Vera Drake 1:18am today Vera Drake is about more than abortion. It's about a housewife who "helps" desperate young girls from the goodness of her heart, until she is crushed by the realisation that it could be wrong.

Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2:16pm Friday 15th October 2004 EVER since the success of Pretty Woman, director, Garry Marshall, seems to have been determined to deliver one wish-fulfilment fantasy after another, with increasingly diminishing results.

Layer Cake (15) 3:15pm Friday 8th October 2004
The trouble with British gangster films is that for every great one like Get Carter or The Long Good Friday, there are dozens of pale imitators ripping them off.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (15) 8:49am Tuesday 5th October 2004 THERE are few artists as fascinating as Peter Sellers because nobody can quite believe that this frightening talent had such beast-like tendencies away from the limelight.

Man on Fire (18) 2:58pm Friday 1st October 2004 QUENTIN Tarantino has described Man on Fire as "one of Tony Scott's best pictures. Hard, gripping and tough as hell." It is easy to see why. Scott's latest offering is a humdinger of a thriller which embodies many of the traits we have come to enjoy from the Kill Bill maestro, not to mention the best of the director's own back-catalogue.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 11:17am Monday 27th September 2004 SKY Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a film of dubious distinction, being the first film to be shot entirely against a blue screen with backgrounds filled in using computer imagery. It serves as both a stunning technical triumph and a worrying glimpse at the way cinema could be heading.

Wimbledon 2:46pm Friday 17th September 2004 THE premise may be as unlikely as the possibility of Tim Henman winning the south London championship but there is still plenty of fun to be had in watching Wimbledon, the latest romantic comedy from the Working Title stable.

Trauma 6:32pm Monday 13th September 2004 COLIN Firth takes a refreshing break from his romantic, leading man persona to play an edgy and delusional car crash victim who may or may not be a murderer, in Trauma, a new psychological chiller from My Little Eye director, Marc Evans.

Collateral (15) 12:31pm Friday 10th September 2004 Tom Cruise has tapped into the darker side of life before, most notably in films such as Magnolia and Interview with the Vampire, yet very rarely has he delivered such a compelling journey into the heart of darkness as he does in Collateral.

Anchorman (12A) 10:34am Wednesday 8th September 2004 Rob Carnevale reviews Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (12A). Rating: 3/5

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