THE NIGHT OF CINEMA

DRIVE

Watchable. A beautifully shot, acted through Ryan Gosling's facial expressions standard slow-paced gangster fare served with great music and sound effects.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Watchable. Kevin is a textbook psycho which would be fascinating to watch if only it wasn't so protracted.

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Walked out. Inner thougts of a depressed tarnished celebrity were supposed to be funny in the very least.

THE IRON LADY

Recommended. A rich, multi-layer biography of an extraordinarily strong woman which puts you right inside her mind and leaves the judgement to yourself. Acted by equally extraordinary Meryl Streep.

ZIDANE, UN PORTRAIT DU 21E SIECLE (ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT)

Walked out. For me football can be fascinating but only when you support one of the teams and watch it live. A foreign match in retrospect with a player's not-too-deep thoughts displayed on the screen didn't raise my adrenaline levels.

NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE CINEMA OF FEAR

THE AWAKENING
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
HELL
THE GREY

Watchable. I'll talk about all 4 jointly as there's little difference between them. The characters are chased by: ghosts and the living/zombies and other mythological creatures/canibals/wolves and you keep watching out of morbid curiosity who'll survive and who won't.

There was a hilarious line in "The Awakening" about the woman who throughout the film was praised for being educated (in 1919): "There was something strange about her anyway. I've read a study recently - apparently a woman's mind can't cope with further education."

PROJECT NIM

Recommended. A harrowing account of unspeakable human cruelty to animals which I found just physically painful to bear. A must-see for all humans. How come I was the only person in the audience crying (from scene one)? What's wrong with our kind?

AVENGERS

Watchable. My favourite Iron Man enlivens the otherwise non-inspiring story with his sharp remarks. If you survive to the final hour of the 155-minute long movie, you'll be rewarded with a battle full of truly 3D CGIs.

MEN IN BLACK 3 IN 3D AT IMAX

Recommended. Mind-blowing 3D effects from the very first scene where you immediately find yourself in an overwhelmingly long high corridor include a vertiginous jump off a skyscraper and several, several others. Packed with hilarious lines, e.g. after a turbulent time trip Agent J enters a bar and finds Agent K. Agent K remarks: "You're late" to which Agent J responds: "I've lost the track of time." Unusually for the series though, this time it's not purely a series of gags. There are serious subtones to the story and part of the film is so moving that I cried. Definitely the best of all 3 parts. I'm going to see it again.