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Film4 Listings for Saturday 1st February

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11:00


Destination Moon (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Irving Pichel's sci-fi drama is a landmark in many ways: depicting weightlessness, spacewalks and the technique of moon landing more accurately than films that came later, and winning an Oscar for its special effects. Scripted by science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, the tension comes from various escapades on the way to the moon and the subsequent problems of returning, not least of which is the fact that they are left with insufficient fuel for take-off unless enough weight can somehow be shed.
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

13:00


The Devil Wears Prada (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Anne Hathaway stars in David Frankel's whip-smart comedy as Andy Sachs, a would-be journalist from Ohio who lands a job as assistant to the assistant of Miranda Priestly, editor of the successful fashion magazine Runway and an egomaniac in immaculate clothing. Andy soon learns that her personal life and her partner Nate run a distant second to Miranda's whims. But a mutual respect slowly grows between the two women.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Adrian Grenier
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)

15:10


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17:00


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18:40


A Good Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Shooter (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Antoine Fuqua's intelligent action thriller, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Swagger, an ex-special ops sharpshooter. He's called out of retirement by Col Isaac Johnson to help foil an assassination attempt on the president, but ends up framed as the assassin. Injured and on the run, he can only rely on Sara Fenn, his ex-partner's girlfriend, and FBI agent Nick Memphis, who's come across evidence of the conspiracy. The three must evade Johnson and his cohorts as they race to prove their innocence.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:25


The Fourth Kind (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
As Spielberg taught the world in his 1977 blockbuster, the third kind of alien encounter is contact. Apparently the fourth kind is abduction, and Olatunde Osunsanmi's sci-fi thriller purports to tell the story of what happened to a number of people who disappeared in Nome, Alaska. Based on real events, the film juxtaposes supposedly archive footage of therapy sessions with dramatic reconstructions as Dr Abigail Tyler investigates the uncanny similarities in the testimony of a number of her insomniac patients. A split screen format is used to establish a sense of authenticity, and fans of the genre should find sufficient jolts and paranoia to satisfy their appetites.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

01:20


Julia's Eyes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Guillem Morales' mystery horror, which was produced by Guillermo del Toro but is clearly influenced by the early giallo scariness of Italian director Dario Argento. Julia Levin is haunted by the death of her sister Sara. The official verdict was suicide, prompted by Sara's depression over the disease that caused her to go blind. However, Julia is convinced that something more sinister was to blame - and she sets out to discover the truth. But she must act quickly, as Julia suffers from the same hereditary illness and her sight is also fading fast. A variety of creepy people and an even creepier house stand between Julia and the discovery of what really happened.
Director: Guillem Morales
Starring: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau, Julia Gutiérrez Caba
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Sunday 2nd February

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11:00


Party Girl (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Nicholas Ray's thrilling, sharply characterised 1930s-set gangster thriller stars Robert Taylor as Tommy Farrell, a disabled lawyer who has grown rich as a mouthpiece for Chicago mobster Rico Angelo but decides to go straight for the love of 'party girl' Vickie Gaye. But will Angelo accept his decision?
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 4 Star)

13:00


Grease (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen, who had a summer romance and then meet again at high school. He tries to protect his macho persona from her squeaky clean image, but the tables are turned when Sandy, in a leather costume so tight Newton-John had to be sewn into it, wins his heart. Randal Kleiser's film, based on the original musical, is jammed with show-stopping songs and a stand-out supporting cast, with Stockard Channing as tough girl Rizzo almost eclipsing Sandy.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1978, PG, 4 Star)

15:10


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17:05


Nacho Libre (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jared Hess's comedy stars Jack Black as Brother Ignacio, a monk in a destitute Mexican monastery who is distressed by the poor quality of the food he is forced, through penury, to offer his orphans. He decides the only way he could make the money to feed them properly is to become a lucha libre wrestler. He becomes 'Nacho' and, with his tag partner 'Esqueleto', begins to fight his way to the top and take a crack at the arrogant Ramses. Ana de la Reguera plays Sister Encarnacion, with whom Ignacio is platonically besotted, but the bulk of the film largely concerns men in tights and their frantic efforts in the ring.
Director: Jared Hess
Starring: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias, Carlos Maycotte
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

18:55


Home Alone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Macaulay Culkin stars as an eight-year-old who is accidentally left at home when his parents, siblings and relatives set off in a mad rush for a Christmas holiday in France. At first, he relishes his solitude and freedom, until his idyll is interrupted by two ham-fisted burglars. Can he defend his family home from them? Directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, both masters of the popular comedy genre, the film made Culkin's name and its title entered common parlance, one of the surest signs of success.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Gary Oldman stars in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carr?'s classic cold war spy novel about a British intelligence officer who comes out of retirement to track down a Russian operative working within MI6. Following the capture of a British agent in Communist Hungary, veteran spy George Smiley is forced out of his job. However, after a field agent raises suspicions that there's a mole at the top of the chain of command, he is secretly called upon by the government to investigate. He enlists the help of trusted confidant Peter Guillam, and sets about trying to find out if the allegation is true - and if it is, which of his former colleagues is the defector. Also starring Colin Firth. The film received rave reviews upon its release, and at the 84th Academy Awards it received three nominations: for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman as Best Actor.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:25


Another 48 Hrs (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Comedy thriller reuniting the crimebusting duo of cop and criminal from 48 Hrs as they come up against a drug dealer known only as the Iceman. The detective, in disgrace after an operation that went wrong, is given 48 hours to come up with enough evidence to bring the criminal kingpin to justice. He can think of no-one better to assist him in his mission than his convict colleague - the Iceman's next target.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross, David Anthony Marshall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 18, 3 Star)

01:20


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Film4 Listings for Monday 3rd February

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11:00


The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward in Oscar-nominated Mark Robson's dramatic film, which is loosely based on fact. Rejected for missionary work in China, Aylward makes her own way there and wins over a powerful mandarin to Christianity despite his initial suspicions. But the test of her faith comes when the Chino-Japanese war breaks out in 1940 and she must guide 100 children to safety through enemy territory.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:05


Double Indemnity (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Billy Wilder's classic, Oscar-nominated film noir stars Fred MacMurray as insurance agent Walter Neff. While making a policy renewal call, Neff meets the luminous, seductive blonde Phyllis Dietrichson. Soon, the pair are involved in a passionate affair, but it can only be consummated after her husband's death. The murder goes ahead but Neff's boss, Barton Keyes, has a niggling doubt about paying out on the policy, causing Walter and Phyllis's passion to slowly sour. Told in flashback through Neff's narrative, the hard-edged, cynical tone matched the mood of the period and, while the censorious Hays Code is followed to the letter, the glimpse of Phyllis's ankle bracelet was one of the era's enduring erotic images.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
(Black and White, 1944, PG, 5 Star)

16:15


Murphy's War (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Peter Yates' Second World War drama stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, a merchant seaman whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat in a South American river, towards the end of the war. With all other survivors machine-gunned to death in the water, Murphy staggers ashore and learns that the U-boat is lurking upstream by the banks of the jungle. He swears he won't rest until the U-boat has been destroyed, and enlists the help of Dr Hayden of the local missionary settlement and French engineer Philippe Noiret to complete his personal mission of revenge.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

18:25


A Knight's Tale (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In the film that made him a box-office star, Heath Ledger plays Will Thatcher, a lowly squire who replaces his dead master at a tournament, which he wins, before deciding he'll go for the big tournament in London. Along the way, he picks up Geoffrey Chaucer, who helps him further his career and hide his lowly roots. Brian Helgeland's film, with Shannyn Sossamon as the love interest, draws inspiration from MTV as much as it does derring-do, to rollicking good effect.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


East is East (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)



22:55


IP Man (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen stars in Wilson Yip's excitingly choreographed period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the mentor of, among others, Bruce Lee. Ip Man, a grandmaster of the wing chun martial art, lives in Foshan in the Guangdong province of southern China. Foshan is famous as a centre of learning for various martial disciplines, and Man is the most respected of the town's teachers. But his life is complicated by his wife's disapproval of his career, as well as the presence in Foshan of Jin Shan Zhao, a master from the north, who is determined to challenge Man for supremacy. Then, in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese march into town and everyone's priorities change... In Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

01:00


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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 4th February

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11:00


20 Million Miles to Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A US rocketship, returning from an exploratory flight to Venus, crashes into the sea off Sicily and only Colonel Calder survives. When a sealed container from the wreck is opened by zoologist Dr Leonardo and his granddaughter Marisa, a gelatinous mass inside turns into a clawed monster that doubles in size overnight and escapes, with horrific consequences.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, PG, 3 Star)

12:40


The Last Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex his muscles and his acting abilities in this gripping western from Anthony Mann. Notable for some excellent action sequences and its stunning Mexican locations, The Last Frontier is an archetypal cavalry-versus-Indians saga, as three frontiersmen are glad to accept an offer to become Indian scouts for a cavalry fort. But tension arises between the fort's colonel and Jed when the frontiersman displays his clear liking for the officer's wife, Corinna.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1932, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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16:45


The Outrage (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director Martin Ritt's powerful and engrossing western reworking of Akira Kurosawa's 1951 classic Rashomon. Juan Carrasco a Mexican bandit kidnaps a husband and wife, subsequently killing the former and raping the latter. His story is told by four of the protagonists in four different ways.
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1964, 15, 3 Star)

18:40


Ever After (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Andy Tennant's romcom fantasy is set in 16th-century France, where, following the death of her father, Danielle de Barbarac is assigned kitchen duties in the castle by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. A chance meeting with Prince Henry, heir apparent to the throne, leads to the potential for a romance that she fears could be ruined if he discovers the masquerade. A 'fairy-godmother' in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci eventually smoothes the path of true love. But thanks to Barrymore, this is not another soft retelling of Cinderella but a punchy, energetic film with the star in excellent form as the forthright Danielle.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Black Swan (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Natalie Portman gives an Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's brooding psychological drama. Nina Sayers is an exceptional ballerina who may get her big break when a New York ballet company decides to retire their current star. But to achieve her dream she must overcome three potential obstacles. First there's the suffocating influence of her mother, whose vicarious ambition has relentlessly bulldozed Nina to the brink of success, but which also continues to make her life hellish.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 5 Star)

23:15


IP Man 2 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen again takes the title role in the second part of Wilson Yip's period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the eponymous grandmaster of the wing chun martial art. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong. The penniless martial artist decides to take the obvious career path for someone with his lack of means but wealth of knowledge and starts a school to teach his discipline. He quickly attracts the attention of a group of lads, led by Wong Shun Leung, who, after being given a dramatic and painful demonstration of Man's skills, sign up to the cause. However, Man must also overcome the city's gangs and political factions - and that's not such an easy fight.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Samo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-wong Fan
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:25


Nurse Betty (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Comic thriller about a Kansas City waitress who becomes delusional when she sees her abusive husband murdered. Suffering from shock, she sets off for LA in search of the fictional hospital from her favourite TV soap and the handsome doctor who stars in it, unaware that her husband's very real killers are on her trail, and that the boot of her car is packed with the drugs her husband hoped to sell to his killers.
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart
(Subtitles, 2000, 18, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 5th February

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11:00


Helen of Troy (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Robert Wise, better known for West Side Story and The Day the Earth Stood Still, turns his hand to sword-and-sandals in this superior drama. Jacques Sernas plays Paris of Troy, who, sailing to Sparta on a diplomatic mission, falls in love with Helen, wife of Menelaus, and takes her back to Troy. But the lovers are pursued by the vengeful Menelaus whose army besieges the city and, famously, breaches its defences thanks to a huge wooden horse. Stanley Baker plays Achilles, with Cedric Harwicke as Priam, a very young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, and Harry Andrews as Hector.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 2 Star)

13:15


Battleground (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
William A Wellman's Oscar-winning Second World War drama stars, among others, Van Johnson, John Hordiak, Ricardo Montalban and James Whitmore as members of a group of American soldiers who held out against an overwhelming German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. Screenwriter Robert Pirosh had fought at Bastogne himself, and the film brilliantly captures the lurching unpredictability of war, the strained camaraderie of the troops and the horror of combat.
Director: William A. Wellman
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George A. Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star)

15:35


The Towering Inferno (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman star in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie as fire chief Mike O'Hallorhan and architect Doug Roberts, both trying to battle the blaze in Roberts' 135-storey skyscraper, where the guests at a prestigious party are trapped on the top floor. Edited for content.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 3 Star)

18:40


A Good Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans. Edited for content.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

21:00


Layer Cake (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
A clever gangster movie, based on J.J. Connolly's London based crime thriller. Daniel Craig stars as XXXX, a drug dealer who's made his money and plans to retire. He doesn't see himself as a crook, more as a successful businessman about to take a well-earned rest. However, mob boss Mr Big has other ideas, and forces him to do one last job - track down the smack-addicted daughter of a wealthy man.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 15, 3 Star)



23:05


IP Man 2 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen again takes the title role in the second part of Wilson Yip's period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the eponymous grandmaster of the wing chun martial art. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong. The penniless martial artist decides to take the obvious career path for someone with his lack of means but wealth of knowledge and starts a school to teach his discipline. He quickly attracts the attention of a group of lads, led by Wong Shun Leung, who, after being given a dramatic and painful demonstration of Man's skills, sign up to the cause. However, Man must also overcome the city's gangs and political factions - and that's not such an easy fight.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Samo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-wong Fan
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:15


Reindeer Games (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
John Frankenheimer's thriller stars Ben Affleck as Rudy Duncan, an ex-prisoner who assumes a dead cellmate's identity to hijack his romance with Ashley, who had been sending him love letters. But her brother Gabriel knows Nick used to work in a casino and wants the security details so he can stage a spectacular robbery. Now Rudy has to stay one step ahead of the game to stay alive.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, James Frain, Dana Stubblefield, Mark Acheson, Tom Heaton, Isaac Hayes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 6th February

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11:00


Yojimbo (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's classic action adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as a lone samurai who causes bloody havoc between two warring criminal factions. During the course of his peregrinations, the ronin Sanjuro Kuwabatake wanders in to a small town whose inhabitants' lives are being ruined by competing crime lords. Spotting the opportunity to bring peace back to the community, Kuwabatake secretly offers his services as a yojimbo to each of the criminal gangs. And, having gained their trust, the yojimbo industriously sets about securing their destruction. The film is yet another of Kurosawa's movie-making masterclasses, and is particularly impressive for its mix of suspense, comedy and sudden violence. Italian director Sergio Leone remade Yojimbo as A Fistful of Dollars, which in turn kicked-off the spaghetti western genre. First screening on Film4.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1961, PG, 4 Star)

13:10


Winchester '73 (Film) Film icon 5 star rating U certificate
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)

15:00


The Valley of Gwangi (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult fantasy adventure, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse-trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame TJ Breckenridge, owner of a run-down circus. He also runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who is stunned to realise that TJ's circus is in possession of a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Pursuing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley, from which the eohippus originated, only to discover that larger, far more deadly creatures have also survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, 12, 2 Star)

16:55


The Rare Breed (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Light-hearted western about an Englishwoman who, along with her daughter, strives to fulfil the wishes of her recently deceased husband to introduce a rare breed of cattle to the American west. They enlist the help of initially sceptical drifter Sam Burnett and set off on their perilous journey.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Jungle 2 Jungle (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered metropolitan WASP life. Edited for content.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


East is East (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)

22:55


Snakes on a Plane (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
The film that does what it says on the tin. Samuel L Jackson plays Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting Sean Jones, a witness to a gangland slaying, from Hawaii to Los Angeles. However, gangster Eddie Kim has secreted crates of venomous serpents in the cargo hold and when they're released, all hell breaks loose. The film earned a reputation for the inclusion of plot lines from blogging fans, including one now infamous line. Despite the novel approach to its production, David R Ellis's thriller is surprisingly well-acted and tense, with both Julianna Margulies as flight attendant Claire Miller and David Koechner as co-pilot Rick receiving a fair share of the cracking dialogue.
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

01:00


Shinjuku Incident (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Chinese/Japanese crime thriller starring Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka and Jinglei Xu. In the early 1990s a wave of illegal Chinese immigrants saw their chance for a better life in Japan, and among them is Xiu-Xiu. But from his viewpoint, back in their homeland, it seems to her fiancé, Steelhead, that she vanished the moment she arrived in Japan. Determined to track her down, Steelhead sets off across the sea to find her. But he soon discovers quite how grim life is for illegal workers in Japan: caught between the police, who are constantly trying to catch and expel them, and the yakuza gangs, who recognize that they are ripe for exploitation. Initially Steelhead shares their fate. However, a sequence of events earns him a tacit truce with the police and the respect of his fellow expats and the local gangsters. The latter offer him a potential route out of the black economy - but it comes at a price... In Mandarin, Japanese and Cantonese with English subtitles, and English.
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Starring: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Masaya Katô, Tôru Minegishi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Friday 7th February

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11:00


Sea of Sand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Second World War action movie, directed by Guy Green. The Long Range Desert Group, led by Captain Williams and Captain Cotton, sets out on a dangerous mission to blow up a vital enemy petrol dump behind German lines in North Africa. But once the Group get to their target, they discover that it isn't just petrol that's being stored there.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Mikey Craig, Andrew Faulds, Barry Foster, Wolf Frees
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


Gunman's Walk (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Director Philip Karlson's western is a mature examination of racism, violence and parental ambition, all deftly dealt with within the constraints of the movie's certification. Van Heflin stars as Lee Hackett, a veteran of the Wild West who has failed to adapt to the changing life of the frontier. And his determination to mould his sons Ed and Davy in his gun-totin' image backfires when one of them turns into a murderous desperado.
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert F. Simon
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:50


The 39 Steps (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Kenneth More stars as Richard Hannay in the second film adaptation of John Buchan's ripping espionage yarn. It's more than a simple remake of Alfred Hitchcock's original 1935 movie, played this time for light-hearted excitement rather than suspense. And it certainly fulfils its ambition, as Hannay gamely romps around the Scottish countryside in a 48-hour dash to save the day by cracking an international plot to smuggle defence plans out of Britain.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)

16:40


Bad Day at Black Rock (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Sturges's suspenseful western stars Spencer Tracy as John J Macreedy, a one-armed stranger whose arrival in a small desert town, while looking for a Japanese farmer, arouses hostility and violence among the locals.
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

18:20


The Legend of Zorro (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles from the 1998 western adventure The Mask of Zorro, in a sequel that takes a more slapstick approach to its swashbuckling than the original. The action takes place a decade after our first encounter with Don Alejandro de la Vega, better known in his guise as the masked champion of the poor, Zorro. With California on the verge of joining the Union as its 31st state, it finally looks as though Don Alejandro will be able to spend more of his time raising his son Joaquin and being with his wife Elena. But an unsettling incident and the emergence of a sinister organisation that's determined to keep California separate brings marital discord for Don Alejandro, danger to his son and a greater need than ever before for Zorro to don his floppy hat, tie on the mask and pick up his sword... Edited for content.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Michael Emerson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alberto Reyes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Shooter (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Antoine Fuqua's intelligent action thriller, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Swagger, an ex-special ops sharpshooter. He's called out of retirement by Col Isaac Johnson to help foil an assassination attempt on the president, but ends up framed as the assassin. Injured and on the run, he can only rely on Sara Fenn, his ex-partner's girlfriend, and FBI agent Nick Memphis, who's come across evidence of the conspiracy. The three must evade Johnson and his cohorts as they race to prove their innocence. Screened to tie in with the release of Mark Wahlberg's new action movie, Lone Survivor.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:25


Bully (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
In Larry Clark's brilliant yet disturbing second feature, Marty Puccio, Lisa Connelly and Ali Willis are just three of a group of teenagers who gang up intending to murder bully Bobby Kent, who uses psychological violence as well as physical and sexual violence against them.
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner
(Subtitles, 2001, 18, 3 Star)

01:40


Crossing Over (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Wayne Kramer's drama focuses on the lives and intertwining stories of illegal aliens who are trying to find ways of staying in the USA - and the variety of immigration authorities and lawyers, whose jobs, responsibilities and morals often put each other at odds. The roving action takes place in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, and the ensemble cast includes Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta.
Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Saturday 8th February

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11:00


Ramona and Beezus (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Joey King puts in a charming performance as the nine-year-old girl at the centre of this family comedy, which is adapted from a series of cherished children's novels by best-selling author Beverly Cleary. Ramona Quimby and her big sister Beezus are at the heart of this gentle, everyday story about family life in Oregon, where Ramona's biggest ongoing problem is explaining how she really, honestly didn't mean to get into a variety of scrapes at home and at school. But real trouble looms when the Quimby sisters' father Robert loses his job and the family worry about whether they'll be able to keep up the mortgage. Can Ramona find a way to secure their home? Directed by Elizabeth Allen, and also starring Bridget Moynahan, Josh Duhamel, Ginnifer Goodwin and Sandra Oh.
Director: Elizabeth Allen
Starring: Joey King, Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Duhamel
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Home Alone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Macaulay Culkin stars as an eight-year-old who is accidentally left at home when his parents, siblings and relatives set off in a mad rush for a Christmas holiday in France. At first, he relishes his solitude and freedom, until his idyll is interrupted by two ham-fisted burglars. Can he defend his family home from them? Directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, both masters of the popular comedy genre, the film made Culkin's name and its title entered common parlance, one of the surest signs of success.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


Jungle 2 Jungle (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered, metropolitan WASP life.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)

17:10


Leap Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in this transatlantic romcom from Shopgirl and Red Riding director Anand Tucker. Anna is living a contented life in Boston, or she would be, if only her heart-surgeon boyfriend - currently working in Dublin - would pop that all-important question. Deciding that she's waited long enough, and encouraged by her Irish father, who reminds her of the tradition of women proposing to their beloved on the 29th of February, she hops on a plane to Ireland. However, the Emerald Isle's weather defeats even her steely determination and forces the flight to land on the other side of the country from the capital. Now she has limited time to get to Dublin, a long way to go and a pub-owner-cum-taxi driver, Declan, who, though handsome, is a little too testy for her liking. But as the pair make their slow way towards her goal, they gradually begin to view each other differently.
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Noel O'Donovan, Tony Rohr
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

19:05


Step Up 2 : The Streets (Film) Film icon
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles)



21:00


Slumdog Millionaire (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Dev Patel is the boy from the slums whose life story leads to the jackpot question on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Vibrant, Oscar-winning drama from Danny Boyle.
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Rajendranath Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar, Freida Pinto
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

23:25


Trainspotting (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Danny Boyle's drama stars Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle and unflinchingly explores the lives of a group of young Edinburgh drug addicts and their attendant stories of drugs, survival, scams, friendship and tragedy. The audaciously innovative and darkly comedic Channel Four Films adaption of Irvine Welsh's novel received massive critical acclaim on its release, picked up an Oscar nomination and won Bafta awards, and is now widely viewed as a British classic; indeed, it was voted in a 2012 HMV survey as the best British film of the past 60 years. It also underlined the fact that the team behind Shallow Grave definitely knew what they were about.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 18, 4 Star)

01:15


Paradise Lost (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
John Stockwell's chiller is set in Brazil where a group of young tourists, led by Alex, find themselves stranded on a beautiful beach where sun, sea and sex beckons. But their plans for fun are ended when they are drugged and robbed of their money and possessions. Making their way to the house of Doctor Zamora, they believe they have found a safe haven. But they have more than money and possessions to lose at the hands of an organ-harvesting madman.
Director: John Stockwell
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett, Max Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 18, 2 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Sunday 9th February

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11:00


Merrill's Marauders (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Samuel Fuller's Second World War drama is based on the true story of General Merrill and his troops: the 5307th Composite Unit. In his last film, Jeff Chandler takes on the title role as General Frank Merrill, leading his troops behind Japanese lines in Burma, through harsh jungle terrain, and frequent skirmishes with their enemy, to a final showdown at the strategically important town of Myitkyina.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Ever After (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Andy Tennant's romcom fantasy is set in 16th-century France, where, following the death of her father, Danielle de Barbarac is assigned kitchen duties in the castle by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. A chance meeting with Prince Henry, heir apparent to the throne, leads to the potential for a romance that she fears could be ruined if he discovers the masquerade. A 'fairy-godmother' in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci eventually smoothes the path of true love. But thanks to Barrymore, this is not another soft retelling of Cinderella but a punchy, energetic film with the star in excellent form as the forthright Danielle.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)

15:20


The Towering Inferno (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman star in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie as fire chief Mike O'Hallorhan and architect Doug Roberts, both trying to battle the blaze in Roberts' 135-storey skyscraper, where the guests at a prestigious party are trapped on the top floor.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 3 Star)

18:25


A Knight's Tale (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In the film that made him a box-office star, Heath Ledger plays Will Thatcher, a lowly squire who replaces his dead master at a tournament, which he wins, before deciding that he'll enter the big tournament in London. Along the way, he picks up Geoffrey Chaucer, who helps him further his career and hide his lowly roots. Brian Helgeland's film, with Shannyn Sossamon as the love interest, draws inspiration from MTV as much as it does derring-do, to rollicking good effect.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


Black Swan (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Natalie Portman gives an Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's brooding psychological drama. Nina Sayers is an exceptional ballerina who may get her big break when a New York ballet company decides to retire their current star. But to achieve her dream she must overcome three potential obstacles. First there's the suffocating influence of her mother, whose vicarious ambition has relentlessly bulldozed Nina to the brink of success, but which also continues to make her life hellish.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Benjamin Millepied
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 5 Star)



23:05


Watchmen (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
A dystopian fantasy adventure based on an unusually faithful adaptation of the highly regarded graphic novel by Alan Moore, directed by Zach Snyder. It is 1985 and Richard Nixon continues his tenure in the White House, massively popular with the electorate following his crushing defeat of the Viet Cong. However, it seems that the American public have fallen out of love with their superheroes, one of whom, Dr Manhattan, was largely responsible for the winning the Vietnam War. Now, he and his fellow crime-fighters are regarded as reprehensible vigilantes and have been banned by law. But, when one of their number - the vile, ironically named Comedian - is murdered, the former heroes begin to re-emerge from the shadows to investigate. They discover that a terrifying plan is afoot.
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Monday 10th February

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11:00


Siege of the Saxons (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Rousing historical romp in which King Arthur is betrayed and murdered by his champion knight, who assumes the throne in league with the invading Saxons. The only witness is an outlaw, who rescues the King's daughter and goes in search of mystical kingmaker Merlin.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Jerome Willis
(Subtitles, 1963, 12, 2 Star)

12:45


Merrill's Marauders (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Samuel Fuller's Second World War drama is based on the true story of General Merrill and his troops: the 5307th Composite Unit. In his last film, Jeff Chandler takes on the title role as General Frank Merrill, leading his troops behind Japanese lines in Burma, through harsh jungle terrain, and frequent skirmishes with their enemy, to a final showdown at the strategically important town of Myitkyina.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

14:40


The Anderson Tapes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sidney Lumet's thriller stars Sean Connery as a master burglar who moves into Dyan Cannon's plush apartment block, planning to rob the residents. But he doesn't realise that, quite by chance, all his plans are being recorded and observed by a range of planted devices. Also starring Christopher Walken. Edited for content.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

16:35


Battleground (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
William A Wellman's Oscar-winning Second World War drama stars, among others, Van Johnson, John Hordiak, Ricardo Montalban and James Whitmore as American soldiers who are among those facing an overwhelming German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. Screenwriter Robert Pirosh had fought at Bastogne himself, and the film brilliantly captures the lurching unpredictability of war, the strained camaraderie of the troops and the horror of combat.
Director: William A. Wellman
Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George A. Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star)

18:55


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
When three consuls on Nimbus III are kidnapped by a Vulcan who has rediscovered his emotions, a Klingon warship sets out to deal with the crisis, and so Kirk, Spock and McCoy are recalled from vacation to help. They are forced to risk their lives by taking the Enterprise into uncharted territory in search of nothing less than the Supreme Being and the meaning of life.
Director: William Shatner
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The A-Team (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Joe Carnahan's big-screen take on the 1980s OTT action-fest TV series is co-produced by Tony and Ridley Scott. This time around, a little brasher and marginally more serious than their first incarnation, cigar-chomping Col 'Hannibal' Smith, wilfully eccentric Murdock, toned babe-magnet Face and, of course, BA Baracus start out on the back foot, having been jailed after a black ops mission in Iraq went disastrously wrong. When they discover that they were framed and that a massive currency counterfeiting operation is afoot, it's time for them to break out of prison and prove their innocence by tracking down the baddies, saving the US dollar, and, of course, blowing up as many objects as possible along the way. Also featuring Jessica Biel as Face's ex-flame and Patrick Wilson as the team's CIA handler.
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:15


The Runaways (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in Floria Sigismondi's rock biopic, based on Cherie Currie's autobiography. It's the mid-1970s and southern Californian teen Joan Larkin has changed her name to Joan Jett. Along with her new dark, edgy identity comes a nascent desire: to create an all-girl rock band. Joan and her aggressive manager Kim Fowley stumble across the perfect face for the band: 15-year-old blonde bombshell Cherie Currie. The two girls become close, with Cherie's sweet melodies slickly harmonizing with Joan's electrifying guitar solos to great effect. They name themselves The Runaways and, after recruiting a lead guitarist and a bass player, are soon signed to Mercury Records, and plunged into the deep end of 70s rock excess.
Director: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

01:20


Blood and Chocolate (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Katja von Garnier's romantic horror film stars Agnes Bruckner as Vivian, a Romanian werewolf promised to the pack's leader, Gabriel, as his seventh wife; according to clan law, he must take a fresh young spouse every seven years. She is reluctant to take on the role, especially as she has fallen in love with graphic novelist Aiden, managing to conceal her secret from him. But Aiden has his own secrets which will threaten both their lives.
Director: Katja von Garnier
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick, Chris Geere
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 3 Star)