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El Crimen Del Padre Amaro

Priest gets laid. Slowly. In Mexico

Trapped

OPENS APRIL 25, CERT 15, 106 MINS Everything about this slice of uber-trash is insane. Remember John McNaughton's Wild Things—so over-the-top that it was both atrocious and brilliant? Trapped is its mad twin, the one they lock in the attic. Anything casting Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love (neither of whom has ever consciously under-acted) as a pair of deranged kidnappers has to have loads going for it, however hysterically flawed. In brief: Bacon grabs Charlize Theron while Love nabs Stuart Townsend; they delegate minding the kid to Pruitt Taylor Vince and demand money.

The Core

OPENED MARCH 28, CERT 12A, 135 MINS The Earth's molten core has stopped spinning, and this is a Bad Thing, with knock-on effects that will kill off humanity within a year. Enter a team of kamikaze scientists with an unlimited military budget who plan to drill through the Earth and kick-start the core again with a few nukes. "This isn't going to be subtle," observes a character early on, and they're not far wrong. What we've got here is kind of the ultimate disaster movie, like Armageddon with the gloves off and a ton of mad science on board.

Far From Heaven

Critic-charming, visually sumptuous tribute to the work of Sirk

Greatest Hits

George Clooney's stylised spy drama based on the unreliable memoirs of Gong Show host Chuck Barris

Persona

Rerun of Swedish master's harrowing '60s classic

The Life Of David Gale

Smart race-against-Death-Row drama

TV Sinners

Schrader returns with lusty temptations of small-screen chancer

Personal Velocity

Three vignettes from the Miller dynasty's diamond

Evelyn

Inferior rival to Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters
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