A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (15)
INFLUENTIAL ground-breaking 1960 movie from the French New Wave movement. Co-written by Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard’s refreshing new take on the American B movie stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a small- time crook and Jean Seberg as his American girlfriend. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Friday- Monday.
STAR RATING: ****
THE BOYS ARE BACK (12A)
SCOTT Hicks directs Clive Owen in an Oscar-tipped performance as a man left to bring up his six-year-old son alone after his wife’s sudden death. Struggling to come to terms with is own grief, things become more complicated when his older son joins them and advises a ‘just say yes’ approach to parenting. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Friday-Monday.
STAR RATING: **
CLASH OF THE TITANS (12A)
AS A baby, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is rescued from the sea by fisherman Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), unaware that he is actually the demigod son of Zeus (Liam Neeson). Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the god of the underworld, causes the death of Perseus’s new family and the young man vows revenge. He gets his chance when Hades curses Argos and its rulers and threatens to unleash the Kraken on the city unless they sacrifice their beautiful daughter Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) to the behemoth.
STAR RATING: **
DATE NIGHT (15)
PHIL Foster (Steve Carell) and his wife Claire (Tina Fey) live in New Jersey with their early-rising children. Every week, the Fosters hire a babysitter so they can go through the ritual of date night in a bid to keep their marriage alive. One week they arrive without a reservation and end up taking a table reserved for another couple, the Tripplehorns. However, Phil and Claire soon get into trouble with heavies who are looking for the real Tripplehorns.
STAR RATING: ***
DEAR JOHN (12A)
ARMY special forces operative John Tyree (Channing Tatum) heads home for two weeks leave to see his father (Richard Jenkins). During an afternoon on the beach, John meets local girl Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) and the spark of attraction is immediate. Inevitably, the two weeks end and John returns to the front line, promising his sweetheart, “I’ll be back for good.” Fate conspires to reunite the lovers, though not in a way that either of them would have wished.
STAR RATING: ***
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED (18)
PALS Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) kidnap Alice (Gemma Arterton) and take her to a specially outfitted flat, which has been soundproofed, where she she is bound at the ankles and wrists to a bed. It transpires the pair are demanding a £2m random from her millionaire father. Given Vic’s volcanic temper, it’s uncomfortably clear that Alice may not live through her ordeal.
STAR RATING: ***
FURRY VENGEANCE (PG)
DAN Sanders (Brendan Fraser) works for a real estate company which is developing a small community in the forests of Oregon. Sanders transplants his teacher wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and teenage son Tyler (Matt Prokop) to the back of beyond while he completes the year-long project. However, a tenacious raccoon and his forest friends, including a rowdy bear, fight back to protect their stomping ground, lighting the touch paper on a titanic battle between man and beast.
STAR RATING: ***
THE HEADLESS WOMAN (TBC)
A WOMAN kills someone in a car accident. Unable to cope, she goes into a trance. Slowly she recovers details of her life and starts to address the accident. With nods to Antonioni and Hitchcock, director Lucrecia Martel provides an insight into something that could happen to any of us. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Tuesday-Wednesday.
STAR RATING: ***
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG)
DREAMWORKS’S 3D epic has invention and emotion in abundance, and will delight audiences of all ages with its lush visuals and smart script telling the story of a young Viking, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), who aspires to hunt dragons but ends up becoming friends with one of the supposedly fearsome animals.
STAR RATING: ****
IRON MAN 2 (12A)
JON Favreau and his cast return for the explosive sequel to the 2008 blockbuster, based on the red and gold armoured Marvel Comics superhero. Billionaire industrialist and inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) embraces his dual life as the supersonic Iron Man in the full glare of the media spotlight and wins countless adoring fans in the process. However, the US government and private investors are keen to acquire his technology for their own needs and Stark resists at all costs. Aided by beautiful and spirited assistant Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and good friend, Lieutenant Colonel James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes (Don Cheadle), Stark attempts to keep his invention secret from prying eyes. However, Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) ‘acquires’ the Iron Man technology and uses it to transform himself into the deadly Whiplash.
STAR RATING: ***
THE LAST SONG (PG)
KIM Miller (Kelly Preston) drives from New York to a Southern beach town to drop off her two reluctant kids – Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) and younger brother Jonah (Bobby Coleman) – with estranged husband Steve (Greg Kinnear) for the summer. But Ronie’s summer looks brighter when she meets fellow misfit Blaze (Carly Chaikin) and falls for the charms of hunk Will Blakelee (Liam Hemsworth).
STAR RATING: **
