Oct 24th
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow**   
(GB/US/Ita 2004)

 Paramount/Brooklyn Films II/Riff Raff Blue Flower/Filmauro. 106m.

In the 1930's crack pilot Joe Sullivan (aka. "Sky Captain") and his journalist girlfriend try to prevent mysterious killer robots from destroying the Earth.
Vividly drawn fantasy within an extremely stylish and imaginative alternative history, where all the creativity and imagination stems from the director; the actors are inevitably upstaged by the backgrounds, and the performances in such a restricted (green screen) environment are as variable as could be expected, but they enter into the spirit of things, and the effects, though sometimes hollow and unconvincing, are striking indeed.

Written and Directed by: Kerry Conran.
Producers: Jon Avnet, Marsha Oglesby, Sadie Frost, Jude Law.
Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Omad Djlali, Bai Ling; and "Sir Laurence Oliver" (in archive footage).
Photography: Eric Adkins.
Music: Edward Shearmur.
Production Design: Kevin Conran.
Special Visual Effects Supervisor: Scott E. Anderson.