Films screening this fortnight are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. Film index compiled by Paul Dale
Akeelah and the Bee l 12m
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2 mo.
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Taxi Driver This new print of the Schrader/Scorsese classic revisits the delusional fantasies of cabbie . Travis Bickle in his gutter world of New York. Robert De Niro worked 12 hour taxi shifts prior to taking on arguably his finest role, ad-Iibbing scenes and creating this legendary icon of the Viet-vet turned
disillusioned drifter.
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Akeelah And The Bee (12A) 1 12min 0.. Carefully treading the hue het neon feel» good family values; and fUFlllllléll’; schmaltz. this youth rlrarha follows 1 1-year-old Akeelah (Keke Palmer; tmng to male good in Los Angeles' South Central black ghetto. Developed on the success of spelltng bee docwnentar/ Spellbound. the drama mtght not avorl PC predlctablllty. but the best
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trim comes wnh strong Support from Angela Basset and Laurence Ftshboume. as .‘rell as a word-perfect performance from chtld star Palmer. llsla Leaver- Yap) General release from Fn 78 Aug.
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