Film

Barely Legal

Clooney and the Coens return to screwball territory

Seabiscuit

OPENS OCTOBER 24, CERT PG, 141 MINS Seabiscuit was the little horse that could—a pop culture phenomenon in Depression-era America who won the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap against all odds and beguiled an ailing nation. Written off in his early years as a grumpy, awkward loser, Seabiscuit was trained for victory by three broken men: too-tall jockey Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), tragic millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) and washed-up cowboy Tom Smith (Chris Cooper).

Cabin Fever

DIRECTED BY Eli Roth STARRING Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent Opens October 10, Cert 15, 90 mins David Lynch protégé Eli Roth has been planning this, his gore-soaked debut, for 10 years. It's some labour of love.

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Knockabout adaptation of clever cult comic

Bollywood Queen

Ambitious British-Asian musical

In The Cut

Meg Ryan drops good-girl act in Jane Campion chiller

XX – XY

Excellent debut in style of Hartley or Labute

Waiting For Happiness

Playing patience under African skies

Bright Young Things

Stephen Fry's take on Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies

The Cremaster Cycle

OPENS OCTOBER 17, CERT TBC, VARIOUS MINS Boldly straddling the chasm between obscure gallery installation and provocative arthouse epic, The Cremaster Cycle, made by Björk's boyfriend Matthew Barney, is as sumptuous as it is obtuse, as impervious as it is ambitious.
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