THE GEE-GEES and pussies are still the winners at the cinemas with Spielberg’s War Horse and Dreamworks’ Puss in Boots the big box office draws. Tom Cruise is still saving the world; the downstairs story of the hired help in the Deep South is back; Maggie lives again but the treat of the week is a Bill Forsyth revival.Read
WAR Horse is a safe bet in the film stakes; the tattooed girl is back as are Holmes and Watson disguised as Robert Downey Jr and Jude law. A Japanese play station game gets the big screen treatment and Meryl Streep is Margaret Thatcher.Read
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18) — Dramatic re-make of the Swedish original with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist engaged by wealthy Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), to investigate the disappearance of his niece 40 years before.Read
IF THE programmers stick to their plans, you can see the New Year in with Stieg Larsson’s Tattoo girl in English; Tom Cruise doing crazy stunts in Moscow and Dubai; Antonio Banderas getting a fur ball; the dancing penguin; and an oriental tale of the bonds of friendship.Read
DISNEY’S Lion King roars back in 3D; Johnny English Makes Spooks look like a picnic; and Steven Spielberg turns Jamie Bell into Tin Tin. Performance of the week is Brendan Gleeson who turns The Blue lamp green.Read
FROM Tim Burton’s adventures in Wonderland to the bleak Yorkshire moors, Alice is transformed into Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. It’s still spies spying on spies in John Le Carre’s classic x-ray on MI6; Ford and Craig are saddle buddies against an alien invasion; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre comes to the big screen and Harry’s back!Read