Manufactured landscapes (U)

12:05am Thursday 8th May 2008

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.

XXY (15)

12:04am Thursday 8th May 2008

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.

The last mistress (15)

12:03am Thursday 8th May 2008

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).

Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? (12A)

12:02am Thursday 8th May 2008

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

Cashback (15)

Thursday 8th May 2008

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.

	A real superhero saves the day
	12:11am Thu 1 May 08
	Iron man (15): There is meant to be just one superhero in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr, donning the shiniest suit in Marvel’s comic universe, is the picture’s main provider of thrills and spills.

Beaufort (15)

12:55am Thursday 1st May 2008

War, as ever, is hell in Joseph Cedar’s sombre feature, which was nominated for a best foreign film Oscar but lost out to The Counterfeiters.

Made of honour (12A)

12:53am Thursday 1st May 2008

When New York playboy Tom (former teen heartthrob Patrick Dempsey) decides to turn his back on a life of womanising and propose to best pal Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), he finds himself pipped to the post by charming Scotsman Colin McMurray (Kevin McKidd).

Joy division (15)

12:09am Thursday 1st May 2008

After 24 Hour Party People and Anton Corbijn’s superb Control, cinemagoers must be close to bagging a collective PhD in the life and times of the titular Manchester band. When placed beside its dramatic predecessors Grant Gee’s documentary is a fairly hum-drum business, but the story is one that can bear retelling.

Nim’s island (U)

12:08am Thursday 1st May 2008

Jodie Foster, last seen pounding New York’s meaner streets in vigilante thriller The Brave One, takes a break from reality in this likeable fantasy adventure. The double-Oscar winner plays author Alexandra Rover, creator of an Indiana Jones-style fictional hero.

P2 (18)

12:06am Thursday 1st May 2008

Franck Khalfoun’s shlock horror is the latest in the rapidly growing young-women-being-terrorised-by-striplight genre. Rachel Nichols is the blonde simply asking for trouble by being hard-working, ambitious, and parking her car under the office on Christmas Eve.

It’s all there in black and white

12:05am Thursday 24th April 2008

Persepolis (12A): Persepolis won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, then cleaned up at the box office across France and was subsequently nominated for Best Animated Film at this year’s Oscars.

Stop-loss (15)

12:02am Thursday 24th April 2008

Hollywood has been quick off the mark to make movies that directly engage with the Iraq War, compared to the 10 years it took Tinseltown to start on Vietnam, but none of them have proved popular with cinema-goers.

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.

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