{"id":7498,"date":"2010-01-15T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2010-01-15T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:07:17","slug":"uk-cinema-releases-friday-15th-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/01\/15\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-15th-january-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cinema Releases: Friday 15th January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Up In The Air<\/a><\/strong> (Paramount): A comedy-drama about a corporate downsizer (George Clooney<\/a>) who spends his\u00a0life flying around the US firing people in a smooth and efficient manner.\u00a0Free of human relationships, he has become attached to frequent flyer miles, a\u00a0commitment-free relationship\u00a0with a fellow air mile addict (Vera Farmiga<\/a>) and the buzz of living out of a suitcase.\u00a0But when his boss (Jason Bateman<\/a>) partners him with a new recruit (Anna Kendrick<\/a>) who advocates firing people via video-link, things begin to change.<\/p>\n

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Directed by\u00a0Jason Reitman<\/a>, it is a smart, funny and thoughtful adaptation of\u00a0Walter Kim\u2019s 2001 novel<\/a> that explores the current recession, relationships and travel. Intelligently written and slickly directed, it features a marvellous central performance from Clooney, who peppers his role with just the right amounts of charm, wit and emotion. Farmiga and Kendrick also provide excellent support and it will be a strong contender at this year’s Oscars. Paramount can expect solid business after positive word of mouth. [Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

* Read my full review here<\/a> and listen to my interview with Anna Kenrick<\/a> *<\/p>\n

The Book of Eli<\/a><\/strong> (Entertainment): A post-apocalyptic drama in which a lone man (Denzel Washington<\/a>) fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.\u00a0Directed by The Hughes Brothers<\/a>, this is their first film since From Hell<\/a> (2001) and looks like The Road<\/a> meets Man on Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The buzz on this one isn’t great and a decent opening might be followed by a swift tail off in interest. [Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

44 Inch Chest<\/a><\/strong> (Momentum Pictures): A British drama about a jealous husband (Ray Winstone<\/a>) who plots the kidnapping of his wife’s lover with the intention of restoring his wounded ego.<\/p>\n

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An impressive UK cast, plus a script by the writers of Sexy Beast<\/a> (although not, significantly, the director Jonathan Glazer) could see this do moderate business although – like a lot of British films – it has the whiff of something made for TV. [Nationwide \/ 15]<\/p>\n

All About Steve<\/a><\/strong> (20th Century Fox): A romantic comedy about an eccentric crossword puzzler (Sandra Bullock<\/a>) who, convinced that a CNN cameraman (Bradley Cooper<\/a>) is her true love, trails him as he travels all over the country.<\/p>\n

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After some of the worst reviews in living memory for a mainstream release<\/a>, Fox appear to be giving this one a quiet death by dumping it in early January. [Nationwide \/ 12A]<\/p>\n

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ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still Walking<\/a><\/strong> (New Wave Films): A Japanese drama about a retired doctor (Yoshio Harada)\u00a0who lives by the seaside with his elderly wife hosting a visit for his two grownup, married children. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.<\/p>\n

Crude<\/a><\/strong> (Dogwoof): A documentary directed by Joe Berlinger<\/a> following the progress of a $27 billion case against the\u00a0Chevron Corporation<\/a>, a case also known as the \u201cAmazon\u00a0Chernobyl<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

> Check out all the UK cinema releases for January 2010<\/a>
>\u00a0Get local cinema showtimes for your area via Google Movies
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Including Up in the Air, The Book of Eli and 44 Inch Chest<\/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":[1273,1274,1272,535,1164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498"}],"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=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}