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Film Review: A Christmas Carol 3D - The Imax Experience (PG)

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DON’T tell Scrooge – but Christmas is coming 48 days early this year!Read

Film Review: Bright Star (PG)

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ANY film about poetry ought to lift your imagination... and have you running to your bookshelves for more inspiration upon your return home.Read

Film review: 1 Day (15)

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IN THE end, after all the controversy, no Birmingham cinema is screening this film based on a real-life turf war between two rival city gangs.Read

Film Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats (15)

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GEORGE Clooney and Ewan McGregor are two actors with enough underwhelming movies on their CVs to sink a battleship.Read

Film review: Jennifer's Body (15)

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FRESH from draping herself across Transformers 2, Megan Fox is back... this time as a horror film’s sacrificial victim who comes back to eat teenage boys for breakfast.Read

Film Review: An Education (12A)

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TALENTED young actress Carey Mulligan, star of Bleak House and the famous Blink episode of Doctor Who featuring scary statues, is transported back to the 1960s for this glorious drama.Read

Film Review: 9 (12A)

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UNLIKE their Japanese and European counterparts, US animators have been rather slow to give us anything but egg-faced characters living in relatively squeaky-clean worlds.Read

Film Review: Dead Man Running (15)

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WOULD you Adam and Eve it, here’s another film about tough Londoners starring Danny Dyer!Read

Film Review: This Is It (PG)

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IT had to be something special for 85 people to turn up at Birmingham’s Cineworld Cinema on Broad Street at 4am.Read

Film Review: 1 Day (15) - based on Birmingham gangs

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CONTROVERSIAL new film 1 Day – based on the real-life turf war between two rival Birmingham gangs – had its first screening in the city last night.Read

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (15)

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BEST known in the States for making Chantelle’s Show, tripple Emmy nominee Neal Brennan is virtually unheard of on this side of the pond.Read

Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)

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FANTASTIC by name, nature and natty clothes... that’s the latest Roald Dahl adaptation for the silver screen.Read

Saw VI (18)


HAVING edited all of the Saw franchise to date, Kevin Greutert becomes director with Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) ready to return from beyond the grave.Read

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (12A)

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NICE, horrible freak-show film ... shame about the messy movie!Read

Triangle (15) (with trailer)

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JUST when the title of this ‘little ship of horrors’ film reminds you of an old soap opera set on the ocean wave, along comes a cruise liner sailing past the survivors of an overturned yacht.Read

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A) (with trailer)

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FORTY years after Monty Python’s Flying Circus, there’s a different kind of crazy show in town – right in the shadow of London’s Tower Bridge.Read

Couples Retreat (15) (with trailer)

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IT’S PECULIAR how life can sometimes imitate art.Read

Ong Bak - The Beginning (15)

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ROGER Moore defined the art of walking across the backs of crocodiles 36 years ago in Live and Let Die.Read

Aniston's happy as a single girl

EVER since her very public split from Brad Pitt in 2005, there has been a special place in the gossip columns reserved for speculation about Jennifer Aniston’s love life.Read

Zombieland (15) (with trailer)

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JUST WHEN you thought that George Romero himself had left the zombie genre dead on its feet, along comes one of the biggest surprises of the year – Zombieland.Read