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3rd - 9th February 2012

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Artist

Our Review:

This year's Oscar favourite, the silent movie set in 1927 Hollywood about a movie star who wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Meanwhile stardom awaits for a young dancer. (PG)
Starring: Jean Dujardin ~ Berenice Bejo ~ John Goodman ~ James Cromwell
Manchester BARS

Hugo 3D

Our Review:

Martin Scorsese's 3D masterpiece, set in 1930s Paris, in which an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. (PG)
Starring: Ben Kingsley ~ Sacha Baron Cohen ~ Asa Butterfield ~ Chloe Moretz ~ Jude Law
Manchester BARS

Chronicle

Our Review:

Max Landis sci-fi thriller in which three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. They soon find their lives spinning out of control as they embrace their darker sides (12A)
Starring: Dane DeHaan ~ Michael B. Jordan ~ Alex Russell ~ Michael Kelly
Manchester BARS

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Our Review:

Powerful psychological thriller in which a damaged woman, haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult (15)
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen ~ John Hawkes ~ Brady Corbet ~ Hugh Dancy
Manchester BARS

The Descendants

Our Review:

Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne (Sideways & About Schmidt) delivers a powerful dark comedy, set in Hawaii, about a man's relationship with his daughters after his wife suffers a jet ski accident. (15)
Starring: George Clooney ~ Shailene Woodley ~ Beau Bridges ~ Judy Greer
Manchester BARS

Shame

Our Review:

Award-winning drama in which a man's carefully cultivated private life, which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction, is disrupted when his messed-up sister arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay. (18)
Starring: Michael Fassbender ~ Carey Mulligan ~ James Badge Dale ~ Nicole Beharie
Manchester BARS

The Muppets

Our Review:

Disney comedy in which Kermit and three fans must reunite The Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways, to raise $10m to save the old Muppets Theatre from being demolished by a greedy oil tycoon. (U)
Starring: The Muppets ~ Jason Segel ~ Amy Adams ~ Chris Cooper ~ Selena Gomez
Manchester BARS

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Our Review:

David Fincher's take on the first novel in Stieg Larsson's blockbuster trilogy in which a Swedish journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by a young computer hacker. (18)
Starring: Daniel Craig ~ Rooney Mara ~ Stellan Skarsgard ~ Christopher Plummer
Manchester BARS

Young Adult

Our Review:

From the writer of Juno, a refently divorced author returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter (15)
Starring: Charlize Theron ~ Patton Oswalt ~ Patrick Wilson ~ Elizabeth Reaser
Manchester BARS

War Horse

Our Review:

Steven Spielberg's spectacular take on Michael Morpurgo's children novel in which the First World War is experienced through the journey of a horse forcefully parted from its trainer and sold to the English army. (12A)
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch ~ David Thewlis ~ Tom Hiddleston ~ Emily Watson
Manchester BARS

Like Crazy

Our Review:

Sundance 'Best Picture' winning romantic drama in which a British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa (12A)
Starring: Anton Yelchin ~ Felicity Jones ~ Jennifer Lawrence
Manchester BARS

The Grey

Our Review:

Thriller set in Alaska where an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Battling mortal injuries, icy weather and a vicious pack of wolves they have only days to escape (15)
Starring: Liam Neeson ~ Dermot Mulroney ~ Frank Grillo ~ Dallas Roberts
Manchester BARS

Mission Impossible ~ Ghost Protocol

Our Review:

Tom Cruise is back as the IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. (12A)
Starring: Tom Cruise ~ Paula Patton ~ Simon Pegg ~ Jeremy Renner ~ Josh Holloway
Manchester BARS

Sherlock Holmes ~ A Game Of Shadows

Our Review:

Holmes and Watson join forces again to outwit and bring down Moriarty in Guy Ritchie's European based sequel to the hugely popular Manchester-filmed take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle books. (12A)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr ~ Jude Law ~ Noomi Rapace ~ Jared Harris ~ Stephen Fry
Manchester BARS

Carnage

Our Review:

Roman Polanski's biting comedy sees two pairs of parents meet up after their sons are involved in a fight. As their time together progresses, their own childish behaviour turns the meeting into utter chaos (15)
Starring: Jodie Foster ~ Kate Winslet ~ Christoph Waltz ~ John C. Reilly
Manchester BARS

Haywire

Our Review:

Steven Soderbergh's action-thriller with a very talented cast in which a highly trained undercover soldier (played by MMA superstar Gina Carano) seeks payback after she is betrayed during a mission (15)
Starring: Gina Carano ~ Michael Fassbender ~ Ewan McGregor ~ Antonio Banderas
Manchester BARS

Puss In Boots 3D

Our Review:

Dreamworks 3D animation tells the story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek as he takes an adventure with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty to save his town. (U)
Starring voices of: Antonio Banderas ~ Salma Hayek ~ Zach Galifianakis ~ Billy Bob Thornton
Manchester BARS

Journey 2 ~ The Mysterious Island 3D

Our Review:

The 3D (and IMAX 3D) follow-up to 2008's family-friendly 'Journey to the Center of the Earth', in which a coded distress signal from a mysterious island, where no island should exist, leads to an amazing adventure (PG)
Starring: Dwayne Johnson ~ Michael Caine ~ Josh Hutcherson ~ Luiz Guzman ~
Manchester BARS

The Iron Lady

Our Review:

Oscar-tipped biopic of Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister and arguably one of the most hated figures in British politics, especially in Manchester, with a focus on the price she paid for power. (12A)
Starring: Meryl Streep ~ Jim Broadbent ~ Richard E Grant ~ Anthony Head
Manchester BARS

Best Laid Plans

Our Review:

David Blair's powerful Nottingham-based drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men', revolves around the friendship between a thug and a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. (15)
Starring: Stephen Graham ~ Maxine Peake ~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ~ David O'Hara
Manchester BARS

Intruders

Our Review:

Horror movie which tells parallel stories of a mother in Spain trying to protect her son from a faceless stranger while, in Britain, a young girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes a real danger. (15)
Starring: Clive Owen ~ Carice Van Houten ~ Daniel Bruhl ~ Pilar Lopez De Ayala ~ Kerry Fox
Manchester BARS

Star Wars ~ Episode I ~ Phantom Menace 3D

Our Review:

The spectacular 3D re-release of George Lucas's 1999 sci-fi film. Although being the fourth in the Star Wars saga, it's the first of a trilogy of stories to trace what happened before the classic 1977 first film began. (U)
Starring voices of: Liam Neeson ~ Ewan McGregor ~ Natalie Portman ~ Jake Lloyd
Manchester BARS

A Monster In Paris 3D

Our Review:

3D-animated comedy set in Paris during 1910 in which a scientist attempts an experiment in a greenhouse that sees a results in a 7 foot tall escape and fall in love with a pretty nightclub performer. (U)
Starring voices of: Adam Goldberg ~ Vanessa Paradis ~ Jay Harrington ~ Catherine O'Hara
Manchester BARS

Man On A Ledge

Our Review:

A police psychologist works to talk down an escaped convict who is threatening to jump from a Manhatten hotel rooftop, only to realise he has an ulterior objective and down below, a heist is taking place (12A)
Starring: Sam Worthington ~ Elizabeth Banks ~ Jamie Bell ~ Anthony Mackie ~ Ed Harris
Manchester BARS

Underworld ~ Awakening 3D

Our Review:

3D fantasy movie and fourth in the Underworld series in which a vampire warrioress leads the battle against humankind, who are trying to erradicate the Vampire and Lycan clans forever (18)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale ~ Michael Ealy ~ India Eisley ~ Theo James ~ Stephen Rea
Manchester BARS

The Sitter

Our Review:

Comedy from the director of Pineapple Express about a college student on suspension who is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door. He's fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him. (15)
Starring: Jonah Hill ~ Sam Rockwell ~ Ari Graynor ~ Max Records ~ JB Smooth
Manchester BARS

Alvin & The Chipmunks ~ Chipwrecked

Our Review:

Kids animation film in which the Chipmunks accidentally go overboard from a cruise ship and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seem. (U)
Starring: Jason Lee ~ David Cross ~ Jenny Slate ~ Justin Long ~ Matthew Gray Gubler
Manchester BARS

The Darkest Hour 3D

Our Review:

3D sci-fi thriller with fantastic special effects in which five American tourists in Moscow get caught up in a huge alien attack as creatures descend to steal Earth's energy and kill the human race (12A)
Starring voices of: Emile Hirsch ~ Olivia Thirlby ~ Rachael Taylor ~ Max Minghella
Manchester BARS

Jack And Jill

Our Review:

Adam Sandler comedy in which he plays both a a successful yet tranquil family man and his annoying aggressive and needy identical twin sister, who comes to stay for Thanksgiving, only to refuse to leave (PG)
Starring: Adam Sandler ~ Al Pacino ~ Katie Holmes ~ Elodie Tougnie ~ Rohan Chand
Manchester BARS

Agneepath

Our Review:

Bollywood remake in which a 12 year old boy from the small village of Mandwa is taught by his father about the path of fire. When his father is murdered by a drug dealer he leaves for Bombay, only to seek revenge.
Starring: Rishi Kapoor ~ Sanjay Dutt ~ Hrithik Roshan ~ Priyanka Chopra
Manchester BARS

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