Movies
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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden
Running time: (TBC)
Former baseball pro Morris Buttermaker (Thornton) is recruited by a lawyer (Harden) to coach hopeless Little League team the Bears. He must train them up to defeat their rivals, the Yankees, and their coach (Kinnear).
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Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Ryan Phillippe, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton
Running time: 112 mins
A car crash affects the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents from all walks of life in an artful exploration of class and race from the writer of Million Dollar Baby. Thought-provoking and touching.
The Island (12A)
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi
Running time: 136 mins
Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) and Jordan Two-Delta go on the run from a utopian facility on discovering that they are 'harvested beings' raised to supply organs for their donees in the outside world.
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Director: Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon
Running time: 103
The reworking of Nick Hornby's novel Fever Pitch sees schoolteacher Ben (Fallon) fall for workaholic Lindsey (Barrymore) but it doesn't seem that they will live happily ever after when it becomes apparent that baseball is the love of his life.
The Rising (12A)
Director: Ketan Mehta
Starring: Aamir Khan, Tobey Stephens, Coral Breed
Running time: 150 mins
A Bollywood production about the Indian Mutiny of 1857 caused when the British in India introduced a cost-saving way of greasing guns with fat of animals sacred to Hindus and Muslims. Leading the revolt is Mangal Pandey (Khan), complicating his friendship with English Captain William Gordon (Stephens).
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Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Campell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary
Running time: 105 mins
Adaptation of Jane Smiley's novella The Age of Grief about the stale marriage of two dentists (Scott and Davis) whose lives change when a trumpet player with bad teeth (Leary) enters the equation.
Spirit Trap (15)
Director: David Smith
Starring: Billie Piper, Luke Mably, Emma Catherwood
Running time: 91 mins
Piper plays a psychic who moves into a haunted house with a bunch of fellow students.
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Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Anna Sophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson
Running time: 101mins
Based on a Kate DiCamillo novel, the movie tells the story of Opal, a lonely girl who becomes a little less lonely when she meets kindred spirit canine Winn-Dixie.
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