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ODEON KIDS: KARATE KID [PG]  Sat & Sun: 11.00am Cartel, Fridge & Bungle / 10am - 3pm. £5. / bassmentality.co.uk / 244761 / a striking r ea ding of Har dy’ s ‘The Da rkling VIOLIN TEACHING UP to G5. Call 07504 680689. zps2@users. Remake, involving Jackie Chan, no less. Free adult ticket with every child’s ticket. The Cellar, Frewin Court Thrush ’ , which was Ka te ’ s fa v ourite poem Nina Bro wn, 0 7/1 0/1 0 dai l y info.co.uk BIKES THE TOWN [15] Fri & Sat, Mon & Tue, Thu: 2.30, 5.45, 8.45pm DRUMMING WORKSHOP (T ABLA), every Wednesday , 7 pm- Ben Affleck in semi-serious heist thriller. Sun: 2.30, 8.45pm; Wed: 2.30pm Sun 10th b y one of her most-lo v ed poets. Uneek, ish, central Oxford. Interested? Phone 01865 55 2000 / 07 862 MR NICE [18] Mon & Tue, Thu: 3.15, 6.00, 9.15pm DAYS AFTER THE STORM, DARK CLOUDS, JAGGY EDGES / 7.30pm. £5 / Folly part of the Ark T initia tiv e, follo w ed with FILM RE VIE W 71 7 805 / [email protected]. www .sahai.org/ sharda Story of trafficker, spy & cult hero Howard Marks. Wed: 12.30, 3.15, 6.00, 9.15pm Bridge Inn, 38 Abingdon Rd / 790106 her MC style tha t r eally chang ed the pa c e of AFFORDABLE PIANO LESSONS in your own home. BACK ON T RAX THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST CLOUD [12A]  NME Radar Tour: JOY FORMIDABLE, CHAPEL CLUB / 7pm £9.50 / O2 z pe7@ u ser s .dai ly info.co.uk daily: 2.00, 4.30, 7.00, 9.30pm plus Sat, Sun, Wed: 11.30am Academy, Cowley Rd the e v ening an d ha d a gr ea t impa ct, not only LO W CO ST M O BILE Zac Efron as teenager who struggles to give up visiting younger brother’s ghost. MUSIC OPEN MIC NIGHT / 8pm. Free. / The Old Bookbinder’s Arms, 17-18 EAT PRAY LOVE [PG] daily: 1.45, 5.00, 8.00pm T h e D e a t h a n d C YCL E R EPAIR SER VICE! Julia Roberts on world trip. Subtitled Fri 5.00, Sun 8.00, Mon 1.45, Thu 5.00pm. Victor St MEETINGS & LECTURES LIFE AS WE KNOW IT [12A] Fri, Mon & Tue, Thu: 3.30, 6.15, 9.00pm HIGH TEASE / Plus Dusty Limits, The Dark Prince of Cabaret / The Ministry Of Sat & Sun, Wed: 12.45, 3.30, 6.15, 9.00pm Burlesque / 7.30pm. £15 / 0871 472 0400 / The Glee Club, 3 Hythe Bridge St U s e d B i k e s Two people adopt the recently-orphaned child of their mutual best friends. JOE OGBORN / 2pm & 8pm. Free. / Living Room, Oxford Castle, New Rd Sat 9th L i f e o f C h a r l i e S t C l o u d [ 1 2 A ] wi t h fr ee deli v ery from £3 9! THE OTHER GUYS [12A] Fri, Mon & Tue, Thu: 3.00, 5.30, 8.30pm PETE ROE, THE VACCINES, ROZI PLAIN, SONNY LISTON / Nu-folk / 8pm- FLOURISHING WITHOUT GROWTH: LESS CAN BE MORE / Speakers Molly www .backo ntr ax .co.u k 0 7 919 44 5 464 Sat & Sun, Wed: 12.15, 3.00, 5.30, 8.30pm 2am. £5(adv/conc)/ £6 / The Cellar, Frewin Court / 244761 / 07769 690177 Scott Cato (economic issues) and Gordon Ferguson (philosophical) / 10:30 The misfortunes of two mismatched detectives (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg). La rgest se l e c tio n of use d b ik es in O x fo rd sh ire FOLK NIGHT / Irish folk and other genres led by Mick Henry. Open session. / – 4:30pm. £10 / £5 (students). / [email protected] / 0114 268 Curr ently showing: Odeon George St, Vue Cinema THE HOLE (3D) [12A] Sat & Sun: 11.00am, 1.00pm 6458 / Friends’ Meeting House / Oxford Quaker Centre, 43 St Giles, OX1 3LW Mysterious hole under teenager’s new house leads to his nightmares. 8pm. Free. / The Half Moon, 18 St Clements / 247808 SABOTAGING THE WAR MACHINE: FIRST HAND STORIES / Films and Movie maturity beckons to Zac Efron and his legion of fans in The Death and Life of BACK TO THE FUTURE [PG] Sat & Sun, Wed: 12.00pm ZUBY, MR SHAODOW, SCARZ, DJ SEMO / Local rappers join forces on FRESHERS Marvellously silly and surprisingly coherent 80s time travel classic. national tour / £10 / The Bullingdon Arms, 162 Cowley Rd / 244516 discussion with people who risked jail to prevent war crimes in Gaza / 7pm, Charlie St Cloud. All about moving on, St Cloud is like a metaphor for Efron’ s career . donation / http://ox4.org/~oimc/upcoming.htm / Oxford Action Resource Heart throb in High School Musical to stellar acting talent is a giant leap. And Efron’ s Vue Cinema (08712 240 240) Mon 11th Centre, East Oxford Community Centre (upstairs), 44b Princes St, OX4 1DD wisely taking his fans with him. One fi lm at a time. KIDS AM: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2D) [PG]  TALENTED MONDAYS / Open mic, all acts / 7pm, free / maddingcrowd.co.uk Sun 10th Elemental fantasy starring Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel. Sat & Sun: 10.30am / Far From The Madding Crowd, Friar’s Entry, (off Magdalen St), Oxford OX1 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT [12A] 2BY READING BETWEEN THE WINES / Book and wine lover’s club! / Meet at Charlie St Cloud is a yachtsman with the world at his feet. Wanting one big win, there’ s 3.30pm, free! / [email protected] / All Bar One, 124 High St, OX1 Fri: 3.20, 6.00, 8.40, 11.20pm; Sat: 12.50, 3.20, 6.00, 8.40, 11.20pm ISY SUTTIE - LOVE LOST IN THE BRITISH RETAIL INDUSTRY / Comedy musical Sun: 12.50, 3.20, 6.00, 8.40pm; Mon - Thu: 3.20, 6.00, 8.40pm 4DE; Tel: 01865 258991 nothing more important, except maybe his younger brother . Promising to meet the baseball- Two people adopt the recently-orphaned child of their mutual best friends. love story in Northern supermarket. / 8pm. £5-£7 / oxfordcomedytickets. co.uk / Cellar, off Cornmarket St. VIVA SALSA SOCIAL DANCING / Free intro 30 min lesson & fun social dancing. besotted kid every night for an hour’ s practice before Charlie leaves for college, the boys TOY STORY 3 (2D) [U]  Sat & Sun: 11.50am, 2.20pm (Witney) / from 8.30pm, free! / [email protected] / www.vivasalsa.com bicker and bond. But one tragic car journey changes everything. Or does it? The toys must escape from a daycare centre. Subtitles Sun 2.20pm JEFF, MATTY & FRIENDS / Melodic jazz jam / 9pm, free / 01865 762372 / / 07905 484077 / The Hollybush, Corn St, Witney Ampleforth Arms, Collinwood Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 8HH THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST CLOUD [12A]  SINGLES WALKING GROUP/ Walks in the Oxfordshire & surrounding daily: 1.50, 4.10, 6.30, 8.50pm. Additional performances Fri: 11.10pm ROB TOGNONI / The best in Australian blues / 8pm. £10 / famousmondayblues. Is it his brother’ s ghost that he meets each night, or the trick of a grief-stricken mind? Either Teenager struggles to give up visiting younger brother’s ghost. Sat & Sun 11.20am countryside; dogs & children welcome / 9.45 for 10am, £2 per person / co.uk / The Bullingdon Arms, 162 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE, 01865 244516 [email protected] / www.walkers.meetup.com/385 / 07833 685899 way , Charlie’ s chucked his dreams for life among the dead as a graveyard caretaker . A freak MR NICE [18] TELLISON / Indie rock / 8pm. £6 / The Jericho Tavern, 56 Walton Street Fri: 4.00, 6.50, 9.50pm; Sat: 10.10am, 1.10, 4.00, 6.50, 9.50pm JEWELLERY-MAKERS OF OXFORD / Swap ideas over coffee and cake. and a failure? Attracted to an ambitious young yachtswoman (Amanda Crew), will life Sun: 10.10am, 1.10, 4.00, 6.50pm; Mon - Thu: 4.00, 6.50pm TWENTY TWENTY, FUTUREBOY, OCTANE OK, CITY STEREO / Teen pop- Amateurs (like myself!) are very welcome! / Jewellery makers of Oxford / 2.30 Rhys Ifans in story of infamous drug trafficker, spy and cult hero Howard Marks. rock / 6pm. £9.50 / O2 Academy Oxford, 190 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE pm / [email protected] / George and Danver’s bloom again? Can Charlie bear to leave his brother behind? WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS [12A] BICYCLE RIDE / Into scenic Oxon countryside & back. Coffee & lunch stops. / Fri: 4.20, 7.30, 10.30pm; Sat: 1.20, 4.20, 7.30, 10.30pm 9.30am - 4/5pm, free / www.oxonctc.org.uk / Campus Stores, Broad St. It sounds mawkish and a bit familiar . And it’ s both. But director Burr Steers, re-teamed with Sun: 1.20, 4.20, 7.30pm; Mon - Thu: 4.20, 7.30pm to Sat Efron after the superior time-warp comedy 17 Again, succeeds in pitching it boldly where Sequel to Wall Street, following life of Wall Street trader after prison. 16 Oct SHAMANISM FOR BEGINNERS / Origins of shamanism and its relevance to KIDS AM: SHREK 4 (2D) [U] Sat & Sun: 11.00am THEATRE us today and what shamans do, for example healing, teaching, divination. / no one’ s gone before. While the same teen audience is munching on the Twilight franchise, £45, £40, £30 per workshop. 10.30am - 5pm / The Yoga Barn, Wolvercote It ain’t ogre till it’s ogre... Oxford Playhouse (305305) Efron’ s latest vehicle fl ashes his torso but also gives them more to think about. THE OTHER GUYS [12A] daily: 3.10, 5.40, 8, 20pm POETRY READING / Christopher Reid & Oliver Reynolds reading from The misfortunes of two mismatched detectives. plus Fri & Sat 10.50pm SPEND SPEND SPEND  Wed 6th: 7.30pm recent works - please pre-book. / The Woodstock Arms / 6pm. £4. / / www. Thu 7th: 2.30pm, 7.30pm; Fri 8th: 8pm; Sat 9th: 2.30pm, 7.30pm Sure, the ‘I see dead people’ trick reminds you of the The Sixth Sense. And the baseball- DEVIL [15] Fri & Sat: 11.30pm Musical about housewife with record pools win in 1961 (£152,319). £15.50 - £24.50 woodstockbookshop.co.uk / 01993 812760 / A group of people trapped in a lift realise that the devil is among them. 4 MILE WALK / Prospective members welcome / IVC Social Events Club / 1.30 meet-ups are out of Field of Dr eams. But, as Burr says, no one in the tar get zone for this MADE IN DAGENHAM [15]  Fri & Sat, Mon & Tue, Thu: 2.30, 7.50pm WILL SELF Fri 8th: 5pm pm / www.oxfordshireivc.org.uk / 01865 516239 & 01635 578215 / from Sun Sun: 2.30pm; Wed: 1.55, 2.30, 7.50pm Author & broadcaster reading from his latest novel ‘Walking to Hollywood’. £11 Inn, Church Road, Wheatley OX33 1NB film has seen those movies. So St Cloud feels more fresh than it is. And it works. The Dramatization of 1968 women’s rights strike at Ford Dagenham car plant. THE RED SHOES Tue 12th & Wed 13th: 7.30pm supernatural touches are quietly , spookily surprising. TEEN SCREENINGS: THE A TEAM [12A]  Fri, Thu: 4.50pm Thu 14th & Sat 16th: 2.30pm, 7.30pm; Fri 15th: 8pm Mon 11th Updated to Iraq. Guest appearances from Dirk Benedict & Dwight Schultz, apparently. A cracked cabaret based on Hans Christian Andersen. £15.50 - £24.50, Thu mat £11.50 AN INTRODUCTION TO ONE’S SELF! / A short film: Prem Pal Rawat talks And Burr’ s film looks fabulous. Building on Efron’ s pretty boy looks, the whole thing’ s THE HOLE (3D) [12A] Fri, Tue - Thu: 2.00, 4.30, 6.40pm about inner peace. / peaceoxford / Free. 6 - 7pm. / http://wopg.org / 01865- Sat & Sun: 11.30am, 2.00, 4.30, 6.40pm; Mon: 2.00, 4.30pm North Wall Arts Centre (319450) 311718 / East Oxford Community Centre, 44b Princes Street (corner of Cowley beautiful, suiting the spiritual, ethereal tone. And Efron certainly burns the celluloid, Mysterious hole under teenager’s new house leads to his nightmares. IVAN AND THE DOGS Fri 8th: 8.00pm Rd), Oxford OX4 1DD; Tel: 01865 792168 visually and as an actor . A step back from his exceptional performance in Me and Orson RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (3D) [15]  Fri & Sat: 11.40pm Based on true story about a boy found living with stray dogs in Russia. £12/£10 ROSE HILL READ/SWAP LIBRARY / Warm welcome, no forms, no fuss. Art What did The humans’ fight against the undead takes them to Los Angeles and a deadly trap. 8SIXTEEN32 Thu 14th & Fri 15th: 8:00pm trolley for children. / 2 - 4.30pm, free, refreshments available / Rose Hill Welles, this is definitely one for the fans. But Efron will soon be stealing DiCaprio’ s roles DIARY OF A WIMPY KID [PG] Sat & Sun: 10.20am, 12.40, 3.00pm Four grime MCs battle to make it big in the music industry. £12/£10 Community Centre, The Oval, Rose Hill, OX4 4UY; Tel: 01865 777542 from under his nose. Adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s illustrated novel about a wise-cracking sixth grade student. UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITY / Ongoing 12 week course with local artist EAT PRAY LOVE [PG] Fri, Mon - Wed: 2.20, 5.20, 8.30pm Burton Taylor Studio (305305) you think? Naomi Goldsmith inspired by ‘The Artist’s Way’. Discover your creativity Sat & Sun: 5.20, 8.30pm; Thu: 2.20, 8.30pm AMERICANA Wed 6th: 7.30pm Here the writ-lar ge script is embarrassing, double-playing key scenes just in case we didn’ t Julia Roberts gives up career and home for sex and ice cream. & realise your potential. Next course starts Wed 3 Nov. / 7-9pm, £80 for 12 Contemporary dance shaped for the Burton Taylor by the Yorke Dance Project. £10 (£8) wks / [email protected] / www.goldsmithstudio.co.uk / Naomi: get the point. But it’ s a genuinely af fecting drama of love, loss and hope. And a refreshingly Add your own reviews of THE SOCIAL NETWORK [12A] Sun: 7.20pm; Wed: 4.40, 7.20pm 07854 727540 / 01865 242341 / Marston - pse contact for details “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies...” 6.0 HOW HEAP AND PEBBLE TOOK OVER THE WORLD quirky cameo from British actor Augustus Prew (About A Boy), as Efron’ s cockney mate, Two ice dancers in a world without ice. £10 (£8) Thu 7th - Sat 9th: 7.30pm THE HEALING POWER OF PLANTS / Development of new medicinal plant pretty much anything in BURIED [15] Fri: 5.10, 10.20pm; Sat: 12.00, 5.10, 10.20pm grounds things with welcome edge and humour . Ryan Reynolds is buried in Iraq. Sun: 12.00, 5.10pm; Mon & Tue, Thu: 5.10pm collection / £7 (£32 for the series) 8pm / www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk / Christ Church Cathedral (276214) 01865 286690 / The Daubeny Lecture Theatre, University of Oxford Botanic Oxford at dailyinfo.co.uk. MARMADUKE [U] Sat & Sun: 10.40am, 1.00pm MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL BY TS ELIOT  Garden Rose Lane, OX1 4AZ; Tel: 01865 286690 Most teen films about death and the supernatural are slashers or fantasy pics. St Cloud A film based on 1980s comic strip and cartoon about a talking Great Dane. Wed 13th - Sat 16th: 8pm BACK TO THE FUTURE [PG] daily: 9.00pm “King and archbishop clash in one of the defining episodes of British history”. £14 (£12) OXFORD SPEAKERS’ CLUB / Have fun! Learn leadership and public speaking! pushes the boat out and treats the audience with respect. See it as an adult, it’ s forced and PLUS: Find out how Marvellously silly and surprisingly coherent 80s time travel classic. / Toastmasters / Free. 7.15pm. / [email protected] / www.oxfordspeakers. familiar . As a teen, it’ s new and inventive. Yes, Efron’ s taking his fans for a ride. But it’ s THE TOWN [15] Fri: 2.00, 7.40, 10.40pm; Sat: 4.50, 7.40, 10.40pm New Theatre (0844 8471585) co.uk / 0797 3837575 / Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1DP to become one of our Sun: 4.50, 7.40pm; Mon - Wed: 2.00, 4.50, 7.40pm; Thu: 2.00, 7.40pm CREATIVE WRITING GROUP / Meet fortnightly to share your prose, poetry or his journey too. And St Cloud is a superior film, well worth seeing. Ben Affleck in semi-serious heist thriller. Subtitles Tue 7.40pm. HAIRSPRAY THE MUSICAL Tue 12th - Sat 16th: 7.30pm, plus Starring Brian Conley as Edna Turnblad. £18.50 - £35.50 2.30pm Wed & Sat non-fiction in an informal group. / 7:30pm, free / [email protected] / Jam Factory, 27 Park End St OX1 1HU; Tel: 01865 244613 Glenn W atson, 2/10/10 Official Reviewers!