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The powerful true story of the courageous woman who was the first to stand up to the corrupt Los Angeles Police Department in the 1920s, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, is an intensely emotional experience that is hard to watch and hard to stop watching all in the same breath.

IN TRUE seasonal style, Four Christmasses combines a romantic comedy with an attempt at a heart-warming holiday story. Reese Witherspoon reprises her trademark blonde perkiness as Kate, happily cohabiting with boyfriend Brad (Vince Vaughan) in San Francisco.

The glare of the spotlight has long since faded, the money has gone, and suddenly you’re past your prime; this is the gloomy life of Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, a self-confessed “broken down piece of meat”.

If there ever was a film to portray the boring monotonous hell of life in surburbia, or should I say disturbia, then Revolutionary Road is it. Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet are back together again and on form as their characters struggle to do the unthinkable - do what they want to do, not what society demands.

I’ve never had much luck or patience when it came to three hour long epic movies - there’s either far too much to take in or not enough. It takes a brave director, a great screenplay writer, and a few not too shabby actors to pull it off and I have to say Benjamin Button just about did just that.

AS AN actor, Michael Fassbender has been living a soldier’s life these past 10 years. Since appearing in Band Of Brothers, the Kerryman has gone on to star as a Greek warrior in 300, as IRA MP and hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger, and in August we will see him back on the big screen as a British army officer in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

GRAN TORINO, a film about a grumpy old-timer who begrudgingly becomes the local neighbourhood hero, is surprisingly one of the best films I have seen all year. Clint Eastwood has struck gold again!

WALT DISNEY Studios Motion Pictures Ireland and Friends of The Elderly are inviting Galway children to ‘Return The Favour’ this Sunday, on National Grandparents’ Day.

Given the fact that everyone is feeling the pressure of the worldwide recession in some form or another, a movie about a New York twenty-something who loves to shop is perhaps a little distasteful.

THE ATHENRY Musical Society will host its popular annual cabaret in the Raheen Woods Hotel, De Burgo Suite, tomorrow evening.