Featuring our pick of the films for February……
The Road (MA15+) 112 mins
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall
Synopsis: The Road based on the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men). A post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape, blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and, seemingly, most life on earth.
Invictus (PG) 134 mins
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman
Synopsis: From director Clint Eastwood, Invictus tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country.
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Nine (M) 118 mins
Director:Rob Marshall
Cast:Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson
Synopsis: Nine is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren).
The film is directed by Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The original 1982 Broadway production of Nine, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, won five Tony Awards including Best Musical.
Up in the Air (M) 109 mins
Director:Jason Reitman
Cast:George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Synopsis: From Jason Reitman, the Oscar nominated director of Juno comes Up in the Air, the timely odyssey of Ryan Bingham (Oscar winner George Clooney), a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler, who after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection.
Edge of Darkness (TBC) 108 mins
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Huston, Ray Winstone
Synopsis: Edge of Darkness is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life and her killing.
His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder - and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven's solitary search for answers about his daughter's death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.
Precious (MA15+) 110 mins
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, MoNique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
Synopsis: Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire, is the kind of story that is rarely told. It is about a character that society usually writes off, judges as a statistic, or simply ignores. Directed by Lee Daniels, Precious is set in 1987 Harlem and tells the story of Claireece 'Precious' Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), an overweight, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child whose life takes a new direction when she is invited to enroll in an alternative school.
Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, Precious stars Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and Mo'Nique.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique). It was selected to screen in Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
