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Which movie gets your award for best film?

4:54pm Monday 13th February 2012

WE’RE in the throes of awards season and silent film The Artist proved it can make a big noise when it picked up seven awards at the Baftas on Sunday.

Review: The Woman in Black (12A) ***

12:13pm Friday 10th February 2012

LESS is certainly more in The Woman In Black, a chilling film version of the celebrated novel by Susan Hill, which has been re-imagined as a television movie, a radio series and a hit stage play in the 30 years since its publication.

Review: The Vow (12A) **

12:18pm Friday 10th February 2012

For some brides, a fairy-tale waltz up the aisle turns out to be a day they would rather forget. Californian sales rep Krickitt Carpenter did precisely that.

Review: The Muppets (U) ****

12:16pm Friday 10th February 2012

For more than 35 years, Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and their fun-loving friends have been firmly engrained in our rose-tinted childhood memories with their slapstick routines and song and dance numbers.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) ***

1:10pm Friday 3rd February 2012

When the going gets tough, the tough get soppy in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, an old-fashioned, gung-ho adventure based loosely on Jules Verne.

Review: Chronicle (12A) ***

1:07pm Friday 3rd February 2012

As weakling Peter Parker discovered to his cost before his transformation into web-spinning superhero Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility.

Review: The Descendants (15) ****

11:58am Friday 27th January 2012

Good things come to those who wait and it’s been an agonising seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ventured to the sun-dappled vineyards of the quirky Oscar-winning comedy Sideways.

Review: Intruders (15) **

11:53am Friday 27th January 2012

Nyctophobia is perfectly understandable: we are most vulnerable at night when the world around us is shrouded in black and predators hunt unseen by the human eye.

Review: Like Crazy (12A) ***

11:51am Friday 27th January 2012

Love in its many wondrous forms is an essential component of the human experience.

Review: A Monster in Paris (U) **

11:48am Friday 27th January 2012

A giant flea nurtures a passion for music in Bibo Bergeron’s computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.

Review: J Edgar (15) ****

1:17pm Friday 20th January 2012

During a turbulent and contentious term in power spanning almost 50 years, J Edgar Hoover was instrumental in the fight against mounting criminality on the streets of America.

Review: W.E. (15) ***

12:33pm Friday 20th January 2012

Despite Lady Gaga’s sustained attempts to usurp her as the Queen of Pop, Madonna remains a formidable force of nature in the music industry.