Results tagged “Happy-Go-Lucky” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

I DON'T know. You wait four months and a week for a warm weekend in the New Year and the Wachowski Bros (The Matrix trilogy) only go and release a film that's 135 minutes long.

The talented but over-the-top directors could have been halfway through making another movie by now if they'd kept it to a more sensible 90 minutes.

The hotter the weather, the longer - and slower - Speed Racer will seem.

It will play best to eight to ten-year-old boys. Had the film been kept short, children would have had time to see the film and to enjoy this weekend's sunshine, too.

I can't face seeing it ever again, so my youngsters will only get to see it if my wife volunteers to take 'em.

Since she still hasn't seen 27 Dresses or Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (both of which women everywhere should love), our children will have to form an orderly queue.

And hope it lasts for quite a while at the IMAX which is the best place in town to see it.

ANOTHER Bank Holiday and it's already been pouring down at dawn like there's no tomorrow.

There will be one of course and the next tomorrow (Tuesday, May 6) is the day when the Birmingham Mail Film Club will be welcoming the Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock to Cineworld Broad Street.

We'll be showing his new movie Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (12A) from 6pm and then I'll be hosting a Q&A with him in the cinema from around 7.30pm. Can't wait.

All welcome but, remember, Club members pay just £2.50, whereas the standard £5.80 admission price will apply to non-members.

Meanwhile, given today's miserable Bank Holiday weather prospects why not make it a day to catch up on some movies?

Pick of the bunch for adults is Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (15) which features a wonderfully-hilarious performance from Sally Hawkins. It's on at Cineworld Broad Street, The Electric Cinema on Station St and the Warwick Arts Centre.

If you've never seen a Mike Leigh film before (some have been too long and taken themselves way too seriously) try this one which will make everyone's ribs ache and toes curl in equal measure.

Especially if you are a) currently taking driving lesssons, b) have just passed, c) you hate learner drivers, or d) you are a driving instructor.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday!

PS. Tonight at 6.30pm is your last chance to see the brilliantly-immersive concert film of U2-3D (U) on the giant IMAX screen down at Millennium Point.

Arrive in good time to get your tickets and enjoy a magnificent experience even if, like me, you are not a massive U2 fan.

Meanwhile, The Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones' film Shine A Light will be on the same screen in time for the next Bank Holiday weekend. Showing from May 22.