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12 Rounds (12A) May 28 2009

IF YOU like your action thrillers to be dumb-butfun, then look no further than this nonsensical vehicle for wrestling star John Cena.Read

Drag Me To Hell (15) May 28 2009

SPIDER-MAN trilogy director Sam Raimi goes back to his horror roots with an eagerly-anticipated thriller which fails to live up to the ‘Scariest movie of the decade’ expectations placed upon it.Read

Tormented (15) May 22 2009

THIS teen horror movie received its national premiere in Birmingham last night, with the cast walking down the red carpet at Cineworld in Broad Street.Read

Night At The Museum 2: The IMAX Experience (PG) May 22 2009

TWO WEEKS after Star Trek exploded on to the Midlands’ biggest screen, Ben Stiller and friends are also heading that way in a cracking sequel to their 2006 box office smash, Night At The Museum.Read

Awaydays (18) May 22 2009

MULTIPLEXES were meant to broaden the choice of films available.Read

What Would Jesus Buy? May 22 2009

REMEMBER Morgan Spurlock who gave us Super Size Me and then introduced Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? at Cineworld on Broad Street a year ago?Read

Synecdoche, New York May 22 2009

IF YOU want to get an all-star cast in your film and then make sure that hardly anybody sees it, why not come up with a name like Synecdoche, New York?Read

Star Trek: The Imax Experience (12A) May 15 2009

JUST to update you on our extensive coverage of the new Star Trek movie in last Friday’s Birmingham Mail, here’s how the film has performed at IMAX since.Read

Fighting (15) May 15 2009

IT’S funny how a simple granny cameo can have a more lasting impact than a movie full of bone-crunching fight sequences.Read

Angels and Demons (12A) May 15 2009

HE WAS once odds-on to become the first star to win three best actor Oscar awards after collecting back to back prizes with Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in 1994/95.Read

Producers slap ban on multiplexes May 15 2009

Producers, distributors and Indian multiplexes have held a meeting due to the continuing Bollywood strike action.Read

Star Trek : The Imax Experience (12A) May 08 2009

WHEN Batman thriller The Dark Knight opened at the IMAX cinema last summer, fans travelled from as far away as Devon to blow their minds.Read

CINEMA: A Star Trek for the Obama generation May 08 2009

WHEN movies are commissioned, nobody can guarantee how good they will turn out to be, nor whether they will be overshadowed by real events before reaching our screens.Read

Cheri (15) May 08 2009

AFTER The Queen earned Helen Mirren a best actress Oscar, director Stephen Frears must have felt he could do no wrong with Hollywood royalty.Read

Coraline (PG) May 08 2009

ACCORDING to the BBFC, the ‘consumer advice’ for this animation is simply that it ‘contains moderate fantasy threat’.Read

Good (15) *** May 01 2009

YEARS after the invasion of Iraq was countenanced on dodgy evidence, the Labour Party is still in government – so those who argued vehemently against the policy at the time might well wonder how complicit the entire electorate remains in that decision.Read

Is Anybody There? (12A) *** May 01 2009

SIR Michael Caine has not only been acting in movies since 1956, he’s inevitably woven a fair bit of life’s rich tapestry along the way.Read

Hannah Montana - The Movie (U) *** May 01 2009

POP stars with teenage appeal often get the chance to make a movie or two, from Elvis to the Beatles, Slade to Led Zeppelin and Madonna to the Spice Girls.Read

From Russia With Love (PG) **** May 01 2009

TERENCE Young’s 1963 follow-up to his first James Bond movie Dr No (1962) has been restored thanks to the magic of digital technology.Read

CINEMA: Miley Cyrus enjoying her family affair May 01 2009

MILEY Cyrus has the world at her feet – and she’s still only sweet 16.Read

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