Cinema reviews for Cumbria and South Lakes

Dinner with Pacino felt like being "in a scene from Heat", says Cheam businessman

12:28pm Monday 3rd June 2013

A CHEAM businessman felt like he was “in a scene from Heat” when he had an intimate dinner with movie megastar Al Pacino.

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Review: Olympus Has Fallen (15)

3:32pm Friday 19th April 2013

Antoine Fuqua’s testosterone-fuelled thriller contrives a Die Hard In The White House scenario from an assault on Capitol Hill by heavily armed Korean terrorists who are fed up with America meddling in their affairs.

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Review: Jack The Giant Slayer (12A)

2:41pm Friday 22nd March 2013

The English folktale of Jack And The Beanstalk is given a smart CGI-heavy makeover in Bryan Singer’s fast-paced fantasy.

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Review: This is 40 (15)

1:45pm Friday 15th February 2013

In This Is 40, Judd Apatow revisits characters from Knocked Up to explore the reality of married life for a middle-aged couple who have lost that loving feeling.

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Review: Sammy's Great Escape (PG)

1:43pm Friday 15th February 2013

Sammy’s Great Escape begins straight after the events of A Turtle’s Tale with Sammy

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Review: Beautiful Creatures (12A)

1:47pm Friday 15th February 2013

Based on the first book in the Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural love story about a teenager with strange powers torn between the forces of darkness and light.

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Argo is named the UK regional film critics' movie of the year

4:45pm Monday 4th February 2013

The thriller Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, has been voted Film of the Year by the UK’s regional critics.

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Review: Bullet To The Head (15)

11:23am Friday 1st February 2013

This was what happened to Christian Slater on the set of Stallone’s latest action showpiece, Bullet To The Head.

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Review: Flight (15)

11:10am Friday 1st February 2013

DENZEL Washington soars to career highs in Robert Zemeckis’s emotionally wrought character study of a pilot wrestling with alcohol dependency.

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Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (12A)

11:29am Friday 1st February 2013

President Franklin Roosevelt prepares to welcome King George VI and his wife Elizabeth to America.

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Review: The Last Stand

5:06pm Friday 25th January 2013

Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sheriff of the sleepy town of Sommerton Junction, on the US-Mexico border.

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

5:05pm Friday 25th January 2013

Ballsy CIA officer Maya (Jessica Chastain) accepts a posting to Islamabad amid Dan (Jason Clarke) worries she might not be up to the task at hand.

Review: Lincoln

5:04pm Friday 25th January 2013

Steven Spielberg artfully tears a page from history to immortalise the efforts of the 16th president of the United States to abolish slavery during a turbulent period of deep division within the House of Representatives.

Review: Les Miserables

4:14pm Friday 11th January 2013

Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, dreamed a dream of immortalising Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil’s powerhouse musical without the conventional safety net of lip-synching.

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Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D

4:15pm Friday 11th January 2013

Sheriff Hooper (Thom Barry) races to the Sawyer farmhouse, where hulking Jed Sawyer has run amok with his beloved chainsaw.

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Review: Quartet (12A)

4:47pm Friday 4th January 2013

If you want a waspish one-liner delivered with impeccable timing and venom, gift it to Dame Maggie Smith.

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Review: Parental Guidance (U)

3:00pm Wednesday 2nd January 2013

Grandmother knows best in Parental Guidance, an intergenerational comedy of bad manners and frayed tempers, which welcomes Bette Midler back to the big screen after a four-year hiatus.

Review: Jack Reacher (12A)

2:58pm Wednesday 2nd January 2013

The US premiere of Jack Reacher, an explosive action thriller based on the book One Shot by Lee Child, was postponed in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Review: Tinkerbell and the secret of the wings 3D (U)

4:36pm Friday 14th December 2012

IN the magical realm of Pixie Hollow ruled by Queen Clarion (voiced by Anjelica Huston), Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) and her friends busy themselves gathering berries and coaxing flowers to bloom.

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Review: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey (12A)

4:34pm Friday 14th December 2012

There is a moment early in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when Gandalf The Grey – played by Burnley-born Sir Ian McKellen – turns to diminutive hero Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and counsels: “All good stories deserve embellishment.”

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Review: Rise of the Guardians (PG)

3:28pm Friday 30th November 2012

BASED on The Guardians Of Childhood book series by William Joyce, Peter Ramsey’s entertaining family-oriented film is a timely reminder that there are many things without rigorous scientific proof that still touch our hearts and change our humdrum lives for the better.

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Review: Alex Cross (15)

3:34pm Friday 30th November 2012

ROB Cohen’s film opens with Detective Alex Cross (Tyler Perry), his partner Tommy Kane (Edward Burns) and colleague Monica Ashe (Rachel Nichols) chasing a suspect through an abandoned warehouse.

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Review: Great Expectations (12A)

3:30pm Friday 30th November 2012

As a boy, orphan Pip (Jeremy Irvine) has a disturbing encounter with escaped convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes).

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Review: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (12A)

4:25pm Friday 16th November 2012

The concluding chapter of the outlandish fang-tasy series based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling books delivers a master class in constructing CGI mountains out of molehills.

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Review: Skyfall (12A)

3:54pm Friday 26th October 2012

TIME waits for no man, not even the suave and sharply attired 007.

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Sky-high turnout for new 007 film

9:05am Monday 29th October 2012

THRILL-SEEKING Cinema goers flocked to the flicks on Friday to be among the first to see the new James Bond film.

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Review: Paranormal Activity 4, (15)

3:18pm Friday 19th October 2012

In the leafy community of Henderson, Nevada, plucky teenager Alice (Kathryn Newton) lives with her parents (Stephen Dunham, Alexondra Lee) and younger brother, Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp).

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Review: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (PG)

3:17pm Friday 19th October 2012

Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) hanker for a return to New York’s Central Park Zoo

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