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X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

Latest in franchise makes clever use of Cold War-era setting

(4 stars)30 Jun 2011

(12A) 132min The novelty of the Hollywood franchise reboot has worn thin, but this re-launch of the initially excellent adaptations of the Marvel comic book benefits from a canny central concept that takes the mutant superhero team back to their…

Mel Gibson steps closer to redemption in Jodie Foster-directed comedy The Beaver

The Beaver

Mel Gibson steps closer to redemption in Jodie Foster-directed comedy

(3 stars)23 May 2011

(12A) 90min Just when it seemed that Mel Gibson would never work in Hollywood again, The Beaver proves that he might have a future after all. A string of tabloid scandals suggested that Gibson had pressed the self-destruct button on his career.

Debra Granik's Winter’s Bone explores American mountain people

Debra Granik's Winter’s Bone explores American mountain people

Adaptation of Daniel Woodrell novel

7 Sep 2010

The American film writer-director Debra Granik has just returned from visiting this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival and she’s recalling the films she managed to cram in between her promotional duties. ‘I loved Thundersoul, a documentary about an…

Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone

(4 stars)7 Sep 2010

(15) 100min With its all too familiar theme of familial collapse and undercurrents of social disgrace and fear of the local customs, Debra Granik’s excellent second feature film could be a British colonial horror from a distant age, and in some ways…

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

DRAMA After a publicised falling-out with the filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, with whom he collaborated on Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga has now made his own directorial debut, the sombre…

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The Hunger Games
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(4 stars) An adaptation of Suzanne Collins' dystopian thriller of a novel that successfully transcends its teen-fiction origins, with excellent cast and direction.
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Winter's Bone
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(4 stars) Adapted from Daniel Woodrell's novel, the film follows Ree whose drug-addicted father has used their house as bail bond and subsequently done a runner. Striving to find him within a week brings secrets, lies and a grisly closure to this unsettling and memorable affair.
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12 Nov 7.45pm Mugdock Country Park, Milngavie