Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain's poster at Imax is largely dominated by a scene where the lead actors are locked in a passionate kiss. This might lead you to believe, like it did all those other couples who came to watch the first-show, that Cold Mountain is a romantic story set against the backdrop of a war. Not so. Sure, there's a love-story, but, in this film, it plays second fiddle to the war itself, which occupies center-stage, like a big, fat opera singer.

It's the later half of the 19th century and America is fighting America in a bloody Civil War. Inman (Jude Law) and his friends in rura....