MOVIES
Showing from Feb. 8: Parker ***
'Parker' is basically a heist-and-payback movie. But it's made with such skill and smarts that it stands above other such eye-rolling blow-'em-up fare.
Showing from Feb. 8: Mama ***
An effectively spooky ghost story with Guillermo del Toro's imprimatur (he's executive producer), 'Mama' is every adoptive parent's nightmare.
Showing from Feb. 8: Mama ***
An effectively spooky ghost story with Guillermo del Toro's imprimatur (he's executive producer), 'Mama' is every adoptive parent's nightmare.
Showing from Feb. 8: The Impossible ****
So terrifying is the 2004 tsunami as imagined in The Impossible, its destructive force engulfing the screen with such violent menace, that the imagery alone elicits a rising dread so intense you may feel yourself gasping for breath.
Showing from Feb. 8: The Impossible ****
So terrifying is the 2004 tsunami as imagined in The Impossible, its destructive force engulfing the screen with such violent menace, that the imagery alone elicits a rising dread so intense you may feel yourself gasping for breath.
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A stark account of a natural disaster in motion
Following several sell-out screenings on the island last year, multi-award-winning documentary Chasing Ice is making a return to Bermuda on February 17.
Now Showing: Silver Linings Playbook ****
Dramatic, emotional, even heartbreaking, as well as wickedly funny, Silver Linings Playbook has the gift of going its own way. A complete success from director David O. Russell.
Now Showing: Zero Dark Thirty ***
The genius of Zero Dark Thirty is that we feel exactly what those involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden must have felt at the end. Not elation. Not the thrill of victory. Just relief.
Now Showing: Stand Up Guys **
You can't argue that performers the stature of Pacino, Walken and Arkin don't deserve better material than 'Stand Up Guys', yet it's so nice to have them onscreen together.
'Bots are back with a bang
The robots in disguise are back with more high-octane explosions, thrilling chases and testosterone-fuelled showdowns.
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Rom-com makes a Proposal you can't refuse
Our on-staff movie buff Leanne McGrath unleashes her latest candid movie reviews, plus the latest DVD releases. Email [email protected]
UP in 3D ****
A grouchy OAP has an action-packed adventure in the rainforest after flying there in his balloon-powered house.
DVD review: Doubt
This hard-hitting, unmissable drama tackles the taboo subject of child abuse and raises a host of complicated moral questions.
At the movies: Drag Me To Hell
A young woman is cursed to be tortured by a demon for three days then dragged to Hell to burn for eternity.
DVD review: Watchmen
Leave your notions of X-Men and Super-Man at the door - the standard superhero format is turned on its head in this heavily stylised and graphically violent epic.
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