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We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo

Dishearteningly average movie from Cameron Crowe

(2 stars)22 Feb 2012

(PG)124min Disappointingly, after Elizabethtown, writer/director Cameron Crowe is just as bogged down in the valley of mediocrity with his new offering. The story of Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), a recently widowed father-of-two who gives up his…

Contagion

Contagion

Starry but shallow epidemic disaster movie from Steven Soderbergh

(3 stars)12 Oct 2011

(12A) 106min Steven Soderbergh revives the all-star disaster movie last seen in the 1970s with Contagion, a sober account of a deadly virus which threatens the world’s population. Nimbly flitting around the globe in the style of the same director’s…

Matt Damon

Matt Damon loves independent wife

Celebrity Gossip

5 Mar 2011

Matt Damon loves his wife because she doesn't need him. The 40-year-old actor - who raises 12-year-old stepdaughter Alexia and daughters Isabella, four, Gia, two, and four-month-old Stella with spouse Luciana - hopes his children grow up to be as…

The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Bureau

Philip K Dick-inspired sci-fi thriller starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt

(3 stars)2 Mar 2011

The work of Philip K Dick has inspired some of cinema’s great sci-fi films, from Blade Runner to Minority Report via Total Recall. The Adjustment Bureau, which is derived from one of the author’s short stories, doesn’t quite measure up to the former or…

Inside Job examines 2008 financial crisis - Charles Ferguson interview

Inside Job examines 2008 financial crisis - Charles Ferguson interview

Matt Damon-narrated documentary suggest crash was avoidable

18 Feb 2011

An interview with Charles Ferguson, director of the Matt Damon-narrated Inside Job, an examination of the 2008 financial crisis

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Contagion
Date Location
(3 stars) Soderbergh revives the type of all-star disaster movie last seen in the 1970s with this sober account of a deadly virus which threatens the world's population. It lacks any central heart or focus, focusing on the bigger picture rather than clichéd dramatics.
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15 Jun
(Over-16s only) 6.30pm
Followed by a Q&A session with a panel of experts from the fields of infectious disease, discussing… 		CCA, Glasgow
Invictus
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(3 stars) Based on a book by John Carlin, Invictus recounts how Nelson Mandela pulled off the political masterstroke of uniting a racially and economically divided South Africa in support of national rugby team the Springboks, once a symbol of Boer-ish oppression. This has a predictable trajectory but one leavened by minute details about the tedium of governance, ingrained prejudices and a belief that hope will always spring eternal.
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23 Jul 7.45pm Mugdock Country Park, Milngavie
We Bought a Zoo
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(2 stars) The clue is in the title: recently widowed father-of-two Benjamin (Damon) quits his job and sets about saving a dilapidated zoo. The sharp humour and unique characterisation that characterised Crowe's best work seems to have been vetoed; great actors are wasted in empty roles and the result is broad, sentimental and dishearteningly average.
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31 May
(Parent & baby) 10.30am
2 Jun–5 Jun Mon, Tue, Sat & Sun 10.30am 		Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow
1 Jun–5 Jun Mon, Tue & Fri–Sun noon Omniplex Newry, Newry
2 Jun–5 Jun Mon, Tue, Sat & Sun 11.20am, 1.40pm & 4pm Omniplex Lisburn, Lisburn