Out this week (24/04/09)

By now you probably know I'm not really here, I hope to be watching Button and Hamilton practising on the track instead, however if the mood took me I wouldn't mind the opportunity to see this weeks big release State of Play, easily the recommendation. I'd also like to apologise if there's a Bollywood picture opening that I've missed, sometimes the releases are announced until a couple of days before so I may not have known about it - I promise to do a clear up exercise next weekend.



FAQ about Time Travel

Putting together Anna Faris and that bloke off the "IT crowd" sounds like an odd move for a film, but this lo-fi brit comedy about a group of losers discovering a worm-hole in their local may raise some chuckles.

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The Grocer's Son

The son of a grocer (natch) returns home after 10 years away from his family when his father has a heart attack and falls in love with a local girl, in this reasonably successful French export.

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Observe and Report

This divisive comedy (Travis Bickle: Mall Cop) has been getting plenty of ink in the US for the unappealing and psychotic actions of it's antihero Seth Rogen. Should play better over here where cynicism rules.

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Outlander

Jim Caviezel is an alien (or the looks exactly like human sort) who crash lands in Scandinavia during the height of the Viking powers, only he brings with him another alien (decidedly not looking like a human) and has to work with the locals in order to tame the beast. Um, I'll repeat Aliens vs. Vikings.

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Shifty

A british film about low level drug dealers that doesn't promote mockneys or preach to the audience is hard to find. Starring Daniel Mays (Atonement, Vera Drake) and Riz Ahmed (Rage, Road to Guantanamo) as friends who's lives took different paths meeting again whilst Shifty carefully constructed dealer lifestyle is falling apart.

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State of Play

They've taken an awfully big chance condensing the acclaimed BBC miniseries about political corruption and journalistic integrity into a big screen format, hopefully it's been worth the wait.

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The Uninvited

Horror movie with a ghosts, vindictive step-mothers and mental hospitals. Anyone looking for a cliche this weekend then look no further.

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