listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. Film index compiled by Miles Fielder
0 Aimee And Jaguar t lSr oooo (Max Farherhock. German}. 2(th i Juliane Kohler. Maria Schrader. IN) mills. Truth is indeed stranger than liction. It‘s I‘M}. wartime Berlin. Lill) tKohleri. paragon ol Nazi motherhood. hra/enl} conducts al’l’arrs while her soldier husband is at the iront. Felice (Schraderi. a Jeuish leshian posing as a (ientile. works fora .\'a/i newspaper \shrle supplying the underground with information. Two more unlikely hedlelltms cotild not he found. But the pair hecome losers. An inspiring. thrilling. mos irig and completeI) true tale. (il’l‘. (ilasgtm; l‘ilrnhouse. iidinhurgh.
Allen Adventure it; 0000 An alien race looking for a planet to colonise. lirid earth and tint'ortunatel) enter a theme park where they cause much amusing rna}lierir Four simulation rides, \ isceral and sliglill} naUseous. Sit at the front for the lull el‘l'ect. U(i('. lidinhurgh.
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(Lee Tamahori. lTS. Ztltll i Morgan l-‘r'eeman. Monica Potter. Michael \‘l'incott. I03 mins. This similarly nursery rhyme-inspired sequel to the serial killer thriller Kiss The Girls sees Freeman return as an intelligent. dedicated cop Alex ('ross the kind of role he's been saddled with es er since Set-en. While grieving the loss of his police partner. (‘ross signs on a kidnapping case iti\ol\‘ing a senator's daughter. 'l'amahori. \s ho hasn‘t hettered his striking directing debut. ()m‘r' Were ll’urriors. since leasing Nets Zealand for Hollywood. is at the helm of a solid it run-oli-the-mill cat-and-mouse chase thriller. Moviehouse. Mother‘well.
Amores Perros (Love‘s A Bitch) tsi ..... «Alciaridro (ion/ale/ lrritu. .\le\ico. Zlitll J lilllllltt lache\arria. (iacl (iarcra Berna]. (in) a 'loledo l.< \ trims lnarritu’s dehut leature is billed as 'thc Mexicanl’ulpIntro/1'.adescrtption \slireh sells it short. The 'larantino comparison is a useful starting point: the tilrri tells three o\erlapping stories - a teenager draun into the \sorld ol illegal dog-lighting. the inlidelit} ol a middle-aged media esecutr‘. e and an eldct’l} homeless riiari h) rising shilling time-lratnes. tangentiall} linked characters and tagged \crhal rh)thrns l'icrce humanit} underpins lnarritu‘s heautitul. grain) \ istials and (iuillermo .-\r‘riaga Jordan's multr-la} cred script. The best lilm ol‘ the )Cdl‘ so lar. and unlikel) to he surpassed. ('ameo. lidinhurgh.
Angela’s Ashes t IS; .000 t.>\l.itt Parker. l'K. 1999) Robert (‘arl_\ le. lamrl} Watson. Joe Breen. HS mins. l'lttllh .\lc(‘ourt's l’ulit/er l’l'l/t'~\\ inning tillltllliuul memoir ot l .imer'ick in the ills is a publishing phenomenon. lo\ ed across the world h) those \s ith no connection to the book's three delining elements Ireland. (‘atholicisin and poxer't}. l’aiker can't establish the same |c\e| ol' engagement as .‘\lc('otrrt does. hut he cart train his lens on the laces ol his remarkable cast to shoe. a texture ol emotions. Sentiment here is a natural ingredient. not a saccharine .ltlilill‘.t'. ()deon. lidinhurgh.
Animal Attraction r 13).. lion} (ittltl\\}ii. IS. 3001 t Ashle} .ludd. Hugh Jackman. (ireg Kinnear. ()7 mins. \Vhen a \mrk collcagtie dumps .lane (ioodall tJudd i. she mainlines \\ inc and chocolate tor a text. \seeks hel'ore immersing hersell iii relationship theor}. .\len. she decides. are like hulls. \shich \\ ill nex er return to a ct)“ the} '\e shagged .\'e\s York lo\ es liei idea. although nets llatmate and compulsi\ e \sotiianiscr liddie tJackmani is less enthusiastic. (itititlilll‘\ theories are e\‘entuall_\ shattered h) that old chestnut.
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Tilda Swinton takes the lead in Robert Lepage's cerebral thriller. Possible Worlds
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