Bruno, Fired Up! and Soul Power

3:00pm Wednesday 8th July 2009

Lightning doesn’t strike twice for Sacha Baron Cohen with Bruno, his eagerly-awaited follow-up to the smash hit Borat – Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Casting off the ill-fitting suit and moustache of his fictitious reporter, Cohen dresses to distress in figure-hugging hot pants and crop-tops as the eponymous fashionista from Klagenfurt, Austria.

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Public Enemies (15, 139 mins)

3:19pm Wednesday 1st July 2009

Perfectionist director Michael Mann doffs his fedora to Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in Public Enemies (15, 139 mins). This beautifully-crafted biopic surveys a volatile period in America’s history when a group of hoodlums ran rings around J Edgar Hoover and his fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Year One, My Sister's Keeper and Blood: The Last Vampire

9:45am Thursday 25th June 2009

What do you call a comedy without a single laugh? The answer is Year One, Harold Ramis’s ramshackle road movie through the Paleolithic era headlined by Jack Black and Michael Cera, two of the most gifted comic actors of their generations.

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

3:41pm Wednesday 17th June 2009

The robots in disguise continue their age-old feud in the eagerly-awaited sequel to one of the biggest box office hits of 2007. Director Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) returns to the helm for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to destroy large swathes of planet Earth in a miasma of pyrotechnics and computer-generated imagery, courtesy of the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain.

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Terminator Salvation and Last Chance Harvey

12:39pm Wednesday 3rd June 2009

Man battles the machines once again in an all-guns-blazing reboot of the Terminator series, which sows the seeds of a new trilogy charting John Connor’s rise to leader of the Resistance in the aftermath of Judgment Day.

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Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience and 12 Rounds

3:46pm Wednesday 27th May 2009

The Jonas Brothers — aka good Christian boys Joe, Nick and Kevin — are an impeccably-styled, multi-million-dollar global phenomenon. The siblings are pin-ups for an entire generation of excitable teenagers and the embodiment of modern family values, wearing purity rings to affirm their belief in no sex before marriage.

Night at the Museum 2

6:30am Thursday 21st May 2009

History is brought vividly to life with a dazzling array of computer-generated effects in Night at the Museum 2 (PG), a soulless exercise in digital might over emotional substance and subtlety.

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Angels & Demons

10:56am Thursday 14th May 2009

In various religious texts and works of art, angels and demons are regarded as the messengers to the afterlife in either Heaven or Hell. Ron Howard’s action-packed film, Angels & Demons (12A) adapted from the best-seller by Dan Brown, hovers somewhere between the two extremes, jettisoning the ponderous dialogue which blighted The Da Vinci Code in favour of a protracted game of cat and mouse around Rome.

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