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South Oxhey actress Hollie Thoupos, 11, stars in award-winning romantic drama It's A Love Thing

4:42pm Friday 22nd March 2013

Everyone remembers their first love. The one that first gives you butterflies. The one you’ll always pick for your team in the playground. The one that will first break your heart.

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Total Recall and A Few Best Men

2:00pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

The human brain is capable of processing hundreds of billions of instructions every second, putting to shame many supercomputers. But like those supercomputers, the brain is susceptible to viruses and corruption. False memories can be planted — without malicious intent: an older family member recounts an anecdote from our formative years and without any evidence to the contrary, we ‘create’ an image in the mind’s eye to match their perception.

Shadow Dancer and The Watch

2:48pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

Sectarian violence in Northern Ireland cast a long shadow over the country for more than 30 years.

The Bourne Legacy

12:57pm Wednesday 15th August 2012

Given that Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass decided to bid adieu to the massively successful Bourne franchise after The Bourne Ultimatum, the question on everyone’s lips was could the espionage series continue?

Brave and Step Up 4: Miami Heat

10:26am Thursday 9th August 2012

Having almost completely stalled their creative engines with Cars 2, Disney Pixar heads for the ancient Scottish highlands in Brave, a computer-animated fable of female empowerment.

Ted and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

1:49pm Wednesday 1st August 2012

Since the early 20th century, the teddy bear has been a potent symbol of childhood innocence.

Dr Seuss' The Lorax

10:58am Thursday 26th July 2012

Based on the book of the same name Dr Seuss’ The Lorax is an environmentally conscious story of one boy’s noble quest to restore balance between avaricious mankind and Mother Nature.

The Dark Knight Rises

11:23am Thursday 19th July 2012

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Director Christopher Nolan completes his dark and brooding trilogy based on the DC Comics crime-fighter Batman in suitably grandiose fashion, delivering not only the longest film in the series but also the most brutal, violent and satisfying.

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift and Magic Mike

3:52pm Wednesday 11th July 2012

Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel’s pursuit of his beloved acorns has cataclysmic consequences for an entire continent in the latest chapter of the hugely popular Ice Age series.

Storage 24 and Joyful Noise

4:22pm Wednesday 27th June 2012

The good old days when E.T. simply wanted to phone home are long gone. Now, if aliens descend on Earth, they don’t want to sit contentedly in the basket of a child’s bicycle and soar serenely across a perfect moonlit sky. Otherworldly visitors want to annihilate and conquer, preferably via a series of expensive, special effects-laden set pieces that reduce landmarks to steaming piles of twisted metal.

The Five-Year Engagement and Lay the Favourite

1:56pm Wednesday 20th June 2012

Love hurts, though not too badly, in Nicholas Stoller’s romantic comedy about a doe-eyed couple whose rose-tinted dreams of marital bliss are undone by the pressures of everyday life. Penned by leading man Jason Segel and director Nicholas Stoller, who recently collaborated on the script for The Muppets, The Five-Year Engagement trades heavily on the rapport between Segel and British actress Emily Blunt.

Rock of Ages and Fast Girls

12:06pm Wednesday 13th June 2012

Bow down to the gods of rock as director Adam Shankman cranks up the volume to 11 for an energetic musical based on a popular stage show. Punctuated by breathlessly choreographed, show-stopping renditions of Pat Benatar, Europe, Foreigner, Journey and Poison among others, Rock of Ages is 123 minutes of unabashed joy.

Ill Manors and A Fantastic Fear of Everything

3:08pm Wednesday 6th June 2012

It’s a hard-knock life for six godforsaken denizens of London in the gritty directorial debut of Ben Drew aka Plan B.

Prometheus and Snow White & The Huntsman

2:52pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

More than 30 years after Ridley Scott proved that in space, everyone can hear you scream — loudly — the Oscar-nominated director returns to the science-fiction genre and the ultimate deep space killing machine: Alien.

Men in Black 3 and Moonrise Kingdom

10:31am Thursday 24th May 2012

rediscover their swagger ten years after the lacklustre second instalment. Set largely in July 1969, Men in Black 3 is a time-travelling caper which ties up loose threads into a neat bow, suggesting this could be the end of the Smith and Jones double-act.

Film reviews: Dark Shadows and The Dictator

2:44pm Thursday 17th May 2012

Director Tim Burton sealed his creative marriage to Johnny Depp more than 20 years ago with the brilliantly dark and twisted fairytale Edward Scissorhands.

Festival feasts on film legend

8:20am Thursday 3rd May 2012

America’s most iconic film-maker, and funnyman, Woody Allen is being celebrated in this year’s Oxford Film Festival.

Beauty and the Beast 3D and The Lucky One

1:40pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012

More than 20 years after Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney's “tale as old as time” returns to multiplexes in a glorious new 3D print.

Avengers Assemble and Albert Nobbs

12:50am Thursday 26th April 2012

More is less in Avengers Assemble, the special effects-laden amalgamation of four Marvel Comics franchises. Bringing together characters from Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Incredible Hulk, Joss Whedon’s frenetic romp deftly knits together plot strands from the earlier films, threaded with tongue-in-cheek humour.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Gone

3:10pm Wednesday 18th April 2012

A socially awkward fisheries expert reels in a spirited soulmate in Lasse Hallstrom’s unabashedly feel-good confection, based on the novel by Paul Torday.