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)
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
Powerful
psychological thriller in which a damaged woman,
haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia,
struggles to re-assimilate with her family after
fleeing an abusive cult(15)
Starring:
Elizabeth Olsen ~ John Hawkes ~ Brady Corbet
~ Hugh Dancy
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
Disney comedy in which Kermit
and three fans must reunite The Muppets, who have
all gone their separate ways, to raise $10m to
save the old Muppets Theatre from being demolished
by a greedy oil tycoon. (U)
Starring:
The Muppets ~ Jason Segel ~ Amy Adams ~ Chris
Cooper ~ Selena Gomez
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
From the writer of Juno, a
refently divorced author returns to her home in
small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance
with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married
and has a newborn daughter (15)
Starring:
Charlize Theron ~ Patton Oswalt ~ Patrick Wilson
~ Elizabeth Reaser
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 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
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
Roman Polanski's biting comedy
sees two pairs of parents meet up after their
sons are involved in a fight. As their time together
progresses, their own childish behaviour turns
the meeting into utter chaos
(15)
Starring:Jodie
Foster~ Kate Winslet
~ Christoph Waltz ~ John C. Reilly
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
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
The
3D (and IMAX 3D) follow-up to 2008's family-friendly
'Journey to the Center of the Earth', in which
a coded distress signal from a mysterious island,
where no island should exist, leads to an amazing
adventure (PG)
Starring:
Dwayne Johnson ~ Michael Caine ~ Josh Hutcherson
~ Luiz Guzman ~
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
David
Blair's powerful Nottingham-based drama, loosely
inspired by John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men',
revolves around the friendship between a thug
and a giant of a man with a mental age of seven.(15)
Starring:
Stephen Graham ~ Maxine Peake ~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
~ David O'Hara
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
The spectacular 3D re-release of George
Lucas's 1999 sci-fi film. Although
being the fourth in the Star Wars saga, it's the
first of a trilogy of stories to trace what happened
before the classic 1977 first film began. (U)
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
A
police psychologist works to talk down an escaped
convict who is threatening to jump from a Manhatten
hotel rooftop, only to realise he has an ulterior
objective and down below, a heist is taking place
(12A)
Starring:
Sam Worthington ~ Elizabeth Banks ~ Jamie Bell
~ Anthony Mackie ~ Ed Harris
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
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
Adam Sandler comedy in which
he plays both a a successful yet tranquil family
man and his annoying aggressive and needy identical
twin sister, who comes to stay for Thanksgiving,
only to refuse to leave(PG)
Starring:
Adam Sandler ~ Al Pacino ~ Katie Holmes ~ Elodie
Tougnie ~ Rohan Chand
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.
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