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Gérard Krawczyk returns to direct Taxi 4, the latest instalment of the French Taxi franchise. Samy Naceri is back in the souped up taxi Frédéric Diefenthal returns as the bumbling Émilien.

The plot, as ever, is very much secondary to the scenes of high speed car chases in narrow Marseilles streets.

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Kucuk Kiyamet (Small Apocalypse) tells the horrific tale of a family who decides to rent a summer house by the sea side, they do it on internet. Of course things start to get bad by the time they are all used to and happy with this new house.

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Viggo Mortensen is about to buckle his swash in Alatriste, an action/thriller about Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country’s 17th century imperial wars.

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In Spider-Man 3, based on the legendary Marvel Comics series, Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M.J. and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the horizon. When his suit suddenly changes, turning jet-black and enhancing his powers, it transforms Peter as well, bringing out the dark, vengeful side of his personality that he is struggling to control. Under the influence of the suit, Peter becomes overconfident and starts to neglect the people who care about him most. Forced to choose between the seductive power of the new suit and the compassionate hero he used to be, Peter must overcome his personal demons as two of the most-feared villains yet, Sandman and Venom, gather unparalleled power and a thirst for retribution to threaten Peter and everyone he loves.

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It was released in Europe a few years ago, (review) but Wisit Sasanatieng’s gloriously surreal Thai western, Tears of the Black Tiger is finally about to make it to US shores.

When Dum, a young peasant boy, falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy family, they vow that, whatever happens, they will one day be together. When they meet again ten years later, their rekindled passion is thwarted by the murder of Dum’s father by outlaws and by Rumpoey’s betrothal to a smooth-talking police captain. Dum soon transforms himself into the gunslinging bandit, “Black Tiger,” in order to infiltrate the gang who murdered his father. Fate will reunite the lovers one more time, but will they be able to continue their romance? Or will tragedy strike again?

Watch it. I guarantee you won’t regret it.

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A Kung Fu movie set in Brighton - how about that for a mix of genres?

Hundreds of Brightonians have helped make Brighton Wok - which is described as being Ealing Studio meets Drunken Master - and in 2007 it will finally be seen.

An evil Ninja and his henchmen take over the city. The people of Brighton - forbidden to sing songs or smoke dope - try to rise up. They fail, despite the valour of two remarkable old ladies.

They fall back on faith in the Chosen one, whose coming is foretold by the Crazy Old Man that Lives in a Tree in Queens Park.

What happens when he comes? Wait and see.

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In Live Free or Die Hard - the fourth installment in the Die Hard franchise - an attack on the vulnerable United States computer infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the shattering scheme has figured out every digital angle - but he never figured on an old-fashioned, “analogue” fly-in-the-ointment: John McClane.

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Many Iranian girls love soccer as much as their countrymen and sport fans all over the world but, they are prevented by law from attending live soccer matches in their country. Inspired by the day when his own daughter was refused entry to a soccer stadium in Iran, Jafar Panahi’s Offside follows a day in the life of a group of Iranian girls.

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At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives Of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The Lives Of Others traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras’ Amen), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany’s all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).

Five years before its downfall, the former East- German government (known as the GDR, German Democratic Republic) ensures its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance via the Stasi, a vast network of informers that at one time numbered 200,000 out of a population of 17 million. Their goal is to know everything about “the lives of others.”

Devoted Stasi officer and expert interrogator Wiesler is given the job of collecting evidence against the famous playwright Georg Dreyman. The job begins after Lieutenant Colonel Anton Grubitz (Ulrich Tukur), a former classmate of Wiesler’s who now heads the Culture Department at the State Security, invites Wiesler to accompany him to the premiere of the new play by Dreyman, also attended by Minister Bruno Hempf (Thomas Thieme). Minister Hempf tells Grubitz that he has doubts about the successful playwright’s loyalty to the SED, the ruling Socialist Unity Party, and implies that he would approve of a full-scale surveillance operation. Grubitz, eager to boost his own political future, entrusts the monitoring, or “Operative Procedure,” to Wiesler, who promises to oversee the case personally. Wiesler is also convinced that Dreyman cannot possibly be as loyal to the Party as has always been assumed.

While Dreyman is away from their home, his apartment is systematically bugged. A neighbor who notices the operation is forced to keep silent by a personal threat. Wiesler sets up his surveillance headquarters in the attic of Dreyman’s apartment building, thus beginning Wiesler’s cold and calculating observation of the lives of the playwright and his girlfriend.

At first Weisler’s observations show that, unlike most of his artistic peers, Dreyman does not display any outwardly disdain for the GDR. Dreyman’s position slowly changes however, as he discovers that Christa-Maria has been pressured into a sexual relationship with Minister Hempf. When his close friend, theater director Albert Jerska (Volkmar Kleinert) is driven to suicide after seven years of unofficial “blacklisting” by the government, Dreyman can no longer remain silent about the GDR. Now determined to alert the outside world about the conditions of life under the GDR, he begins a plot to place an article with the famous West German publication Der Spiegel, exposing the GDR’s policy of covering up the high suicide rates under the regime.

Wiesler, who has been monitoring all of Dreyman’s activities, finally has the proof he needs to destroy his subject and to serve the GDR by foiling Dreyman’s plot. But Wiesler’s unemotional façade is showing signs of erosion. While he observes the day-to-day life of Dreyman and Christa-Maria, he begins to be drawn into their world, which puts his own position as an impartial agent of the GDR into question. His immersion in “the lives of others,” in love, literature and freethinking, also makes Wiesler acutely aware of the shortfalls of his own existence.

When the anti-GDR article is published, the regime is thoroughly embarrassed and Grubitz is ordered to discover the identity of the article’s author. Dreyman is one of the prime suspects, but Grubitz cannot believe that the trustworthy Wiesler would have failed to discover the plot. At the same time, Hempf’s discovery of Christa-Maria’s drug addiction forces her to expose her lover as the author of the Der Spiegel article, but a search of Dreyman’s apartment does not yield any incriminating evidence. Convinced that Weisler knows more than he is revealing, Grubitz summons him to interrogate Christa-Maria in order to find the one item linking Dreyman to the Der Spiegel article. Wiesler, who has known all along about the source of the article and purposely failed to disclose the information to his superiors, must now decide where his allegiances lie. If he does not extract the information from Christa-Maria, his life and his career as an elite Stasi officer will undoubtedly be over.

If he succeeds, Dreyman’s fate will be sealed.

In 1991, two years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dreyman is in for a rude awakening when he runs into ex-minister Hempf and learns that he had been the subject of a Stasi surveillance. Immediately afterward, he finds the cables and microphones secretly installed years earlier behind the wallpaper in his apartment. In disbelief, he sets out to research and discovers the different reality of his past, which not only has a profound impact on his life but also surprises him with shocking revelations.

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A quiet, film obsessed, young man called Murphy (Steve Joiner) inherits a flat in a run down seaside town and befriends his cranky and slightly odd next door neighbour Frank (Phillip Collins). An unusual friendship develops between the unlikely pair, wasting away their days watching rented videos and enjoying Murphy’s other hobby…

A Plaster, a Paper and a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich is a darkly humourous tale created in collaboration between Kent based Coffee Films and a new filmmaking collective; York based Crestfallen Productions.

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