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Death Race

LOOSELY based on 1975 cult favourite Death Race 2000, Paul WS Anderson’s follow-up to Alien Vs Predator is a turbo-charged action-thriller set in a bleak future in which reality programmes dominate. Read

Righteous Kill

DE NIRO and Pacino. Two titans of the big screen are united for the first time since 1995 thriller Heat as grizzled cop buddies on the trail of a serial murderer in Righteous Kill. Read

Taken

IF Jason Statham wasn’t otherwise disposed, he’d almost certainly be headlining Pierre Morel’s brutal, adrenaline-pumping thriller. Read

Dead good

Master of big-screen mayhem Paul (WS) Anderson tells David Whetstone about his new film, Death Race. Read

Swing Vote

SEVEN new North East documentary films are to be premiered at the Baltic this evening before an invited audience. Read

Tropic Thunder

REMEMBER that Christmas Eve when you looked excitedly under the tree and discovered that the big present in the shiny wrapping paper had your name on it? Read

Then She Found Me

BASED on the novel by Elinor Lipman, actress Helen Hunt’s feature film directorial debut charts one woman’s journey of self discovery and the search for a biological mother. Read

Pineapple Express

SCREENWRITING duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s follow-up to Superbad is another celebration of the underdog. Read

Female friendship put to the test in sisterly tale

HOLLYWOOD is finally getting a hefty helping of girl power. Chick flicks like Sex And The City and Mamma Mia have made it big on the big screen this summer. Read

A scene from the movie The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

SUFFER the little children. Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas relives the horrors of the Second World War from the perspective of an eight-year-old German tyke, who is blissfully unaware of the vital role played by his Nazi officer father in the unfolding tragedy. Read

Eden Lake

WITH sensationalist newspaper headlines fanning flames of public concern about youth knife crime, Gordon Brown recently pointed the finger of blame squarely at the family home. Read

The Women

AN all-star cast adds lustre to writer-director Diane English’s rather dull, contemporary remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic, which chronicled sisterly rivalry in the swankier nooks and crannies of Manhattan society. Read

Biggest adventures at film festival

IF your spirit of adventure is willing but your flesh is weak, then a five-day film festival could bring you all the excitement you need. Read

The Duchess

A WOMAN’S lot was clearly not a happy one in 18th Century England – even if you were an aristocrat. Devoid of rights, it seems you pretty much had to content yourself with flouncing around in beautiful frocks. Read

Bangkok Dangerous

YOU can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, not that it has stopped brothers Oxide and Danny Pang trying. Read

RocknRolla

THREE years after the debacle of Revolver, writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to the mean streets of London, as captured in his iconic debut Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, for this serpentine gangland thriller. Read

Disaster Movie

WHEN you’ve hit rock bottom and the last glimmer of hope has disappeared, the only way is up, isn’t it? Read

Story’s happy ending

FILMING began in Wales this week of Skellig, David Almond’s award-winning tale for children. Read

The Strangers

ATTACK is often the best form of defence, but what happens when you are faced with protecting the people you love from a faceless adversary whose sole aim is to inflict the most unimaginable pain? Read

Step Brother

THE biggest laugh in Adam McKay’s comedy of escalating sibling rivalry comes before the opening credits roll. Read

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