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Jannat 2
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Bollywood crime thriller and sequel to the 2008 film Jannat about a young man whose obsession with making money fast leads him to a life of crime.
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30 May31 May
(Subtitled) Wed & Thu 2.45pm & 9pm
Cineworld Bradford, Bradford
The Cold Light of Day
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(1 star) Wall Street trader Will (Cavill) is visiting his family in Spain when they – but not he – are kidnapped, in retaliation for the dodgy dealings of his spy dad (Willis). A clichéd and incoherent script inspires dull lead performances, and what with the ham-fisted editing it's very much an inaction thriller.
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The Cabin in the Woods
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(4 stars) Five sex- and booze-fuelled teenagers get more than they bargained for when they holiday in an isolated log cabin. Co-creators Whedon (Buffy) and Goddard (Cloverfield) deliver the most original horror movie of the year, with something in its box of tricks to scare everyone.
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The Horse (La Horse)
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In one of the better examples of Gabin's later films, he plays a patriarchal landowner who takes on a gang of drug dealers, with dire consequences.
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30 May31 May Wed & Thu 6.15pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Jo Nesbo's Headhunters (Hodejegerne)
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(4 stars) Roger (Hennie) is a successful headhunter living beyond his means, who supplements his income with a double life as a gentleman thief, until one of his victims (Coster-Waldau) fights back. Tyldum's adaptation of Jo Nesbo's novel is somewhere between a Road Runner cartoon and a Coen Brothers thriller: breathlessly, outrageously entertaining.
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30 May31 May
(Subtitled) Wed & Thu 3.25pm & 8.50pm
Odeon Covent Garden, London WC2H
1 Jun7 Jun
(Subtitled) Fri–Thu 8.55pm
Odeon Panton St, London SW1Y
8 Jun14 Jun Fri 1.20pm & 6pm; Sat 1.20pm & 8.45pm; Sun 1.15pm & 8.45pm; Mon 3.30pm & 6.15pm; Tue 3.30pm & 8.45pm; Wed & Thu 8.45pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Man on a Ledge
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(3 stars) A disgraced former cop (Worthington) threatens to jump from a Manhattan rooftop, but it becomes clear to a police psychologist (Banks) that it's a distraction from a heist across the street. Leth nicely balances action, drama and humour, and a strong cast (notably Bell) lend more quality to the film than it probably deserves.
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31 May 10.30am Odeon Mansfield, Mansfield
Safe
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(3 stars) Luke Wright (Statham), suicidal ex-cop-turned-cage-fighter, is about to jump in front of a train when he befriends Mei (Chan), Chinese schoolgirl and math genius who knows how to access a fortune. Generic villains and excessive body count can't tarnish Statham's likable machismo and the unstoppable energy of the action scenes. A guilty pleasure.
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BBC SSO: Casablanca Live!
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Hard to believe that Casablanca is 70 years old – it seems to have been there since the dawn of time. See the cult film of all cult films with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Max Steiner's score live.
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15 Sep 7.30pm City Halls, Glasgow
Berberian Sound Studio
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In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema. As such, it offers a kind of pleasure that is rare in films, while recreating in a highly original way the pleasures of Italian horror cinema.
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28 Jun 8.20pm
29 Jun 6pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
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Stefan Mani’s best-seller of the Icelandic underworld becomes the basis for this debut feature by Óskar Thór Axelsson. A young slacker with violent tendencies does a job for a gang of drug dealers. Impressing his superiors, he works his way up to a high position in the gang … just as the crooks are setting up their biggest deal yet. Energetic, made with flair, and brimming with local colour, Black’s Game brings some refreshing Icelandic twists to a classic gang-thriller plot.
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21 Jun 6.10pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
25 Jun 8.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The Bourne Legacy
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Now lacking Matt Damon in the title role, the fourth Bourne film sees a new cast getting to grips with the consequences of his action and picking up where The Bourne Ultimatum left off. Expect action sequences, questionable identities and car chases galore.
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24 Aug30 Aug Mon 11am; Wed 8pm; Thu 7.30pm; Fri 8pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm & 7.30pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Brake
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A claustrophobic thriller with the clock ticking. Stephen Dorff is a man who awakes to his incarceration in the trunk of a moving car and a deadly demand. Either he gives his captors the information they want or he and his loved ones will be executed. It’s a white-knuckle 90-minute ride as Dorff, encased in the trunk, is put through every manner of mental and physical torture in an attempt to extract the all-important secret. But will he crack?
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30 Jun 1.20pm
29 Jun 6.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
The Collector
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Auteur Wyler adapts John Fowles' novel about a lonely lepidopterist who stalks and kidnaps a young art student.
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27 Jul30 Jul Mon 8.30pm; Fri & Sat 1.20pm & 6.20pm; Sun 1.20pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
A Dangerous Method
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(4 stars) Cronenberg’s investigation of psychoanalysis, seen through the relationship between the two main proponents, Freud (Mortensen) and Jung (Fassbender) makes for a fascinating insight into a moment in history when the world of thought, and the way that we think about ourselves, was being fundamentally reshaped.
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31 May 7.45pm Odeon Chatham, Chatham
Flying Blind
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A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller. Helen McCrory stars as a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student while working on a government contract for an aircraft destined for military use. As the contract deadline nears, her doubts about her new lover mount, and she comes to understand the shadowy sides of her professional career and her personal life.
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24 Jun 7pm
25 Jun 8.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
The French Connection
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Friedkin's blistering crime thriller features one of cinema's classic car chases and launched 'Popeye' Doyle, the prototype 'bad cop'.
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19 Jun 5.30pm
Followed by an extended Q&A with William Friedkin, ahead of the premiere of his new film Killer Joe, at…
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Gone
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Abduction/serial killer thriller as Seyfried tries to convince the police her kidnapper has returned and nabbed her sister.
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1 Jun3 Jun Fri 8.30pm; Sun 8pm Garrison Theatre, Shetland
Guinea Pigs
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At a remote medical compound, a group of strangers begin clinical trials of an experimental drug called Pro-9. As the drug's sinister, unexpected side-effects begin to take hold, the terrified volunteers find themselves trapped, isolated and in mortal danger. This atmospheric, claustrophobic horror-thriller is the debut feature from EIFF 2008 Trailblazer Ian Clark. Strong performances and a fast-paced edit add to the menacing tone and an intelligent script lifts proceedings to spine-chilling…
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23 Jun 11.25pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Night Moves
Cameo, Edinburgh
24 Jun 5.20pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Night Moves
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Killer Joe
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Exorcist director Friedkin weaves a web of deceit and betrayal as man, desperate to pay off a drug debt, arranges for lawman Joe (McConaughey) to commit a murder.
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20 Jun 9.30pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Opening Night Gala
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
20 Jul26 Jul Fri 3.30pm, 6.10pm & 8.45pm; Sat 3.30pm, 5.50pm & 8.45pm; Sun 2pm, 6pm & 8.30pm; Mon–Thu 3.30pm, 6pm & 8.55pm Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Life without Principle (Dyut meng gam)
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Johnnie To ingeniously portrays today’s economic crisis in the terms of a rollicking and complex suspense thriller. Set in Hong Kong during a few days of global financial upheaval, Life without Principle interweaves three characters in trouble: a police detective investigating a loan shark’s murder, an investment manager under pressure from her boss to sell high-risk instruments to elderly pensioners, and a low-level gangster who’s recruited to help sort out a failed financial scheme.
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23 Jun 9pm
28 Jun 6.45pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Directors’ Showcase
Cameo, Edinburgh
Lovely Molly
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Horror flick revolving around psychosis and possession. Newlywed Molly (Holden) moves into her abandoned family home but is soon plagued by memories of her disturbing childhood.
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21 Jun 8.50pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Night Moves
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Oliver Sherman
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A lonely veteran travels to a rural town to reconnect with the soldier who saved his life during the war, but tensions arise as it becomes clear their post-war lives are very different.
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19 Jul 8pm The Hippodrome, Bo'ness
Pusher
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A remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's (also behind 2011's Drive) 1996 Danish film about a week in the life of a London drug pusher.
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21 Jun 8.20pm
22 Jun 9.15pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
Silent House
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(2 stars) In this remake of a 2010 Urugayan film, Sarah (Olsen) and her family arrive at a lakeside property where her terrifying memories become confused with the equally frightening present. Olsen, an actress of great potential, is wasted in this ponderously slow attempt at a psychological drama that's packaged as horror.
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5 Jun7 Jun Tue & Wed 7.30pm; Thu 6.30pm Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
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The first sequel to Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo, The Iron Man, this film is considered by many fans to be superior to the original. Reinterpreting the premise of the first film within a more straightforward action-thriller context, Tsukamoto here depicts a conspiracy of a gang of cyborgs. Their target is a seemingly ordinary salaryman who, in reality, is himself a fusion of man and metal.
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27 Jun 10.30pm
Newly restored from the original negative by the director himself, who is in attendance at EIFF. Part of…
Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

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