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Review: Ruby Sparks (15)

4:55pm Friday 12th October 2012

CALVIN Weir-Fields wrote his first novel at the age of 19.

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Review: Hotel Transylvania

4:52pm Friday 12th October 2012

THIS family-friendly computer-animated comedy brings an inquisitive mortal into a world of ghouls and goblins.

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Review: Pusher (18)

4:50pm Friday 12th October 2012

Party boy and drug dealer Frank (Richard Coyle) is a big fish in the small pond of east London.

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Review: Now is Good (12A)

4:26pm Friday 21st September 2012

Seventeen-year-old Tessa (Fanning) has a lust for life but won’t live to see her 18th birthday, go to university or raise a family.

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Review: Savages (15)

4:22pm Friday 21st September 2012

Violence begets more violence in Oliver Stone’s gritty thriller about two hapless drug suppliers who are taught a harsh lesson by a powerful drug cartel.

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Review: The Sweeney (15)

3:50pm Friday 14th September 2012

NICK Love’s script, co-written by John Hodge, follows Flying Squad hard man DI Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew) as they hunt a gang of wily European thieves led by slippery Francis Allen (Paul Anderson).

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Review: Paranorman 3D (PG)

3:47pm Friday 14th September 2012

EARTHBOUND spirits appear to Norman but remain invisible to his parents Perry (Jeff Garlin) and Sandra (Leslie Mann), and his sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick).

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Review: Hopestrings (12A)

3:45pm Friday 14th September 2012

David Frankel’s joyful romantic comedy charts the affairs of the heart of a long-time married couple, who are desperate to rediscover the spark that brought them together more than 30 years ago.

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Review: Dredd 3D (18)

5:01pm Friday 7th September 2012

In the near future, America has been reduced to an irradiated wasteland and more than 400 million people are crammed into Mega City One on the eastern seaboard, which is patrolled by law-makers called Judges.

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Review: Anna Karenina, (12A)

5:00pm Friday 7th September 2012

Beautiful socialite Anna (Keira Knightley) travels from St Petersburg to Moscow

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Review: Lawless, (18)

4:58pm Friday 7th September 2012

Based on a true story, Lawless knocks back a drink with three brothers who become kings of their close-knit community by running moonshine across the state line.

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Review: The Three Stooges, (PG)

3:55pm Friday 24th August 2012

Many film-makers build on modest debuts, gradually compiling a body of increasingly assured work.

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Review: The Watch, (15)

3:53pm Friday 24th August 2012

The Watch pits a coalition of concerned residents against a full-blown alien invasion in the fictional idyll of Glenview, Ohio.

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Review: Shadow Dancer, (15)

3:52pm Friday 24th August 2012

Sectarian violence in Northern Ireland cast a long shadow over the country for more than 30 years.

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Review: The expendables 2 (15)

4:29pm Friday 17th August 2012

THE boys are back in town for this explosive sequel directed by Simon West.

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Review: The bourne legacy (12A)

4:28pm Friday 17th August 2012

Jeremy Renner plays super-soldier/spy Aaron Cross. We meet him as he embarks on a solo training mission

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Review: The Wedding Video (15)

4:26pm Friday 17th August 2012

Billy Connolly famously surmised, “Marriage is a wonderful invention. Then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”

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Review: Brave (PG)

4:28pm Friday 10th August 2012

Having almost completely stalled their creative engines with Cars 2, Disney Pixar heads for the ancient Scottish highlands in this computer-animated fable of female empowerment.

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Review: The Flowers of War (15)

5:01pm Friday 3rd August 2012

Zhang Yimou directs this sweeping historical drama set during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japanese troops seized the Chinese city of Nanking and murdered and raped thousands of defenceless civilians.

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Review: Ted, (U)

4:59pm Friday 3rd August 2012

THE teddy bear remains a potent symbol of childhood innocence.

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Review: Magic Mike (15)

5:05pm Friday 13th July 2012

Adam (Alex Pettyfer) lives in Tampa Bay with his sister Brooke (Cody Horn).

Review: Ice Age 4: Continental drift 3D, (U)

5:04pm Friday 13th July 2012

Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel (voiced by Chris Wedge) sets off a tectonic chain reaction that threatens to destroy an entire continent in the latest chapter of the Ice Age series.

Review: Seeking a friend for the end of the world (15)

5:03pm Friday 13th July 2012

AN asteroid called Matilda is due to collide with Earth, bringing an end to life on our planet.

Review: The Amazing Spiderman (12A)

5:06pm Friday 6th July 2012

High school student Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is haunted by the disappearance of his parents (Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz).

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Review: Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG)

5:08pm Friday 6th July 2012

BEHIND-the-scenes documentary that traces her ascent from gospel singer Katy Hudson to the present day with countless awards cluttering up the mantelpiece.

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Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (15)

4:17pm Tuesday 26th June 2012

Adapted from the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, supposedly

Review: Lay the Favourite (15)

4:15pm Tuesday 26th June 2012

Beth Raymer (Rebecca Hall) hails from Tallahassee and ekes out an unfulfilling living by shedding her clothes for beer-swilling punters in trailer parks.

Review: The five-year engagement (15)

4:14pm Tuesday 26th June 2012

San Francisco sous chef Tom (Jason Segel) meets psychology graduate Violet (Emily Blunt) at a Make Your Own Superhero party.

Review: Red Lights, (15)

4:57pm Friday 15th June 2012

Dr Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) has devoted her life to probing paranormal phenomena with her trusty assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy).

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