Joy division (15)

12:09am Thursday 1st May 2008

After 24 Hour Party People and Anton Corbijn’s superb Control, cinemagoers must be close to bagging a collective PhD in the life and times of the titular Manchester band. When placed beside its dramatic predecessors Grant Gee’s documentary is a fairly hum-drum business, but the story is one that can bear retelling.

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Nim’s island (U)

12:08am Thursday 1st May 2008

Jodie Foster, last seen pounding New York’s meaner streets in vigilante thriller The Brave One, takes a break from reality in this likeable fantasy adventure. The double-Oscar winner plays author Alexandra Rover, creator of an Indiana Jones-style fictional hero.

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P2 (18)

12:06am Thursday 1st May 2008

Franck Khalfoun’s shlock horror is the latest in the rapidly growing young-women-being-terrorised-by-striplight genre. Rachel Nichols is the blonde simply asking for trouble by being hard-working, ambitious, and parking her car under the office on Christmas Eve.

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Beaufort (15)

12:55am Thursday 1st May 2008

War, as ever, is hell in Joseph Cedar’s sombre feature, which was nominated for a best foreign film Oscar but lost out to The Counterfeiters.

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Made of honour (12A)

12:53am Thursday 1st May 2008

When New York playboy Tom (former teen heartthrob Patrick Dempsey) decides to turn his back on a life of womanising and propose to best pal Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), he finds himself pipped to the post by charming Scotsman Colin McMurray (Kevin McKidd).

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It’s all there in black and white

12:05am Thursday 24th April 2008

Persepolis (12A): Persepolis won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, then cleaned up at the box office across France and was subsequently nominated for Best Animated Film at this year’s Oscars.

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Stop-loss (15)

12:02am Thursday 24th April 2008

Hollywood has been quick off the mark to make movies that directly engage with the Iraq War, compared to the 10 years it took Tinseltown to start on Vietnam, but none of them have proved popular with cinema-goers.

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The Oxford murders (15)

12:59am Thursday 24th April 2008

The English whodunnit meets The Da Vinci Code in this mathematical murder mystery set in and around the the dreaming spires of Oxford. John Hurt and Elijah Wood play a professor and student who apply their shared passion for logic to the investigation of a series of killings.

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Deception (15)

12:57am Thursday 24th April 2008

As glossy and sleazy as a pornographic magazine, this erotic thriller is a throwback to trashy American movies of the 1980s such as 91/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction.

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