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Films now showing at cinemas in Manchester...
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The Dark Knight
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
Christian Bale is back as the legendary crime fighter Batman, who is taking on Gotham’s evil new mastermind, The Joker (Heath Ledger).
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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
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no review

Our review:
must see!
Starring: Simon Pegg,Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson
‘A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
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The Fall
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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Import Export
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Our review:
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Starring: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
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Taken
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade
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Pineapple Express
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Our review:
must see!
Voices: Seth Rogen, James Franco 
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
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Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder watch trailer
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: László Áron, Amber Beattie, Asa Butterfield
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
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Rocknrolla
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Nonso Anozie, Gemma Arterton, Gerard Butler
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attraction the attention of some of the city's scrappiest tough guys, its more established underworld players, and others - all of whom are looking to get rich quick
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I've Love You So Long
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein
Juliette was 15 years in prison. Confronted with the unexpected goodness of her younger sister Léa, who makes Juliette a part of her family
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Appaloosa
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow
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Redbelt
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Our review:
worth watching!
Starring: Max Martini, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alice Braga
A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition
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Brideshead Revisited
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no review
Our review:
worth watching!
Starring: Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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Mamma Mia Mamma Mia watch trailer
 
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Our review:
must see!
Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård
Sophie invites three men who could be her father to her wedding in Greece, unbeknownst to her single mother Donna. Shock reunions, confusions and Abba’s greatest hits ensue. .
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Step Brothers
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Our review:
worth watching!
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.
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Death Race
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Our review:
worth watching!
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
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The Duchess
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worth watching!
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling 
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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Eden Lake
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worth watching!
Starring: Finn Atkins, James Burrows 
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.
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Righteous Kill
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Our review:
worth watching!
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent
Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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The Strangers
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Starring: Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Peter Clayton-Luce 
A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
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88 Minutes
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Empire:
no review
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Starring : Al Pacino,
Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic scientist for the FBI. When he is given 88 minutes to live after a threatening phone call he frantically searches for suspects.
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Fly Me To The Moon 3D
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Voices : Tim Curry, Robert Patrick, Nicollette Sheridan
Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
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You Don't Mess With The Zohan
You Don't Mess With The Zohan