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Five of the Best...Films
1. An Education
Nick Hornby's sensitive adaptation of journlaist Lynn Barber's excellent memoir of her first boyfriend.
2. Tales From The Golden Age
Portmanteau film with five stories about the horrific final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime in Romania.
3. Fantastic Mr Fox
Wes Anderson’s take on Roald Dahl is full of quirky magic — with a sly George Clooney voicing Mr Fox.
4. Bright Star
Jane Campion's imaginative portrayal of the Keats/Brawne love affair.
5. Disney's A Christmas Carol
Starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

Critics' Choice

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Fay Maschler

quoteWith a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much funquote

Fay Maschler Babbo Film

Andrew O'Hagan

quoteThis is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflectionquote

Andrew O'Hagan Bright Star Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteAlthough the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops offquote

Henry Hitchings Seize The Day

Reader reviews

Film

Squiz, Islington

quoteI loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.quote

An Education Theatre

Joe, London

quoteI saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.quote

This Much Is True Restaurants

Hiroshi Sugiyama

quoteI have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyotoquote

Aqua Kyoto

Latest film trailers

By This is London 07.11.06

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            Babel

The cast of Babel face a frantic struggle to survice in the Moroccan desert.


            Starter For Ten

James McAvoy stars in Starter For Ten


            Borat

Sacha Baron Cohen in the controversial Borat


            Sixty Six

Religion and football collide in Sixty Six


            Gone

A British couple's trip to Australia takes a sinister turn in Gone

Welcome to This is London's trailer park, a place where you can sit back, relax, and watch some of the latest film clips from your desktop...

COMING SOON...

BABEL
Release date: 5 January 2007
In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out – detonating a chain of events that will link an American couple's frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought after by the police. Stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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GONE
Release date: 15 December 2007
Two British backpackers are fulfilling their dream of travelling across Australia when they become involved with a charismatic American. After accepting his offer of friendship and his car, the three set off into the outback, but the further they go the more sinister their new travelling companion becomes.
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STARTER FOR TEN
Release date: 10 November 2006
This a romantic comedy set in the mid-eighties about a working-class kid (James McAvoy) as he navigates through his turbulent first year at University. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills.
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OUT NOW...

BORAT
Release date: 3 November 2006
Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) travels from his primitive home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.
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SIXTY SIX
Release date: 3 November 2006
It is the summer of '66 and 12 year-old Bernie is looking forward to his Bar Mitzvah - but the World Cup final is scheduled for the same day. Plus, Bernie's family are increasingly distracted by other pressing issues and the Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Bernie's longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster
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WAIST DEEP
Release date: 3 November 2006
Director Vondie Curtis Hall (Redemption) takes audiences on a ride through contemporary Los Angeles – where a sexy 21st-century Bonnie and Clyde hit the streets.
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ROMANZO CRIMINALE
Release date: 3 November 2006
Back in the 1960s three young criminals decide to take a step up from the streets of Rome into the world of organized crime. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over twenty-five years and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
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A GOOD YEAR
Release date: 27 October 2006
Russell Crowe stars in a romantic drama about a highly successful investment expert Max Skinner, who returns to the vineyard of his childhood when his estranged uncle dies. Intending to put his past behind him and sell the vineyard as quickly as possible he instead discovers a part of himself that he'd lost since childhood.
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The HISTORY BOYS
Release date: 13 October, 2006
The film tells the story of an unruly class of history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge who find themselves bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history teacher (Frances de la Tour).
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HOODWINKED
Release date: 13 October 2006
Furry and feathered cops from the animal world investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage, involving a girl, a wolf, and an axe. The charges are many: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license.
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ACCEPTED
Release date: 6 October 2006
After being rejected every colleges he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon of Institute of Technologies, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when his deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school.
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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Release date: 6 October 2006
Naive, college leaver, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) lands every girls dream job as the assistant to impossible boss Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) at top fashion magazine Runway. Though Andy is completely wrong for the job, she has something the rest of them dont: she refuses to fail
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