will be up to his eyeballs in a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence before he has a clue that his new best friend is, in reality, his worst enemy! 

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PLANET 51 ***
The fun CGI animated feature film is a galactic sized alien adventure comedy that tells the story of an inverse alien invasion

Sixteen year old LEM lives on Planet 51, a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950's America. He is happy in his safe, predictable world and spends his time daydreaming about running the local planetarium and dating the girl next door, NEERA.
One day out of the blue and millions of miles from his own planet, astronaut CAPTAIN CHARLES 'CHUCK' BAKER lands his spaceship in Neera's backyard, right in the middle of a family barbecue! Unaware of his surroundings, he disembarks the ship reveling in his Big Moment. He plants his flag triumphantly and turns…only to find Planet 51's green-skinned inhabitants staring back at him bemused! He panics and flees, finding refuge quite by chance in the planetarium where Lem works.
When Lem and Chuck meet, they gradually overcome their mutual fear and strike up a friendship. Lem agrees to hide Chuck from the paranoid Planet 51 Army who are determined to capture the alien within their midst, convinced he is out to destroy them. But all Chuck wants to do is reach his spacecraft before it returns to Earth without him! So with the help of Lem and his friends, a pair of not-so-bright Planet 51 soldiers, and an excitable but trusty explorer robot, ROVER, Chuck and the gang race to reach his spaceship before it is too late… Go behind the scenes of Planet 51

THE REBOUND***
A romantic  comedy  set  in  New  York  City  about  a  24-year-old  man  and  his  new neighbor, a sexy 40-year-old mom, who catches more than just his eye. Catherine-Zeta Jones plays a beautiful, sexy mother of  two, who's  just  turned  forty. Living  in  the neat suburb of Sleepy Hollow, she's mastered  the art of multi-tasking; baking pies, cutting sandwiches, dropping her kids at school, taking care of her fantasy sport's league. What appears to be a picture perfect world is shattered the morning  she discovers her husband cheating  on her.  Immediately  she packs up her  two kids and moves to New York City to find a job and start a new life.  There, she meets Aram Finkelstein (Justin Bartha), a sweet twenty  four  year-old  college  graduate who's  clearly  at  a  low  point  in  his  life. He  just  found  out his French wife of two weeks duped him into marrying him for a green card. A romantic and optimist and now a recent divorcee, he's struggling to keep his faith in the world.
Aram works  two  jobs  in a Women's Center and as a Barista  in  the coffee  shop below  the apartment Sandy's  renting.   They  strike  up  an  easy  friendship. When  Sandy  gets  hired  at  a New York  sport's network, she asks Aram  to babysit her kids.   He  takes her up on  the offer. After all, he has no career, few friends and spends too much time hanging out with his overly concerned parents.
At work, Sandy's career blossoms and she's offered a promotion. Her best friend encourages her to start dating  again  but  after  one  disastrous  night  she  firmly  believes  her  dating  days  are  over. Meanwhile Aram becomes an  increasingly bigger part of  their  lives. He's  fun  to be with and her kids  love him.
Very  quickly  a makeshift  family  forms  and  even  though  there's  a  list  of  reasons  they  shouldn't  be together, they fall in love. Sandy and Aram meet with resistance to their new relationship from friends and family alike and they both have to figure out if what they have found is something that is just fun for now or if it could last forever.  Go behind the scenes of The Rebound

SMART PEOPLE ***
A recently widowed professor must juggle a new love, a failing career and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
"Smart People" is the darkly comic story of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed and unhappy English professor played by Dennis Quaid, who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), one of his former students, while at the same time his ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) shows up at his door unexpectedly, triggering a series of comic crises and eventually growth in the family as they learn to reconnect.

FOKOFPOLISIEKAR (fuck-off-police-car)
A South African documentary film about 5 young Afrikaans punk rockers that transformed a generation during a unique time in history; in one of the most reluctantly complex and evolving societies of the 21st century.
In 2003 an Afrikaans punk band was a laughable idea.  Many thought the name crazy; and then the music came and many were enraged - publicly protesting "die bende" (the gang) who had the strength of their own voice and the desire to question And in a place where passion and brandy meet - many thousands became fans for life.
The film follows the story of the band over 4 years as they forge a place for themselves and their fans in a new South Africa; in the process challenging the stigmas and expectations placed on them by their Afrikaner heritage, the church and tradition.
Through the controversy and chaos, FOKOFPOLISIEKAR rose above their detractors and initiated a change in how the media perceived them and portrayed them. Through the death threats and Christian backlash they stood tall - sentries for the right to identity, freedom of thought, and the raw and often unseemly right to express one's own truth. They unleashed a debate in the nation's Afrikaans community that sought finally to heal the wound or at the very least to acknowledge it.
FOKOFPOLISIEKAR is a story of courage, passion and belief that reverberates through the minds and hearts of their fans - a story that transcends language and culture; and bravely faces a truth… that most would've left in darkness.
Fokofpolisiekar was formed during April 2003 by a group of friends from Cape Town who decided to produce music in their own way. It would carry strong symbolism of the Fokofpolisiekar lifestyle and their perspective on everyday life: a style of music that they and their generation can relate to.
Fokofpolisiekar is currently one of SA`s biggest rock acts. Their explosive performances combined with their distinctive style and fine tuned marketing campaigns have packed out venues nationwide.

BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE ***
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year old girl, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400 year-old "halfling".
Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner, obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhuman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base's general that Saya learns her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection…
Renowned producers Bill Kong (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero) and Abel Nahmias (11 Commandments, La Beuze) team up with director Chris Nahon (Kiss of the Dragon) on this English language vampire slaying adventure, where the hope of the world rests on a beautiful young woman. Go behind the scenes

LITTLE ASHES *****
A Spanish-British drama film, set against the backdrop of Spain during the 20s and 30s, as three of the era's most creative young talents meet at university and set off on a course to change their world. Luis Buñuel watches helplessly as the friendship between Salvador Dalí and the poet Federico García Lorca develops into a steamy love affair.
When 18-year-old Dali (Robert Pattinson) arrives at the university in Madrid he is determined to become a great artist.
He soon catches the attention of the varsity's social elite - poet Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltran) and aspiring filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty). They form the nucleus of the most modern group in Madrid and their private lives become increasingly complex as Federico ignores the advances of devoted friend and writer Magdalena (Marina Gatell), and Salvador himself feels the pull of García Lorca's magnetism. When Salvador and Federico leave Madrid to spend the summer at the seaside village of Cadaques, at the home of Dalí's family, Federico finds himself accepted into the Dalí family as he and Salvador grow closer until, one night, their friendship becomes more. Even as they draw closer, their relationship appears doomed. Dalí finds García Lorca's obsession with him more than he is prepared to handle.

CASSANDRA'S DREAM ***
Ian (Ewan McGregor) is a calculating son of a British restaurant owner who is always looking for a little extra and a good investment idea to push him into the world of upper-class finance. His brother Terry (Colin Farrell) is a more physical type, a married auto mechanic with a penchant for drink, pills, and gambling. If he could get one big score, his life would change for the better--be his own boss, buy his wife a house, etc. Both find peace on the fixer-upper boat they share, Cassandra's Dream, a respite from their prospective vices.
This is the set-up of Woody Allen's latest film, named for the boat, Cassandra's Dream. It's the most recent entry in his current London period, a new and fertile ground that has reinvigorated the director's later-life career.
Terry eventually gets in debt too far after several bad card games, and Ian can't raise the dough for his newest venture, and he's starting to lose his grip on his relationship with the beautiful actress Angela (Hayley Atwell). He's been borrowing fancy cars from his brother's garage and money from his family's restaurant to make her think he's more successful than he is. They both need cash fast to cover their tracks.
And here comes Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson, in another of his amazing supporting roles). Howard is the boys' maternal uncle, and the successful man's wealth and largesse have made him a controlling influence in the family. His sister (Clare Higgins) always invokes his name to further emasculate her husband (John Benfield), and the boys don't even see dear ol' dad as a possible problem solver. It's Uncle Howard or nobody. As always, Howard will help, but this time he's charging a price: kill a business associate who is threatening to blow the whistle on some of Howard's less than noble deeds.

THE VISITOR *****
A college professor becomes embroiled in the lives of a young immigrant couple living in New York City and stumbles into an unexpected romance as a result.  As these strangers struggle to deal with their individual lives in a changed world, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways. 
In The Visitor, Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins), a widower of five years, lives an aimless life as a college economics professor in suburban Connecticut.  When Walter reluctantly agrees to fill in for a colleague at a conference in New York City he discovers a young couple, Tarek and Zainab, who have been scammed into illegally renting his vacant flat.  Walter agrees to let them stay until they find a place of their own and soon Walter and Tarek form a friendship of which the more guarded Zainab disapproves. However when an arbitrary interaction with the police lands Tarek, an undocumented New Yorker, in an ICE detention center Walter emerges as the only person able to visit Tarek.  When Tarek's mother Mouna (Danai Gurrira) appears in search of her son, Walter's emotional commitment in Tarek's case is sealed.  As the four people struggle to deal with the stark realities of the US immigration system and their own individual lives, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways. Go behind the scenes  Writer-director Tom McCarthy talks about The Visitor




HAMLET 2 ****