{"id":8401,"date":"2010-05-07T23:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:24:54","slug":"uk-cinema-releases-friday-7th-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/05\/07\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-7th-may-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cinema Releases: Friday 7th May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NATIONAL RELEASES<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Nightmare On Elm Street<\/a><\/strong> (Warner Bros.): A remake of\u00a0Wes Craven<\/a>‘s\u00a01984 horror film<\/a> which\u00a0stars\u00a0Jackie Earle Haley<\/a> as\u00a0Freddy Krueger<\/a> and\u00a0Rooney Mara as Nancy Holbrook, loosely based on the character\u00a0Nancy Thompson<\/a>. Set in the present day, it sees Freddy stalking the dreams of Nancy and her friends as they discover a dark secret from their past.<\/p>\n

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Directed by\u00a0Samuel Bayer, it is yet another 1980s horror film rebooted by Michael Bay<\/a> (with his producer’s hat on) which is going to get poor reviews<\/a> but still make enough money<\/a> to reboot the franchise.\u00a0[Nationwide \/ 18]<\/p>\n

Furry Vengeance<\/a><\/strong> (E1 Entertainment): \u00a0A real estate developer (Brendan Fraser<\/a>) has to supervise a development in a forest\u00a0and then has to contend with the animals who\u00a0live there and start to make his life hell.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Roger Kumble<\/a>, it was co-produced by Summit Entertainment<\/a> and Participant Media<\/a> it looks like an attempt to make a family friendly comedy with an environmental message. It was universally panned<\/a> in the US and bombed at the box office<\/a>, so looks unlikely to make waves here.\u00a0[Empire Leicester Square &\u00a0Nationwide \/ PG]<\/p>\n

Hot Tub Time Machine<\/a><\/strong> (20th Century Fox): The film with the most self-descriptive title since Snakes on a Plane<\/a> sees four men (John Cusack<\/a>,\u00a0Clark Duke<\/a>,\u00a0Rob Corddry<\/a> and Craig Robinson<\/a>) travel back in time to 1986 via a hot tub, where they have to remember what they did in order to return to the future.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Steve Pink<\/a>, it has its moments – although the best ones are actually in the trailer – but is surprisingly pedestrian for stretches, despite the potential of the concept. Think The Hangover<\/a> meets Back to the Future<\/a>, only not as funny or clever as those films.\u00a0[Vue West End & Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

The Back-Up Plan<\/a><\/strong> (Sony Pictures): A new romantic comedy about a woman (Jennifer Lopez<\/a>), who decides to have her baby alone in a sperm clinic, before she starts to have second thoughts about a man (Alex O’Loughlin<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Poor reviews<\/a> and relatively lacklustre US box office<\/a> probably means that this is likely to appeal only to undiscerning female audiences.\u00a0[Nationwide \/ 12A]<\/p>\n

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Four Lions<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum Releasing): The feature film debut of Chris Morris<\/a> as a director is the story of four suicide bombers in a Northern town struggling to plan an attack on the London marathon.<\/p>\n

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Based on detailed research into recent terrorist plots, there are some very funny and uncomfortable scenes, although it doesn’t have the polish and sustained brilliance of Morris’ best work on TV and radio.\u00a0The expected controversy about the difficult subject matter has not really materialised and powered by warm reviews, this could do decent arthouse box office despite the limited presence in multiplexes.\u00a0[Clapham Picturehouse, Curzon Soho, Odeon Covent Garden & Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

Cameraman: The Life & Work Of Jack Cardiff<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum Releasing): A documentary about famed cinematographer Jack Cardiff<\/a>, who shot several films including The Red Shoes<\/a>, The African Queen<\/a> and Rambo: First Blood Part II<\/a>.\u00a0[BFI Southbank & selected key cities]<\/p>\n

Just For The Record<\/a><\/strong> (Metrodome Distribution): A British mockumentary about the making of \u00a0the worst film ever, which seems to be ironic judging by the trailer<\/a>. Like a lot of recent low-rent British films it stars Danny Dyer<\/a>, who has been in the headlines this week<\/a> for all the wrong reasons. [Key Cities \/ 18]<\/p>\n

One Night In Turin<\/a><\/strong> (Kaleidoscope Entertainment): A documentary about England’s adventures in the 1990 World Cup<\/a>, directed by James Erskine from Pete Davies’ book All Played Out<\/a>. [Empire Leicester\u00a0Square & Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

Psych 9<\/a><\/strong> (Galaxy): A serial killer tale set in an old psychiatric institution directed by\u00a0Andrew Shortell and starring Sara Foster and Cary Elwes.<\/p>\n

A Room And A Half<\/a><\/strong> (Yume Pictures): A semi-fictional account of Russian poet Josef Brodsky<\/a>, who was forced into American exile in 1972.\u00a0[Cine Lumiere, Curzon\u00a0Mayfair, Everyman, Ritzy & Key Cities \/ 12A]<\/p>\n

Sus<\/a><\/strong> (15) (Independent): Drama about the stop and search laws<\/a> directed by Robert Heath and starring Clint Dyer, Ralph Brown and Rafe Spall [Apollo Piccadilly\u00a0Circus, Genesis Cinema & selected key cities]<\/p>\n

>\u00a0DVD and Blu-ray Picks for Monday 3rd May including The Railway Children and Me and Orson Welles<\/a>
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Including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hot Tub Time Machine, Four Lions and The Back-Up Plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1424,1354,1425,1358,1426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}