Going Out Films Theworld endshere metro Arts &Entertainment life David ODoherty In Town This Weekend More mini-keyboard mayhem from the Dublin funnyman who also has childrens books and two plays to his name Until Sun, Whelans, 25 Wexford St D2, 7.30pm (Sat mat 3pm), 10 to 15. Tel: 1890 200 078. www.davidodoherty.com Massaging Moses Jane Mulcahys Berlin-set romp about rhyming couplets, erotic massage and an unlikely friendship between a poet and an actress Until tomorrow, The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Street West D1, 8pm (tomorrow mat 2pm), 12 to 15. Tel: 087 637 4356 Jason Manford Expect funnybones to be tickled by this British comic whose everyman routine ticks all the right stand-up boxes Tonight, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 7.30pm, 23. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.jasonmanford.com Book Now Xavier Rudd Dust off your tofu- eating dog on a string the Aussie didgeridoo player and former Peta Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity returns. A multi-instrumentalist par excellence, Rudd counts bongo naturist Matthew McConaughey a fan, hence being hired to write the film score for 2007s Surfer, Dude a flop which was just a blip on an otherwise credible CV that boasts support slots for Ani DiFranco and Dave Matthews Band Feb 8, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 7.30pm, 30. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.xavierrudd.com 2012 (12A) Running time: 158min 18 metrolife Friday, November 13, 2009 The hoTTesT TickeTs in Town I was afraid to do yet another disaster movie, Independence Day director Roland Emmerich recently confessed. Well, after 2012, he, or anyone else, will never have to do another. No longer content with blowing up Washington, here Emmerich blows up the entire world with a blockbuster whose scale makes Titanic look titchy. The title refers to a real ancient Mayan prediction that the world will go kaboom in 2012. This starts to happen, people panic: thats basically the plot. Which is not much to sustain you for almost three hours, even with its perplexing what wouldYOU do? moral dimension.Yet time whizzes by. Why? First, Emmerich confidently controls his marathon; teasing you with a street crack here, a supermarket tremor there, before going for all-out world destruction. Effects truly dont get more special than this. Second, its his inspired casting of actors such as Woody Harrelson and Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose charisma withstands the CGI avalanche. The hero is the indisputably cool John Cusack, a workaholic writer and divorced dad just waiting for a global cataclysm to reunite his family. Dont wait for the DVD, the biggest film of this or any year should only be seen on the big screen. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Harry Brown (18) Running time: 103min Michael Caine goes all Clint Eastwood in this UK equivalent of Gran Torino. This years most perfect casting sees Caine flip his iconic East End bad lad persona to play Harry Brown, an ex- serviceman and widower, pushed into violence when the drug-and- gun-addled hoodies on his council estate bully his only surviving pal. Given every single yoof is without exception a wrong un, debut director Danny Barber seems out to cause aggro with his issues drama. However, his bludgeon-you-over-the-head social commentary and borderline torture porn is thankfully offset by some remarkably sensitive camera work, plus a tear-jerking performance from the 76-year- old Caine. This may be well over his 100th film, but whoop- inducing lines like: If you dont tell me, Im going to shoot both your knees off prove Michaels still the (grand)daddy. LI-Z The White Ribbon (15A) Running time: 119min Michael Hanekes enigmatic follow-up to Funny Games is unsettling in a very different way. Shot in glacial black and white, it reports the unexplained dark events that occur in a Lutheran German village just before World War I. A wire trips a doctors horse, nearly killing the rider, children are abducted and tortured, cabbages are defiled... Unreliably narrated by a school teacher who tells us what we see may not be true yet may clarify later events, the implication is that this is a microcosm of the conditions that spawned Nazism. A perversely oblique mystery thriller in the mould of Hidden, its soporific pace will frustrate all but committed art house fans. LI-Z Cold Souls (12A) Running time: 101min Paul is a downtrodden actor who pays to have his soul extracted. But when he wants it back, hes plunged into the murky world of Russian soul trafficking. The pace lacks urgency, but the cast is excellent: David Strathairn as the unscrupulous soul-storer, Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) as his assistant and Emily Watson as Pauls tired, puzzled wife Claire. As a serious exploration of the nature of the soul, it feels incomplete, but its an entertaining enough existential ramble. Anna Smith ALSO OUT: Taking Woodstock (16): A great cast flesh out Ang Lees story of the man who helped stage Woodstock, Elliot Tiber. Amelia (PG): Dull biopic starring Hilary Swank about Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo. We have five pairs of tickets to see JASON MANFORD tonight at Vicar Street, 7.30pm For a chance to win, e-mail your answer to the question below to life@metroireland.ie by noon today with Hot Tickets in the subject line. With your answer please include your name, address and a number where you can be contacted between 1pm and 3pm. Strictly one entry per person; entrants must be age 18 or over. Q. On the TV show 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Manford took over as host from which northern English comedian? A. Peter Kay B. 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