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Ken Loach's 'Looking for Eric': preview

Ken Loach's 'Looking for Eric': preview

Eric Cantona joins Ken Loach for bizarre new comedy, 'Looking for Eric'. Watch the trailer here

 

The Boat That Rocked
Rated 2 star(s)

Richard Curtis’s rambling and laugh-neutral latest

The Boat That Rocked

Modern Life
Rated 4 star(s)

A bittersweet ramble around rural French

Modern Life

Monsters vs Aliens
Rated 3 star(s)

Above average animated sci-fi from Dreamworks

Monsters vs Aliens

Religulous
Rated 3 star(s)

Bill Maher takes comic potshots at religion

Religulous

Waveriders
Rated 2 star(s)

This Irish surf doc is one for fans only

Waveriders

Saving Private Ryan's Number
Rated 5 star(s)

Orange Film Studios release remade 'Ryan'

Saving Private Ryan's Number
 

Still running

The Damned United

The Damned United

Peter Morgan makes a rather sweet and frothy film from David Peace’s dark, psychological novel

I Can't Think Straight

This week's obligatory asian lesbian romcom

Two Lovers

James Gray's tactile drama about a romantic misfit expertly played by Joaquin Phoenix

Duplicity

Corporate intrigue and sexed-up globe trotting are on the menu for Tony Gilroy's follow-up to 'Michael Clayton'

Lesbian Vampire Killers

James Cordon and Matthew Horne take on the Lesbian Vampires, and no, we didn't like it either

Marley & Me

The latest in a long line of dog-based movies is solidly entertaining stuff

Watchmen

Love it or hate it, 'Watchmen' demands to be seen

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle's awards darling continues to dominate London's cinemagoing scene


Critics' choice

Genova

Genova

Don't believe the anti-hype: Michael Winterbottom's latest is a moving story of loss and displacement

Il Divo

Paolo Sorrentino pitch black latest is an expressionist and free-wheeling take on the life of Italian political stalwart, Giulio Andreotti

In the City of Sylvia

The latest from Catalan iconoclast José Luis Guerin is a moody and magical trip around the streets of Strasbourg

Wendy and Lucy

A quiet and intensely moving tale of American disillusion and poverty

The Class

Laurent Cantet's superb Palme d'Or winner is a realist drama about life in the 'blackboard jungle'

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh’s two-part essay on the vagaries of violent, class-based uprising

Milk

Gus van Sant directs a wondrous performance from Sean Penn in the first great film of 2009


News & Features

'Religulous'?

'Religulous'?

US comedian Bill Maher and 'Borat' director Larry Charles combine forces to mock all forms of organised religion

The toys that should be films

With the impending release of a second 'Transformers' film and 'GI Joe', Time Out selects some other classic toys and turns them into movies

'Chéri': on location with Stephen Frears

Filmmaker Don Boyd visits the set of Stephen Frears’s new movie, ‘Chéri’, a wry, romantic tale set in Belle époque Paris

Mike Leigh on fifty years of Nouvelle Vague

Mike Leigh celebrates the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave with Time Out's Trevor Johnston

Almodóvar's 'Broken Embraces': review

Penelope Cruz stars in 'Broken Embraces', the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar. We saw the film prior to its release in Madrid

Nicolas Cage: a life in film

To celebrate the release of his latest movie, 'Knowing', Time Out takes a look at the enduring box office appeal of Nicolas Cage

Film production preview 2009

Dave Calhoun and David Jenkins pick out the most promising UK, European, US and Asian films in production right now



Classic Film Club

Classic Film Club: 'Belle de Jour'

Classic Film Club: 'Belle de Jour'

Tom Huddleston watches a classic film he's never seen before. This week, Luis Buñuel's 1967 classic goes under the microscope


Ten spot

Bad dog movies

Bad dog movies

The crazy mutt in 'Marley and Me' got Time Out thinking about some other bad dog movies...

Footlight follies - films ripe to be made into musicals

Time Out offers some other suggestions for films that that could be given the all-singing, all-dancing Broadway treatment...


London cinemas

The essential guide to filmgoing in London

The essential guide to filmgoing in London

Hate popcorn? Like to drink wine in the cinema? Need Bollywood? Love short films? We present Time Out’s essential guide to London filmgoing






British cinema

Nick Frost: interview and podcast

Nick Frost: interview and podcast

'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' star Nick Frost talks to Time Out about his time on Richard Curtis's 'The Boat That Rocked'

Michael Sheen on ‘The Damned United’

Michael Sheen on ‘The Damned United’

Time Out meets Michael Sheen – the man who has inhabited the skin of Tony Blair, Kenneth Williams, David Frost, and now football icon Brian Clough. Just don’t call him an impressionist…

Set visit: 'The Damned United'

Set visit: 'The Damned United'

Dave Calhoun gets his training kit on as he visits the set of a new film about football legend Brian Clough’s torrid spell at Leeds United in the mid-1970s




Spotlight

Saving Private Ryan's Number

Saving Private Ryan's Number

They're the new kids on the block, and already Orange Film Studios are creating more fuss than a two-year-old with a flamethrower. The reason? Their eagerly-awaited first feature


Set visit

Film set visit: ’Bronson‘

Film set visit: ’Bronson‘

David Jenkins braves blood and bare-knuckle brawls on the set of ’Bronson‘, a new film about a British jailbird





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