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Cast: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Anna Chlumsky, David Rasche, Steve Coogan. Director: Armando Iannucci. Screenplay: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche. Score: Adem Ilhan. Cinematography: Jamie Cairney. What Yes, Minister might have been to the Falklands War, In the Loop is to the Iraq War. Spun off TV’s The [...]

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Nicolas Cage. Director: Matthew Vaughn. Screenplay: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn. Score: Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri, Henry Jackman, John Murphy. Cinematography: Ben Davis, Mac Kenny. Rarely has a title summed up a movie’s exuberance as perfectly as Kick-Ass, a wildly kinetic superhero spoof with a dark and bloody sensibility [...]

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker. Director: Breck Eisner. Screenplay: Scott Kosar, Ray Wright. Score: Mark Isham. Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre. This is a riveting re-make of George A Romero’s 1973 horror movie of the same name, about the citizens of a small town in Iowa who are quarantined by the military after [...]

Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor. Director: Tim Burton. Screenplay: Linda Woolverton. Score: Danny Elfman. Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski. You’d have to be mad as a hatter not to think Alice in Wonderland looks sensational on Blu-ray. This may not be the [...]

Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. Director: Lee Daniels. Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher. Score: Mario Grigorov. Cinematography: Andrew Dunn. This is an extraordinarily thought-provoking, heart-breaking account of an obese, abused, illiterate teenager’s bid to triumph over tragedy and prejudice. Precious is incredibly bleak and oppressive, and although it occasionally flirts with sentimentality, remains true [...]

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel, Ted Danson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Score: John Williams. Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski. To paraphrase a line from the highly decorated, 1998 D-Day dramatisation, this Ryan upgrade is worth it, with an HD transfer as jaw-dropping as the combat sequences that [...]

This week’s Blu-ray releases of The Road and World War II in HD Colour have been delayed. The DVDs of each went on sale Wednesday but the Blu-ray of the post-apocalyptic drama starring Viggo Mortensen won’t land until next week while World War II in HD Colour has been postponed until September 13. Next month is when the [...]

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse. Director: Kathryn Bigelow. Screenplay: Mark Boal. Score: Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders. Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd. The winner of six Oscars, including best picture and director, dramatises the hair-trigger tensions within a US Army bomb disposal squad in Iraq when an adrenalin junkie reports [...]

Voices: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Joan Cusack, Annie Potts. Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich. Screenplays: Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb. Scores: Randy Newman. Cinematography: Sharon Calahan. The original hi-tech ‘toon about an old-school cowboy doll that gets pushed off [...]

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Man von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Elias Koteas, John Carroll Lynch. Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Laeta Kalogridis. Music supervision: Robbie Robertson. Cinematography: Robert Richardson. There are few movies you want to revisit as quickly as Shutter Island. Martin Scorsese’s latest exercise in suspense and panache [...]