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LIFE (15) 115 mins
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Ravenous (18) 97 Mins
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A La Place Du Coeur (15) 112 mins
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American Pie (18) 129 mins
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chaos in the star-studded (Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Christian Bale, Anna Friel) adaptation of Shakespeare's magical whimsical comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Available to rent from Mon 13 Mar.
RENTAL/DVD Go (18) 98 mins it t -.r .4:
Katie (Dawson’s Creek) Holmes, Scott (Party Of Five) Wolf and, bizarrely
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enough, Desmond (Grange Hill) Askew are the familiar faces from television heading a feisty cast through one Christmas Eve in the endlessly eventful
lives of LA twentysomethings.
The film's three plot strands idea is almost directly lifted from Pulp Fiction, but hey, Quentin Tarantino probably stole that from someone else anyway. Story one centres around checkout girl Ronna (the mesmerising Sara Polley), who is approached by two guys (Wolf and Jay Mohr) who want to score some ecstasy. Her paltry attempts at amateur drug dealing land her in trouble with the local big shot dealer. In story two, Brit lad abroad Simon (Askew) leads his three buddies on a road trip to Las Vegas where he winds up in bed with a couple of bridesmaids then in strife after an encounter with a lap dancer. The final story brings Wolf and Mohr's drug scoring actors back into the fray before rounding off the three plotlines nicely in
the final quarter of the film.
Reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s Dazed And Confused in parts, the American ‘slacker' generation bear up well, being portrayed by director Doug (Swingers) Liman as resourceful victims of circumstance, rather than the unfocused hedonists in Linklater's movie. So what if it's not highly original, this is a clever, sharply observed and well-paced movie. And in these days, when over-written, over-wrought and over-long yawn fests get far too much interest paid to them, that is what counts. (Columbia Tristar
£19.99 on DVD) (Mark Robertson) Go is re/eased on Mon 6 Mar.
Arlington Road 15 (113 mins)
\.r"/i".at are the chances of a terrorist lying on your street? That's the ciuestioe faced by Jeff Bridges in Ar/irigton Road. When his suspic .ons are raised about neighbour Tll‘.‘ R()l)l)!"8, Bridges is plunged into a frantic search for the truth We're kept guess ".(1 turnether it's all lUSi paranoia as the plot unravels, but the tension s;ac ker‘s S()Itit“.'.‘l‘.(il towards the end, as action seguences replace suspense hne performances from Bridges and Robbins save the file fron‘ the ranks of made-for-TV thrillers 'Vision Video no RRP iLP
Beautiful People
(15) 108 mins
Back :n 1995, B()‘>"lcil’1-l)()"‘. lriSl“l." Di/clar was commissioned by the BH to make a film about l12s star—tor" country of origin Havrng become a naturalised Brit in 1989, Dizdar came up t'vith a film set largely in London, mixmg refugees with locals, celebration ‘.'.'|1l‘ tragedy, frantic humour With surreal setpieces The opening fight between a Serb and a Croat on a bus sets the mood, and while the lein is very hit and miss, it provokes reactions other films can't get close to (Alliance Atlantis £14 99| IMFi
Forces Of Nature
(12) 102 mins
Cornic twists of fate throv; two strangers together on a |()tll'l‘,(‘\/ to see their "espec tive loved ones, and en
route they fall in love, It Happened One wig/it to Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in Frank Capra's classic, screwball comedy, here Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck are sparring on planes, trains and automobiles. By no means a Capra-esgue classic, Bullock and Affleck nevertheless engage ‘.'.’lll". spirited performances, she as a \‘Jlld card se )arated from her son, he a straight man about to be married ‘Ulll‘t't’l'Sdl Pictures no RRPi iMF'
Kitchen
(15) 124 mins ~ ‘ “
On the surface, all the elements are ll‘. place. An offbeat, tragic, comic story about a woman rediscovering her appetite for Me after the death of he" grandmother, based on the cult novel by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto, and directed ‘srith great stylistic flourish by Yin Ho Music, mood, urban magery and handsome performers, it's \"Jong Kar-Wai iChungking Express territory Hour/ever, dramatically Kitchen doesn't add up to much, so you’re left feeling like you're stili waiting for the main course iAliiance Atlantis £15 99 .MF'
REVIEWERS THIS ISSUE:
Simone Baird, Brian Donaldson, Miles Fielder, LOuIsa Pearson, Mark Robertson
STAR RATINGS ' r Unmissable Very good Worth a shot Below." average Ycia've been warned
L‘ THE “ST 99