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  • Missing Pieces

    Strange, romantic, thoughtful, touching and creepy all at once, this indie oddity from first-time filmmaker Kenton Bartlett was made on a shoestring budget but – one dodgy blonde wig aside – it doesn’t show.


  • A Film with Me in It

    Mark Doherty and Dylan Moran teaming up to try and deal with a house determined to frame them for murder? Yes, please! A farce so dark it’s like a black hole put on some sunglasses because it was hungover. Hungover on Guinness.


  • Jack Goes Boating

    Philip Seymour Hoffman brings us a tale about love, loss and life that tries its very best to hop on the first train to Quirksville. Unfortunately, it misses its connection, tries to take a boat instead, gets lost and ends up deep in the Uncanny Valley.


  • The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

    While this isn’t the first adaptation of HergĂ©’s comic book creation to grace the big screen, it is the first time that Tintin has appeared since 1972 and the first time he ‘s been presented to such a general audience. With Steven Spielberg on top form, and a story which picks liberally from three of the series’ most popular books, the result is quite simply one of the best blistering blue blockbusters of the year.


  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

    A superbly upsetting film, We Need to Talk About Kevin sees Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton join forces to emotionally brutalise their audience in a fantastically realised adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s beast of a book.