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Jeff Bridges gives a compelling performance as a washed-out country and western singer in Crazy Heart

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:00:00 GMT

CRAZY HEART (15)Rating: lll

Tim Burton’s latest offering features Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:00:00 GMT

COMBINING a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity.

Southport Vue Cinema listings

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

THIS week sees the highly anticipated release of Alice In Wonderland.

Vue cinema winner

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

YOU could win a pair of tickets to the Vue screening of your choice in this week’s competition.

Vue Cinema Listings

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

THIS week’s new releases offer something for everyone. For those who enjoy nothing better than to sit back, relax, giggle away and maybe shed a few tears to the latest romantic comedy then look no further than movie Leap Year.

Win a pair of tickets to Vue cinema

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

YOU could win a pair of tickets to the Vue screening of your choice in this week’s competition.

Film Review: THE LAST STATION (15), Rating: lll

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

IT’S EASY to appreciate creative genius, but it must be hell to live with.

DVD reviews: Love Happens, Ax Men (Season 2) & Attack on Leningrad

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

OH DEAR. Poor Jennifer Aniston can’t even get her romance right on screen these days, never mind in real life. This pseudo rom-com lacks the key ingredients of either romance or comedy. Aniston is Eloise, a Seattle florist who tends to make poor boyfriend choices. Enter Aaron Eckhart as Burke Ryan, a widower who has turned the death of his wife into a self-help crusade, with packed out seminars and a soon-to-be-signed big TV deal. Can the two find love together? Well, frankly who cares? A dull script and the fact we never really know who the real Ryan is, beyond the annoying American evangelist we see on stage, means this film falls flat on its face. You can actually visibly see the two leads lose any real interest half way through. Avoid. Is Aniston too old for these roles now?

YOU could win a pair of tickets to the Vue screening of your choice in this week’s competition.

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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AFTER Valentine’s Day and a star-studded rom-com to whet the appetites of all you cinema lovers, this week’s new release is a haunting and heartbreaking adaptation of a best-selling novel.

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Lovely Bones is the story of a teenage girl who, after being murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives.

Southport comedian Lee Mack talks to Jade Wright about his forthcoming Liverpool gigs

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL FC call it the 12th man, and countless bands, actors and comics refer to the unspoken support that comes from playing in front of a home crowd.

Review: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (PG), Rating: III

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

PERCY Jackson & The Lightning Thief juxtaposes a battle of the Gods on Mount Olympus, and the exploits of a teenage boy destined for greatness, based on the first of five books by Rick Riordan.

DVD releases: Up (Cert U)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

FOLLOWING the death of his wife Ellie voiced by Elie Docter), retired balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen refuses to be parted from the house he built with his beloved. When developers threaten to bulldoze the property, Carl ties thousands of brightly coloured helium balloons to the roof and takes flight, bound for Paradise Falls in South America, where he and Ellie had always planned to visit. Unexpectedly, a Junior Wilderness Explorer called Russell is stranded on the porch and the plucky tyke joins Carl on his big adventure. Up is another modern classic from the computer animation wizards at Pixar and arguably the studio’s most sophisticated and adult film to date. The opening 10 minutes are among the finest Pixar have ever created, and are guaranteed to have viewers choking back tears. Visuals are astounding too in their vibrancy and minuscule detail, and you soon forget that you are watching something that has been created meticulously on computer hard-drives.

JAMES Cameron’s epic 3D flick Avatar continues to pack out cinemas this week; screenings have regularly sold out in Southport.

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

But with award season upon us there are still plenty of other top notch blockbusters worth checking out. With George Clooney starring as an exec re-evaluating his life choices, bittersweet drama Up In The Air is tipped for Oscar success.

(500) Days Of Summer (12)

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TOM (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has always nurtured a passion for architecture and he is transfixed by New York’s concrete jungle.

Film Review: All About Steve (12A)

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

AMERICA’S sweetheart she may be, but Sandra Bullock should really have thought twice about signing up for this quirky romantic comedy from Phil Traill.

George Clooney flying for another Oscar in The Air Up There

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

UNEMPLOYMENT is no laughing matter . . . although Up In The Air begs to differ. Directed by Jason Reitman, of Juno fame, this portrait of a loveless man, who earns his living flying around America and making total strangers redundant, hardly sounds like cause for merriment.

Film review: It’s Complicated - (15) Rating: lll

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WRITER-DIRECTOR Nancy Meyers has forged a reputation with smart, insightful comedies that reveal myriad potholes in the road to true love.

Film Reviews: The Road

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

ABANDON hope, all ye who enter here. The future isn't bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat's Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men.

The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 (15)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

WALTER GARBER (Denzel Washington) is a dispatcher in the busy transit control centre, monitoring New York’s subway trains.