Film: (423)

• Film Zayed Univeristy Middle East Film Festival

  Apr 29 - Apr 30, 2013

  Enjoy two days of screenings of the best student films from around the Arab world.

• Film FrancOfilms Festival

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2013

  Enjoy French language films.

• Film Dubai International Film Festival

  Dec 9 - Dec 16, 2012

  The annual film festival takes place at Mall of the Emirates and Madinat Jumeirah.

• Film Bodyguards and Assassins

  Dec 2, 2011 - Nov 8, 2012

  An action drama directed by Teddy Chan (The Accidental Spy).

• Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

  Jul 24, 2012

  See the classic film and enjoy popcorn and sodas.

• Film Shorts Film Festival

  May 28 - May 30, 2012

  A French film festival in the capital.

• Film What To Expect When You're Expecting

  May 24 - May 30, 2012

  Based on the best-seller by Heidi Murkoff, this multi-star studded rom-com weaves together the stories of five sets of soon-to-be parents.

• Film Al Maslaha (The Business)

  May 24 - May 30, 2012

  An Egyptian action-thriller set against Sinai’s seedy underworld, inspired by true events. Arabic without subtitles.

• Film After Life

  May 24 - May 30, 2012

  Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson star in a horror about a young woman who is caught somewhere between life and death.

• Film The Courier

  May 24 - May 30, 2012

  A specialist carrier is hired to deliver a mysterious case to the underworld’s most dangerous hitman. Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars.

• Film Men in Black III

  May 24 - May 30, 2012

  The third instalment of Men in Black sees Agent J (Will Smith) travel back in time to save Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) from an assassination attempt by an alien.

• Film Powder Blue

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  Several Los Angeles residents are brought together through chance and tragedy on Christmas Eve.

• Film Winx Club 3D: Magic Adventure

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  In a sequel to 2007’s Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, the Italian animated children’s adventure returns with a new chapter.

• Film Bel Ami

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  Robert Patterson plays a returned soldier on the make in Belle Epoque Paris via manipulating the city’s most influential and wealthy women.

• Film Dark Shadows

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp team up for their eighth collaboration, a fantasy comedy about a vampire buried in the 1700s who awakens in 1972.

• Film The Moth Diaries

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  Mary Harron (American Psycho) directs a chilling story set in a girl’s boarding school starring Sarah Bolger and the supermodel Lily Cole.

• Film Department

  May 17 - May 24, 2012

  Top officials create a specialised unit to target rising underworld criminal activites.

• Film Wages of Fear film screening

  May 17, 2012

  Watch Henri-Georges Clouzot's controversial film.

• Film Dangerous Ishhq

  May 10 - May 16, 2012

  The latest Bollywood stars Karisma Kapoor.

• Film Mercenaries

  May 10 - May 16, 2012

  An action film about a covert rescue mission set in the Balkans.

• Film Sector 7

  May 10 - May 16, 2012

  Angry sea monster action off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju Island.

• Film The Avengers

  May 4 - May 10, 2012

  Marvel Comic superheroes join Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) to prevent the destruction of Earth.

• Film In the Land of Blood and Honey

  May 4 - May 10, 2012

  Angelina Jolie makes her directorial debut with this story set during the 19902 Bosnian War.

• Film Jannat 2

  May 4 - May 10, 2012

  The sequel to the 2008 film about a money-hungry young man who becomes involved in cricket match fixing is set against the backdrop of the black market weapons trade in North India.

• Film Retreat

  May 4 - May 10, 2012

  A London couple take a holiday to a remote island off the coast of Scotland.

• Film Footsteps of Thesiger

  May 7 - May 9, 2012

  Premiere of a film about an expedition across the Empty Quarter.

• Film Bill Cunningham

  May 8, 2012

  A documentary about the eccentric Times fashion photographer.

• Film Buried

  Apr 27 - May 3, 2012

  Ryan Reynolds stars in a film about a lorry driver working in Iraq who is buried alive for ransom.

• Film Tezz

  Apr 27 - May 3, 2012

  A Hindi thriller set on a speeding train from Glasgow to London.

• Film Safe

  Apr 27 - May 3, 2012

  An action movie right out of the Bruce Willis playbook starring British action man Jason Statham.

• Film Amn Dawalt

  Apr 27 - May 3, 2012

  A comedy about an Egyptian state guard tasked with protecting a politician’s five young children and their eccentric grandmother.

• Film The Flowers of War

  Apr 27 - May 3, 2012

  Christian Bale stars in a film about the Nanjing massacre of 1937.

• Film The Magic Lantern film club

  Apr 14 - Apr 28, 2012

  Take your children to see The Chicken Run.

• Film Margin Call

  Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2012

  A slick drama set based on the 2008 global financial crisis.

• Film Outback 3D

  Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2012

  An outcast white koala gets lost in the Australian Outback.

• Film The Lucky One

  Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2012

  A romantic drama starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling.

• Film Battleship

  Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2012

  Liam Neeson and pop singer Rihanna star in an alien invasion movie.

• Film Mother and Baby movies

  Apr 22 - Apr 24, 2012

  This week's lineup: Outback 3D and StreetDance 2.

• Film How I Spent My Summer Vacation

  Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2012

  Mel Gibson bankrolls a sequel to the 1999 film Payback.

• Film Street Dance 2

  Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2012

  A dance flick as good as any other.

• Film Rampart

  Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2012

  A police drama starring Woody Harrelson.

• Film The Raven

  Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2012

  A fictionalised account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life.

• Film The Cabin in the Woods

  Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2012

  One of the freshest scary movies in years.

• Film Gulf Film Festival

  Apr 13 - Apr 16, 2012

  A showcase of the best of Arab cinema.

• Film The Awakening

  Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2012

  Rebecca Halls stars in a thriller set in a boy's boarding school in the 1920s.

• Film Flypaper

  Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2012

  Just another bank-heist comedy.

• Film The Cold Light of Day

  Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2012

  An action thriller starring Henry Cavill, Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.

• Film The Pirates! Band of Misfits

  Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2012

  An animated family film from the makers of Wallace and Gromit.

• Film Titanic in 3D

  Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2012

  The modern classic looks bigger than ever.

• Film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

  Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2012

  An amiable ensemble piece with sunshine and laughter set in India.

• Film Wrath of the Titans

  Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2012

  Liam Neeson and Sam Worthington star in the sequel to Clash of the Titans.

• Film The Son of No One

  Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2012

  Channing Tatum and Katie Holmes star in a cop drama.

• Film Carnage

  Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2012

  Roman Polanski directs a film based on the stage play God of Carnage.

• Film Burning Bright

  Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2012

  A hungry tiger terrorizes a young woman and her autistic brother.

• Film Dickens on Film

  Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2012

  A week of films adapted from Dickens' works starts today.

• Film Agent Vinod

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2012

  An Indian spy film starring Kareena Kapoor.

• Film A Thousand Words

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2012

  A comedy starring Eddie Murphy that's received only negative reviews.

• Film Frozen

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2012

  A horror that's more gory than scary.

• Film The Hunger Games

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2012

  Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) stars in a highly anticipated film based on the best-selling teen novel by Suzanne Collins.

• Film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2012

  Newcomer Thomas Horn makes his big screen debut starring alongside Hollywood heavyweights Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.

• Film Main Street

  Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2012

  A small-town drama starring Collin Firth.

• Film The Devil’s Double

  Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2012

  "A kind of Iraqi Goodfellas", directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day, Once Were Warriors).

• Film Mirror Mirror

  Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2012

  A comedic take on Snow White starring Julia Roberts.

• Film Project X

  Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2012

  A house party to elevate reputations gets out of control.

• Film Tucker and Dale vs Evil

  Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2012

  Two hillbillies are mistaken for murderous rednecks in a comedy of errors.

• Film Tokyo Story

  Mar 15, 2012

  A tale of disillusionment within the prosperity of postwar Japan.

• Film London Paris New York

  Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2012

  A Hindi romantic comedy.

• Film Like Crazy

  Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2012

  A touching film about a long-distance relationship.

• Film John Carter

  Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2012

  A superhero action film based on the century-old book series by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

• Film Midnight in Paris

  Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2012

  An Oscar-winning Woody Allen film starring Owen Wilson.

• Film 5 Days of War

  Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2012

  Andy Garcia, Dean Cain, and Val Kilner star in an action film based on the 2008 Russo-Georgian war.

• Film Dr Seuss’ The Lorax

  Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2012

  An animated film based on the original story book.

• Film Young Adult

  Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2012

  Charlize Theron stars in a black comedy written by Diablo Cody (Juno).

• Film We Bought a Zoo

  Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2012

  Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson star in a family movie.

• Film Albert Nobbs

  Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2012

  A moving account based on a true story.

• Film Gone

  Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2012

  Amanda Seyfried stars in a B-grade thriller.

• Film George Harrison: Living in the Material World

  Mar 7, 2012

  A free screening of this Scorsese-directed documentary.

• Film The Woman in Black

  Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2012

  Daniel Radcliffe faces evil head on in his first leading role post-Harry Potter.

• Film The Devil Inside

  Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2012

  An unconvincing horror set in Italy.

• Film This Means War

  Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2012

  An action comedy starring Reese Witherspoon.

• Film Jodi Breakers

  Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2012

  A Hindi romantic comedy.

• Film Catch .44

  Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2012

  A gritty robbery movie starring Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker and Malin Akerman.

• Film Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

  Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2012

  Nicolas Cage reprises his role as the Marvel Comics antihero Johnny Blaze.

• Film W.E.

  Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2012

  Madonna directs a romantic drama.

• Film Beauty and the Beast

  Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2012

  A 3D re-release of the 1991 film.

• Film Chain Letter

  Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2012

  A gory teenage horror.

• Film Big Miracle

  Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2012

  A family drama starring Drew Barrymore.

• Film Journeys in Film History

  Feb 21, 2012

  A free screening of two films by Ousmane Sembène.

• Film The Vow

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2012

  A romantic drama starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum.

• Film Safe House

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2012

  An action thriller starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

• Film Coriolanus

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2012

  Ralph Riennes direct and stars in an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

• Film The Iron Lady

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2012

  A biopic about Margaret Thatcher.

• Film Chronicle

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2012

  A science fiction film starring directed by Josh Trank (Big Fan).

• Film Dream House

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2012

  A horror starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts.

• Film One for the Money

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2012

  A romantic comedy starring Catherine Heigl.

• Film The Artist

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2012

  Winner of three Golden Globes and nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, The Artist is this awards season’s runaway success.

• Film The Grey

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2012

  Liam Neeson takes on wolves in a fight for survival.

• Film Man on a Ledge

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2012

  An action thriller starring Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks.

• Film War Horse

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2012

  A war epic directed by Steven Spielberg.

• Film Haywire

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2012

  An action thriller starring Gina Carano.

• Film 11-11-11

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2012

  A horror from the director of Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV.

• Film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2012

  A sequel to the 2008 film, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

• Film The Descendants

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2012

  

  Nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor (George Clooney).

• Film Gulf Photo Plus Movie Night

  Jan 30, 2012

  Catch a free screening of War Photographer.

• Film Underworld: Awakening

  Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2012

  The fourth instalment in the Underworld series stars Kate Beckinsale.

• Film A Monster in Paris

  Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2012

  A French animated children's film.

• Film Ghost

  Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2012

  A Hindi horror about a series of gruesome murders.

• Film Contraband

  Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2012

  An R-rated thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale.

• Film Trust

  Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2012

  A film that all teenagers and parents should see.

• Film Les Fils de Buster

  Jan 19, 2012

  A comedic "cine-concert".

• Film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2012

  Thomas Alfredon directs a British espionage film based on the 1974 novel of the same name by John le Carré.

• Film Chalet Girl

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2012

  Yet another take on the Cinderella story.

• Film The Darkest Hour

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2012

  An alien invasion film.

• Film J Edgar

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2012

  Leonardo DiCaprio stars in a period biopic directed by Clint Eastwood.

• Film Bunraku

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2012

  A comic book-style thriller starring Josh Hartnett and Demi Moore.

• Film Salvation Boulevard

  Jan 6 - Jan 12, 2012

  A comedy starring Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnan.

• Film Players

  Jan 6 - Jan 12, 2012

  A Bollywood take on The Italian Job.

• Film Won’t Last a Day Without You

  Jan 6 - Jan 12, 2012

  A Filipino romantic comedy starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson.

• Film Elephant White

  Jan 6 - Jan 12, 2012

  An action film starring Djimon Hounsou and Kevin Bacon.

• Film Our Idiot Brother

  Jan 6 - Jan 12, 2012

  Paul Rudd fans will not be disappointed by this film though it may not go down as his best work.

• Film Trespass

  Dec 30, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012

  A "domestic disaster" starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman.

• Film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

  Dec 30, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012

  Holmes and Watson cross the Continent to outwit “The Napoleon of Crime”.

• Film Hugo

  Dec 30, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012

  Martin Scorsese directs a family film shot in 3D.

• Film The Way

  Dec 30, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012

  A heartwarming misadventure penned, directed and starring Emilio Estevez.

• Film Al Academya

  Dec 30, 2011 - Jan 5, 2012

  Ola Ghanem and Riham Abdel Ghafour star in a romantic drama directed by Ismail Farouk.

• Film New Year’s Eve

  Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2011

  A rom com with a star-studded cast.

• Film Arthur Christmas

  Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2011

  James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy lend their voices to an animated children’s film just in time for Christmas.

• Film Warrior

  Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2011

  A fight movie with heart.

• Film My Week with Marilyn

  Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2011

  Michelle Williams dazzles as Marilyn Monroe.

• Film Don 2: The King is Back

  Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2011

  An Indian action thriller starring Shahrukh Khan.

• Film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2011

  Josh Brolin and Naomi Watts star in the latest Woody Allen comedy.

• Film Ladies vs Ricky Bahl

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2011

  Ranveer Singh plays a conman who meets his match in this Bollywood romantic comedy.

• Film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2011

  The Chipmunks and Chipettes are shipwrecked on a desert island.

• Film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2011

  Tom Cruise scales Dubai’s own Burj Khalifa in the fourth instalment – and according to early reviews, the best so far – in the Mission: Impossible series.

• Film The Muppets

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2011

  Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Animal and Fozzie Bear reunite on the big screen in Disney’s latest film based on Jim Hensen’s 1950s creation.

• Film Miramar

  Dec 20, 2011

  The Naguib Mahfouz film series comes to a finish.

• Film The Double

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2011

  CIA stalwart Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere) is partnered with a brilliant, fresh-faced federal agent (Topher Grace) in an assignment that draws them deep into the world of espionage.

• Film Happy Feet Two

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2011

  A sequel to the 2006 original.

• Film Moneyball

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2011

  Not your average sports movie, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.

• Film The Thing

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2011

  Matthijs van Heijningen Jr directs a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name.

• Film Passion Play

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2011

  A love story between a tough guy and an angel.

• Film Dubai International Film Festival

  Dec 7 - Dec 14, 2011

  A world-class cinema event in Dubai.

• Film Vanishing on 7th Street

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2011

  Residents of Detroit are mysteriously taken by an enigmatic black mass in a thriller directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist).

• Film Jack and Jill

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2011

  A comedy starring Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler.

• Film Black Gold

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2011

  Touted as the biggest Arabian epic since Lawrence of Arabia, Black Gold is the story of a rivalry between two emirs as oil is discovered on the Arabian peninsula in the 1930s.

• Film Intruders

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2011

  Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto, 28 Weeks Later), directs a psychological thriller.

• Film Ang Lee film festival

  Dec 3 - Dec 5, 2011

  Free screenings of Ang Lee's most popular work.

• Film Anonymous

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2011

  Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) directs a historical drama that supports the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

• Film Desi Boyz

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2011

  Bollywood's take on The Full Monty.

• Film Dam 999

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2011

  Sohan Roy directs a film that pays tribute to the 250,000 people who died in China’s 1975 Banqiao Dam disaster.

• Film Cat in Boots

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2011

  DreamWorks presents a slick computer-animated western, in a spin-off prequel to the Shrek franchise.

• Film Seeking Justice

  Nov 24 - Dec 1, 2011

  An action thriller starring Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce.

• Film Documentary Voices

  Nov 28 - Nov 29, 2011

  Films from the UAE, France, Afghanistan and Iran.

• Film The First Philippine Film Festival in the UAE

  Nov 25 - Nov 26, 2011

  Two days of Filipino film.

• Film Sea Shadow

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2011

  This highly anticipated coming-of-age film was shot in Ras Al Khaimah.

• Film Project Nim

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2011

  James Marsh, who directed the Oscar-winning Man On Wire, returns with a powerful documentary about a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth by a science professor, to be raised like a human by a family in New York in the 1970s.

• Film Tak Tak Boom

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2011

  A comedy about the daily norms of life for the modern-day Egyptian.

• Film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2011

  A two-part film that marks the final chapter in the Twilight series.

• Film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2011

  Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) co-writes and produces a fantasy horror about a haunted house.

• Film DIFF volunteer recruitment drive

  Nov 12 - Nov 14, 2011

  If you have nothing marked on your calendar from December 7-14, why not become a volunteer for the Dubai International Film Festival?

• Film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

  Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2011

  This family friendly animated thriller takes audiences on a globe-trotting treasure hunt with the baby faced reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell), his trusted fox terrier and a cast of catchy side characters.

• Film The Rum Diary

  Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2011

  Johnny Depp stars as Paul Kemp, an American journalist in the Sixties who travels to Puerto Rico to write for The San Juan Star, based on the novel by Hunter S Thompson.

• Film Tower Heist

  Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2011

  Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Casey Affleck play hard working men who conspire to rob a high-rise residence, after they fall victim to the Ponzi scheme of a wealthy businessman (Alan Alda).

• Film Dolphin Tale

  Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2011

  The story was inspired by the true story of Winter, a young dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

• Film Film Screening: Mahfouz Series

  Nov 3, 2011

  Catch Midaq Alley, one in a series of screenings marking the centennial of the birth of Middle Eastern author Naguib Mahfouz.

• Film In Time

  Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2011

  Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in a film set in the future, where people stop ageing at 25 and must work to earn more time.

• Film Shark Night 3D

  Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2011

  A teenage slasher film of sorts, where sharks are the weapons of choice.

• Film The Ides of March

  Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2011

  George Clooney directs and stars in a political drama that takes place within a Democratic primary campaign in the United States.

• Film Footloose

  Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2011

  Based on the original Footloose of 1984, a city boy (Kenny Wormald) shakes things up when he moves to the small town of Bomont, where an uptight preacher (Dennis Quaid) has banned public dancing.

• Film Machine Gun Preacher

  Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2011

  Based on a true story, Sam Childers is an ex-con who, after finding God, goes to Sudan to fight for the children orphaned by the region’s brutal rebel force.

• Film Space Dogs 3D

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2011

  An animated film based on the story of the Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka.

• Film I Don’t Know How She Does It

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2011

  Sarah Jessica Parker stars in a movie about balancing work and family commitments.

• Film Contagion

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2011

  If you missed this star-studded thriller at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, don’t worry, it’s now spreading to cinemas like a virus.

• Film Conviction

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2011

  This story of sisterly love is based on the amazing real life character of Betty Anne Walters.

• Film Set-up

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2011

  Mike Cunther (Live Free or Die Hard, Star Trek) directs a heist movie that went straight to DVD in the US

• Film Straw Dogs

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2011

  This remake of the 1971 Straw Dogs film explores one otherwise peaceful man’s capacity for extreme violence after his wife and home come under threat.

• Film Paranormal Activity 3

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2011

  The third film in the Paranormal Activity series is a prequel, set 18 years before the events of the first two films.

• Film Johnny English Reborn

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2011

  Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as MI-7’s unlikely top spy, the bumbling but well-intentioned Johnny English.

• Film The Lion King (3D)

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2011

  For those who grew up mourning Simba’s father, Mufasa, here’s your chance to relive the pain and perhaps inflict it on your own children.

• Film Mother's Day

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2011

  Darren Lyn Gousman (Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV) directs a home-invasion horror that’s as gory as the original film of 1980.

• Film Abduction

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2011

  A teen thriller starring Taylor Lautner.

• Film Real Steel

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2011

  Based on the 1956 short story Steel by Richard Matheson, Real Steel is set in the year 2020, when robots have replaced humans in boxing.

• Film Dark Country

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2011

  Thomas Jane stars in and directs a psychological horror set in the Nevada desert.

• Film The Change-up

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2011

  A raunchy comedy from the director of Wedding Crashers.

• Film Another Earth

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2011

  A touching redemption film.

• Film The Three Musketeers

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2011

  The classic novel by Alexandre Dumas is given a new-millennium makeover, shot in 3D and with a storyline reminiscent of the original.

• Film Killer Elite

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2011

  An eye-gouging action film starring Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen.

• Film A’elet Mickey

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2011

  Lebleba, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Amr Abed and Hassan Harb star in a comedy drama about a family competing for an Ideal Family Award.

• Film The Tortured

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2011

  A revenge thriller starring Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe.

• Film Force

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2011

  Nishikanth Kamath directs a Bollywood action thriller starring John Abraham and Genelia D’Souza.

• Film The Disappearance of Alice Creed

  Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2011

  A gritty British indie thriller.

• Film Clash

  Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2011

  An award-winning film from the Philippines.

• Film Rowthiram

  Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2011

  Gokul makes his writing and directing debut.

• Film Aarakshan

  Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2011

  See the Hindi film that has sparked protests across India.

• Film We Are The Night

  Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2011

  This latest vampire flick is set on the gritty streets of Berlin.

• Film The Last Godfather

  Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2011

  A mob comedy starring Harvey Keitel.

• Film Summer Screenings

  Aug 20, 2011

  An evening to recognise Egypt's contribution to the Middle Eastern film industry.

• Film Summer Screenings

  Aug 20, 2011

  Catch two Egyptian films, Heliopolis and the short Spring 89.

• Film Burke & Hare

  Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2011

  The latest comedy from Simon Pegg.

• Film The New Daughter

  Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2011

  A thriller starring Kevin Costner.

• Film And Soon the Darkness

  Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2011

  A remake of the 1970 British film of the same name.

• Film ADFF @ The Pavilion

  Aug 7 - Aug 12, 2011

  A series of highlights from previous editions of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

• Film Prom

  Aug 5 - Aug 11, 2011

  A coming of age story.

• Film Ghost Machine

  Aug 5 - Aug 11, 2011

  A horror set at a remote military outpost.

• Film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

  Aug 5 - Aug 11, 2011

  A film about vampires, zombies, werewolves and ghouls.

• Film Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs Evil

  Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2011

  The sequel to the Weinstein Company’s 2005 animated family.

• Film Vengeance

  Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2011

  A film about revenge, not surprisingly.

• Film West is West

  Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2011

  The sequel to the 1999 culture-clash comedy East is East.

• Film Attack the Block

  Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2011

  This comedy horror marks the directing debut of Joe Cornish and several young actors, produced by Big Talk Productions (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz).

• Film Mooz-lum

  Jul 29 - Aug 4, 2011

  An American independent film written and directed by Qasim Basir.

• Film Abu Dhabi Film Festival @ The Pavilion Downtown Dubai

  May 13 - Aug 3, 2011

  Highlights from the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.

• Film Empire II

  Jul 4 - Jul 31, 2011

  A film that concentrates on the Burj Khalifa.

• Film Zookeeper

  Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2011

  Griffin (Kevin James) is a socially inept zookeeper whose best friend is a gorilla.

• Film Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds

  Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2011

  A French animated comedy in English.

• Film Singham (Hindi)

  Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2011

  A remake of the 2010 Tamil film Singam.

• Film Bridesmaids

  Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2011

  Finally, a chick flick where the humour doesn’t solely revolve around the girl getting the guy.

• Film The Conspirator

  Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2011

  A film based on the story of Mary Surratt, charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

• Film Movies & Munchies

  Jul 6 - Jul 27, 2011

  Free movies from the pool every Wednesday evening.

• Film Summer Screenings

  Jul 22, 2011

  See two Turkish films, 10 to 11 and Sapak.

• Film From Prada to Nada

  Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2011

  A modern take on the classic novel, Sense and Sensibility.

• Film The Stranger

  Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2011

  An action movie starring the wrestler, Steve Austin.

• Film Delhi Belly

  Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2011

  Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur and Vir Das star in an Indian comedy shot in English with only a small amount of Hindi.

• Film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

  Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2011

  The eighth and final chapter.

• Film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi)

  Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2011

  Three men go on an extended stag party of sorts.

• Film Floating Films

  Jul 14, 2011

  Movies from the pool every Thursday.

• Film Hanna

  Jul 8 - Jul 14, 2011

  A first rate thriller with an excellent cast.

• Film Honey 2

  Jul 8 - Jul 14, 2011

  A dance flick with some impressive sequences.

• Film Horrible Bosses

  Jul 8 - Jul 14, 2011

  A star-studded comedy for anyone who has a problem with their boss.

• Film Larry Crowne

  Jul 8 - Jul 14, 2011

  A drama about starting over.

• Film Mr Popper's Penguins

  Jul 8 - Jul 14, 2011

  A new comedy from Jim Carrey.

• Film Movies & Munchies

  Jul 13, 2011

  Watch free movies from the pool!

• Film Transformers: Dark of the Moon

  Jul 1 - Jul 7, 2011

  The director Michael Bay’s sudden dropping of Megan Fox from the cast is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

• Film Bonne Soirée (Arabic)

  Jul 1 - Jul 7, 2011

  A comedy that follows three sisters.

• Film Vincere

  Jul 1 - Jul 7, 2011

  Marco Bellocchio directs a film based on the story of Benito Mussolini’s secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son, Albino.

• Film Monte Carlo

  Jul 1 - Jul 7, 2011

  An all-round American girl goes to Paris and discovers she looks identical to a British heiress.

• Film Sameer wa Shaheer wa Baheer (Arabic)

  Jul 1 - Jul 7, 2011

  A comedy with a slightly sick twist.

• Film Bad Teacher

  Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2011

  A comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

• Film Burning Bright

  Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2011

  The thriller directed by Carlos Brooks.

• Film Cars 2

  Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2011

  Lightning McQueen returns for more adventures.

• Film Double Dhamaal (Hindi)

  Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2011

  A sequel to the 2007 film Dhamaal.

• Film 22 Bullets

  Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2011

  Jean Reno stars in a gangster thriller.

• Film Henry's Crime

  May 26 - Jun 30, 2011

  Henry plots to rob the bank he's already served a prison sentence for robbing.

• Film Rabbit Hole

  Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2011

  Nicole Kidman stars in a touching movie about loss and finding a way forward.

• Film Green Lantern

  Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2011

  A Hollywood blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds.

• Film Bheja Fry 2 (Hindi)

  Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2011

  Get ready to giggle with the sequel to Bheja Fry.

• Film Always Kabhi Kabhi (Hindi)

  Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2011

  A coming of age story about growing up and leaving school.

• Film Super 8

  Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2011

  A coming-of-age adventure movie that is sure to thrill teenagers to adults alike.

• Film A Dangerous Man

  Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2011

  Steven Seagal's latest action offering.

• Film Shaitan (Hindi)

  Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2011

  Bejoy Nambiar directs a thriller set in Mumbai.

• Film London Boulevard

  Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2011

  A crime thriller starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley.

• Film 365 Youm Sa’ada (Arabic)

  Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2011

  A romantic comedy that's more tragic than funny.

• Film Winnie The Pooh

  Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2011

  Return to Hundred Acre Wood for a new adventure with Pooh.

• Film Freakonomics

  Jun 3 - Jun 9, 2011

  A documentary film about "incentives-based thinking".

• Film Ready (Hindi)

  Jun 3 - Jun 9, 2011

  A romantic comedy starring Salman Khan.

• Film Kung Fu Panda 2

  Jun 3 - Jun 9, 2011

  Jack Black reprises his voice role as Po, a giant panda and kung fu master.

• Film X-Men: First Class

  Jun 3 - Jun 9, 2011

  See the new X-Men prequel.

• Film Jane Eyre

  Jun 3 - Jun 9, 2011

  The latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's influential novel.

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  Jun 2, 2011

  See a movie from the pool.

• Film Shorts! By Alliance Française

  Jun 1 - Jun 2, 2011

  A festival of short French films.

• Film Pope Joan

  May 27 - Jun 2, 2011

  An adaptation of the novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross.

• Film The Hangover Part II

  May 27 - Jun 2, 2011

  Stu wants an innocent pre-wedding brunch, but things don't go as planned.

• Film Game of Death

  May 26 - Jun 2, 2011

  An action movie starring Wesley Snipes.

• Film Blood Creek

  May 26 - Jun 2, 2011

  A horror directed by Joel Schumacher.

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  May 26, 2011

  Free movies from the pool.

• Film The Experiment

  May 20 - May 26, 2011

  Travis (Adrien Brody) gets a bitter taste of what life might be like without civil rights.

• Film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (3D)

  May 20 - May 26, 2011

  Penelope Cruz joins Johnny Depp in a new chapter of pirate adventure.

• Film Bolbol Hayran (Arabic)

  May 20 - May 26, 2011

  A romantic comedy with a title that means A Bewildered Lovebird in English.

• Film The Beaver

  May 20 - May 26, 2011

  Mel Gibson stars in a very serious drama in which a hand puppet has a leading role.

• Film Ibn al Onsol (Arabic)

  May 19 - May 26, 2011

  A drama comedy with a title that means The Consular's Son in English.

• Film Young Collectors Auction

  May 20, 2011

  Tonight, 65 lots of artwork by established and emerging Arab and Iranian artists will go under the hammer.

• Film Take Me Home Tonight

  May 13 - May 20, 2011

  An all-in-one-night comedy set in 1988.

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  May 19, 2011

  A free movie for your Thursday evening.

• Film The Tempest

  May 13 - May 19, 2011

  A star-studded cast breathes new life into the famous Shakespearean play.

• Film Animals United (3D)

  May 13 - May 19, 2011

  A German animated film that looks at man's footprint on nature.

• Film Blitz

  May 13 - May 19, 2011

  Jason Statham (Snatch) goes after a cop killer in this British action movie.

• Film Priest (3D)

  May 13 - May 19, 2011

  Paul Bettany stars in a vampire thriller.

• Film Sharjah Biennial 10 Film Programme

  Apr 29 - May 14, 2011

  A weekend of free screenings for the duration of the Biennial.

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  May 12, 2011

  Free movies poolside!

• Film Water for Elephants

  May 6 - May 12, 2011

  Robert Patterson and Reese Witherspoon star in a family movie set around a travelling circus.

• Film Something Borrowed

  May 6 - May 12, 2011

  A romantic comedy starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson.

• Film The Chaperone

  May 6 - May 12, 2011

  Ray Bradstone struggles to leave a life of crime behind him.

• Film Fast Five

  May 6 - May 12, 2011

  The fourth instalment in the Fast and the Furious series.

• Film Scream 4

  May 6 - May 12, 2011

  A scary movie with plenty of self spoofery.

• Film Italian Film Tribute

  May 6 - May 7, 2011

  Free screenings of Italian movies.

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  May 5, 2011

  Watch Tangled and Alice in Wonderland poolside... for free!

• Film Thor (3D)

  Apr 29 - May 5, 2011

  An action movie about mythical gods and mortals, sibling rivalry and father-and-son relationships.

• Film Valley of the Wolves: Palestine

  Apr 29 - May 5, 2011

  A controversial war story that is part of the popular Turkish television and film franchise.

• Film Biutiful

  Apr 29 - May 5, 2011

  Oscar nominee Javier Bardem stars.

• Film Chalo Dilli

  Apr 29 - May 5, 2011

  The former Miss Universe Lara Dutta stars in and produces this latest offering from Bollywood.

• Film Tamara Drewe

  Apr 29 - May 5, 2011

  An adaptation of the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, inspired by Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd.

• Film Mondays with Sava

  May 2, 2011

  Catch a screening of Los Olvidados.

• Film The Market @ Masdar City

  Apr 29, 2011

  To market we go!

• Film Thursday Floating Films

  Apr 28, 2011

  Free screenings of Monsters vs Aliens and Up.

• Film Ironclad

  Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011

  Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy star in a knight in shining armour tale.

• Film Born to Raise Hell

  Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011

  An action movie written and starring Steven Seagal.

• Film My Soul to Take

  Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011

  A typical slasher movie.

• Film A Little Bit of Heaven

  Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011

  Kate Hudson stars in the romcom/ drama.

• Film Dum Maaro Dum

  Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2011

  A Hindi drama.

• Film The Movie Club

  Apr 25, 2011

  Two free films every Monday.

• Film Waste Land

  Apr 22, 2011

  Free screening to celebrate Earth Day

• Film Weapons of Mass Attraction

  Apr 22, 2011

  Free Friday Film Nights at The Empty Quarter.

• Film Hop

  Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2011

  An Easter movie the whole family will enjoy.

• Film Arthur

  Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2011

  A remake of the 1981 hit starring Dudley Moore.

• Film Adèle: Rise of the Mummy

  Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2011

  A mad adventure with the intrepid journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec.

• Film The Ward

  Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2011

  A horror directed by John Carpenter.

• Film Mappillai

  Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2011

  A remake of the 1989 comedy original.

• Film Thank You

  Apr 8 - Apr 14, 2011

  The latest release from Bollywood.

• Film Source Code

  Apr 8 - Apr 14, 2011

  A reality-bending thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

• Film Tomorrow, When the War Began

  Apr 8 - Apr 14, 2011

  A gripping adaptation of the popular book series.

• Film Red Riding Hood

  Apr 8 - Apr 14, 2011

  A new take on the classic fairytale.

• Film Rio (3D)

  Apr 8 - Apr 14, 2011

  The latest offering in sleek animation.

• Film Limitless

  Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2011

  Bradley Cooper plays a pathetic loser who takes an experimental drug that enables him to tap into every recess of his mind.

• Film Paul

  Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2011

  A comedy from the makers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

• Film Game

  Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2011

  A Hindi action thriller shot at locations in Mumbai, Greece, Istanbul, London and Bangkok.

• Film Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

  Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2011

  A family drama starring Natalie Portman.

• Film The Roommate

  Apr 1 - Apr 7, 2011

  A thriller starring Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester.

• Film Hot Tub Time Machine

  Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2011

  John Cusack stars in a comedy about five guys who travel back to 1986 in a magical hot tub.

• Film Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (3D)

  Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2011

  Audiences can expect more asinine ape jokes and monkey business in this very predicable sequel.

• Film The Lincoln Lawyer

  Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2011

  A legal drama starring Matthew McConaghey.

• Film Zahaymer

  Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2011

  The children of a wealthy businessman are plotting to take over his estate.

• Film Sucker Punch

  Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2011

  A fantasy thriller.

• Film The Company Men

  Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2011

  When a large corporation is downsized, those made redundant are forced to face the reality of their situation: they are good at spending money but not much else.

• Film Mars Needs Moms

  Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2011

  Simon Wells directs a touching though predictable tale of a young boy named Milo who starts to appreciate his mother only after she is abducted by aliens.

• Film City Island

  Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2011

  Vince (Andy Garcia) is a prison guard whose secret passion is acting, in a drama about a family whose members are each hiding something.

• Film The Adjustment Bureau

  Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2011

  Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in a feel-good film that has it all – action, fantasy and best of all, love.

• Film Never Let Me Go

  Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2011

  The British film season continues with an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel of the same name.

• Film Largo Winch 2

  Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2011

  The sequel to the 2008 film about a Belgian billionaire heir-cum-crime fighter called Largo Winch.

• Film Battle: Los Angeles

  Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2011

  Another alien invasion film.

• Film Made in Dagenham

  Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2011

  A film based on the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, which earned equal pay for women.

• Film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (3D)

  Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2011

  The re-telling of a young man’s journey from small-town boy to superstar.

• Film Hall Pass

  Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2011

  Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play men whose marriages are in trouble.

• Film I Am Number Four

  Mar 4 - Mar 10, 2011

  A science fiction thriller.

• Film Rango

  Mar 4 - Mar 10, 2011

  A tiny lizard who tells a lie finds himself in hot water.

• Film How Do You Know

  Mar 4 - Mar 10, 2011

  Reese Witherspoon leads in this romantic comedy.

• Film The Rite

  Mar 4 - Mar 10, 2011

  Anthony Hopkins stars in this thriller.

• Film Drive Angry (3D)

  Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2011

  If you liked Gone in Sixty Seconds, you won’t want to miss this latest fast-car flick, also starring Nicolas Cage.

• Film Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

  Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2011

  Here we go again ... Martin Lawrence stars in the third instalment of a cross-dressing comedy in which mostly tired jokes fall flat.

• Film Tanu Weds Manu

  Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2011

  A Hindi romantic comedy.

• Film White Lightnin’

  Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2011

  UK Film Season continues with a thriller inspired by the life of Jesco White, an Appalachian mountain dancer who goes from a psychiatric hospital to taking his show on the road.

• Film The Eagle

  Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2011

  Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell star in the screen adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 novel, The Eagle of the Ninth.

• Film Gnomeo & Juliet

  Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2011

  An animated take on one of The Bard’s best-known works with voices by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt.

• Film Unknown

  Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2011

  Liam Neeson stars in an adaptation of a novel, Didier van Cauwelaert’s Out of My Head.

• Film Topsy Turvey

  Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2011

  A tale about the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera The Mikado.

• Film True Grit

  Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2011

  The Coen brothers are on fine form as they produce and direct the second film to be based around Charles Portis’ 1968 book of the same name.

• Film Just Go With It

  Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2011

  A romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler.

• Film The Warrior’s Way

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2011

  Geoffrey Rush has received a ton of plaudits for his role in The King’s Speech, but even he is not able to make this fantasy action adventure anything more than humdrum.

• Film The Killer Inside Me

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2011

  This is the second film adaptation of Jim Thompson’s very dark crime novel from 1952.

• Film Yogi Bear

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2011

  A film version of the 1960s cartoon which charmed and irritated in equal measure.

• Film Street Dance 3D

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2011

  The UK film festival continues in Dubai with perhaps not a classic British offering, but one which enjoyed great commercial success at the box office, tapping into the trend of TV dance talent competitions.

• Film No Strings Attached

  Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2011

  Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, both above, star in this romantic comedy about two friends who decide to take their relationship one step further.

• Film 127 Hours

  Feb 3 - Feb 10, 2011

  James Franco, above, plays Aron Ralston in this true-to-life tale of a mountain climber who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in an isolated canyon.

• Film Brassed Off

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2011

  The beautiful, bittersweet story about the colliery band at a coal mine under the threat of closure in northern En

• Film Wild Target

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2011

  Not even the likes of Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert “the ginger one from Harry Potter” Grint and Rupert “doesn’t he look fabulous at 51?” Everett can save this insipid Britcom about an assassin who spares the life of one of his victims.

• Film Miral

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2011

  This engaging movie surrounds the orphanage set-up by Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) in Jerusalem after the partition of Palestine in 1948.

• Film Sanctum

  Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2011

  Andrew Wight was inspired to write this script after a near-death experience while exploring caves which were flooded by rain.

• Film Last Night

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2011

  Iraqi-American Massy Tadjedin wrote and directed this romantic drama which stars Keira Knightley.

• Film The Mechanic

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2011

  A remake of the 1972 movie made by the Review team’s favourite director Michael Winner.

• Film The Fighter

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2011

  Give Mark Wahlberg a decent script, make him play a boxer and everything’s golden in this biopic of pugilist Micky Ward.

• Film Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2011

  If only this was a biopic about Sammy the whale shark.

• Film The King’s Speech

  Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2011

  The hype around this film was already great when it had one of its first screenings at the Dubai International Film Festival last month.

• Film Casino Jack

  Jan 20 - Jan 27, 2011

  Kevin Spacey stars as Jack Abramoff in this film based on the life and times of the American political lobbyist and businessman.

• Film The Way Back

  Jan 20 - Jan 27, 2011

  It’s been a while since there was a decent film about the Second World War but this movie about a gr

• Film Big Bang

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2011

  Antonio Banderas stars in this film which has shades of film noir.

• Film Morning Glory

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2011

  What’s the story? Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum star in this so-so comedy-drama about breakfast television folk.

• Film Gulliver’s Travels

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2011

  Jack Black plays Lemuel Gulliver is this modern interpretation of Jonathan Swift’s 18th Century novel.

• Film Hereafter

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2011

  Despite starring Matt Damon, being directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, this three-pronged tale of death and fantasy fails to equal the sum of its individual pieces.

• Film The Green Hornet

  Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2011

  One of the original superheroes to hit the mainstream, The Green Hornet began life as an excellent radio drama in the 1930s America.

• Film Fair Game

  Dec 16 - Dec 23, 2010

  Sean Penn sadly didn’t make it to the Dubai International Film Festival, but his latest movie has landed in the Emirates.

• Film Garfield’s Pet Force

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2010

  The third CGI movie about the big-eyed, wise cracking cat is not to be confused with the two films in which he starred alongside actual humans.

• Film Lies and Illusions

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2010

  Has anyone else thought that CuGooJu would be a really cool nickname for Cuba Gooding Jr?

• Film Tell Tale

  Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2010

  “From the producers of Hannibal and American Gangster,“ says the poster.

• Film Dubai International Film Festival

  Dec 12 - Dec 19, 2010

  The seventh instalment of this annual cinematic celebration features 157 films from 57 countries.

• Film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2010

  History in the making here, folks, as this is possibly the first film title we’ve had which has spilled over on to a second line.

• Film They Wait

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2010

  A Canadian horror film whose poster is a girl’s face with her mouth sewn up. Chinese cross-stitch has never been so scary.

• Film Nativity!

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2010

  Is this film so boring that it needs an exclamation mark in the title to jazz it up?

• Film The Tourist

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2010

  Angelina Jolie plays a women who uses Johnny Depp to try and help a criminal she once had a relationship with.

• Film The Runaways

  Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2010

  A biopic about the 1970s American teenage girl rock band, which included Joan Jett, who found fame in the US and Japan with hits such as Cherry Bomb.

• Film Skyline

  Dec 2 - Dec 9, 2010

  Brothers Greg and Colin Strause directed and produced this alien invasion film which they say will definitely have a sequel.

• Film The Cool School

  Dec 8, 2010

  A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene in Los Angeles from scratch and what to avoid in such a process.

• Film Faster

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2010

  No matter what you think of Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, he’s had a pretty interesting life.

• Film Life As We Know It

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2010

  Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl star in what is billed as a romantic comedy, but we use the term loosely.

• Film Tangled

  Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2010

  Disney’s animated version of the fairytale of Rapunzel is looking like being an expensive mistake.

• Film Blue Moon Rising

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2010

  This fantastic behind-the-scenes documentary about Manchester City’s first season under the ownership of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed brings you up close and personal with the team’s players and fans.

• Film The Last Exorcism

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2010

  This American spoof horror documentary has taken more than 20 times its US$1.8m (Dh6.6m) budget.

• Film Puss in Boots

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2010

  This French animated film is the 11th to be made about the character who first came to life in print back in 17th Century France.

• Film Easy A

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2010

  Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) learns the hard way that a little white lie, in order to get her out of a camping trip, can suddenly snowball into something far bigger.

• Film The Next Three Days

  Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2010

  Russell Crowe plays a professor whose wife (Elizabeth Banks) is accused of a murder she did not commit.

• Film Supershock v Nosferatu

  Nov 28, 2010

  A wonderful concept – part 1920s horror movie, part-live rock show, and all good.

• Film Documentary Voices

  Nov 22 - Nov 25, 2010

  A host of fine documentaries help inspire debate about society and the world we live in.

• Film 4, 3, 2, 1

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2010

  The crazy lovechild of the weird game show made famous by Dusty Bin in the UK and one of Manfred Mann’s biggest hits? Sadly not.

• Film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2010

  The seventh, and penultimate, film of this franchise is the first of a two-parter which will be concluded next summer.

• Film Machete

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2010

  This is a film which started life as a fake trailer to promote Quentin Tarantino’s and Robert Rodriguez’s two-part Grindhouse back in 2007.

• Film Little Big Soldier

  Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2010

  Jackie Chan wrote, produced and stars in this film, set in the Warring States era in China’s history, which ran from the 15th to the 17th Century

• Film Red

  Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2010

  This film is based on a comic book of the same name.

• Film Unstoppable

  Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2010

  Denzel Washington and Chris Pine star as a couple of train drivers who have to chase an unmanned locomotive that’s heading for a town, loaded with explosive liquid and poison.

• Film Broken Embraces

  Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2010

  A film noir-inspired four-way love story (a love square?) which is high on drama and low on romance.

• Film Deadline

  Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2010

  This is one of the last films Brittany Murphy appeared in before her death last December.

• Film Megamind

  Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2010

  The latest offering from DreamWorks Animation sees super villain Megamind trying to create a hero he can fight after vanquishing Metro Man.

• Film Cinema by the Sea

  Oct 28 - Nov 2, 2010

  One of the highlights of last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix festivities is back.

• Film Let it Rock

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2010

• Film Vampires Suck

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2010

  A spoof on the Twilight movies which have taken the world by storm, and other such supernatural films.

• Film Alpha & Omega

  Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2010

  An animated love story about two wolves in Canada.

• Film Abu Dhabi Film Festival

  Oct 14 - Oct 23, 2010

  This newly rebranded event features a mix of premieres, parties and pizzazz.

• Film The Hole

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2010

  No marks for the originality of the title, as this is the seventh movie to bear this name.

• Film Scott Pilgrim vs The World

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2010

  Michael Cera is only 22, but he has an impressive resumé of films on his CV. But whether it’s Juno or Superbad or this comic book adaptation, he always plays the self-conscious nerd.

• Film Ruslan

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2010

  The straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal film (how come it was released here?) is also known as Driven to Kill.

• Film The Town

  Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2010

  Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s crime novel Prince of Thieves opened to almost universal acclaim in the United States last month.

• Film Eat Pray Love

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2010

  Julia Roberts plays Elizabeth Gilbert, whose 2006 memoir is the basis for this film.

• Film Legend of the Guardians

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2010

  We all love monsters, toys and aliens..but owls?

• Film Takers

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2010

  Heist drama starring Matt Dillon as one of two cops trying to track down an expert gang of bank robbers.

• Film Devil

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2010

  M Night Shyamalan once again comes short of replicating his success with the Sixth Sense in this first installment of a trilogy about the super natural and modern world colliding.

• Film The Boys Are Back

  Oct 7 - Oct 13, 2010

  Sadly not an ode to Thin Lizzy, but a rather poignant film about an English sports journalist living in Australia who has to care for his sons from two marriages after his second wife’s premature death.

• Film Fly Me To The Moon

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2010

  The animated space adventure made in Belgium didn’t quite have the budget of your average Disney/Pixar production. 

• Film You Again

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2010

  Surprisingly this film not named after the ubiquitous Betty White, as she once again tries to feather her nest egg at the age of 88.

• Film The Switch

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2010

  Despite tremendous success on the small screen, Jennifer Aniston, above right, and Jason Bateman, above left, are yet to hit such comedic heights in the world of cinema, and this movie is unlikely to change that. 

• Film Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2010

  Milla Jovovich is back for the fourth instalment of this seemingly endless spin-off of a computer game.

• Film The Last Station

  Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2010

  This is an Anglo-Russian-German biopic about the life of the glorious novelist Leo Tolstoy.

• Film Piranha 3D

  Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2010

  The second remake of the 1978 film obviously comes with bigger teeth, more blood and louder screams.

• Film Going the Distance

  Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2010

  Drew Barrymore plays Erin, a woman trying to keep her long distance relationship with Garrett (Justin Long) in tact.

• Film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

  Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2010

  Michael Douglas reprises his role as Gordon Gekko and in the 23 years since the original film, he’s just about found it within himself to switch sides from villain to hero.

• Film Solomon Kane

  Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2010

  Interesting movie version of the character made famous by Robert E Howard in pulp comics in the 1920s and 30s.

• Film Home

  Sep 28 - Sep 29, 2010

  Fascinating eco-documentary made up of aerial shots of the Earth.

• Film The A-Team

  Jun 11 - Jul 1, 2010

  

  Updated film version of the 1980s TV show about a quartet of Iraq war veterans trying to clear their names after being framed for a crime they did not commit (must be said in a gruff voice at all times).