The Mallard: 2nd May - 8th May 2008

A nice variety of films start at the Mallard today. The big release of the week has to be Iron Man which would just seem like the latest in a long line of slightly disappointing Marvel films (Blade being the one that the others have failed to live up to) were it not for the fact that it stars the superb Robert Downey Jr., is directed by Jon Favreau (Zathura) and written by John August (Go, Big Fish). In short the pedigree is great and I would be surprised if it was a bad film.

Made of Honour, on the other hand, looks pretty atrocious. It’s about a bloke who is great friends with a woman and is asked to be her maid of honour when she gets married but he loves her yadda yadda yadda. One wonders how they think of all these great ideas.

Nim’s Island is strictly for kids. It tells the story of a little girl who lives on Swiss Family Robinson style island with her father. When he goes missing she contacts the only person she knows who can help her, adventurer Alex Rover. Unfortunately, Alex is a fictional character created by agoraphobic author Alexandria Rover (Jodie Foster) who, despite her fear decides to do what she has only ever written about, albeit with the help of a mental manifestation of her creation. This looks like great stuff for kids. It’s brightly coloured, and fun and there is even a hint of danger and a dash of Freud for those accompanying them.

Also showing are Fool’s Gold, Horton Hears A Who!, The Eye and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (it seems that Three and Out is over and out after just one week).

Full screening info can be found on the ‘Mallard Cinema’ page.