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 Dir: Jimmy HaywardCast: John Malkovich, Megan Fox
Jonah Hex is a bounty hunter with one foot in another world and serious issues with the real one. Jonah has become stuff of myth after he survived death, but the experience has left the gruff cowboy less than friendly and in need of redemption. Hex becomes remorseless in the bid to find Quentin Turnbull, his oldest enemy. An un-traditional western with mega machine guns, supernatural powers and explosion-happy fighting. The all-star cast includes Megan Fox as the gun-slinging Lilah, who's as scarred as Hex. The ruthless killer from DC comics is also being adapted into animated shots.
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 Dir: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jason BatemanDirecting duo behind the hilarious Will Ferrell ice skating film Blades of Glory focus on the more everyday complications of having a baby in the naughties. Jennifer Aniston stars as a woman determined to get a child on her own terms but with a Sex in the City twist. Celebrating the upcoming conception with a glitzy party, her male best friend gets a little too drunk. Now years later the pregnancy complications are more than just squeezing out a bun out of the oven. Dealing with unexpected fatherhood the friends realise they have more together than an unruly son.
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Why Did I Get Married Too? **
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 Dir: Tyler Perry
Cast: Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Tyler Perry If you like seeing people behaving like irrational children then watch just how crazy these characters get when their relationships go sour in Why did I get married? Four couples go to the Bahamas looking for paradise to relax from their marriages but the gender divide soon prove that men are just as bitchy as the women and it becomes a exercise in studied bitter sexism. Janet Jackson goes some way to redeem the film as a self-help relationship author who goes further off the rails than the rest. Embarrassing to watch as relationships turn sour in a stunted, awkward script.
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 Dir: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem About as uplifting as you get, even for a Julia Roberts film, who seems rejuvenated and light throughout. Roberts plays Liz Gilbert who embarks on a world tour after a painful divorce and no real sense of who she is anymore. Off on an adventure of self discovery; she travels to India and Bali to eat, pray and love like she's never done before. Based on an American novel by Elizabeth Gilbert about one woman's transformative journey after an emotional divorce. Despite the reasons for the trip, the film is full of light and portrays and idyllic, easy experience of solo travel.
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American: The Bill Hicks Story *****
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 Showing in the Odeon Guildford: July 13 20:15
Odeon Colchester: Tue July 13 20:10
Odeon Telford: Tue Jul 13 20:00
This is a film about a true legend. If you haven’t heard of Bill you’re missing out. He was a comedian, a philosopher, a visionary and a patriot (in the true meaning of the word). Hicks shot to fame in the UK having enjoyed limited success in his home country of the USA when Channel 4 offered him the chance to perform his stand-up, censor free- a privilege he was perpetually fighting for state-side. His sharp tongue, anti-establishment humour and the fact that he always wore black on stage gave the impression that this was an angry man. He wasn’t. Bill loved us all. He just wanted us to open our eyes and see the world as it really was, that we’re beautiful and powerful and capable of so much if we could just stop being distracted by shit TV and all the other modern-day diversions that detach us from the natural world. Spread the word, this man was worth shouting about! |
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors ***
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 Dir: Tom Dicillo
Cast: Johnny Depp, The DoorsThis is a music documentary based on sixties rock band The Doors, who sung classic songs like People are Strange and The End. The controversial rock band was perhaps most famous due to the death of talented vocalist Jim Morrison and his erratic, drug fuelled behaviour with the band. The documentary creates a more realistic representation of the band 's life than other films, like for example Oliver Stone's The Doors. This story is told through previously unseen footage and is narrated by Johnny Depp.
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 Dir: Anthony Geffen. Cast: Conrad Anker, Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes
The mysterious disappearance of one man is intrinsically linked to one of man's greatest achievements which The Wildest Dream sets out to examine. The film re-tells the famous expedition of George Malloy as he attempted to reach the top of Mount Everest; a feat which had never been achieved. He was last seen 800 feet below the summit until 75 years later climber Conrad Anker found his untouched frozen body, complete with all his belongings, bar a photograph of his wife which he had promised to leave at the summit. Had Mallory been the first to defeat mount Everest? Conrad returns to discover more.
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 Dir: Jay Roach
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd Jay Roach, the director behind Austin Powers and Meet the Fockers creates another comedian centred showcase. Rudd plays a city executive who is slowly climbing the career ladder but he's dubious about an opportunity that could elevate him to the top. The men with the power to make or break him have been holding dinner parties where they each bring an idiot along. Steve Carell plays his usual 'few bricks short of a wall' character with a few too many quirks for social interaction and the perfect guest for dinner. Expect a weak farce with more corporate villains than lovable heroes.
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 Dir: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Cast: Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener This story in the hands of someone else, this could easily have been a Superbad or Meet the Fockers but in the careful hands of the Duplass brothers it moulds into a dark comedy without an inch of slapstick. Jonah Hill stars as Cyrus; the son of a divorcee who’s looking to get back on the horse. Unfortunately he doesn't plan to let this happen and pulls out every creepy stop to deter the husband hopeful. John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei are brilliant in this offbeat improvised comedy resembling Please Give in its willingness to act out awkward and mundane psychologies.
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 Dir: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
Cast: Colin Beavan, Michelle ConlinGlobal warming, dwindling resources and pollution are no longer the realms of governments and green campaigners for No impact man, as he decides to go carbon neutral. Involving his whole family, Colin Beavan AKA No Impact Man over-hauls his life, to do his bit to save the world while trying to maintain a normal life. The New York based writer stops using power, producing rubbish, driving to work and everything else; even the film crew turned green for the filming. This life haul documentary follows Super Size Me and others into an argument for eco-change and helps ease the way for others.
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 Dir: Uros StajanovicCast: Katarina Radivojevic, Sonja Kolacaric, Stefan Kapicic, Nenad Jezdic
Fans ofTerry Gilliam's Brazil or Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth will enjoy this fantasy fairytale that is the début of Serbian director Uros Stojanovic. The post-modern fable uses Serbian legends and culture in it's magical world and its tragicomic nuances are eccentric. Unfortunately the film clutches to bizarre stories of women's hysteria and insanity in the absence of men. Set in remote the village of Pokrp which has been devastated by war, and robbed of their men, two sisters set out to find some virile males, after they accidentally kill the village's last man.
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
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 Dir: Mike NewellJake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley & Gemma Arterton
Despite being based on a successful computer game, this swashbuckling adaptation feels distinctly un-game-like. Jake Gyllenhall plays a prince who must team up with a mysterious princess to protect a magical dagger from villains and prevent the destruction of the world by mythical forces. The dagger grants the holder mystical powers of strength and time travel by controlling the sands of time. Themes which have been used throughout the games re-appear in the film, but it has enough action, adventure and romance to draw people that prefer the box over an x-box.
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