Once in a blue moon a film comes along which has the power to both completely challenge and flip your preconceptions of a subject, remaining in your head long after you leave the cinema. Usually these films are lengthy, epic blockbusters involving a re-telling of a historic event, or on the other hand, serious, tense thrillers, anything really apart from a laugh-out-loud comedy about four idiots living in Doncaster. But then that’s the magic of Four Lions.
BY KATHRYN McCANN
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor are a match that wouldn’t normally be pieced together. Carey is generally only found in comedies (or trippy films like Eternal Sunshine) and McGregor is genre-defying. What ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ was about was only really revealed after paying into the cinema. 
This ten-part HBO mini-series tells the story of three US Marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in The Pacific during World War Two. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s beloved ‘Band of Brothers’.
“If good men do nothing, evil will prevail”. As the tag line suggests, this is a documentary which follows the struggle of a righteous few against the actions of the oppressive state in which they live.
Read two reviews of ‘Up’ by Kathryn McCann and Catherine Wylie.