Film Diary 2005 October

Friday 7th October

Serenity
The Wild West in space as Buffy creator Joss Whedon brings his Firefly TV series to the big screen.
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Oliver Twist
Roman Polanski adapts Dickens' most famous novel with Ben Kingsley leading the cast as Fagin.
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Night Watch
Super slick Russian fantasy about the forces of day and night battling it out in contemporary Moscow.
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Kinky Boots
Shaun Of The Dead's Nick Frost and Chiwetel Ejiofar line up for a British comedy about a lad who recruits a Soho cabaret star called Lola to rescue his Dad's ailing shoe factory.
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Friday 14th October

The Wallace & Gromit Movie: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit
Everyone's favourite bits of Plasticine make their big-screen debut in Aardman's long-awaited follow-up to Chicken Run.
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Domino
Keira Knightley is a bounty hunter with a hilarious Home Counties acccent. Tony Scott directs from a script by Donnie Darko helmer Richard Kelly.
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Lord Of War
Nic Cage prepare the glib comebacks to play a charismatic gunrunner pursued by Ethan Hawke's Interpol agent.
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Friday 21st October

Corpse Bride
More cheery stop-motion fun from the mind of Tim Burton, featuring the voices of Emily Watson, Johnny Depp, and (surprise!) Helena Bonham Carter.
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Into The Blue
Walking lunk Paul Walker stars as a diver who runs into trouble with a drug lord when he and his mates discover a sunken plane complete with dodgy cargo.
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Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch directs Bill Murray at his world weary best as an ageing lothario who must visit his previous other halves when he's contacted by a son he never knew he had.
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Nanny McPhee
Emma Thompson and Colin Firth star in this Mary Poppins-esque family movie, directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned).
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Sky High
Kids' superhero pic starring Bruce Campbell, Kurt Russell, and Kelly Preston.
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Dreamer
Dakota Fanning stars in a family drama about a washed-out horse trainer (Kurt Russell) who resurrects a forgotten thoroughbred - all with the help of a certain blonde moppet, of course.
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Friday 28th October

The Legend Of Zorro
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones return for this sequel to the 2000 swashbuckler.
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Thumbsucker
When a 17-year-old finally stops sucking his thumb, all kinds of hell break loose in this indie look at the perils of growing up. Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn and Tilda Swinton lead an interesting cast.
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Saw 2
A toothsome sequel to last year's low-budget shocker about a serial killer and his deadly games.
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All film dates are subject to change       Last updated 28th October 2005.
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