WEST SIDE STORY[A] - 2 hour 32 min

Director: Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, Gearge Chakiris
West Side Story is a take on Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet that feels as contemporary now as it did on its initial release in 1961. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer are star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of a New York turf war in what remains one of the boldest and most breathlessly dynamic musicals ever made.
It went on to score ten Oscars..

THE LIVES of OTHERS[15] (sub-titles) - 2 hour 17 mins

Director: Florian Donnersmarck
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Muhe, Ulrich Tukur
Drama set in East Berlin in the mid-1980s. Stasi officer Wiesler is assigned the job of keeping an eye on dramatist Georg Dreyman. By close surveillance of Georg and his life, Wiesler begins to encounter and be affected by new concepts such as art, love and a desire for freedom. 
A notable winner of 2007 best foreign film Oscar.

ATONEMENT[15] - 2 hours 3 mins

Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy
Drama opening in England in 1935. Cecilia Tallis, a young woman from a wealthy and privileged background, is in love with Robbie Turner, a medical student and the housekeeper's son. Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings, Robbie is accused of a crime he did not commit. Briony, Cecilia's young sister, plays a crucial role in those false accusations, which will affect Cecilia and Robbie's lives forever.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE[15] - 1 hour 41 mins

Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear
Comedy drama Little Miss Sunshine radiates warmth and charm. Greg Kinnear is wonderfully woe-begone as the success-obsessed patriarch leading his family cross-country in order to enter daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into a junior beauty pageant. As the clan gradually get to know one another, the journey becomes fully engaging and oddly poignant.
It will definitely leave you with that feel-good glow.

NOTES on a SCANDAL [15] - 1 hour 32 mins

Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Tom Georgeson, Michael Maloney
Lonely schoolteacher Barbara Covett keeps a personal diary in which she vents her frustration and judgments. When a new art teacher joins the school the two become friends, until Barbara discovers her in a compromising position with one of the older pupils and confronts her and uses emotional blackmail.
A psychological thriller of rare delicacy.

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY [PG] - 1 hour 32 mins

Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Amy Adams, Ciaran Hinds, Frances McDormand, Shirley Henderson, Stephanie Cole
Miss Pettigrew is a dowdy, strait-laced 40-something nursery governess. Due to a mistake, she finds herself employed as the social secretary to a night-club singer. Not realising she's been sent the wrong person, the singer calls on Miss Pettigrew's help in juggling her three lovers - a penniless pianist just out of jail, a suave Anglo-Italian nightclub owner, and a rich, young man about town.
In an action that verges on Whitehall farce, Miss Pettigrew blossoms - and discovers a 'previously unimagined talent for social engineering and a taste for strong cocktails'.

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY [15]
1 hour 52 mins [Subtitled]

Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze
The true story of the French magazine editor , who suffered a massive stroke at 43. His whole body - apart from his left eye - was paralysed. Mentally fully alert, but unable to communicate apart from blinking his eyelid, He spent the next fourteen months labouring to develop a language code with his therapist. Letter by letter, he composes a heartbreaking memoir of his struggle.

"Nothing in director Julian Schnabel's career so far has anticipated the sweetness, sadness, maturity and restraint of this lovely movie". Peter Bradshaw 'The Guardian'

STARTER FOR 10 [12A] - 1 hour 36 mins

Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: James McAvoy, Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss, Dominic Cumberbatch
A very British rite-of-passage comedy set in the mid-80s,. It charts the fortunes of a gauche, working-class, trivia-obsessed lad, studying English literature. He wins a place on the 'University Challenge' team and falls under the spell of the lovely and lively blonde Alice, a team-mate, and his best friend Rebecca, whose politics and wit he admires. Can our awkward hero redeem himself through general knowledge?

"A smart and sweet comedy. The 80s soundtrack is brilliant too". 'Time Out'

FROZEN [15] - 1 hour 30 mins

Director: Juliet McKoen
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Roshan Seth, Ger Ryan, Richard Ridings
A mystical thriller set in Fleetwood and the awesome stretches of Morecambe Bay at low tide.
It's been two years since the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, Annie. But Kath is still haunted by the need to know what happened. Visiting the spot where Annie was last seen, Kath believes she has found a gateway to a place in which her sister is still alive. Has Kath really found access to the afterlife? Or, is she losing her grip on reality?

"A visually striking film of some promise" Philip French 'The Observer'

CHILDREN OF MEN [15] - 1 hour 49 mins

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chjwetel Ejiofor
"Children of Men" envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into chaos on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. A disillusioned government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child's birth may help scientists to save the future of mankind.

"An excellent thriller. Cuaron has created the thinking person's action movie."
Peter Bradshaw. 'The Guardian'

I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG [12A] - 1 hour 57 mins [Subtitled]

Director: Philippe Claudel
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill
Juliette has no other choice than to live with her sister, Lea , after being released from a 15-year stretch in prison. You don't get such a long sentence without having been found guilty of a particularly heinous crime - something so bad that hardly anyone can even look at her when they find out. Is she guilty? Why did she do it? Will she do it again? What will happen when the people she's with find out?

"A deeply involving, beautifully acted and expertly constructed human drama by and for grown-ups" Peter Bradshaw 'The Guardian'

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN [15] - 1 hour 55 mins [Subtitled]

Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
In time for Halloween - A well-crafted horror film in the tradition of Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone. This Swedish import ably blends genre chills with genuine feeling.

"A spectacularly moving and elegant movie, and to mentally stuff it into the horror pigeonhole, is to overlook a remarkable film." John Anderson 'Washington Post'

THE STRAIGHT STORY [U] - 1 hour 52 mins

Director: David Lynch
Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton
Based on real events - Alvin Straight couldn't see well enough to hold a driver's license. He walked only with the support of two canes. But when he got the call that his brother Lyle, separated from him by hundreds of miles and a decade of proud silence -- had suffered a stroke, Alvin knew he had to reach him. So, with little money but abundant determination, he climbed on his lawnmower and set out.

"Lynch has made a visionary film that ranks up there with his finest work." Emanuel Levy 'Variety'

ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE [U] - 2 hour 10 mins

Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
A classic from 1946 - a reissue of Capra's masterful Yuletide drama about a suicidal man's redemption at the hands of an earthbound angel.

"What is remarkable about It's a Wonderful Life is how well it holds up over the years; it's one of those ageless movies, like Casablanca or The Third Man, that improves with age."
Roger Ebert 'Chicago Sun-Times'