FILMS TO WATCH 2008

Find out what our resident film critic reckons will be the movies that you should be going to see at the cinema in 2008

FILMS OF THE YEAR 2007

Find out what our chief film critic thought were the best films released this year, from Sunshine to The Simpsons

The Making Of Star Wars

An engrossing and detailed piece of work, The Making of Star Wars is a weighty tome perfect for fans looking to bone up ahead of the film’s thirtieth anniversary

Something 4 The Weekend

It's half-term time again, so that can only mean one thing: kids’ films. Hurrah. Or rather not, because most of this week’s offerings are utterly baffling, even to young hipsters such as ourselves...

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The first potential blockbuster of the year roars its way onto our screens this weekend as Ghost Rider is released. Based on the Marvel comic, it follows Johnny Blaze, a motorbike stunt rider who, in a bid to save his dying father, sells his soul to the devil. Bad idea...

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Two cinematic legends make their return to the big screen this weekend as Clint Eastwood and Robert De Niro release their latest directorial efforts

¡Viva! 2007 Programme Announced

Now in its 13th year, ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival (March 15 – 25) returns to Cornerhouse, Manchester, with 10 action-packed days and nights of Hispanic film with many new features hitting UK screens for the first time

Something 4 The Weekend

With Valentine's Day and half-term coming up and most of this year's Oscar contenders already on general release, this week throws up a schizophrenic pick and mix of cinematic confection for you to sink your teeth into

Something 4 The Weekend

If we may be so bold, Entertainment Manchester would like to claim The Fountain as a record-breaker. No, it hasn't broken any box-office records or anything as grand as that. Instead, it’s the only film to appear on our Something for the New Year list... twice

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The first of this year's big Oscar contenders gets its release this weekend as The Pursuit of Happyness finds its way to our screens

Films To Watch 2007

Danny Boyle, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and Spider-Man all return in our preview of the films to look out for in 2007

Films Of The Year 2006

Bond begins, Superman returns and Marie Antoinette doesn't have her head cut off in our rundown of the best films of 2006

Something 4 The Weekend

"Volver is a meeting of Mildred Pierce and Arsenic and Old Lace, combined with the surrealistic naturalism of my fourth film, What Have I Done To Deserve This?" Welcome to the weird world of Pedro Almodovar's Volver. More...

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Prepare to arch those eyebrows kids, because irony makes its return to our cinema screens this weekend with the long-awaited (that's not irony, by the way, there are genuinely people who can't wait for this) release of Snakes on a Plane. Or SoaP as the internet has shortened it to. More...

Something 4 The Weekend

When a film garners comparisons to The Goonies, it has my attention. When it features an old-school arcade game with terrible graphics and a Casio keyboard soundtrack on its official website, it pretty much has my heart. So please welcome what could well be this summer's sleeper hit: Monster House. More...

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, YET ANOTHER animated film about crazy lost animals wings its way onto our cinema screens in the shape of Dreamworks' Over the Hedge. More...

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BBC 1. Football. BBC 2. Worthy drama. ITV. Football. Channel 4. Reality TV. Channel 5. Well, Channel 5's just Channel 5. As per usual, the TV is offering viewers very little this week, unless you're keen on seeing England struggle against teams they really should be hammering. More...

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With the summer blockbuster period now well under-way, the first disaster film of the season (not including The Da Vinci Code, of course) chugs its way onto the big screen in the shape of Poseidon, a remake of Ronald Neame's 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure. More...

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They've faced Magneto, the Sentinels and even the rather camp sounding Nasty Boys, but will Brett Ratner be the man who finally bumps off the X-Men? That's the question X-fans across the world have been asking themselves this week in anticipation of the third (and possibly final) instalment in the mega-budget mutant franchise, X-Men 3: The Last Stand. And why does the geek contingent have cause for concern? Well, blame Superman. More...

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After the Scientology, whirlwind romance, fast-tracked pregnancy and (alleged) placenta eating, Tom Cruise finally gets back to what he's 'good' at with this week's release of Mission Impossible 3, or M:I:III for those of you who suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. More...

1000 Films To Change Your Life

Let's face it, after innumerable Jimmy Carr 100 Greatest Things I Did Last Sunday shows and a fair share of 1000 Films You Must See Before You Die type books, we don't really need yet another bunch of talking heads telling us what to see, think and feel regarding the movie world. But Time Out's latest venture into this area is one to look out for. More...

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Sounding like a cross between Sharon Stone pervo-thriller Sliver and David Cronenberg's pervo-horror Shivers, Slither is a horror-comedy which looks set to pick up where Shaun of the Dead left off. More...

GAME REVIEW: The Godfather

We play the brand new adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's classic movie. Does it show due respect, or should it sleep with the fishes? More...

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Directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring Sharon Stone, David Morrissey and, yes, Stan Collymore, it follows Catherine Trammel, murderous, bisexual, nymphomaniac author as she is investigated by Morrissey's psychiatrist Michael Glass. More...

Natalie Portman Interview

Natalie Portman had to go to great lengths in her role in V For Vendetta, not least shaving her head, so let's find out what she has to say about that and the film itself... More...

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A masked vigilante with a penchant for Guy Fawkes. A female side-kick shorn of all her hair. The Houses of Parliament blown to bits amid the sounds of Big Ben's once proud bells dying a strangulated death. It could be one of those absurd scare-mongering drama-documentaries that the BBC produces about possible disasters like asteroids hitting the earth, but is in fact the latest film based on the work of graphic novel guru Alan Moore, V for Vendetta, or as the Daily Mail dubbed it "the film Blair should fear." More...

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Dodgy Americans, miserable Danes and men named Wang. Find out all you need to know about this week's cinematic offerings. More...

The Legend Of Zorro DVD Competition

We've got three copies of The Legend Of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones to give away to lucky winners. More...

Pink Panther DVD Competition

We've got two copies of The Pink Panther Cartoon Box Set to give away to two lucky winners, to celebrate the upcoming release of the new Pink Panther movie, starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. More...

Something 4 The Weekend

It's a barren, desolate cinematic landscape Hollywood is offering us this weekend. Thus far, 2006 has actually been rather good, quality-wise. We've already had Brokeback Mountain and the astounding Munich, original and daring films both. But as sure as ITV producing crap knock-offs of rubbish BBC programs (hello, Dancing on Ice), the Hollywood sequel has made its return for the new year. More...

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The common belief in certain sections of the critical community is that Steven Spielberg can only make childish, immature films. Certainly anyone who’s suffered through Peter Biskind's movie brat love-in/anti-Spielberg hissy fit Easy Riders, Raging Bulls will understand that just as 1970s New Hollywood was reaching its artistic zenith, Spielberg snuck up behind the likes of Scorsese, Coppola and Bogdanovich and bludgeoned them across the back of the head with his blaspheming blockbusters. More...

Something 4 The Weekend

What does a good war movie need? Well, first of all, it obviously needs a war. Apocalypse Now (as quoted above) had Vietnam, MASH Korea, Saving Private Ryan World War Two and Jarhead (released this weekend) the First Gulf War. But, of course, a classic war movie needs much, much more than that. More...

Films To Watch 2006

Paul Bullock looks forward to a year that will bring Superman back to our screens, Marie Antoinette to life through the vision of Sofia Coppola as well as the latest creation from Pixar More...

Something 4 The Weekend

With Ang Lee's 'gay cowboy film' Brokeback Mountain being tipped for Oscar glory by many is this really Hollywood's year of living dangerously? More...

Something 4 The Weekend: King Kong Special

Paul Bullock pays tribute to a very big monkey and the impact he has had on modern cinema, just in time for Peter Jackson's remake to come stomping into multiplexes across Manchester. More...

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Is The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe just a dubious piece of Christian propaganda or a fun-packed family film? Why are the Religous Right in America latching on a film about penguins? Find out inside. More...

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Paul Bullock despairs at the state of modern movie-making, more than slightly motivated to do so by the imminent release of a certain video game adaptation. More...

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Being a bit of a wimp, there was a time when Paul Bullock avoided the horror genre like the plague. After all, he reckoned, why bother paying to scare yourself? It's nonsensical he thought. Just watch the X Factor if you want to scare yourself was his belief. More...

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Renowned Harry Potter cynic Paul Bullock ponders whether The Goblet Of Fire will win him over and when everyone will notice that Dumbledore has turned into Michael Gambon. More...

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If three years of university education taught Paul Bullock anything - and trust us, they didn't really teach him much - it's about the questionable joys of postmodernism - hold on tight folks, this is gonna be quite a ride! More...