What's in the Cinema this week?
Opening this week in Oxford is Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Fischer. When rival champion figure skaters Chad Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy end up in an all-out brawl on the ice during the world championships, they are stripped of their medals and banned from the sport for life. But through a legal loophole they find a way of competing again - if they put aside their differences, Chad and Jimmy will be able to enter the pairs competition. The film contains moderate sex references and slapstick violence. (12A)
Opening at the Phoenix is Catch A Fire , starring Bonnie Henna, Derek Luke, and Tim Robbins. In the 1980s, Patrick and his wife Precious lived a peaceful life, until one fateful day Patrick is incarcerated as the prime suspect in a bombing. He is eventually cleared of the charges but is left devastated, his family having been brutalised by government agent Nic Vos. The radicalised Patrick becomes a rebel fighter and an operative for Nelson Mandela's African National Congress in a bid to topple the system that destroyed his family. The film contains moderate bloody violence and one use of strong language. (12A)
Opening next Wednesday is Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, and Kate Mara. Bob Lee Swagger is a former Marine Corps sniper pressed back into service by some of the most powerful men in America. His mission goes awry however, he is shot twice, and Swagger soon finds himself the subject of a nationwide manhunt and a race against time to clear his name. (15)
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The Snow Queen - Internationally acclaimed Teatro Kismet's deliciously inventive production is at once comic and grotesque, sensual and chilling. A spine-tingling adaptation of a classic tale, to touch the hearts of young and old alike.
The Browning Version - Local amateur theatre company Oxford Theatre Guild presents a double bill of two of Rattigan's finest plays. The Browning Version is often regarded as Terence Rattigan's best play, and the one by which he himself wished to be judged. Harlequinade, a hilarious farce written to accompany The Browning Version, introduces us to 'luvvies' Arthur and Edna Gosport who are 'simply adored' by their theatre-going public. The darlings of the Theatre World are deep into a dress rehearsal for Romeo and Juliet when an unexpected visitor arrives.
Richard Herring - The star of BBC2's Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ, Radio 4's Banter, Radio 2's That Was Then This Is Now and international hit Talking Cock in his 22nd Edinburgh Fringe show. Just two people short of a threesome, Herring reflects on solitude, Onanism, why you must sometimes walk alone and whether fantasies are best left unfulfilled.
Bryan Ferry - Look up the word 'style' in the dictionary and you’ll find the definition 'Bryan Ferry'. Upbeat and punky in the 70s, heartfelt and poppy in the 80s, his smooth and distinctive vocal sound made Roxy Music a worldwide success. Now solo, Ferry's flair for touching the romantic in everyone (now replete with jazz-tinged influences) is as powerful as ever.
