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Harrison Ford in Morning Glory.
Morning Glory
Morning Glory

The title refers to a climbing plant with showy flowers that blossom in the early morning, often withering by midday. Will this attractive offering have much staying power? Or, asks Kimberly Gadette, will it wither by midweek?

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A Screaming Man, directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
A Screaming Man
A Screaming Man

London Film Festival – One of just four movies in the main competition at Cannes 2010 that the Indie Movies team missed back in May, Paul Martin finally catches up with an award-winning African tragedy.

Another Year still.
Another Year
Another Year

Cannes (Official Selection) - Divided into four seasons, Mike Leigh's latest film recounts the events in the lives of an ordinary couple, their friends and family over the course of a year. Emma Rowley is drawn into an absorbing tragicomedy that is characteristic of the best of the director's work.

Due Date
Due Date
Due Date

As the successor to the well-received The Hangover, can director Todd Phillips' Due Date deliver the goods again? Or, says Kimberly Gadette, taking a pregnant pause ... unlike the film's mother-to-be, perhaps we're expecting too much.

Adrien Brody in Predators.
On DVD: Predators
On DVD: Predators

Adrien Brody leads a group of battle-hardened paramilitaries who are stalked by the ultimate hunter in a new instalment of the Predator franchise. But says Emma Rowley, although they're in a different jungle, it's more than familiar turf. 

Get Him to the Greek
On DVD: Get Him to the Greek
On DVD: Get Him to the Greek

Russell Brand's hedonistic rockstar Aldous Snow boozes his way back onscreen for an encore. While he was lauded for his work in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, recalls Kimberly Gadette, can the woozy wild man do it again?

Inside Job.
Inside Job
Inside Job

In his second documentary, Charles Ferguson trades Baghdad's Green Zone (No End in Sight) for America's Green Zone, ie Wall Street. The subject matter notwithstanding, says Kimberly Gadette, will he garner even greater credit?

The Arbor.
The Arbor
The Arbor

London Film Festival – Clio Barnard picked up both the Best British Newcomer award and the Sutherland Award for the most imaginative and original feature debut at the festival for her documentary about playwright Andrea Dunbar and the legacy she left behind her. Emma Rowley reviews a truly thought-provoking film.

The Book of Masters, screened as part of the London Film Festival 2010.
The Book of Masters
The Book of Masters

London Film Festival – As anyone familiar with Winnie Pooh - the Soviet take on A.A. Milne's bear - will already be aware, the Russian storytelling sensibility can exist at a remove from the Disney sunshine outlook. So Paul Martin expects, uh, interesting results from The Book of Masters, the first production from the Walt Disney Company CIS, the eastern European wing of the House of Mouse.

UK poster for The Kids Are All Right.
The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right

Regarding this latest offering from Lisa Cholodenko: Though the kids are most definitely all right, says Kimberly Gadette ... it's the adults who shine.

Eva Green in Womb, directed by Benedek Fliegauf and screening as part of the London Film Festival 2010.
Womb
Womb

London Film Festival – It's a case of clone alone, as Eva Green resurrects dead lover Matt Smith by giving birth to his genetic double. Paul Martin senses awkward moments ahead at family gatherings.

Marz, directed by Geoff Marslett and screening as part of the London Film Festival.
Mars
Mars

London Film Festival – Get ready for another cinematic mission to Mars. Although given how laidback this particular mission is, getting ready probably entails little more than stocking up on snacks for the journey and picking some tunes to listen to along the way. Paul Martin hitches a ramshackle ride to the Red Planet.

Hereafter.
Hereafter
Hereafter

In his 2000 Space Cowboys, Eastwood took to outer space – but with a roundtrip ticket. Here, notes Kimberly Gadette, his oft-quoted "make my day" turns into endless night as he explores the great beyond, beyond the wild blue yonder.

Conviction
Conviction
Conviction

Hilary Swank stars as selfless sister Betty Anne who goes to law school in order to defend her brother. Though it took 18 years of her life, says Kimberly Gadette, she's probably still paying off her school loans.

A Town Called Panic
A Town Called Panic
A Town Called Panic

An overabundance of zany humour goes a very short way indeed says Garan Holcombe, getting himself in a right old tizz over A Town Called Panic.

Igor Sergeyev as Aist in Silent Souls, directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko and screening as part of the London Film Festival.
Silent Souls
Silent Souls

London Film Festival – Undertakers, death certificates, gravestones – pah! No need for such trivialities when you're bringing out the dead, Merjan-style. Paul Martin learns a bit about how this funeral malarkey operates out east (and very far north).

Police, Adjective
Police, Adjective
Police, Adjective

Police, Adjective wilfully refuses the conventions of the mainstream cop drama. And is all the better for that, says Garan Holcombe.

Carlos, starring Edgar Ramirez and directed by Oliver Assayas.
Carlos
Carlos

French director Oliver Assayas retells the life story of international fugitive Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos, over a period of more than 20 years. Jeez, says Paul Martin, just how long does this movie last?

The Experiment, starring Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
Prison double: Cell 211 and The Experiment
Prison double: Cell 211 and The Experiment

It's a case of go to jail and go directly to jail for Paul Martin, as he ventures behind bars to check out a pair of new penitentiary-set movies. He investigates why Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker-starring remake, The Experiment, has gone straight to DVD, but first he heads to Spain, to take a look around the awards-laden Cell 211.

Black Death
On DVD: Black Death
On DVD: Black Death

It’s the Year of Our Lord 1348. Disease, witchcraft and suspicion seep out across the land. Covering her mouth and making the sign of the cross, Angela Burton gets medieval with the fourth feature from British director Christopher Smith.

Brooklyn's Finest.
On DVD: Brooklyn's Finest
On DVD: Brooklyn's Finest

If this is Brooklyn's finest – then, wonders Kimberly Gadette, what is its worst?

Freakonomics
Freakonomics
Freakonomics

At the center of this carousel of a pop documentary, we find that the secret to life revolves around two little words: "incentives matter." And that, hopes Kimberly Gadette, should be incentive enough to keep on reading ...

Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham

Can a film about a strike at a dowdy car manufacturing plant be sassy, sexy and fun? Director Nigel Cole is pretty sure it can: Cara Frost-Sharratt finds out whether or not she agrees with him.

Death Note
On Blu-ray: Death Note
On Blu-ray: Death Note

The hugely popular Death Note films are now available on Blu-ray. Angela Burton takes a look at a world of death gods and notebooks that can kill in Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name.

Tom Hiddlestone and Christopher Baker in Joanna Hogg's Archipelago, screening in competition at the London Film Festival 2010.
Archipelago
Archipelago

London Film Festival (In Competition) – John Donne might have reckoned that no man is an island, but director Joanna Hogg fancies the characters in her new film as a wee cluster of 'em. A bored Paul Martin finds himself hoping they all go the way of Atlantis.

Life As We Know It.
Life as We Know It
Life as We Know It

If the clumsy title is any indication (what "Life"? What are "We" supposed to "Know"?) then, states Kimberly Gadette, we may be in for another rom-coma. But if it's prettier than The Ugly Truth and livelier than Killers, perhaps there's hope.

It's Kind of a Funny Story.
It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story

This writing/directing couple has previously hit it out of the park with the baseball story Sugar and the education drama Half Nelson. With this adaptation of a YA novel, asks Kimberly Gadette, are filmmakers Fleck/Boden going for a trifecta?

Secretariat.
Secretariat
Secretariat

When it comes to stirring sports dramas, Disney is no one-trick pony (Invincible, Miracle, The Rookie). But while the equine Secretariat won hooves-down in '73, says Kimberly Gadette, the film may not trot as easily into the Winner's Circle.

Waiting for "Superman".
Waiting for
Waiting for "Superman"

Compared to education reformers working to fix a failing system, says Kimberly Gadette, Superman's job is as easy as A-B-C. In this, his 2nd film on education, documentarian Davis Guggenheim treks through the American blackboard jungle.

The Bang Bang Club.
TIFF: Pink Saris, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, The Bang Bang Club
TIFF: Pink Saris, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, The Bang Bang Club

We’ve got some more of the best from the Toronto International Film Festival. Lizzie Sermol reviews Pink Saris, Alex Corey rates Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and Taylor Szegho checks out Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch in The Bang Bang Club.