Rock of Ages (12A)
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Dir: Adam Shankman
With: Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough
Running time: 123 minutes
IT'S hard to know what's more astonishing in this baggy adaptation of the hit musical: Tom Cruise playing a leather-trousered rock god or Russell Brand's attempt at a Brummie accent. Whatever, it's wall-to-wall Cheddar and big hair as a small-town girl arrives in LA with a pocketful of dreams. Shamelessly toe-tapping stuff for those who like that sort of thing, with the added bonus of Alec Baldwin in funny mode as a nightclub boss. Word to the parental wise: racier than you might expect.
Fast Girls (12A)
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Dir: Regan Hall
With: Lenora Crichlow, Noel Clarke
Running time: 90 minutes
MORE female dreaming, but this time of the vastly more positive variety. Four young women hanker after athletics gold, but can they put aside their differences to build a winning relay team? Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, Adulthood) provides a smart and savvy script and a solid performance as team coach, the young female stars do the rest, and the result is a refreshingly different picture released just in time for a certain athletics competition coming up.
Jaws (R/I) (12A)
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Dir: Steven Spielberg
With: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss
Running time: 124 minutes
OK, so it's been on television more often than you've had fish suppers, but it's worth turning out to the cinema again to see this sparkling new digital print of the 1975 classic. Take three men – small town sheriff (Roy Scheider), scientist (Richard Dreyfuss) and hunter (Robert Shaw) – add one mighty big great white shark, and you have two hours of nerve-shredding, triple Oscar-winning thrills. Go on, take a dip.
Red Lights (15)
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Dir: Rodrigo Cortes
With: Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy
Running time: 113 minutes
RODRIGO Cortes, having made his name with the man-entombed-alive thriller Buried, is up to his neck in hokum in this iffy thriller. It kicks off convincingly enough as Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy specialise in exposing psychics as fraudsters, but then along comes Robert De Niro doing his late-career, shouty, chewing-the-scenery schtick as Simon Silver the showman.
The Man Who Fell to Earth R/I (18)
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Dir: Nicolas Roeg
With: David Bowie, Rip Torn
Running time: 138 minutes
BESIDES playing guitar, Ziggy Stardust (aka David Bowie) had time to play the titular space visitor in Nicolas Roeg's weird and wonderful science fiction drama. Showing as part of the Made in Britain: Classic British Films season, in which outstanding films from decades past are given a re-release, Bowie is near perfect in the part, while Roeg ramps up the strangeness.
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