Film Diary 2006 January

Friday 6th January

Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee's 'gay western' starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as a cowboy and ranch hand who form a lifelong bond in 1963 Wyoming.
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Match Point
Woody Allen forsakes Manhattan for the mean streets of er, upper-class London in a thriller starring bright young things Scarlett Johannsson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Emily Mortimer.
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Just Friends
A former fattie turned slimline bachelor (Ryan Reynolds) tries to win the heart of his high-school crush in this pratfall comedy.
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Running Scared
Walking six-pack Paul Walker is a mob flunky who must recover a gun before the cops or the mob find it if he's going to save his family.
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Friday 13th January

Jarhead
Sam Mendes goes to the Gulf in his adaptation of the book by Desert Storm vet Anthony Swofford. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper are the ones dodging the bullets.
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Breakfast On Pluto
Batman Begins baddie Cillian Murphy dons a frock to play a young transvetite who leaves his small Irish town behind him for the lights of London.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
Zhang Ziyi is the reluctant consort of Arthur Goldman's best-selling novel, with support from Ken Watanabe and Michelle Yeoh.
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Cry Wolf
A group of teenagers unwisely create a game revolving around a serial killer who, of course, turns out to be real. Jared Padaleki and er, Jon Bon Jovi star.
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The Truth
Group therapy turns murderous in this intelligent and witty British black comedy, starring Elizabeth McGovern.
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Friday 20th January

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
Rap star 50 Cent takes his first cinematic role under the keen - and unexpected - eye of In America director Jim Sheridan.
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Underworld: Evolution
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role of werewolf assassin Selene from the 2003 fantasy Underworld.
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A Cock And Bull Story
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in Michael Winterbottom's comedy about the filming of Sterne's supposedly unfilmable 18th-century novel, The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy.
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Fun With Dick And Jane
Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni are a married couple who turn to burglary to pay the bills in this remake of the 1977 comedy. Dean "Galaxy Quest" Parisot directs.
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Shopgirl
Steve Martin stars in an adaptation of his own novel about a department store lass (Clare Danes) who must choose between a struggling musician (Jason Schwartzman) and a wealthy older man (guess who).
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Friday 27th January

Bee Season
A seemingly perfect family unravels during the run-up to a spelling bee contest in this drama starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.
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Munich
Steven Spielberg directs Eric Bana as an Israeli special agent tracking the Palestinian terrorists reponsible the assassinations of Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
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Rumour Has It
Jennifer Aniston teams up with Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, and Mark Ruffalo to play a woman who discovers her family were the inspiration behind 60s classic The Graduate.
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The New World
Colin Farrell stars as 17th-century explorer John Smith in the latest film from The Thin Red Line director Terence Malick.
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All film dates are subject to change       Last updated 2nd February 2006.
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