What's in the Cinema this Week? (May 9-15)

The following films are coming out in Oxford this week:

Speed Racer (PG) starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox. Contains moderate fantasy violence and martial arts sequences.'Speed Racer' is the best racing driver of his time, fearless and instinctive he was born to race cars and fulfil his family's legacy. But the time has now come for Speed Racer to defend his family's racing business from collapse and compete in the world's most dangerous race "The Crucible" and avenge his brother's death.

What Happens in Vegas (12A) starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell. Contains moderate sex references and language. 'What happens in Vegas' is the story of Jack (Kutcher) and Joy (Diaz) - two people down on their luck who meet in Vegas, and following a night of debauchery, end up married! Whilst deciding to get a divorce, a shared gambling chip ends up netting one of them $3 million dollars. The newlyweds devise ever-escalating schemes to undermine each other and get their hands on the money - only to find themselves falling in love amid the mutual backstabbing.

Honeydripper (PG) starring Charles Dutton, Danny Glover, Gary Jr. From American indie leading light Sayles (Matewan, Lone Star) comes a typically intelligent and beautifully crafted tale covering the birth of rock and roll and the coming to dominance of the electric guitar in the American South of the 1950s. Tyrone (Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to tail off and Tyrone hires unpredictable electric guitarist Sonny (guitar protégé Gary Clark Jr) against his better judgment, his last-ditch bid to draw in crowds during harvest time has surprising results that neither he nor the ambitious Sonny could have ever anticipated. Featuring a number of real-life bluesmen such as Keb Mo, the film bristles with authenticity.

Joy Division (PG). This engrossing documentary directed by Grant Gee (Meeting People is Easy and the cinematographer on Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) and written by revered music critic Jon Savage explores in-depth one of the most influential and inventive bands of its era. Following Anton Corbijn's pulsating and moving Control and the recent death of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, Joy Division is a timely investigation of the band's profound legacy. It is also a film about the city of Manchester and how if influenced the band's unique sound. Featuring interviews with the surviving band members and associates, the film also includes previously unseen live footage, personal photos and newly discovered audio-tapes.

Doomsday (18) starring Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell. In an apocalyptic vision of the future, authorities brutally quarantine Scotland as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades - until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in London. An elite group of specialists are urgently dispatched into the still quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. Now, 27 years after the epidemic, groups of survivors are marauding through the streets of Glasgow and the virus has surfaced outside the wall. The British P.M. and his ruthless chief advisor, have decided to send a covert team into Scotland to search for a cure.

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