Film screening

Certificate 12A 146 minutes

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis

Technically superb, proudly sentimental, and unabashedly old-fashioned, War Horse is an emotional drama that tugs the heartstrings with Spielberg's customary flair.

Based on Michael Morpurgo's book and set against a sweeping canvas of rural Devon and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert who tames and trains him.

When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets - British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his grand daughter - before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.