Film INDEX
Third Star (15) ●●●●● (Hattie Dalton, UK, 2010) Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Burke. 92min. Dalton’s feature debut is a road movie offering a poignant but funny paean to making the most of life while you still can. Cameo, Edinburgh. 30 Minutes or Less (15) (Ruben Fleischer, US/Germany/Canada, 2011) Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari. 82min. See Also Released, page 99. General release. This is England (18) ●●●●● (Shane Meadows, UK, 2006) Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley. 102min. Lonely Shaun (Turgoose), a 12-year-old boy growing up in the era of Thatcherism, race riots and The Falklands War, falls in with skinheads. This is a beautifully characterised and realised morality tale about what happens when fundamentally decent belief systems get reinterpreted by morons but it begins to run out of steam in its final third. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper) (PG) ●●●●● (GW Pabst, Germany, 1931) Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Shunzel. 113min. Brecht and Weill’s musical play is shifted to Victorian London, where gentleman thief Mack The Knife makes his way between the social classes. The satire remains strong and the songs are excellent. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (tbc) (Tomas Alfredson, UK/France, 2011) Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt. 120min. See Also Released, page 99. Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.
✽✽ Tomboy (U) ●●●●● (Céline Sciamma, France, 2011) Zoé Héran,
Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson. 84min. See review, page 97. Glasgow Film Theatre; Cameo, Edinburgh.
The Tree (12A) ●●●●● (Julie Bertuccelli, France, 2010) Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas. 100min. A fine study of loss in this psychological drama as a seemingly perfect family deals with the fallout of a tragedy, and the huge fig tree in their garden comes to represent their collective conscience. Glasgow Film Theatre; The Hippodrome, Bo’ness. The Troll Hunter (15) ●●●●● (Andre Ovredal, Norway, 2011) Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Naerum. 103min. See review, page 97. Selected release. Trust (15) ●●●●● (David Schwimmer, US, 2010) Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato. 105min. David Schwimmer’s powerful movie should resonate with every parent and teenager in some way. A hard- hitting look at the dangers posed by internet predators, this is thought-provoking cinema that accomplishes most of its objectives. Followed by a panel discussion with representatives from both the film and social work worlds. Glasgow Film Theatre. Two Brothers (PG) ●●●●● (Jean- Jacques Annaud, France/UK, 2004) Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore, Oanh Nguyen. 109min. Tiger cubs Kumal and Sangha are seperated when legendary merchant Aidan McRory (Pearce) turns up in the Thai jungle to seize some Buddhist statues. Will the brothers be reunited after their many traumas? Annaud returns to the same territory of his 1988 hit The Bear, with exotic, thrilling and occasionally somnambulistic effect. This will just about keep kids and their parents entertained over its excessive length. Glasgow Film Theatre. Up 2D (U) ●●●●● (Pete Docter/Bob Peterson, US, 2009) Voices of Christopher Plummer, Edward Asner, Paul Eiding. 96min. Seventy-eight–year-old curmudgeon Carl Fredericksen and eight-year-old Junior Wilderness Explorer Russell embark on the adventure of a lifetime in South America. While it unfolds on a grand scale, at its heart is a human story that will resonate with viewers of every age. Marrying sadness with triumph, Pixar have created another masterpiece. Filmhouse, Edinburgh. Vampire’s Kiss (18) ●●●●● (Robert Bierman, US, 1988) Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley. 103min. Bitten on the neck during rumpy-pumpy with a mysterious femme fatale (Beals), literary agent Peter Loew (Cage) develops the certainty that he’s become an unwilling blood donor. Taking the idea seriously, he begins to live out a Gothic nightmare, in which modern New York takes on the stark, shadowy qualities of German expressionism. Cage’s acting is ludicrously overwrought, but in the context it serves a spicy blend of satirical comedy and horror beautifully. Cameo, Edinburgh. Volver (15) ●●●●● (Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2006) Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo. 121min. Almodovar returns with his Cannes hit and 16th film, which sees a career high from Cruz in a vivid and intricate tale of women from three generations of one family. Cameo, Edinburgh; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Wayne’s World (PG) ●●●●● (Penelope Spheeris, US, 1991) Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere. 95min. Two heavy metal dorks hit the big time when their public access cable show is snapped up by a greedy TV exec for national primetime. Crammed full of TV and film pastiches, this US phenomenon has far more hits than misses, while Wayne and Garth revel in an even wackier vocabulary than cinematic first cousins Bill and Ted. They’ve shot, they’ve scored!. Glasgow Film Theatre. Weekender (15) ●●●●● (Karl Golden, UK, 2011) Zawe Ashton, Emily Barclay, Sam Hazeldine. 89min. See review, page 82. General release.
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (18) ●●●●● (Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 1984) Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot. 100min. From the camera that brought you Women On the Verge . . ., an earlier, more surreal vision of desperation, sex and bizarre familial interactions in middle-class Spain. The central role is again played by a distracted Maura, this time as a housewife coping with her depression and her ghastly family by taking a wee snort of cleaning fluid with her prescribed amphetamines. Another gem. Cameo, Edinburgh. Whisky Galore (PG) ●●●●● (Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1949) Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell. 82min. Much-loved Ealing comedy by the late Sandy Mackendrick. A ship carrying a cargo of whisky is shipwrecked off a Scottish island during wartime, so the locals decide it’s time to quench their thirst. Full of wit and charm that others can only hope to emulate. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. You Instead (15) ●●●●● (David MacKenzie, UK, 2010) Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena. 80min. See review, page 98. Selected release.
✽✽ You’ve Been Trumped (E) (Anthony Baxter, UK, 2011) 95min.
Documentary charting one of the US’s most famous hairpiece models, aka Donald Trump, as he moves to build an enormous golf and residential development on land in the north east of Scotland, much to the dismay of the local populace. Part of Edindocs. Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. Zookeeper (PG) ●●●●● (Frank Coraci, US, 2011) Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb. 104min. James plays zookeeper Griffin Keyes, whose beach-side wedding proposal is turned down by Bibb’s money- grabber. Helping him win her back are Dawson’s shy vet and the various animals he looks after. But no one can breathe life into the tedious script. The Hippodrome, Bo’ness.
CINEMA INFORMATION GLASGOW
CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street. 0141 352 4900. cca-glasgow.com Prices vary (free–£5).
Cineworld Parkhead Forge Shopping Centre, 1221 Gallowgate. 0871 200 2000. cineworld.co.uk £5.90–£6.50 (£4.40–£4.80; family ticket £18.80); 3D supplement £2.10 (£1.50); glasses 80p per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu before 5pm.
Cineworld Renfrew Street 7 Renfrew Street. 0871 200 2000. cineworld.co.uk £6.30–£7.50 (£5.20; family ticket £21.20); 3D supplement £2.10 (£1.50); glasses 80p per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu before 5pm and Fri–Sun before noon. Eastwood Park Theatre Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock. 0141 577 4970. £4 (£3).
Empire Clyde Regional Centre, 23 Britannia Way. 0871 471 4714. empirecinemas.co.uk £5.20–£6.75 (£5; family ticket £20); 3D supplement £1.50. Off peak prices Mon–Thu
before 5pm; SaverDay Tuesday £3.95. Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street. 0141 332 6535. glasgowfilm.org/theatre £7 (£5.50).
Grosvenor Ashton Lane, Hillhead. 0845 166 6002. grosvenorcafe.co.uk/ cinema £5–£7.75 (£4–£6; sofa seats £15–£30). Various peak and off peak prices throughout the week.
IMAX Theatre Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay. 0141 420 5000. gsc.org.uk/imax Feature films £9.95 (£7.95); IMAX science films: add £2.50 to Science Mall admission.
Odeon at the Quay Springfield Quay, Paisley Road. 0871 22 44 007. odeon.co.uk £7.10–£8.40 (£4.85–£6.25; family ticket £19.40–£23); 3D supplement £2 (£1.60); glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu before 5pm. Odeon Braehead X-scape, Kings Inch Road. 0871 2244 007. odeon.co.uk £7.10–£8.40 (£5.20–£6.80; family ticket £20.80–£24.60); 3D supplement £2 (£1.60); glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu
before 5pm.
Showcase Cinema Barrbridge Leisure Centre, Coatbridge. 0871 220 1000. showcasecinemas.co.uk £5.90–£7.20 (£5.40); 3D supplement £2; glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices before noon. Showcase Cinema Griffin Avenue, Phoenix Business Park, Paisley. 0871 220 1000. showcasecinemas.co.uk £5.90–£7.20 (£5.40); 3D supplement £2; glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Fri before 6pm; Sat & Sun before noon.
Sloans 62 Argyle Arcade, 108 Argyle Street. 0141 221 8886. sloansglasgow.com/ eatfilm Free.
EDINBURGH
Autonomous Centre Edinburgh 17 West Montgomery Place. Free. Screening organised by ethicalvoiceforanimals .org.uk Brunton Theatre Ladywell Way, Musselburgh. 0131 665 2240. bruntontheatre.co.uk £5.60 (£4.60–£5.10).
Cameo 38 Home Street. 0871 902 5723. picturehouses.co.uk £5.30–£7.30 (£2–£5.80). Sunday double bills £7.30 (concessions £5.80; members free).Off peak price Tue–Fri before 5pm, all late shows and all day Mon; Wed first screening £2 for concessions. Cineworld Fountainpark Fountain Park, 130/3 Dundee Street. 0871 200 2000. cineworld.co.uk £6.70–£7.90 (£5.10; family ticket £21.60); 3D supplement £2.10 (£1.50); glasses 80p per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Fri before 5pm.
Dominion 18 Newbattle Terrace. 0131 447 4771. dominioncinemas.net £6–£10.90 after (£4.60–£7.90; seniors discount Sun–Thu only). Off peak prices before 6pm.
Filmhouse 88 Lothian Road. 0131 228 2688. filmhousecinema.com £5.60–£7.50 (£2.60–£5.50). Off peak prices Mon–Fri before 5pm (extra discount on Fri). George Square Theatre George Square. £5 (£3). Screenings organised by Take One Action Film Festival; booking via takeoneaction.org.uk
Odeon 118 Lothian Road. 0871 22 44 007. odeon.co.uk £7.50–£8.85 (£5.50–£6.90; family ticket £22–£26); 3D supplement £2 (£1.60); glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu before 5pm.
Odeon Wester Hailes 120 Wester Hailes Road, Westside Plaza. 0871 22 44 007. odeon.co.uk £6.60–£7.85 (£4.75–£6; family ticket £19–£22.60); premier seat upgrade £1.10 (family £4.40); 3D supplement £2 (£1.60); glasses £1 per pair. Off peak prices Mon–Thu before 5pm. Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Arboretum Place. 0131 248 2909. rbge.org.uk £5 (£3). Screenings organised by Take One Action Film Festival; booking via takeoneaction.org.uk
Scotsman Screening Room Scotsman Hotel, 20 North Bridge. 0131 556 5565. scotsmanscreenings.com Film only £10. Meal packages £39. Vue Ocean Ocean Terminal, Ocean Drive, Victoria Dock, Leith. 0871 224 0240. myvue.com £5.95–£8 (£4.50–£6.10; family ticket £18–£23.80); 3D supplement £2.40
(£1.80). Off peak prices all day Mon–Thu and Fri before 5pm (extra discounts Mon–Thu before 5pm). Vue Omni Omni, Greenside. 0871 224 0240. myvue.com £5.95–£8 (£4.50–£6.10; family ticket £18–£23.80); 3D supplement £2.40 (£1.80). Off peak prices all day Mon–Thu and Fri before 5pm (extra discounts Mon–Thu before 5pm).
OTHER INDEPENDENTS The Hippodrome 10 Hope Street, Bo'ness. 01324 506850. falkirk.gov.uk/ hippodrome £5.55 (£4.25; family ticket £15.20).
Macrobert University of Stirling, Stirling. 01786 466666. macrobert.org £4.75–£5.75 (£4.25–£5.25). Off peak prices before 6pm.
Dundee Contemporary Arts Nethergate, Dundee. 01382 909900. dca.org.uk £4.50–£6 (£3.50). Off peak prices before 5pm (extra discounts Mon–Thu).
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