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DATE	EVENT
FILM CLUB   20th  March 2009	“The Duchess ” (2008) (DRAMA)     Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling,     In The Duchess Keira Knightley plays the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Diana, she lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts.She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.   Fans of history-based drama--Georgiana was real-life royalty who is found in the genealogy of Princess Diana--will find much to like in this film, which boasts impressive locations, lush costumes, and forbidden love.                                                                                                           Cert. Rating: 12               Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
17th April 2009	“Easy Virtue ” (2008) (COMEDY)     Starring: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth   Join an all-star cast in the most deliciously funny comedy of the year. After young Englishman John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) falls in love with blonde bombshell Larita (Jessica Biel) and marries her on the spot, the next stop on their whirlwind romance is to meet his parents (Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas). Marital bliss descends into all-out bedlam as Jonn's mother develops an instant allergy to Larita and the tension builds hlariously into all-out war that will have you in stitches.                                                                                                         Cert. Rating: 12               Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
15th May 2009	“Slumdog Millionaire” (2009) (Drama)     Starring: Irfan Khan, Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel & Freida Pinto     Winner of 8 Academy Awards and 7 Bafta's including Best Film and Best Director. Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life. A penniless, eighteen year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits; to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs; to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out... The result is the sweeping, stylish, intoxicatingly human experience of Slumdog Millionaire, the new film from acclaimed director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Millions, 28 Days Later, Sunshine). Part exhilarating love story, part eye-catching journey into the underbelly of the so-called "maximum city" of Mumbai, part stirring tale of an Everyman's triumph against a harsh, cynical world, Slumdog Millionaire is a visceral, action-packed Dickensian epic for the 21st Century. At the heart of its exuberant storytelling lies the intriguing question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.                                                                                                         Cert. Rating: 15               Runtime: 2 hours 00 minutes
19th June 2009	19th June 2009:             “Australia” (2008) (Drama)     Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham     Australia is the new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Romeo And Juliet) and stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Australia centres on an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbour only months earlier.                                                                                                     Cert. Rating: 12               Runtime: 2 hours 45 minutes
17th July 2009	17th July 2009:             “Gran Torino” (2009) (Drama)     Starring: Clint Eastwood, Cory Hardrict , John Carroll Lynch       Multiple Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars in the drama "Gran Torino," marking his first film role since his Oscar-winning film "Million Dollar Baby."  Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed, cantankerous, inflexible Korean War veteran, living in a changing world.  He catches his young Hmong neighbour attempting to steal his cherished 1972 Gran Torino and urges him to try and reform his burgeoning criminal ways.  But he is forced by his immigrant neighbours to confront his own long-held prejudices.                                                                                                         Cert. Rating: 15               Runtime: 1 hours 56 minutes
21st August 2009:	“Young Victoria” (2009) (Drama)     Starring: Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent     Written by Academy Award winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, comes the story of Queen Victoria's early rise to the throne.   From an object of a royal power–struggle into her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt ("The Devil Wears Prada") gives a stunning performance as       "Young Victoria".  Packed with drama, romance, political intrigue, breath–taking cinematography and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany and Miranda Richardson and Rupert Friend ("Pride & Prejudice") "Young Victoria" will have audiences captivated.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Cert. Rating: PG               Runtime: 1 hours 40 minutes
18th September 2009:	“A Bunch of Amateurs” (2008)     Starring: Burt Reynolds, Derek Jacobi & Imelda Staunton   If you liked Calendar Girls you'll like this!!!   British comedy starring Burt Reynolds as Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star desperate to revive his flagging career. When his untrustworthy agent (Charles Durning) signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production. Imelda Staunton, Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond co-star.                                                                                                       Cert. Rating: 15                  Runtime: 1hr 36mins
16th  October 2009:	“Last Chance Harvey” (2009)     Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson & Eileen Atkins   Academy award winners Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson reunite in Last Chance Harvey, a heartfelt romance that celebrates new beginnings - at any age. New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting - or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle. Trying to hide his devastation, Harvey leaves the wedding before the reception in the hope of getting to the airport on time, but misses the plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, Harvey is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a sensitive 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energised by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.                                                                                                            Cert. Rating: 12                  Runtime: 1hr 33mins
20th November 2009:	“Dean Spanley” (2008)     Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill & Bryan Brown     Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.   Beautifully played by the impeccable cast, charmingly scripted by Alan Sharp and directed by Toa Fraser with a subtlety that's matched by Leon Narbey's cinematography, this is a demure delight!!                                                                                                             Cert. Rating: U                   Runtime: 1hr 36mins
19th March 2010:	“Julie and Julia” (2009) (Comedy)     Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams & Stanley Tucci   Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible!                                                                                                         Cert. Rating: 12                 Runtime: 2 hour 03 minutes Julie & Julia is a film that should be relished with gusto--accompanied by the freshest and best ingredients, pounds of butter, and bottles of the very best wine. It lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food's most influential and beloved figureheads: Julia Child--played here with zest, humor, and a sweet, subtle respect by Meryl Streep, whose performance is spectacular. Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes you," she moans. So she gives herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and to blog about it. As Powell (played with chirpy determination by Amy Adams), begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own--and in the end it does provide the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. But mostly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to Child, to Child's amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any soufflé in the film), and to her outlook on embracing life, and ordering seconds. Streep throws herself into the Child role with real affection for her character, and while certain of Child's idiosyncrasies--including her warbly voice and unflappable haphazardness in the kitchen--are retained, it's Child's character and vision which form Streep's portrayal, and which make the film so involving and rewarding. Nora Ephron directs with deftness and a light touch, though she seems at times to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan's onscreen tics in Adams (the self-conscious head tilt, for one). But mostly she simply allows Streep to channel Child and her love of food, her husband, and 1950s Paris. And that is a recipe for something truly sublime.
16th April 2010:	“An Education” (2009) (Drama)     Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan , Emma Thompson & Alfred Molina   Coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is an intelligent young woman on the brink of her 17th birthday, destined for a promising yet somewhat narrow future at Oxford University and beyond. Longing for romance and sophistication to inject some excitement into her humdrum schoolgirl existence, she finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with the mysterious and much older playboy David (Peter Sarsgaard). The ensemble supporting cast includes Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Emma Thompson.                                                                                                              Cert. Rating: 12                 Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
21st May 2010:	“Glorious 39” (2009) (Thriller)     Starring: Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Christopher Lee, Jenny Agutter, Jeremy Northam & David Tennant   This tense psychological thriller is set between present day London and the idyllic British countryside around the outbreak of the Second World War. Anne, a budding young actress, stumbles across secret recordings of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims. As close friends die in suspicious circumstances, she finds herself in extreme danger and finds out how badly she has been betrayed.                                                                                                           Cert. Rating: 12                   Runtime: 2hour 09mins