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(12A) Dean Israelite’s found foot- age sci-fi thriller ponders the repercussions for a group of high school students who build a time machine and exploit its power to rewrite history with a swipe of a smartphone screen. “You have to kill Hitler – that’s, like, time travel 101,” quips one lad. Strikingly reminis- cent of Josh Trank’s supe- rior 2012 fantasy Chronicle, employing the same first- person perspective and equally slick special effects. Rating: Three stars


FIFTY SHADES OF


GREY (18) ENGLISH Literature stu- dent Anastasia Steele (Da- kota Johnson) interviews handsome billionaire Chris- tian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for an article in the univer- sity newspaper. Anastasia is intoxicated, but Christian initially pushes her away. Irresistibly drawn to the businessman, Anastasia agrees to a date and Chris- tian spirits her away to his red room festooned with S&M toys and introduces wide-eyed Anastasia to his secret world of domination and submission. Rating: Three stars


BLACKHAT(15) AN ELUSIVE mastermind (Yorick van Wageningen) causes an explosion at a Hong Kong nuclear plant and tampers with soy prices on Chicago’s Mercantile Trade Exchange using a Remote Access Tool (RAT), which gains access to com- puter systems and allowshis malware to run amok. The subsequent hunt takes in-


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Redmayne), his sister Kal- ique (Tuppence Middleton) and playboy younger brother Titus (Douglas Booth). The siblings own various planets in the universe, which they harvest for resources, and the most valuable is Earth. Rating: Three stars


SHAUNTHE SHEEP


MOVIE (U) AARDMAN works its stop- motion animated magic on this big screen adventure for the lovable sheep. When the Farmer ends up in the Big City suffering from a nasty bout of memory loss. Shaun and his fleecy friends head for the metropolis to bring him home. Aided by an orphan dog named Slip, the sheep dis- guise themselves as humans to pass among the unsuspect- ing residents of the Big City and track down their beloved Farmer. Ewe won’t be disap- pointed. Rating: Four stars


TIME TRAVELLERS: Ginny Gardner;Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Soia Black D’Elia and Jonny Weston in Paramount Pictures’ Project Almanac


vestigators around the world, following a trail of clues that could lead them into the gun sights of the hacker’s sadistic associate, assassin. Rating: Three stars


THEWEDDING


RINGER (15) TAX attorney Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is two weeks shy of marrying Gretchen (Ka- ley Cuoco-Sweeting). With no male friends to support him, he conjures up a fictitious


best man called Bic Mitchum. The lie weighs heavily on Doug and the loveable loser seeks help from Jimmy Cal- lahan (Kevin Hart), owner of The BestManInc. For $50,000, Jimmy will adopt the identity of the elusive Bic. For better or worse, The Wedding Ringer falls short of matrimonial bliss.


Rating: Three stars


CAKE (15) CLAIRE Bennett (Jennifer Aniston) survived the car


crash that shattered her body, but has been so deeply scarred – physically and emo- tionally –by her pain that she is toxic to everyone who or- bits her. Her perpetual mean- ness drives away everyone except for her maid Silvana (Adriana Barraza). When Nina Collins (Anna Kend- rick), a fellow member of a chronic pain support group, commits suicide, Claire de- velops a new addiction: gate- crashing the grief of Nina’s husband Roy (Sam Worthing-


ton) and young son Casey (Evan O’Toole). Cake is an uneven bake, distinguished by Aniston’s committed per- formance and a warm, empa- thetic supporting turn from Barraza. Rating: Three stars


JUPITER ASCENDING


(12A) THE queen of the royal al- ien house of Abrasax is murdered, leaving behind three heirs: Balem (Eddie


SELMA (12A) IN 1960s America, political bureaucracy and prejudice deny the African-American electorate the chance to vote in the forthcoming election. Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo) and his team head to the community of Selma, Alabama to lead a peaceful protest march. Local police attack protesters with batons as TV cameras capture the brutality. Rating: Four stars


LOVE IS STRANGE (15) SET to a Chopin piano score,


Love Is Strange charts the strains on a long-term gay relationship against the hus- tling backdrop of modern- day Manhattan.. Rating: Four stars


Beautifully shot tale of space exploration


INTERSTELLAR, the sci-fi film known for its stunning visual ef- fects and gripping journey to save humanity, will be at The River- front from Monday-Wednesday, February 23-25 at 7pm. Matthew McConaughey stars


as Cooper – a former NASA pilot turned farmer – in Christopher Nolan’s visually mesmerising take on science fiction. Cooper and his family own a farm in a period of time where agriculture is failing, causing civilisation to degenerate. With earth deteriorat- ing the human race’s only chance of survival is to discover a new planet to inhabit. Professor John Brand, played by Michael Caine, discovers a black hole that leads to several other planets and enlists the help of Cooper to pilot a space craft called Endurance to find a potential new home for humans. Nolan’s most recent picture


has been awarded a Bafta for its visuals as well as praise for its


research on black holes and outer space. So much so that real life sci- entists believe the film can help to give them a more in-depth knowl- edge on black holes. With a star-studded cast featur-


ing Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon, Interstellar is a film not to be missed. With its captivating images giving us a taste of what it would be like to be spacemen our- selves, you’ll forget you are in the cinema and think you are on the actual voyage itself. An incredible sci-fi storyline mixed with despair as well as empowering emotions of love, this beautifully shot film will leave you wanting to congrat- ulate Nolan himself!


“A genuinely moving spectacle about the perils of discovery and survival” – Eric Kohn, Indiewire


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