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The Movie Café: 23/06/2011

23/06/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Movie Café, 23/06/2011

EIFF: Highlights and Lowlights. What's hot and what's not at the 2011 festival.

EIFF: Highlights and Lowlights. Regular Movie Cafe critics share their thoughts on what's hot and what's not at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Edinburgh International Film Festival: Highlights and Lowlights - Café regular critics Paul Gallagher, Gail Tolley and Pasquale Iannonne share their thoughts on 'what's hot and what's not' at this years EIFF, as well as discussing all the latest news and gossip. 

Cutter's Way - In celebration of its 30th anniversary, 'Cutter's Way' will be re-released from the 24th of June. Ahead of its return to the big screen, we look again at this cult classic: an intriguing thriller featuring John Heard as the boozy, belligerent Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter, who seeks passionate revenge on a murderer when his aimless friend Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) is falsely accused of the crime. 

Ghosted - Martin Compston and John Lynch discuss their brutal and gritty prison drama which tells the story of Jack (Lynch), a model prisoner who, with just three months of his sentence left, finds out that his wife has left him on the anniversary of their son's death. Faced with an uncertain future outside, he turns his attention to new inmate Paul (Compston) and the two develop a strong bond. Jack does his best to protect Paul, but the ghosts of both their pasts catch up with them.

'Rabbit Hole' is our DVD Pick Of The Week - a portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of all situations; Becca and Howie Corbett (NICOLE KIDMAN and AARON ECKHART) are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss.

Paul Feig: A conversation with the director of Bridesmaids, the Judd Apatow-produced movie starring Kristen Wiig.

Bridesmaids: We review this fantastic new comedy about women that isn't strictly a chick flick!

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