New Titles, May, 'Young Adult' 'Tinker Tailor...' 'Muppets'

Here’s a new comedy from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the writer/director duo behind ‘Juno’. But don’t go expecting another happy, warm hug of a movie: YOUNG ADULT is much less of a charmer, trailing a juicy waft of sourness behind it. Charlize Theron gives her best performance in years; she’s properly funny (who knew?) as Mavis Gary, a train-wreck who crashes into her hometown to reclaim her high-school sweetheart, Buddy. What, Buddy’s happily married? Devoted to his new baby? Like Mavis gives a damn. She’s angry, self-obsessed, immature, stalkerish, possibly alcoholic… and we’re kinda gunning for her.


Other new stuff this week


TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011)
MUPPETS, THE (2011)
FORBIDDEN LEGEND, THE: SEX & CHOPSTICKS 1&2 (2008)
WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR, THE (2010)

ON THE ECSTASY OF SKI-FLYING (2008)

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (2003)

A SEPARATION (2011)

FRY'S PLANET WORD (2011)
COLORADO TERRITORY (1949)
GREED (1924)
WAYS OF SEEING (1972)

New Titles, May, 'We Bought A Zoo' 'War Horse' 'Iron Lady'

It’s not often we get to see Matt Damon in civvy emotions – these days he’s more likely to wear the dead-eyed stare of a man with too many deaths on his conscience. Here he is, though, with a soulful, tender performance as recently widowed dad-of-two Benjamin, anchoring another happy-sad feelgood drama from Cameron Crowe.

The film is based on British journalist Benjamin Mee’s account of buying Dartmoor Zoo, transplanted by Crowe to California, where even grief is dappled in warm sunlight and mellowed by Cat Stevens. Benjamin buys the tumbledown menagerie on a whim, to the delight of his seven-year-old daughter (Maggie Elizabeth Jones, the cutest kid actor since Drew Barrymore) and the horror of his teenage son. Among its quirky residents, on two legs and four, is zoo keeper Kelly (Scarlett Johansson, too smouldering by half). Crowe, to his credit, is more concerned with insights about family than romance – and some of these are heart-on-sleeve touching if you’ve got a sweet tooth for the stickier stuff.

Other new stuff

LIFE AT THE TOP (1965)

A BIGGER SPLASH (1973)

A BIGGER SPLASH (1973) BLU-RAY

PEEP SHOW (2010) SEASON 7

HER PRIVATE HELL (1968)

HER PRIVATE HELL (1968) BLU-RAY

MARWENCOL (2010)

CLOSE TO EDEN (1991)

WE HAVE A POPE (2011)

LETTER NEVER SENT (1959) CRITERION

WAR ROOM, THE (1993)

PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) (2012)

EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS (2011)

FACE TO FACE (2011)

TITANIC (2012) TV SERIES

WAR HORSE (2011)

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (2011)

THIS IS NOT A FILM (2011)

LUNACY (2005)

ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, THE (2011)

EYE OF THE STORM, THE (2011)

HAPPY FEET 2 (2011)

IRON LADY, THE (2011)

TOWER HEIST (2011)

MARTYRS (2008)

RESTLESS (2011)

DEEP BLUE SEA, THE (2011)

AGES OF LOVE, THE (2011)

BURNING MAN (2011)

MACHINE GUN PREACHER (2011)

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (2011)

MELANCHOLIA (2011) BLU-RAY