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Tom’s cruising for a bruising in sequel

EVERYONE’S favourite all-American action hero Tom Cruise returns as the solitary former super soldier in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. As entertaining as it may be to watch Cruise do what he does best — dispatching terrorists with ease and saving the ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:58

Screenwriter’s fired up for Dan Brown

AT the risk of speaking too soon, all the signs are pointing to Robert Langdon’s latest cinematic outing being a surefire success. The unwitting hero of Dan Brown’s hugely popular and successful novels returns to our screens this week in Inferno, ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:57

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

WE all love a good thriller and director Tate Taylor will be hoping for another hit before Oscar season hots up with The Girl on the Train. A strange and potentially risky choice, though, for the man who oversaw the hugely successful and Oscar ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:57

Spooky time travel plays to strengths

TIM BURTON has always pushed to the limit the creativity and escapism that cinema affords. Reality is not a word in this director’s vocabulary — only fantasy — and his latest offering, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, is no ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:57

Creator of Henley-set drama is destined for greater things

WHEN Henley-raised 29-year old writer-director Kirsty Robinson introduced her feature-length offering at the film portion of this year’s Henley Fringe and Film Festival, she was at pains to clarify that her 93-minute opus was not only ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:56

Seven into 2016 is sum achievement

ABOUT 20 years back, synthpop legends Depeche Mode released a single called It’s No Good. The response from one music press reviewer who didn’t like the Basildon trio was gleeful: “Agreed. Next!” The Magnificent Seven, which hits ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:56

Keeping up with the Jones never gets old

BRITAIN’S favourite unlucky-in-love singleton returns to our screens 15 years after first capturing our hearts in this week’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. Since the first film, and the highly successful follow-up, Bridget Jones: The ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Deadly plot to kill Hitler’s successor

A POWERFUL wartime thriller based on real events, Anthropoid tells the story of a group of Czech resistance fighters who plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, the acting reich protector of Bohemia ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:55

"One more time with feeling"

Henley’s Regal Picture House has been one of the select few cinemas across the UK who have been chosen to screen the film One More Time With Feeling, which launches Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds new album 'Skeleton Tree’, on ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Co-stars reunite for a twilight romance

BEST known for his late-Seventies hits Annie Hall and Manhattan, Woody Allen invites us to join him a step away from his familiar territory of light-hearted romantic comedies with his newest film, Café Society. ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Classic film screenings

PEPPARD Revels will hold two film nights later this year. The first on October 21 will feature a screening of A Man for All Seasons, the story of Thomas More starring Paul Scofield, which was made in 1966 and ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Ricky’s still as Brent as a nine-bob note

FOLLOWING an absence of 12 years from our screens, I’d almost forgotten that David Brent is a complex character with his heart firmly in the right place, writes David White. The former Wernham Hogg boss, who ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:54

‘Bad mothers’ takes on a new meaning

THE thought of forgetting about all of our adult responsibilities and revisiting our younger, more carefree days appeals to all of us in one way or another. The film industry, particularly Hollywood, has ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:54

Fat Sam’s Speakeasy lives again as Bugsy prepares to mark 40th

READING’S historic Olympia Ballroom will be transformed into Fat Sam’s Speakeasy for one night only next month as Reading Year of Culture marks the town’s links with the 1976 gangster film Bugsy Malone. ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:54

Another day at The Office for Gervais?

TO say I’m excited about the prospect of Ricky Gervais’s best-known character returning to our screens after an absence of 12 years is an understatement. The Office was a huge success and has already ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:54

Boy and dragon are the beast of friends

HOT on the heels of last month’s “reimagining” of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, Walt Disney’s Pete’s Dragon gets the same treatment this week. The concept of taking the popular cartoons of yesteryear and ...

14 Dec 2016 at 16:53

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