Clapham Picture House Listings for 24 March - 1 April
For film times and booking information please go to the Clapham Picture House website.
KICK-ASS (15)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Origin: United States
Year: 2010
Duration: 118m
Starring: Mark Strong, Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage
Based on the celebrated Marvel comic series from writer Mark Millar and illustrator John Romita Jr, KICK-ASS is the ultimate anti- superhero movie. Dave Lizewski (Johnson, NOWHERE BOY) is just a typical high-school nobody, whose obsession with comic book heroes leads him to create his own crime fighting persona under the alias Kick-Ass. Teaming up with other vigilantes Big Daddy (Cage), his daughter Hit-Girl (Moretz) and fellow wannabe Red Mist (Mintz-Plasse), Kick-Ass sets about cleaning up the streets before setting his sights on the evil drug lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong). A film about growing up, KICK-ASS is a comic book movie not for kids.
THE BLIND SIDE (12A*)
Director: John Hancock
Origin: United States
Year: 2010
Duration: 128m
Starring: Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock
Neglected by his family and non-existent according to official records, teenage giant Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) belongs nowhere. As he wanders the cold wet streets one night, life takes a turn for the better when pushy mum Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock giving an Oscar-winning performance) offers him a bed for the night. A night turns into two, and before long Michael has a new family, his grades improve, and a coveted American football scholarship looms on the horizon. Based on an extraordinary true story, THE BLIND SIDE is a touchingly emotional story of one boy's journey from the depths of poverty to the peak of sporting success.
*Contains infrequent moderate violence, language and sex references
SHUTTER ISLAND (15*)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Origin: United States
Year: 2009
Duration: 138m
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Max Sydow, Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio
U.S. Marshals Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) and Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) travel to a secluded island off the coast of Massachusetts to search for an escaped psychiatric patient, uncovering a web of deception along the way as they battle the forces of nature and a prison riot in this Martin Scorsese-helmed period picture. Ben Kingsley co-stars as the head of the institution where the patient resided, while Michelle Williams plays Teddy's deceased wife, whose memory haunts him during the investigation.
*Contains strong language, bloody injury and disturbing images
GREEN ZONE (15*)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Year: 2010
Duration: 115m
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Matt Damon, Brendan Gleeson
Based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, GREEN ZONE is a political action thriller that takes place in Iraq shortly before the American invasion. Matt Damon (THE INFORMANT!) plays Roy Miller, a warrant officer in cahoots with CIA agent (Gleeson, IN BRUGES), whose search for WMDs has attracted the unfavourable attentions of Pentagon Special Intelligence Officer Clark Poundstone (Kinnear, FLASH OF GENIUS). Filmed over one year in Spain before wrapping in Morocco in late 2008, GREEN ZONE marks the latest collaboration between Damon and Paul Greengrass (UNITED 93), following the director's highly acclaimed work on THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM.
*Contains strong language and violence
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D (PG*)
Director: Tim Burton
Origin: United States
Year: 2010
Duration: 109m
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Stephen Fry
Disney's updated live-action / CGI reimagining of Lewis Carroll's 19th-century novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as seen through the surreal eyes of Tim Burton (CORPSE BRIDE, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY). Along with longtime collaborator Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter and wife Helena Bonham Carter as the wicked Red Queen, ALICE IN WONDERLAND boasts a wealth of British talent, with Stephen Fry voicing The Cheshire Cat, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit, Matt Lucas as Tweedledee / Tweedledum and Alan Rickman as the hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Budding Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (AMELIA) stars as the young heroine who journeys down a rabbit hole and ends up in a bizarre fantasy land.
*Contains moderate fantasy violence
NOT THE MESSIAH (HE'S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY) (PG)
Origin: United States
Year: 2010
Duration: 90m
A fabulously entertaining 90-minute comic oratorio by Eric Idle and John Du Prez (creators of Spamalot) inspired by Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN, filmed at its only European performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2009 to celebrate 40 years of Monty Python. This hilarious take on the Messiah features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Choir, and a host of superb soloists in the lead roles, including Rosalind Plowright, Eric Idle and Michael Palin as Mrs Betty Parkinson, plus special guest appearances from Pythons Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. And of course three sheep! Like Handel, only funnier.
MET. OPERA: HAMLET ()
Year: 2010
Duration: 223m
The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer?s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard?s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas?s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera. Conductor: Louis Langr?e; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris