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Neds, Peter Mullan, 124 mins (18)
The Seventies are a tough time, and Glasgow is a tough place in an unflinching coming-of-age drama
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Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, 110 mins (15)
Morning Glory, Roger Michell, 108 mins (12A)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Trembling, teary, and prone to seeing things. And that's just the audience
DVD: Black Dynamite, For rental & retail (Icon)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Streets ahead of Meet the Spartans, and the other dreadful efforts that pass for film parody these days, this beautifully realised blaxploitation homage gets every detail spot-on, and yet it's studded with so many perfectly timed jokes that you don't need to have seen a single blaxploitation film to fall about laughing.
DVD: Mary & Max, For rental & retail (Soda Pictures)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Barry Humphries narrates this Claymation tale of a correspondence between portly Australian eight-year-old Mary and her pen pal Max, a 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's (voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (U) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 21 January 2011
The title gets it half-right. This documentary on the life of the Canadian piano prodigy Glenn Gould justifies itself alone on the previously unseen footage of him talking and playing, his fingers a startling blur over the keys.
Black Swan (15) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 21 January 2011
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel
John Carpenter's The Ward (15) (Rated 2/ 5 )
Friday, 21 January 2011
Starring: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer
DVD: Mary and Max (12) (Rated 4/ 5 )
Friday, 21 January 2011
Adam Elliot's clay animation might look like Wallace & Gromit, but while it exhibits a similar level of knowing comic detail, this is no sugar-coated children's fodder.
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