Jul 17th
The Theory of Everything**                         
(GB 2014)
Universal/Working Title. 123m. ws

The academic life of Stephen Hawking coupled with his crippling motor neurone disease, taken from the perspective of his first wife Jane.
The onset of the disease comes surprisingly early into a film that, for its interest in Time, seems to spend a lot of it labouring along, often carefully selecting its moments in Hawking's life story (made while he was still alive) with some of the personal moments and the science wishy-washy, and shot in nostalgiclly rose-tinted brigt colours, with moments of pictorial imagination and meticulous, hard-working central performances.

Written by: Anthony M. Carten, from the book "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking" by Jane Hawking.
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten.
Director: James Marsh.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis, Charlie Cox, Simon McBurney, Emily Watosn, Harry Lloyd, Adam Godley.
Photography: Benoit Delhomme.
Music: Johann Johannsson.

Preceded by:
Cricket**
(GB 1950. Pathe/British Council. 17m. bw; Evocative information documentary about the game, revolving around the 1948 Lord's Test between England and Australia; w: Jack Howells, John Arlott; p: Peter Baylis; d: Grahame Tharp; narr: John Arlott, Ralph Richardson.)

+ opening message: "The purpose of this film is not to teach cricket to the unbeliever - but merely to give pleasure to the converted. But, if there be an unbeliever, then his discerning eye perhaps may see something of those virtues that explain the enthusiasm of so many."