Cinemas - More new releases - 13/3/09

Mar 26 2009 by Michael Green, Flintshire Chronicle

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (15)

BASED on a true story, Peter Cornwell’s supernatural thriller revolves around a close-knit family pushed to the brink by unseen forces resident in their new home.

Martin Donovan and Virginia Madsen move to upstate Connecticut with their family into a beautiful home which just happens to be a former funeral parlour. Before long, evil spirits are threatening to tear the family apart.

STAR RATING: **

KNOWING (15)

ALEX Proyas directs a chilling tale of global disaster in which one unsuspecting man finds himself charged with saving mankind from oblivion.

A professor (Nicolas Cage) is given a series of numbers written by a little girl 50 years earlier which he realises predicts the exact nature and times of devastating disasters.

He embarks on a race against time to avert the next tragedy while trying to uncover the secret behind the predictions.

STAR RATING: **

TRAITOR (12A)

IN THE war against terror, the truth is occasionally sacrificed at the altar of perception.

Writer-director Jeffrey Nachmanoff exploits the disparity between fact and illusion in this taut thriller of political intrigue and espionage, creating a horribly plausible scenario for a devastating attack on American soil.

Don Cheadle in the title role muddies the waters, playing up the ambiguities in a character, who is being supplied with actual explosives as part of his covert mission.

Born in Sudan where his early life is marked by tragedy, Samir Horn (Cheadle) is a devout Muslim who aligns himself with the Americans, determined to do his part to heal divisions with the West. Also stars Guy Pearce, pictured above.

STAR RATING: ***