Now showing: from March 4

2:06pm Thursday 4th March 2004

21 GRAMS (18) See review. (East Finchley Phoenix)

Now showing: from February 19

11:39am Thursday 19th February 2004

THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (18) Comedy drama set in a Canadian hospital. (East Finchley Phoenix)

Film buffs’ second chance

2:28pm Friday 7th November 2003

The Phoenix Cinema High Road, East Finchley Sunday, November 16 Critically adored, commercially snubbed.

Now showing

3:25pm Monday 20th October 2003

Showing from October 16 AFRICA AT THE PICTURES - MADAME BROUETTE / L'AFRRANCE (U) Two new films from Senegal to celebrate Black History Month, exploring the African experience at home and abroad as part of the London-wide festival of African Cinema. (East Finchley Phoenix) BAD BOYS 2 (15) The boys are back - narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Bennett ( Martin Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. (Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS (12A) Innovative and surreal animated feature about the adventures of a young cyclist and his intrepid grandmother. (East Finchley Phoenix) BLIND SPOT: HITLER'S SECRETARY (PG) Documentary about Hitler's personal secretary. (East Finchley Phoenix) CABIN FEVER (15) A group of graduating students go into the woods to celebrate the end of college and are methodically killed off by a horrifying flesh-eating virus. (Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) CALENDAR GIRLS (12A) British comedy starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters in which the ladies of the Women's Institute bare all to raise funds to help fight leukaemia. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village) DOWN WITH LOVE (12A) Ewan McGregor is a journalist in New York in 1963 and Renee Zellweger is a feminist advice author. Despite her beau's playboy lifestyle, she is falling in love with him. (Finchley Warner Village) FINDING NEMO (U) Nemo, a boy clownfish, is stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then search the ocean to find him. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (12A) Cohen brothers comedy in which George Clooney falls for Catherine Zeta Jones, a beautiful man-eater. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) ITALIAN JOB (12A) Mark Wahlberg pulls off a gold heist in Venice only to be double crossed. Seeking revenge, he hatches a plan to tap into the Los Angeles traffic control system, causing the biggest traffic jam in history. (Finchley Warner Village) KILL BILL (18) Quentin Tarantino is back with a crowd-pleasing blood-thirsty action extravaganza starring Uma Thurman as a samurai sword-wielding bride. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (12A) In a parallel Victorian world, a group of fantasy characters team up on a highly secret mission. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) MYSTIC RIVER (15) Clint Eastwood directs this story of three childhood friends, who are reunited after one loses a daughter. ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (18) Antonio Banderas returns in the third of the El Mariachi films and unwittingly becomes a pawn in bad guy Johnny Depp's game. (Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (12A) Swashbuckling adventure starring Johnny Depp. (Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC)

Tarantino's violence is an art form

3:17pm Monday 20th October 2003

Kill Bill Volume One (18) A beautiful blonde approaches the front door of a picture-perfect suburban dwelling and knocks. She is greeted by an equally attractive black woman, whom she promptly punches in the face.

Enjoy African cinema

1:58pm Thursday 16th October 2003

Africa at the Pictures The Phoenix Cinema High Road, East Finchley Sunday, 2pm Black History Month is reaching the silver screen. The Phoenix is welcoming London's annual festival of African cinema with a brief retrospective of one of West Africa's leading film-makers.

Now showing

6:57pm Wednesday 24th September 2003

Now showing (from September 25) AMERICAN PIE: THE WEDDING (15) Third in the series of teenage gross-out comedies with a heart. (Finchley Warner Village) BAD BOYS 2 (15) Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Martin Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) CALENDAR GIRLS (12A) British comedy starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters in which the ladies of the Women's Institute bare all to raise funds to help fight leukaemia. (Barnet Odeon, East Finchley Phoenix, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) FINDING NEMO (U) A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish stolen from his coral reef home. (Staples Corner UGC) GOODBYE LENIN (15) Christiane, an East German woman, falls into a coma and, while she is unconscious, the Berlin Wall comes down. When she wakes up, her son tries to protect her from the outside world. (East Finchley Phoenix) THE ITALIAN JOB (12A) Mark Wahlberg pulls off a gold heist in Venice only to be double-crossed. Seeking revenge, he hatches a plan to tap into the Los Angeles traffic control system, causing the biggest traffic jam in history. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) LAUREL AND HARDY IN WAY OUT WEST (U) Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. (East Finchley Phoenix) LAUREL AND HARDY IN THE MUSIC BOX (U) The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co has a challenging job on its hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs. (East Finchley Phoenix) LE DIVORCE (12) French and American social customs and behaviours are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister in Paris. (Finchley Warner Village) ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (18) Antonio Banderas returns in the third of the El Mariachi films and unwittingly becomes a pawn in bad guy Johnny Depp's game. (Staples Corner UGC) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (12A) Swashbuckling adventure starring Johnny Depp as a pirate captain trying to help a friend save his beloved. (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) TALK TO HER (HABLE CON ELLA) (15) Two men form an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. (East Finchley Phoenix) UNDERWORLD (15) Selene, a beautiful vampire warrior, is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races, but she falls in love with a werewolf (Barnet Odeon, Finchley Warner Village, Staples Corner UGC) YOUNG ADAM (18) Joe (Ewan McGregor), a young drifter, is working on a barge when the body of a young woman is found in the water. (Barnet Odeon)

Strangers at the cinema

2:34pm Monday 11th August 2003

Strangers Double Bill The Phoenix Cinema High Road, East Finchley Sunday, August 17 What marks The Phoenix Cinema out as a place of true value to Barnet is not just its history, atmosphere or status. It's the knack it has for selecting films - giving us minor cinematic gems from across the globe, while avoiding pretentious nonsense acclaimed only because it is four hours long.

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