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Your support makes all the difference.THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE (18, 108 mins)
Director: Rand Ravich
Starring: Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp
The bastard child of Rosemary's Baby, Ravich's sci-fi horror sees Theron's wife-in-crisis fretting over her pregnancy after her husband (Depp) returns from outer space a changed man. But where the Polanski classic handled its terrors with a craftsman's touch, The Astronaut's Wife goes nowhere - slowly.
West End: Plaza Local: Edmonton Lee Valley UCI 12
THE CHILDREN OF THE MARSHLAND (PG, 115 mins)
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin
A cinematic stroll through the colourful rustics and paintable scenery of 1930s rural France. Becker's sun-dappled pastoral is period Gallic movie-making in the Jean de Florette vein (but without the angst). It's eminently likeable and warmly whimsical; a group of characters in sleepy search of a story.
West End: Chelsea Cinema, Curzon Soho
DREAMING OF JOSEPH LEES (12, 92 mins)
Director: Eric Styles
Starring: Samantha Morton, Rupert Graves
Morton is the dreamer of the title, a stoic lass living in a Hovis ad-style 1950s Somerset. She's married to Lee Ross's jittery pig-farmer, but mooning after Graves's limping geologist ("'E lost 'is leg in a quarry or something"). While Morton and Graves (looking startlingly like a young Dirk Bogarde) turn in vibrant work, the rest of the film is Catherine Cooksonesque slop. Styles's love- story turns properly intense in its dying moments, but for the audience, it's too little, too late.
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SCROOGE (U, 88 mins)
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Starring: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns
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West End: ABC Shaftesbury Avenue, The Pullman Everyman
THE SECRET LAUGHTER OF WOMEN (12, 120 mins)
Director: Peter Schwabach
Starring: Nia Long, Colin Firth
This inter-racial romantic comedy focuses on the will-they-won't-they relationship between single-mum Long, a Nigerian-born landscape gardener in France, and Firth's visiting English novelist.
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TAXI (15, 85 mins)
Director: Gerard Pires
Starring: Samy Naceri, Frederic Diefenthal
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THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (12, 128 mins)
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau
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