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| Smart People (15) |
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From the trendy typography in the opening credits to the acoustic guitar soundtrack, Noam Murro's debut mumbles "indie drama" from the off. Dennis Quaid is a widowed professor bringing up a teenage poet son and a Young Republican daughter (Ellen Page).
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| Caramel (PG) |
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With perfect timing given recent events comes this Beirut-set tale from actor-director Nadine Labaki. Layale (Labaki) runs a beauty salon where the speciality of the house is waxing with caramel. When she's not tending to customers' legs, Nadine is waxing lyrical about her own woes (she's involved with a married man) and inviting her customers to do the same.
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| Heartbeat Detector (12A) |
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Mathieu Amalric Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, makes this ideas-laden drama watchable. Set in the French offices of a German company, Amalric plays Simon, a psychologist asked to investigate an executive's increasingly strange behaviour. Finding that the answers lie in the firm's wartime past, Simon begins to see disturbing links to the present.
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| Outpost (18) |
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True to its title, Steve Barker's horror is certainly out there. A little bit The Fog, a lot The Thing, and shot on a tiny budget in
Scotland, it's a curious beast. A band of mercenaries have been sent to an unidentified location in
Eastern Europe.
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| Welcome to the Sticks (12A) |
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Unlike Beaujolais and lorry driver protests, French comedy doesn't always travel well. In Dany Boon's picture, a massive hit at home, post office manager Philippe (Kad Merad) pretends to be
disabled to wangle a cushy transfer to the seaside. In punishment, the diehard southerner is despatched to what he views as the frozen, savage, north.
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What happens in vegas (12A) |
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Finding the ideal partnership for a romantic comedy is like cracking a safe. There are infinite combinations but only one opens the door to greatness. Take Cameron Diaz
and Ashton Kutcher. Two young, gorgeous, fun-loving sorts with all their all own teeth and in Diaz’s case considerable comedy chops. Put them together and they should click.
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Speed racer (PG) |
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The Wachowski brothers of Matrix fame go wild with the paint box and SFX in this live action adaptation of the Japanese cartoon. Imagine a highly stylised, hyper-caffeinated cross between Wacky Races and The Jetsons with ninjas and a chimpanzee thrown in and you’re almost there.
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| Honeydripper (PG) |
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John Sayles’s Oscar-nominated storytelling talents lend a rich glow to this slight tale about the birth of rock and roll. Danny Glover plays Tyrone Purvis, owner of the Honeydripper bar where the music is live and fabulous, but no-one wants to hear it when there’s a new-fangled jukebox in the joint next door. Desperate to lure the punters back, Tyrone allows Sonny (Gary Clark Jr) to plug in his electric gee-tar.
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| Manufactured landscapes (U) |
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The environmental price of progress is laid bare in a fascinating if treacle-paced documentary on the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky. Jennifer Baichwal follows the Canadian through the factories and industrial sites of China.
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| XXY (15) |
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This Argentinian drama, a prizewinner at Cannes, tackles a difficult subject with astonishing ease and grace. Ines Efron is Alex, a hermaphrodite. Her parents have taken her as far away from society as they can manage, but tough choices are now closing in on the trio as Alex hits puberty.
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| The last mistress (15) |
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It’s petticoats, carriages and duels at dawn in this portrait of a love affair set in 19th-century Paris. Having established a reputution for sex scenes so explicit they frightened any passing horses clean out of their shoes, director Catherine Breillat takes a relatively coy approach to the story of a rich young fop (Fu’ad Ait Aattou) and his tempestuous squeeze Vellini (Asia Argento).
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| Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? (12A) |
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The filmmaker who lit a flame under the fast food industry turns his camera on the war on terror. Inspired by the birth of his first child (and the need to provide a little cinematic brother or sister to Super Size Me), Spurlock heads to the Middle East to ask
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| Cashback (15) |
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Sean Ellis turns his 18-minute, Oscar-nominated short into a feature length film. The leads are the same: Glasgow’s Sean Biggerstaff as the sensitive youth floored by the loss of his first love, and Emilia Fox as the girl who helps him to his feet again.
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| Pop:Jens Lekman |
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| Classical: Angela Hewitt plays Bach |
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| Dance: Romeo and Juliet |
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| Theatre: Wild Honey |
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| Jazz: Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra |
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| Theatre: A Leap |
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Classical: Mark Padmore/Julius Drake |
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Pop: Silver Jews
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Dance: The Making of Doubt/In the Flesh |
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| Folk: Patrick Street |
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| Classical: RSNO |
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| Folk: Fil Campbell |
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| Pop: Gemma Hayes |
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| Dance: Elephant |
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| Theatre: The Wasp Factory |
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| Private property (15) |
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| Pop: Last Ever Triptych Party |
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| Jazz: Neil Cowley Trio |
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| Theatre: A Drunk Woman Looks at the Thistle |
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| Classical: BBC SSO |
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| Hula, Edinburgh |
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| North of Bondi, Glasgow |
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| Amici |
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| La Vallee Blanche |
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| Melt-in-your-mouth delights |
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| Del Amitri, Annan |
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| Maidens dishes bowl me over |
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| GRIANACH, Glasgow |
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| Sky Bar and Restaurant |
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| The Townhead Cafe, Biggar |
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| Two to try: High fryers |
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| Monteiths, Edinburgh |
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| Peter’s Yard, Edinburgh |
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| Kerachers, Perth |
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| Leo’s Bistro, Giffnock |
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| Two to try: Seafood restaurants |
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| Bar Spy: The Three Judges, Glasgow |
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| The river house restaurant, Stirling |
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| Pizzaz, Glasgow |
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| Brass monkey, Edinburgh |
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| The Ritz, Glasgow |
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Bar Spy: Roseleaf, Edinburgh |
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