The Stoning of Soraya M

The Stoning of Soraya M

By Gabriella Apicella

The Stoning of Soraya M tells the story of the true events leading up to the stoning of an innocent woman in Iran in 1986.

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Sensation

Sensation

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Sensation starts as it means to go on, by confronting the viewer with banal intimacies of ordinary life and daring them to look away.

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Despicable Me

Despicable Me

By Lucy Atkinson

Despicable Me, the first film from production company Illumination Entertainment, tells the story of Gru, one of the world’s greatest super-villains, and the three orphan girls he adopts as part of his wicked plan to steal the moon.

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The Big Uneasy

The Big Uneasy

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That’s right, Ned Flanders has made a film about engineering. I hear Fred Flinstone is considering a feature on Poll Tax, too.

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The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism

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This slightly tongue-in-cheek horror takes us modern cynics at our word, and presents us with an exorcist who no more believes in demons than Richard Dawkins believes in deities.

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Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe

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The countryside calm is abruptly ended by the return of the prodigal village girl Tamara – a once homely child who has now blossomed into a beautiful, successful journalist.

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The World’s Greatest Dad

The World’s Greatest Dad

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World’s Greatest Dad will certainly not be to everybody’s taste, but if you like your humour on the quirky side, you’ll find plenty here to embrace.

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Cyrus

Cyrus

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Although starring Reilly and Hill, and co-produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, Cyrus is a surprisingly low-budget slice of American independent filmmaking.

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F

F

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Playing upon current fears around ASBO kids and teachers who are unable to control their classes, F is set wholly within the confines of a British comprehensive school.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

By Gabriella Apicella

Based on the illustrated novel of the same name, itself based on a series of online cartoons, Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid arrives in the cinema in live action form.

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