Max Landis sci-fi thriller
in which three high
school friends gain superpowers after making an
incredible discovery. They
soon find their lives spinning out of control
as they embrace their darker sides (12A)
Starring:
Dane DeHaan ~ Michael B. Jordan ~ Alex Russell
~ Michael Kelly
This year's Oscar favourite,
the silent movie set in 1927 Hollywood about a
movie star who wonders if the arrival of talking
pictures will mark the end of his career.
Meanwhile stardom awaits for
a young dancer. (PG)
Starring:
Jean Dujardin ~ Berenice Bejo ~ John Goodman
~ James Cromwell
Martin Scorsese's 3D masterpiece, set in 1930s
Paris, in which an orphan who lives in the walls
of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery
involving his late father and an automaton. (PG)
Oscar-winning director
Alexander Payne (Sideways &
About Schmidt) delivers a powerful dark comedy,
set in Hawaii, about
a man's relationship with his daughters after
his wife suffers a jet
ski accident. (15)
Award-winning drama in which a man's
carefully cultivated private life, which allows
him to indulge his sexual addiction, is disrupted
when his messed-up sister arrives unannounced
for an indefinite stay. (18)
Starring:
Michael Fassbender ~ Carey Mulligan ~ James
Badge Dale ~ Nicole Beharie
Ralph Fiennes' makes
his directing debut with this modern day adaptation
of one of Shakespeare's
lesser known plays in which a
banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy
to take his revenge on the city. (15)
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes ~ Gerard Butler ~ Vanessa Redgrave
~ Brian Cox
David Fincher's take on the
first novel in Stieg Larsson's blockbuster trilogy
in which a Swedish journalist is aided in his
search for a woman who has been missing for forty
years by a young computer hacker.
(18)
Starring:
Daniel Craig ~ Rooney Mara ~ Stellan Skarsgard
~ Christopher Plummer
A thought-provoking
drama inspired by real
events (Lehman Brothers anyone?),
that revolves around the key people at an investment
bank over a 24-hour period during the start
of the financial crisis. (15)
Starring:
Kevin Spacey ~ Paul Bettany ~ Jeremy Irons ~
Zachary Quinto ~ Demi Moore
Steven Spielberg's spectacular
take on Michael Morpurgo's children novel in which
the First World War is experienced through the
journey of a horse forcefully parted from its
trainer and sold to the English army.(12A)
Starring:
Benedict Cumberbatch ~ David Thewlis ~ Tom Hiddleston
~ Emily Watson
Sundance 'Best Picture' winning
romantic drama in which a British college student
falls for an American student, only to be separated
from him when she's banned from the U.S. after
overstaying her visa(12A)
Starring:
Anton Yelchin ~ Felicity Jones ~ Jennifer Lawrence
Thriller set in Alaska where
an oil drilling team struggle to survive after
a plane crash strands them in the wild. Battling
mortal injuries,
icy weather and a vicious pack of wolves they
have only days to escape(15)
Starring:
Liam Neeson ~ Dermot Mulroney ~ Frank Grillo
~ Dallas Roberts
Tom Cruise is back (and at the IMAX) as
the IMF is shut down when it's
implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing
Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear
their organization's name. (12A)
Starring:
Tom Cruise ~ Paula Patton ~ Simon Pegg ~ Jeremy
Renner ~ Josh Holloway
The award-winning director
of "Joy Division", Grant Gee's arty
documentary about influential German author WG
Sebald, which features readings from his classic
walking tome "The Rings Of Saturn" alongside
academic reviews of his work
Starring:
Jonathan Pryce ~ Robert McFarlane ~ Rick Moody
~ Adam Phillips ~ Tacita Dean
Holmes and Watson join forces
again to outwit and bring down Moriarty in Guy
Ritchie's European based sequel
to the hugely popular
Manchester-filmed take on the classic Arthur
Conan Doyle books. (12A)
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr ~ Jude Law ~ Noomi Rapace ~
Jared Harris ~ Stephen Fry
Steven Soderbergh's action-thriller
with a very talented cast in which a highly trained
undercover soldier (played by MMA superstar Gina
Carano) seeks payback after she is betrayed during
a mission(15)
Starring:
Gina Carano ~ Michael Fassbender ~ Ewan McGregor
~ Antonio Banderas
Clint Eastwood's biopic
of J. Edgar Hoover, the
legendary head of the FBI
who created private
dossiers on anyone and everyone, yet held held
secrets behind closed doors that would have destroyed
his own life. (15)
Dreamworks 3D animation tells
the story about the events leading up to the sword
fighting cat's meeting with Shrek as he
takes an adventure with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty
Dumpty to save his town. (U)
Starring voices of: Antonio Banderas ~ Salma
Hayek ~ Zach Galifianakis ~ Billy Bob Thornton
Oscar-tipped biopic of Margaret
Thatcher, former British Prime Minister and arguably
one of the most hated figures in British politics,
especially in Manchester,
with a focus on the price she paid for power.
(12A)
Starring:
Meryl Streep ~ Jim Broadbent ~ Richard E Grant
~ Anthony Head
Film adaptation of Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel
turned West End play, in
which a young lawyer travels to a remote village
where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned
woman is terrorising
the locals(12A)
Celebrate Chinese New Year with "Ji
Keung Hei Si", a Cantonese slapstick
comedy
shown with English subtitles that
follows the lives of four men on a heroic mission
to help four female protagonists .(12A)
Starring:
Donnie Yen ~ Louis Koo ~ Cecilia Cheung ~ Chapman
To ~ Raymond Wong
Comedy from the writer of
Superbad and Pineapple Express in which
a bouncer overcomes the odds
to lead a team of misfits to ice hockey glory
by punching everybody that stands in his way.
(15)
Starring:
Sean William Scott ~ Jay Baruchell ~
Liev Schreiber ~ Alison Pill ~ Kim Coates
Horror movie which
tells parallel stories of a
mother in Spain trying to protect her son from
a faceless stranger while, in Britain, a young
girl has terrifying dreams of a demon who becomes
a real danger. (15)
Starring:
Clive Owen ~ Carice Van Houten ~ Daniel Bruhl
~ Pilar Lopez De Ayala ~ Kerry Fox
3D-animated comedy
set in Paris during
1910 in which a scientist attempts an experiment
in a greenhouse that sees a results in
a 7 foot tall escape and fall in love with a pretty
nightclub performer. (U)
Starring voices of: Adam Goldberg ~ Vanessa
Paradis ~ Jay Harrington ~ Catherine O'Hara
Children's 3D animation in which
Mumble's tiny son is reluctant
to dance, so runs away and encounters, a penguin
who can fly. Things get worse when the world is
shaken by powerful forces. (U)
Starring voices of: Elijah Wood ~ Pink ~
Robin Williams ~ Hank Azaria ~ Brad Pitt
3D fantasy movie
and fourth in the
Underworld series in which a vampire
warrioress leads the battle against humankind,
who are trying to erradicate the
Vampire and Lycan clans forever(18)
Starring:
Kate Beckinsale ~ Michael Ealy ~ India Eisley
~ Theo James ~ Stephen Rea
Madonna's two-tiered romantic drama focusing on
the affair between King Edward VIII and American
divorcée Wallis Simpson alongside that
of a married woman and a Russian security guard(15)
Starring:
Abbie Cornish ~ Andrea Riseborough ~ James D'Arcy
~ Oscar Isaac ~ Richard Coyle
Comedy from the director
of Pineapple Express about a college student on
suspension who is coaxed into babysitting the
kids next door. He's fully unprepared for the
wild night ahead of him.(15)
Starring:
Jonah Hill ~ Sam Rockwell ~ Ari Graynor ~ Max
Records ~ JB Smooth
Kids animation film in which
the Chipmunks accidentally go overboard from a
cruise ship and end
up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover
their new turf is not as deserted as it seem.
(U)
Starring:Jason
Lee ~ David Cross ~ Jenny Slate ~ Justin Long
~ Matthew Gray Gubler
3D sci-fi thriller with fantastic
special effects in which five American tourists
in Moscow get caught up in a huge alien attack
as creatures descend to steal Earth's
energy and kill the
human race(12A)
Starring voices of: Emile Hirsch ~ Olivia
Thirlby ~ Rachael Taylor ~ Max Minghella
Bollywood remake in which a 12 year old boy from the small village of Mandwa is taught by his father about the path of fire. When his father is murdered by a drug dealer he leaves for Bombay, only to seek revenge.
Set in Eastern Europe, the official Bollywood remake of classic "The Italian Job" is an all action extravaganza from Abbas and Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla as a criminal team attempt the heist of the century. Shown in Hindi. (12A)
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