The Oxford murders (15)

12:59am Thursday 24th April 2008

The English whodunnit meets The Da Vinci Code in this mathematical murder mystery set in and around the the dreaming spires of Oxford. John Hurt and Elijah Wood play a professor and student who apply their shared passion for logic to the investigation of a series of killings.

Deception (15)

12:57am Thursday 24th April 2008

As glossy and sleazy as a pornographic magazine, this erotic thriller is a throwback to trashy American movies of the 1980s such as 91/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

The Judd Apatow film factory continues to churn out slacker/ nerd comedies whose quality runs in inverse proportion to their frequency. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, produced by Apatow and written by its star Jason Segel, represents a new low.

Three and out (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

Slapstick comedy and soul-searching drama are uneasily wed in this tonally uneven but engaging Britflick. Skinny Englishman Mackenzie Crook and burley Irishman Colm Meaney make a watchable odd couple.

I’m a cyborg (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

This weird and whimsical film from South Korea’s Chan-wook Park marks a change of tone – if not style – for the feted filmmaker who secured his place in world cinema with his shocking revenge trilogy Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy, and Lady Vengeance.

The eye (15)

12:52am Thursday 24th April 2008

Hollywood’s pillaging of Asian horror cinema continues apace with this remake of Hong Kong filmmaking brothers Danny and Oxide Pang’s exercise in ocular terror.

A glass half-full of bubbly

12:56am Thursday 17th April 2008

Happy-go-lucky (15): Just how bubbly is the heroine of Happy-Go-Lucky? Well, if you parachuted her into EastEnders she’d be greeted as the Antichrist. If you could bottle her spirit the makers of anti-depressants would go bust in a day.

	In Bruges (18)
	12:56am Thu 17 Apr 08
	Playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh follows his Oscar-winning short Six Shooter with a firecracker first feature so savvy it almost makes Belgium seem cool.

Street kings (15)

12:56am Thursday 17th April 2008

From the writer of Training Day comes another expedition into the LAPD’s murky recesses. This time it’s Keanu Reeves playing against type as the cop finding it hard to toe the line between right and wrong.

Fool’s gold (12A)

12:09am Thursday 17th April 2008

Who knows why Donald Sutherland agreed to star in this tedious adventure comedy? Not only is he subjected to a script so awful it hurts, they make him adopt a British accent straight out of Noel Coward.

Four minutes (15)

12:08am Thursday 17th April 2008

Showered with prizes in its native Germany, Chris Kraus’s drama offers bleak, intense viewing. Monica Bleibtreu is the aged Miss Kruger, who teaches piano at a women’s prison.

You, the living (15)

12:07am Thursday 17th April 2008

Most modern comedies offer a philosophical experience in that they leave you questioning the very point of life. This weird, sometimes wonderful absurdist comedy by Roy Andersson is the real deal.

Botched (15)

12:02am Thursday 17th April 2008

Kit Ryan’s comedy-horror is a case of too much ambition, too little budget and talent. Stephen Dorff, whose previous horror experience extended to playing Britney Spears’s boyfriend in a music vid, is Ritchie, a small-time thief sent on a job by a Russian Mr Big.

Flashbacks of a fool (15)

12:01am Thursday 17th April 2008

The titular blockhead in Baillie Walsh’s debut feature is none other than Daniel "007" Craig, previously licensed to thrill, here at liberty to get in and out of a movie pronto.

He can’t get no satisfaction

12:11am Thursday 10th April 2008

Shine a light (12A): At a rough count, Scorsese’s film is the 19th documentary to feature the Rolling Stones. Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Whitehead, the Maysles brothers, Hal Ashby – all have tried to capture their essence. Now it’s Scorsese’s turn to fail.

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