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Liliana Rambawes
How To Train Your Dragon: 3D (PG) — Terrific fantasy adventure from the Dreamworks team who make Shrek. The film is based on the book by Cressida Cowell that puts a new gloss on the reputation of the Vikings.
In this mythical version they are a peaceful, fun-loving lot but do have bother with fire-breathing dragons who steal their sheep.
Young Hiccup is brainy but not much good at the strong stuff like his dad, the dragon slayer Stoick (Gerrard Butler). But he accidentally brings down a young dragon and finds that he is as friendly as a pussy cat.
Faced with his dad’s mission to kill off all the dragons, Hiccup has to do some fast thinking and fast flying in this good-natured adventure that is the perfect holiday treat.
Alice In Wonderland: 3D (U) — Late shows for Tim Burton’s twist on the Louis Carroll story is eye-popping in 3D with show-stopping performances by Helena Bonham Carter as a bulbous headed Red Queen and Johnny Depp as the maddest Hatter you are likely to see.
An Education (12A) — The film that shot young actress Carry Mulligan to fame as teenager Jenny who is on course for Oxford University but is sidetracked by con man David into a brief affair and a trip to Paris. Based on the biography of writer, Lynn Barber, this is a coming of age story but with a central character who defies convention but never loses sight of her goals in life. It is witty, charming and impeccably played. Senior Screen today.
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
Alice In Wonderland (U) — The conventional 2D version is on for early shows here.
The Last Station (15) — The beautifully crafted film of the last tempestuous years in the marriage of Leo Tolstoy. James McAvoy plays the gauche young Valentin who takes up the post of secretary to the great writer and gets a lesson in life and love as he is confronted with the erratic relationship between Tolstoy and his wife Sofya.
Christopher Plummer is a bearded tyrant who has had enough of love and pain but still cannot get enough of his imperious wife played with superb vigour, venom and playful tenderness by Helen Mirren.
Lonsdale, Annan
How To Train Your Dragon (PG) — The 2D version preserves all the fun and spectacle of this superb animated adventure.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (U) — Emma Thompson in her second outing as the fearsome nanny who appears from nowhere and only stays when a family doesn’t want her but needs her and leaves when they want her but don’t need her.
Emma Thompson writes the scripts and co-produces and she is wonderful as the forceful but benevolent trouble sorter.
She is joined by Maggie Smith as a dotty old shop owner; Maggie Gyllenhaal as the wartime mum with the warring brats; Rhys Ifans as her dastardly brother-in-law who wants her farm to pay off gambling debts; and synchronised swimming piglets.
A thoroughly delightful family film.
In this mythical version they are a peaceful, fun-loving lot but do have bother with fire-breathing dragons who steal their sheep.
Young Hiccup is brainy but not much good at the strong stuff like his dad, the dragon slayer Stoick (Gerrard Butler). But he accidentally brings down a young dragon and finds that he is as friendly as a pussy cat.
Faced with his dad’s mission to kill off all the dragons, Hiccup has to do some fast thinking and fast flying in this good-natured adventure that is the perfect holiday treat.
Alice In Wonderland: 3D (U) — Late shows for Tim Burton’s twist on the Louis Carroll story is eye-popping in 3D with show-stopping performances by Helena Bonham Carter as a bulbous headed Red Queen and Johnny Depp as the maddest Hatter you are likely to see.
An Education (12A) — The film that shot young actress Carry Mulligan to fame as teenager Jenny who is on course for Oxford University but is sidetracked by con man David into a brief affair and a trip to Paris. Based on the biography of writer, Lynn Barber, this is a coming of age story but with a central character who defies convention but never loses sight of her goals in life. It is witty, charming and impeccably played. Senior Screen today.
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
Alice In Wonderland (U) — The conventional 2D version is on for early shows here.
The Last Station (15) — The beautifully crafted film of the last tempestuous years in the marriage of Leo Tolstoy. James McAvoy plays the gauche young Valentin who takes up the post of secretary to the great writer and gets a lesson in life and love as he is confronted with the erratic relationship between Tolstoy and his wife Sofya.
Christopher Plummer is a bearded tyrant who has had enough of love and pain but still cannot get enough of his imperious wife played with superb vigour, venom and playful tenderness by Helen Mirren.
Lonsdale, Annan
How To Train Your Dragon (PG) — The 2D version preserves all the fun and spectacle of this superb animated adventure.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (U) — Emma Thompson in her second outing as the fearsome nanny who appears from nowhere and only stays when a family doesn’t want her but needs her and leaves when they want her but don’t need her.
Emma Thompson writes the scripts and co-produces and she is wonderful as the forceful but benevolent trouble sorter.
She is joined by Maggie Smith as a dotty old shop owner; Maggie Gyllenhaal as the wartime mum with the warring brats; Rhys Ifans as her dastardly brother-in-law who wants her farm to pay off gambling debts; and synchronised swimming piglets.
A thoroughly delightful family film.
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