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Times for week Thursday 10th – Wednesday 16th January
FilmThursFriSatSunMonTuesWed 10th11th12th13th14th15th 16thPolisse - 127 min (R16 Offensive language, sexual themes & content that may disturb)2:40pm2:40pm2:40pm2:40pm2:40pm2:40pm2:40pmSearching for Sugarman - 85 min (E)6:55pm6:55pm6:55pm6:55pm6:55pm6:55pm6:55pmSeven Psychopaths - 111 min (R16 - violence & offensive language)2:55pm
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8:45pmSightseers - 95 min (R16 violence,offensive language and sex scenes)2:55pm
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8:45pmSix Venice - 88 min (E)5:00pm5:00pm5:00pm5:00pm5:00pm5:00pm5:00pmThe Angel's Share - 101 min (R16 violence & offensive language)4:45pm4:45pm4:45pm4:45pm4:45pm4:45pm4:45pmThe Imposter - 95 min (E)12:50pm
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8:35pmThe Sessions - 95 min (M Contains sex scenes, nudity & sexual references)1:05pm1:05pm1:05pm1:05pm1:05pm1:05pm1:05pmTo Rome With Love - 112 min (M Contains offensive language and sexual references)12:50pm
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Polisse Based on real life cases, the horrific nature of what these cops do is presented in a stark, no-nonsense manner.
The film does not dwell on these people so much as the ways the cops deal with them. Any chance at laughter or light is
grabbed at as a way to allay the darkness of what they see every day.
Searching for Sugarman The extraordinary story od a Detroit musician who was a star in South Africa without his knowledge.
Seven Psychopaths Films about people writing films are not that rare, but this is certainly the bloodiest one I can remember
seeing, outdoing even Barton Fink for death count. Colin Farrell plays Marty, and Irish screenwriter with an alcohol
problem and a script with nothing but a title Seven Psychopaths. Marty wants to make a Bhuddist film from this title,
something his best friend Billy says probably quite rightly is insane. Billy's a little unstable, but a loyal friend who
is all too willing to help Marty out with his script. He's the sidekick of Hans, who makes a good living out of
dognapping. But things go more than a little pear shaped when Billy snatches shih-tzu, Bonny, who belongs to seriously
crazy mob boss Jimmy Costello
Sightseers This darkly hilarious British film is likely to be the most deranged flick you’ll see this holiday season.
Imagine Natural Born Killers made by Mike Leigh and you’ll get some idea of what you’re in for. The film opens with
Chris picking up his girlfriend, Tina, to go on a caravanning holiday. After wrestling her away from her overprotective
mother, they hit the road, heading for such thrilling destinations as the Pencil and Tramways museums. The pair are
jubilant at being on their own and free to travel. When an inconsiderate man litters on an historic tram, Chris loses
his cool and when the opportunity arises in the parking lot, he runs him down. Initially horrified, Tina manages to
convince herself that it was an accident and the couple continue on their way. When, at a Yorkshire campsite, Chris
bludgeons an annoying camper to death and steals his dog, Tina can’t sweep that one under the rug quite so easily, but
still stays with Chris. The only other option is to go back home to the overbearing mother she’s only just beginning to
leave behind. And besides, you stand by your man, right? It’s not long before Tina is joining in, trying her hand at
homicide and finding she likes it.
Six Venice A documentary trawling Venice for the answer to the question: What makes a city?
The Angel's Share Robbie is a young thug who has been sentenced to community service after yet another assault charge for fighting
with a rival and his family. He’s desperate to change. His young girlfriend is pregnant and Robbie wants to be a good
father. When Harry, the work-gang’s foreman, takes the team on a field trip to a distillery, Robbie’s curiosity is
piqued, especially by the ‘Angel’s Share’ – the name given to the whiskey lost to evaporation during the distilling
process. As he learns more about whiskey, and drags his new friends from community service along to his tastings, he
realizes some whiskies are worth more than others. When he discovers an extremely rare cask is up for auction in the
Scottish Highlands, he figures out that just a few bottles would be enough to set he and his friends up for life.
The Imposter Another one for the 'truth-is-stranger-than-fiction' file, this film tells the story of French con-artist
Frederic Bourdin, who managed to convince a Texan family that he was their 16 year-old son and brother who went missing
three years earlier. Numerous questions are raised by this even-handed doco, the most central is how could this man have
convinced the family he was the person he said he was? Nicholas Barclay was a slight, blue-eyed blonde who would have
been 16 when he was 'found' in Spain. Bourdin is a stocky 23 year-old, dark-haired and brown-eyed. Yet no one in the
family questioned that he was their Nicholas - even when he couldn't speak English without a thick French accent.
The Sessions A film about a severely physically disabled man struggling to experience sex does not sound, on the face of it,
like an enjoyable night out at the cinema. But the subject of this film, poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, has such an
engaging sense of humor that the film is injected with a levity the subject matter does not instantly point to. Crippled
from the neck down by a childhood brush with polio, Mark, with the support of his family and a series of carers, managed
to complete college and pursued a successful career as a journalist. This is all the more remarkable when one considers
that he could not survive more than a few hours outside an iron lung. Right from the start Mark exhibits an interest in
sex. A young carer becomes the object of obsession, but leaves after Mark makes an ill-thought out marriage proposal. It
is not until he's assigned an article on sex for the disabled that Mark begins to explore the possibility that he might
be able to experience physical intimacy. His quest for it is hampered by his Catholic upbringing and the religion's
strict attitudes toward sex.
To Rome With Love Multiple stories thread through the streets of Rome. A young American girl stops a nice-looking Italian man to
ask directions to the Trevi Fountain. Within minutes theirs is a full blown romance and Mom and Dad are summoned to meet
the in-laws. This meeting does not go well, with Woody Allen’s reluctantly retired music producer becoming enchanted by
his new son-in-law’s father’s singing in the shower. He shoves the unwilling singer into the spotlight with disastrous
results. In another thread a young American architect finds himself torn between two very different women and a voice in
his head argues with him as he struggles to decide which, if either, is the best for him. In another twist on ‘the other
woman’, a young Italian couple on their honeymoon become separated, the wife winding up with an older movie star while
her husband struggles to impress business associates with a prostitute who stumbled into his room accidentally. The
final thread deals with the idea of celebrity as everyman Roberto Begnini finds himself suddenly famous for no reason at
all.
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