Award Winning Films being shown at your local cinema

This Dickensian rags to riches tale of the young slum boy from Mumbai continues to be hugely popular and garner praise wherever it goes, so early booking is recommended. Slumdog Millionaire opens on Fri 23 Jan and runs until Thurs 5 Feb.

Audiences can also watch the gritty story of the Bielski partisans brought to life in Defiance, nominated for "Best Original Score", Golden Globes, 2009, (Fri 30 Jan -Thurs 5 Feb) or enjoy the weekend with, A Bunch of Amateurs (Fri 30 Jan - Sun 1 Feb), in which, Burt Reynolds plays an aging Hollywood star, tricked into performing King Lear for an amateur dramatic charity production.

To mark 50 years of the Cuban Revolution, Watermans screens, Che: Part 1, which won Benicio Del Toro, "Best Actor" award at Cannes for his portrayal of the doctor turned revolutionary in this absorbing film (Fri 23 - Thurs 29 Jan).

Cinemagoers can also catch up with a range of other hit films that suit all tastes -- if the Machiavellian world of politics and spin is more to your liking, see Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon (6 -19 Feb), the story of the historic encounter between a disgraced president and a brash television personality, nominated for five golden globes, four Oscars including 'Best Picture'.

On the other hand, if you want to probe behind the reasons for Kate Winslet's blubbering acceptance speech, for her "Best Supporting Actress" and "Best Actress" accolades -- see her superb performances as Hanna Schmitz, in
The Reader (6 - 12 Feb) and, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road (20 - 26 Feb), a portrait of a suburban couple in 1950s America.

Watch, Mickey Rourke's come back performance as retired wrestler, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, getting back in the game for one last showdown, in The Wrestler, that won "Best Actor" and best, "Original Song, performed and written by Bruce Springsteen. Catch Sean Penn in the biopic, Milk on the life and times of Harvey Milk, the firstly openly gay man to be elected to public office in San Francisco from Fri 20 - Thurs 26 Feb.

On Kissing Friday (27 Feb), Watermans presents, a double bill of black comedies of human manners, with Wood Allen's, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Arnaud Desplechin's (considered to be France's equivalent to Allen), cracker,
A Christmas Tale.

It features, Catherine Deneuve as a cynical mother diagnosed with leukemia, who can be saved by a bone marrow transplant and is looking for a donor from amongst her dysfunctional family. Her performance won her a special award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, 2008, and the film was voted amongst the Top Ten films of the Year, 2008 by the influential BFI film magazine, Sight & Sound.

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