, 1h38 Directed byWoody Allen OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance ActorsAntonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch Roles Alan's Father Rating62% Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones) divorce. Helena begins seeing fortune teller Cristal (Pauline Collins) for spiritual advice. Their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) has a troubled marriage with author Roy (Josh Brolin), who once wrote a successful book, and is now anxiously waiting for response from his publisher about the manuscript of his newest one. Helena helps pay their rent.
Directed byGuo Xiaolu OriginChine GenresDrama ActorsGeoffrey Hutchings Roles Geoffrey Hunt Rating60% L'histoire de Mei, une jeune femme chinoise qui quitte sa vie monotone au village pour découvrir la fièvre de la grande ville la plus proche, Chongqing. Cependant, sa nouvelle vie ne ressemble pas vraiment à ce qu'elle attendait ; licenciée de son usine, elle tombe amoureuse de Spikey, un tueur à gages qui est rattrapé par son passé. Du jour au lendemain elle décide de se rendre à Londres...
, 1h45 Directed byDebbie Isitt OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ThemesChristmas films ActorsMartin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Marc Wootton, John Sessions, Alan Carr Roles Father Tom Rating63% Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is a "frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher" who once had ambitions of being successful as an actor, producer or director. Every year St. Bernadette's Catholic school in Coventry, where he teaches, competes with a local Protestant private school (Oakmoor) to see who can produce the best nativity play. Maddens hates Christmas because his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lore (Ashley Jensen), who attended drama school with him, left him at Christmas before he could propose to her. Despite this, the St. Bernadette's headteacher Mrs Bevans (Pam Ferris) tasks him with running their nativity play this year, and gives him a new class teaching assistant called Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton), who turns out to be as much of a child as the rest of Mr Maddens's class.
, 3h9 Directed byVadim Jean OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy, Fantasy ThemesFilms about magic and magicians ActorsDavid Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee, Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox Rating69% The plot of the adaptation largely follows the first two Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. The story follows the exploits of Rincewind, a wizard who is expelled from Unseen University after spending 40 years failing to learn even the most basic magic. In fact, Rincewind's head holds one of the eight spells from the Octavo, the most powerful spellbook in the Discworld, and he has been unable to learn others because "they were afraid to be in the same head" as the Octavo spell. Rincewind is forced to act as a local guide for Twoflower, a property insurance salesman and the Discworld's first tourist, who is visiting Ankh-Morpork, and Twoflower's luggage, which is made from sapient pearwood and can run on its own legs.
, 1h38 OriginLuxembourg GenresScience fiction, Fantasy, Adventure ThemesChildren's films ActorsAaron Taylor-Johnson, Jasper Harris, Alice Connor, Rollo Weeks, George MacKay, Jim Carter Roles Conte Rating59% When Prosper and Boniface's parents die, their aunt Esther attempts to adopt the younger brother, an adorable five-year-old who eventually turns six as the movie progresses, named Bo (Jasper Harris). She plans to send twelve-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson) away to boarding school. However, before they can separate the two boys Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the magical city about which their mother often told stories.
, 1h29 Directed bySteve Barron OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ThemesSports films, Association football films ActorsRicky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Bradley Walsh, Philip Jackson, Dean Lennox Kelly, Robbie Gee Roles Geoffrey Lightfoot Rating68% England manager Phil Cope suffers a heart attack during qualification for the World Cup, which started out well but has gone badly wrong of late. The FA heads meet to decide who should be the new England manager, but soon run into trouble. The most successful Premier League manager is Scottish (based on Sir Alex Ferguson), the second most successful is a former England captain who is interested in the job, but the FA decide that he is too much of a "loudmouth" and refuse to consider him (a reference to the numerous times Brian Clough was passed over for the England job), while none of the other English managers in the Premiership are interested. They are forced to look to Division One, and Bassett, who has just won the Mr Clutch Cup with Norwich City.
, 1h48 GenresDrama, Comedy, Documentary, Romance ActorsGeoffrey Hutchings, Samantha Spiro, Adam Godley, David McAlister, Steve Speirs, Hugh Walters Roles Sid James Rating75% Cor, Blimey! starts with the arrival of Sid James's new wardrobe assistant at the set of Carry On Cleo at Pinewood Studios. The audience is introduced to Sid James, portrayed as a gambling womaniser, and Kenneth Williams (played by Adam Godley). The two men are depicted as bitter rivals with a genuine antipathy for each other.
, 2h40 Directed byMike Leigh OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical, Musical ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musical films ActorsJim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Dexter Fletcher Roles Armourer Rating72% On the opening night of Princess Ida at the Savoy Theatre in January 1884, composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner), who is ill from kidney disease, is barely able to make it to the theatre to conduct. He goes on a holiday to Continental Europe hoping that the rest will improve his health. While he is away, ticket sales and audiences at the Savoy Theatre wilt in the hot summer weather. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte (Ron Cook) has called on Sullivan and the playwright W. S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) to create a new piece for the Savoy, but it is not ready when Ida closes. Until a new piece can be prepared, Carte revives an earlier Gilbert and Sullivan work, The Sorcerer.
, 1h32 Directed byDavid Leland OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance ThemesPregnancy films, Films about sexuality ActorsEmily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Heathcote Williams, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Hutchings, Charlotte Barker Roles Hubert Mansell Rating67% Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.