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11:00
The Last Frontier (Film)
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex both 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)


13:00
Inspector Gadget (Film)
It's the comedy with a thousand moving parts, the story of the crazy, crackpot crime fighter who's not so much a detective, more a toolbox! Wowser, you'll thrill to the tall tale of a naïve and inept security guard who dreams of becoming the world's greatest law enforcement officer. Then one day he gets involved in a top secret project with a leading robotics scientist, and becomes a man of many parts - all of them moving! With the help of the pretty scientist, our bumbling, accident prone hero fights the nefarious, villainous Claw in this Disney big screen adaptation of the much loved cartoon series.
Director: David Kellogg
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick, Cheri Oteri
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, PG, 2 Star)


14:35
Swiss Family Robinson (Film)
On the run from the Napoleonic regime, the Robinson family head for a new life in New Guinea. Tested by the terrors of pirates and a brewing storm, they wake to find themselves left for dead on an idyllic desert island. The resourceful family construct a five-star treehouse, but are they safe from attack by the men with the skull and crossbones?
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1960, U, 4 Star)


17:05
The Last Mimzy (Film)
Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn star as siblings Noah and Emma Wilder in Bob Shaye's intelligent family sci-fi adventure drama that doesn't talk down to children. While staying at their family beach house near Seattle, the two find a box of things that look like toys, but prove to be far more mysterious objects. Sent back in time, the 'toys' are trying to pass on a message about the future. And the more Noah and Emma play with the contents of the box, the more their intelligence grows. But one day Noah lines up the toys and accidentally activates a powerful force that creates a state-wide blackout. With her family under arrest by the FBI, Emma must make sense of the messages Mimzy, the toy rabbit, has been telepathically communicating to her.
Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, PG, 4 Star)


19:05
Down with Love (Film)
Romantic comedy starring Ewan McGregor, Rene Zellweger and David Hyde Pierce. Zellweger and McGregor are on top form in this spoof of the sort of 60s sex comedies that would pair Rock Hudson and Doris Day. She's a best-selling author who advocates that her female readership ditch ideas of love and romance for a more guilt-free approach to sensual pleasures. He's the hip journalist and ladies' man out to prove her wrong.
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Sarah Paulson, David Hyde Pierce, Rachel Dratch, Jack Plotnick
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)


21:00
Hitman (Film)
Xavier Gens' action-thriller stars Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, a nameless assassin belonging to an amoral worldwide organisation that's happy to carry out the dirty work for many major powers. After an operation goes wrong, he goes on the run from both the Russian Secret Service and his own organisation, reluctantly allowing Nika Boronina to tag along. Spying on them both is Interpol agent Mike Whittier. The film is adapted from a computer game but rises above a simple shoot-'em-up level thanks to Agent 47's complicated personality and enigmatic nature.
Director: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)


22:50
The Last Exorcism (Film)
Daniel Stamm's documentary-style horror presents the spine-chilling footage shot by filmmaker Iris Reisen and her cameraman following the Reverend Cotton Marcus. Marcus is a Louisiana evangelist famed for his ability to drive demons from the possessed. However, aside from the mental respite he brings the afflicted, he has become disillusioned with the process, seeing his own 'skills' as little more than well-meaning tricks. Already on the verge of ending this work, he is easily persuaded to collaborate with Reisen on a film that is designed to reveal that exorcism has nothing at all to do with divine intervention. And, when he is asked to help Nell, a troubled teenager who intermittently appears to host violent forces which mutilate the local livestock, they think they have the perfect case for his final exorcism.
Director: Daniel Stamm
Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones, Tony Bentley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)


00:30
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Film)
Mike Mitchell's $$$$$ comedy stars Rob Schneider as Deuce Bigalow, a fish-tank cleaner who is asked to house-sit a gigolo's home and prized aquarium. Accidentally breaking the tank, there's only one way he can afford to replace it - by starting to accept the phone calls to his absent host's business and 'fill in' for him. Cue a series of 'dates', ranging from a woman with Tourette's syndrome to one suffering from narcolepsy, via an Amazonesque woman with peculiar pedicural proclivities.
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr, Gail O'Grady
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 15, 3 Star)


02:15
Wendy and Lucy (Film)
Michelle Williams plays Wendy, who's on her way to a possible job in Alaska when her car breaks down in a small Oregon town. Broke, she tries to work out how she can afford to get the car fixed. Then her beloved golden retriever, Lucy, goes missing. Wendy realises that, with no frie$$$ or money to hand, she must rely on her inner strengths to find Lucy. Kelly Reichardt's sombre but moving drama refuses to portray Wendy as a victim, more as someone who maintains a strong purpose amid all her difficulties.
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Michelle Williams, David Koppell, Max Clement, Sid Shanley, Dave Hubner, Michelle Worthey
(Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

Monday 11th March

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11:00
Siege of the Saxons (Film)
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 Merlin, the mystical kingmaker who will be his ally in the battle ahead.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Jerome Willis
(Subtitles, 1963, 12, 2 Star)


12:50
To be Announced (Film)
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14:50
To be Announced (Film)
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16:55
To be Announced (Film)
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18:55
Love Happens (Film)
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in Brandon Camp's directorial debut, which he co-wrote with long-time collaborator Mike Thompson. The romantic drama tells the story of Burke Ryan, who wrote a best-selling self-help manual following his wife's death in a car crash three years earlier. He's currently, under the guidance of his manager Lane, touring a seminar for the bereaved, which has brought him to Seattle, his late wife's hometown. And it's here, at his hotel, that he bumps into Eloise Chandler, the local florist who supplies the establishment's flowers. He's clearly taken with her, but she's quite frosty towards him. Even so, he pursues her - but It soon transpires that, despite his new career, both he and she have a lot of emotional baggage that will need to be dealt with before a relationship is likely to succeed.
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)




21:00
Ghost (Film)
Jerry Zucker's fantasy stars Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat and Demi Moore as Molly Jensen. He's killed in an apparently random mugging, leaving her heartbroken. But then it transpires that he was murdered to stop him exposing a major fraud - and this puts Molly in danger, because the incriminating information is in her possession. Sam's ghost, still earthbound, discovers the only way to warn her is through Oda Mae Brown, a fake medium who suddenly fi$$$ she's his channel to the living. A mix of comedy, thriller and romance coupled with outstanding special effects turned this into an enduring classic.
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Lawrence
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, 15, 4 Star)


23:25
The Client (Film)
Joel Schumacher's thriller, based on John Grisham's novel, stars Brad Renfro, in his film debut, as Mark Sway, an 11-year-old who needs protection after witnessing the suicide of a Mob lawyer. Just before he killed himself, the lawyer told Mark the whereabouts of a politician's body, the discovery of which could make life tricky for a number of criminals and corrupt officials. Thus Mark fi$$$ himself caught between the interests of a hugely ambitious prosecutor, Roy Foltrigg, and the gangsters who are keen for the boy to be silenced for good. Into the frame steps small-time lawyer Reggie Love, who takes on the twin tasks of representing Mark's legal interests and keeping him safe from harm.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh, Anthony Edwards
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1994, 15, 3 Star)

Monday 25th March
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11:00

Dragoon Wells Massacre (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
This intriguing western from Harold D Schuster stars Dennis O'Keefe as cavalry officer Matt Riordan, assigned to lead marshall Bill Haney and his prisoner Link Ferris through Apache territory. But when they reach Dragoon Wells, they're ambushed and Riordan must lead a disparate band of survivors to safety while trying to prevent Ferris's escape.
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Barry Sullivan, Mona Freeman, Katy Jurado, Sebastian Cabot, Max Showalter
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1957, 12)




12:45

Storm over the Nile (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
A stirring adventure yarn lavishly adapted from The Four Feathers, AEW Mason's tale of honour, redemption and derring-do, set during the British Army's 1898 campaign in Sudan. Anthony Steel stars as a disgraced soldier who goes way beyond the call of duty to prove his courage. Co-starring Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice and Christopher Lee.
Director: Terence Young, Zoltan Korda
Starring: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Geoffrey Keen, Ronald Lewis
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)




14:55

Town on Trial (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Thrilling British whodunnit with a sharp twist, simmering social tension and a rare performance of coiled brutality from John Mills. He plays a scarred police superintendant investigating a spate of sexually related murders in a posh suburban community. When his aggressive tactics turn the town against him, only Barbara Bates will lend him an ear, but their relationship is stymied when her father becomes the chief suspect.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Charles Coburn, John Mills, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr, Alec McCowen, Elizabeth Seal
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, U, 3 Star)




16:50

Shenandoah (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Drama starring James Stewart as Charlie Anderson, a widower and wealthy Virginia farming patriarch trying to keep his family together and safe in the midst of the encroaching Civil War. The family struggle to ignore the war tearing apart their Shenandoah Valley community and ultimately also become part of the fight. The moving story of how Charlie survives overwhelming tragedy - from the capture of his young son by the Confederate Army to his daughter's love for a Confederate soldier and the untimely deaths of his other son and daughter-in-law - proved a great hit. The extent of its popularity demonstrated by the fact that the famous soliloquy Stewart delivered at Anderson's wife's graveside was released as a record.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)




18:55

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Classic comedy from 80s teen comedy genre king John Hughes. Ferris Bueller and his best friend Cameron bunk off school in a classic red Ferrari, pursued by the irate principal.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1986, 15, 4 Star)







21:00

The Godfather Part II (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's Academy-Award winning epic sequel to The Godfather. This film charts the early life of Vito Corleone, played by Oscar-winner Robert De Niro, and continues the saga of the Mafia crime family, now headed by Oscar nominee Al Pacino, in the 50s. With Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale and Oscar nominees Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg and Michael V Gazzo.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert de Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 5 Star)




00:55

Old Joy (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director-writer Kelly Reichardt's film is a deceptively gentle drama about a frie$$$hip renewed. Kurt and Mark, two frie$$$ who have lost touch, decide to rekindle their relationship with a weekend trek through Oregon's mountains. As they walk, they talk, with Mark concerned about imminent fatherhood, while Kurt is in a more meditative frame of mind. But will their bond be re-forged by the end of the journey?
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran, Autumn Campbell
(Subtitles, 2006, 15, 3 Star)




02:30

A Letter to Elia (Documentary) 12 certificate
Co-directors Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones pay tribute to Elia Kazan, the trailblazing director of such landmark American movies as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and East of Eden. The inspirational director's career is traced from Broadway, where he was one of the founders of Method acting, to Hollywood, where he cemented Marlon Brando's screen reputation and helped to make James Dean a star. Scorsese and Jones' affection for their subject is clear, and this documentary is amply illustrated with clips from the three-time Oscar winner's films, as well as interview footage with Kazan himself.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12)

Wednesday 27th March
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11:00
First Men in the Moon (Film)
On what is ostensibly the first trip made to the moon, an exploration team discovers that someone else had got there first, back in 1899. Back on earth, the sole survivor of that trip, Arnold Bedford, is tracked down. Arnold tells in flashback how he, his girlfriend Katherine and inventor Joseph Cavor had flown to the moon in a gravity-deflecting sphere. There, they encounter grotesque bipedal ant-like creatures, the Selenites, who live in immense crystal caverns, but who are far from friendly to the three human intruders... Directed by Nathan Juran, based on the novel by HG Wells.
Director: Nigel Kneale, Jan Read
Starring: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Gladys Henson
(Subtitles, 1964, U)


13:05
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Film)
For a brief period in the 1960s, there was a fad for madcap movies such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Monte Carlo or Bust!, The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days; and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is among those that worked. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley puts up a £10,000 prize for the winner of a flight from London to Paris and soon his daughter Patricia, her would-be husband Richard, his rival for her hand and a motley collection of aviators are gathered, ready for the race to begin. Among them, of course, is the requisite villain, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage, aided by his put-upon servant Courtney.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, U, 3 Star)


15:40
A Room with a View (Film)
Adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. Maggie Smith encounters the uncouth Denholm Elliott and his son Julian Sa$$$. After an unpleasant incident, the woman returns to Surrey but when Elliott and Sa$$$ turn up as tenants of a nearby house, all sorts of romantic complications ensue.
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sa$$$, Simon Callow, Patrick Godfrey, Judi Dench
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1985, PG, 4 Star)


18:05
Princess Mononoke (Film)
From the famous Japanese Studio Ghibli comes one of its most successful animations after Spirited Away. Hayao Miyazaki's adventure is set in the 14th century, at a time when the harmony which humans, animals and gods have long enjoyed begins to crumble. The protagonist, young Ashitaka, is infected during an animal attack and seeks a cure from the deer-like god Shishigami. In his travels he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion Princess Mononoke, but Ashitaka's attempts to broker peace between her and the humans brings only conflict. This £20m film became Japan's highest-grossing film, earning $150m in just six months.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijô
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)


20:50
Peter Jackson on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Entertainment)
To mark the first transmission of The Lord of the Rings trilogy on Film4, director Peter Jackson looks back at making the hugely popular, Oscar-winning fantasy-film series.




21:00
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Film)
Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning film is the first in JRR Tolkien's trilogy. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo, a hobbit who elects to become the bearer of the Ring of Power, which, if recovered by its maker and master, Lord Sauron, will see him gain full and terrible power over all of Middle-earth. Frodo sets out with The Fellowship of the Ring, led by Gandalf, with Aragorn and six other companions to Sauron's stronghold, Mordor, the only place where the Ring can be destroyed. The trilogy continues tomorrow evening with The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Sean Bean
(Premiere, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, PG, 5 Star)


00:25
Pan's Labyrinth (Film)
In 1940s Spain, a young girl escapes from the horrifying brutality of her sadistic stepfather's military endeavours into a mysterious netherworld of magic and monsters where she is set three tasks that will see her crowned as princess of this strange kingdom.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Álex Ángulo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)


02:45
Loving Memory (Film)
A rare chance to see one of the late Tony Scott's earliest works, which demonstrated a subtlety not immediately associated with his more famous films. The film tells the story of an isolated brother and sister living with painful memories and a dark secret. Scott worked with cinematographer Chris Menges on Loving Memory, and the result is a beautiful darkly atmospheric film that captures the haunting atmosphere of life on the Yorkshire Moors.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: David Pugh, Roy Evans, Rosamund Greenwood
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)


03:50
Tony Scott Interview Special (Entertainment)
Following the screening of his debut film, Loving Memory, the late director talks about his career in this interview shot back in 2006.
(Repeat, Subtitles)

Friday 29th March
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11:00
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Film)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as Tom and Kate Baker, parents to 12 kids, in Adam Shankman's sequel to the comedy hit. The children are now older, and getting ready to leave home, so Tom arranges a final family holiday in rural Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Tom's rival Jimmy Murtaugh, his trophy wife Sarina and their eight offspring are also at the campsite. While the two men try to outdo each other, the two sets of kids become frie$$$, with Sarah Baker and Eliot Murtaugh touching as the two teenagers experiencing first love.
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Carmen Electra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)


12:50
Bugsy Malone (Film)
Alan Parker's BAFTA-winning 30s gangster pastiche, featuring an all-juvenile cast, stars Scott Baio as Bugsy Malone, a boxer recruited to Fat Sam's mob. Sam is in the middle of a battle with Dandy Dan, whose gang have a new splat gun that distributes immoblising custard pies. Bugsy's task is to get hold of these weapons, but thrown into the mix are his moll Blousey Brown and vampish singer Tallulah.
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1976, U, 3 Star)


14:40
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas's tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who fi$$$ that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, PG, 3 Star)


16:45
Kiki's Delivery Service (Film)
From Japan's Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki's animation tells of a young witch, Kiki, who sets out to make her way in the world. She e$$$ up in a small town that has a 'no witches' rule, but where the local baker offers her a job delivering bread by broomstick. Her job starts well, until one day she fi$$$ she can no longer make her broom levitate or talk to her cat. This screening is of the version dubbed into English.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa, Koichi Miura
(Subtitles, 1989, U, 4 Star)


18:55
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)
Classic comedy from 80s teen comedy genre king John Hughes. Ferris Bueller and his best friend Cameron bunk off school in a classic red Ferrari, pursued by the irate principal.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1986, 15, 4 Star)




21:00
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Film)
Frodo and Sam continue onto Mount Doom to destroy The Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them. Meanwhile the remaining Fellowship aid Rohan and Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis
(Premiere, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2003, 12, 5 Star)


00:55
Battle Royale (Film)
In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent cult sci-fi opus from Japan.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Kou Shibasaki, Chiaki Kuriyama
(In Japanese with Subtitles, 2000, 18, 4 Star)

Saturday 27th April
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11:00

Son of the Mask (Film) Film icon PG certificate
The magical mask vanishes once again in Lawrence Guterman's sequel to The Mask. After cartoonist Tim Avery's dog fi$$$ it in a stream, Tim la$$$ a big account, only to lose it, and his job, when the mask goes missing. It's found by his infant son Alvey, who is so familiar with TV cartoons that he's ambivalent to his new toy. But it's not only Alvey's dad who wants the mask back: the Norse god of mischief Loki needs to find it before his father, Odin, realises that the potent artefact has been lost.
Director: Lawrence Guterman
Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer, Ryan Falconer, Traylor Howard, Steven Wright
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 1 Star)




13:00

Just Wright (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Romantic comedy starring Queen Latifah as physical therapist and self-proclaimed 'perfect homegirl' Leslie Wright who falls for NBA star basketball player Scott McKnight. Scott's knee injury looks set to threaten the player's career, while the path to true love is threatened by the allure of Leslie's best friend Morgan. Will Leslie risk her career, and romantic rival, in the pursuit of love? Directed by Sanaa Hamri, and.
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Starring: Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton, James Pickens Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Pam Grier
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 2 Star)




14:55

To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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16:50

To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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18:50

Last Holiday (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Wayne Wang's remake of the 1950s comedy stars Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, an in-store cookery demonstrator who, diagnosed with a brain tumour, throws caution to the wind, cashes in her life savings and goes to the Czech spa town of Carlsbad, where her hero Chef Didier works. He is impressed by her skills and the two become frie$$$, to the annoyance of millionaire Matthew Kragen, who is determined to expose the parvenue Georgia in front of the hotel's guests.
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Gérard Depardieu
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)







21:00

Iron Man (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Jon Favreau's all-action movie stars Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, the world's richest and most powerful arms manufacturer and dealer. But, while demonstrating his latest weapon in the Middle East, he's kidnapped by insurgents who are after his knowledge. Kept prisoner with a fellow scientist, he constructs an iron exo-skeleton that gives him super-human strength and enables him to escape. Back home, and now a reformed character, he refines his invention until he becomes Iron Man, scourge of warmongers at home and abroad. But not all of his enemies are out in the open and he soon faces a threat close to home. With Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane, Stark's business partner, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, his long-suffering but loyal personal assistant.
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 4 Star)




23:25

The Number 23 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen star in this dark psychological thriller from director Joel Schumacher. Walter Sparrow is leading a contented life until his wife Agatha innocently gives him a battered old paperback as a gift. As he reads, Sparrow is astonished by the parallels between his life and that of the novel's protagonist, Fingerling. But as the plot progresses it grows darker, featuring themes of transgressive sex, suicide and murder. It also hinges around Fingerling's obsession with the number 23 - a prime number that seems to pop up everywhere in the universe once you start to notice it. It's not long before 23 takes a similar hold on Sparrow. And, when he begins unjustly to view Agatha in the same distrustful light that Fingerling views his own spouse Fabrizia, it seems as if Sparrow has locked on to the same tragic trajectory as the story's lead character. Or can he find a way to wrench himself from the novel's grip?
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)




01:20

The Last Detail (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Hal Ashby's comedy-drama stars Jack Nicholson and Otis Young as two hardened sailors, escorting a young recruit to eight years in prison for petty crimes, who discover he has no experience of the world and decide to introduce him to women, booze and brawling, all in just one night.
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty
(Subtitles, 1973, 18, 4 Star)

Thursday 23rd May
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11:00

Benda Bilili! (Documentary) 12 certificate
Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's inspirational documentary tells the story of Staff Benda Bilili, a band formed in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from an alliance of street kids and four older men left paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis in their youth. From extremely humble beginnings in the chaos and criminality of one of the African continent's great musical hotbeds, the film follows the band members as they take their rousing, rootsy style of music, played partly on home-made instruments, from the backstreets of their home city to the enthusiastic audiences they encounter on their subsequent European tour.
(In Lingala and French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2011, 12)




12:40

The Professionals (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 4 Star)




15:00

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Henry Koster's comedy stars James Stewart as Roger Hobbs who reluctantly goes on holiday with his family. Apart from complications caused by his couch potato son who's shy of girls, two grown daughters who have married the wrong guys and a yachtsman who takes a shine to Roger's wife Peggy, everything goes swimmingly.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner
(Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)




17:15

Drums Along the Mohawk (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Classic John Ford western starring Henry Fonda as a farmer who marries easterner Claudette Colbert and takes her west to his farm in the Mohawk Valley, where they are subjected to attacks by marauding Native Americans.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon
(Subtitles, 1939, PG, 5 Star)




19:20

The Wedding Date (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Without a man in her life, Kat is determined to show everyone at her sister's wedding that she's not pathetically single and hires Nick Mercer, the best-looking, most sophisticated male escort money can buy. But as Clare Kilner's rom-com proves, money can't buy you love...or can it?
Director: Clare Kilner
Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport, Sarah Parish, Jeremy Sheffield
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 12, 3 Star)







21:00

Beverly Hills Cop (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Eddie Murphy stars as streetwise Detroit cop Axel Foley in this 80s mainstream classic. Foley tracks his friend's killer to Beverly Hills where, despite his lack of status, he teams up with grumpy Sergeant Taggart and eager Detective Billy Rosewood to pin the rap on bigwig Victor Maitland. Martin Brest's mix of action and comedy, driven by Murphy's motormouth, deservedly broke box office records at the time.
Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff
(Subtitles, 1984, 15, 4 Star)




23:05

Man on Fire (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Denzel Washington stars in director Tony Scott's gorily violent revenge thriller. Alcoholic former CIA man John Creasy is trying to escape his less than commendable past by relocating to Mexico City, where he has secured a job as bodyguard to the 10-year-old daughter of a rich businessman. Gradually, Creasy's new employment begins to mend the man's damaged persona as he bo$$$ with the girl. But the Mexican capital's reputation for kidnapping is solidly based, and she is snatched and money demanded. Thus Creasy sets out to track down and inflict maximum grisly pain on everyone involved in his charge's abduction.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Radha Mitchell, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 18, 4 Star)




01:55

In the Mood for Love (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Wong Kar-Wai's Cannes award-winning film, set in 1960s Hong Kong, deals with $$$$$ery, focusing not on the guilty couple, but instead on the injured spouses. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung become attached through their shared misery but never dare speak about their mutual attraction because of their partners' betrayals. Achingly emotional, beautifully played and exquisitely shot, Kar-Wai takes a simple tale but gives it a resonance that proves him a master film-maker.
Director: Kar-wai Wong
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Kelly Lai Chen
(In Cantonese and Mandarin (Plus Some French and Spanish) with English Subtitles, 2000, PG, 4 Star)