Cinema releases by week

, 1h28
Directed by Peter Howitt
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Motocyclette
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Oliver Ford Davies, Tim Pigott-Smith
Rating62%
Johnny English is an inept MI7 agent with dreams of being their most trusted employee. After Agent One dies in a submarine accident (courtesy of English making a mistake on checking the submarine hatch code), the remaining agents are assassinated via a bombing at Agent One’s funeral (again courtesy of English's incompetence at security), leaving English as the lone survivor. English is assigned to follow a plot to steal the Crown Jewels, which are on display at the Tower of London. At the display, English is head of security, and meets the mysterious Lorna Campbell. The power is cut, and the jewels are stolen. During the chaos, English knocks out a security guard in the process and fights the "assailant" (himself). He later makes up a false description of the assailant to Pegasus. English and his assistant Angus Bough find the jewels were removed via a hole dug beneath their display case. The two follow a tunnel, confronting the two thieves Klaus Vendetta and Dieter Klein. The two escape in a hearse, with English trying to pursue them, but mistakes another hearse for the escape vehicle, crashing a funeral until Bough comes to his aid.

, 1h34
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Oshri Cohen, Yigal Naor, Asi Cohen
Rating74%

, 1h21
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Children's films
Actors Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Kiefer Sutherland, Domenick Lombardozzi
Rating70%
Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is an arrogant New York City publicist who has been courting a woman named Pam (Katie Holmes) behind his wife Kelly (Radha Mitchell). He uses the last remaining public phone booth in the city to contact Pam. During the call, he is interrupted by a pizza delivery man, who attempts to deliver a free pizza to him, but Stu rudely turns him away by insulting his weight. As soon as Stu completes his call to Pam, the phone rings. Stu answers, to find that the caller (Kiefer Sutherland), who knows his name, warns him not to leave the booth, and says he will say hello to Pam for him. He also says he will call Kelly, leaving Stu panicked.

, 1h22
Directed by Chuck Bowman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Nicholas Lea, Jamie Luner, Steve Bacic, Teryl Rothery, Karl Pruner, Anthony Sherwood
Rating41%
The crew of the space shuttle Oklahoma comes back to Earth, one of its crew members having been struck in the arm by a tiny meteor, which evidently contains alien lifeforms. This alien life parasitizes its human hosts to evolve into rapidly proliferating insect-like creatures. The Oklahoma's chief medical officer (Lea) works to stop the spread of the infestation before it reaches the "threshold" population, at which humanity will be effectively unable to contain it and the alien life will take over.

, 2h5
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Kai Lehtinen, Harry Baer, Lia Boysen, Tommi Korpela
Rating70%

, 1h37
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Anneli Sauli, Elina Salo, Outi Mäenpää
Rating75%
The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in Kaisaniemi Park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.

, 1h36
Directed by Brian Yuzna
Origin Espagne
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft, Comedy science fiction films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Jeffrey Combs, Elsa Pataky, Santiago Segura, Simón Andreu, Bárbara Elorrieta, Jason Barry
Rating58%
For the past 13 years, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving a prison sentence due to a murder at the hands of one of his zombies. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr. West has been capable of performing only extremely basic experiments on rats. However, his lack of supplies does not prevent him from uncovering a key element in his re-animation process. Dr. West has discovered "NPE" (Nano-Plasmic Energy), an energy that can be extracted from the brain of a living organism through an electrocution-like process, to be stored in a capsule resembling a small light bulb. The capsule can then be connected to a corpse and used in conjunction with West's previously developed reagent to restore the former dead to a lifelike state. The NPE prevents the degeneration seen in previous instances, where the reanimated are nothing more than mindless zombies. Used together with the re-agent, reanimated corpses regain their skills, memories, and motor functions and nearly fully resemble normal humans.

, 1h36
Directed by Robin Shou
Genres Martial arts, Documentary, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Robin Shou, Keith Cooke, Sammo Hung, Liu Chia-liang
Rating66%
This documentary from Robin Shou—who also hosts and participates in the film—takes a behind-the-scenes glance inside the stunt industry of Hong Kong, which is known for being riskier and less trick-oriented than its American counterpart. In addition to archival and interview footage featuring some of the industry's most prominent stuntmen, Red Trousers - The Life of Hong Kong Stuntmen incorporates scenes from Lost Time (2001) in an effort to illustrate how stuntmen prepare for and ultimately perform in modern martial arts films.

, 1h29
Directed by George Gallo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Eddie Griffin, Joe Howard
Rating64%

, 1h30
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Lorànt Deutsch, Jean Dujardin, Clémence Poésy, Michel Duchaussoy, André Wilms, Dominique Pinon
Rating60%
The film is about a normal family in a quiet rural French town that is taken hostage by two runaway bandits. Surprisingly, the family turns out to be not only cooperative but also very pleasant and understanding about their captor's predicament. As the movie progresses, it becomes apparent that none of the characters are who they seem to be. The two bandits are revealed to be only petty criminals and their escape, the unintentional result of a feud between the drivers of their convoy. As for the family, when the mother stabs the house maid to keep her from entering the house, they are revealed to not be as sane and innocent as they initially appeared.

, 1h23
Directed by Ilia Maximov
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Ivan Krasko, Viktor Soukhoroukov, Elena Solovei, Konstantin Bronzit
Rating67%
The film is a loose adaptation of the fairy tale "Der Zwerg Nase" (German for "The Dwarf [called] Nose") written by Wilhelm Hauff.

, 1h49
Directed by F. Gary Gray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Geno Silva, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors, Ken Davitian
Rating60%
Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate), who are former criminals, are members of the U.S. DEA working on the California/Mexico border. After arresting a drug baron named Memo Lucero (Geno Silva), the mysterious "Diablo" steps in and organizes the assassination of Vetter, but his wife, Stacy (Jacqueline Obradors), is the one who is killed instead.

, 1h48
Directed by Neil Jordan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Nick Nolte, Emir Kusturica, Tchéky Karyo, Ouassini Embarek, Saïd Taghmaoui, Marc Lavoine
Rating64%
Bob Montagnet n'a plus la baraka. Pour cet ancien voleur amateur d'art, la vie n'est plus qu'une succession de nuits enfumées autour de tables de jeu miteuses. Lorsqu'il perd ce qui lui reste d'argent aux courses, Bob touche le fond.

, 1h42
Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Terence Stamp, Donald Sutherland, Dante Ferretti, Tullio Pinelli
Rating69%
A camera tracks crosswise alongside a wide, brightly appointed beach, in what appears to be the dead of winter. No bathers are in sight, only a rolling parade of empty cabanas, with a tranquil blue seascape in the distance beyond. The wistful, melancholy music of Nino Rota lends these vistas a dreamy familiarity. We then jump from color to luminous black & white, and a quick glimpse of Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece, 8½, in which the monumentally buxom harlot, La Saraghina, is preparing to perform her rumba on the beach for a flock of fugitive schoolboys. It's the very same beach we were just staring at, but magically denuded of 40 years of succeeding development, and made mythic through the eyes of a master. From this point of departure, Pettigrew juxtaposes archival footage and fresh interviews with Fellini's collaborators, interspersed with classic clips and the fruits of his own present-day visits to the haunting locales where I Vitelloni (1953), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and other cinematic wonders first came to life. The goal is to fuse these ingredients thematically, to a degree that may better illuminate Fellini's conscience and philosophies.

, 1h35
Directed by Daniel Calparsoro
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Eduardo Noriega, Olivier Sitruk, Rubén Ochandiano, Eloy Azorín, Roger Casamajor, Sandra Wahlbeck
Rating62%
La guerre du Kosovo terminée, la KFOR se déploie sur le territoire kosovar dans le cadre de l'opération Joint Guardian. De nombreuses factions rebelles sont encore très actives ; l'une d'elles fait sauter un transformateur alimentant toute une vallée en électricité et massacre les civils réfugiés dans le village.