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Latest cinema releases at cinemas in Manchester...
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Dean Spanley
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Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
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Inkheart
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Starring: Brendan Fraiser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren
A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
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Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, John Cleese
A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
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The Tale Of Despereaux
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Voices: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
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Films now showing at cinemas in Manchester...
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Waltz With Bashir
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Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Critically acclaimed animated documentary, “Waltz with Bashir” centres around events in the early 1980’s war between Israel and Lebanon. When an ex-soldier fails to recall his time in the war he decides to investigate and seek out old friends in order to piece together his memories.
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Changeling
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Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich
A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.
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Zack and Miri Make A Porno
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Starring: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
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What Just Happened
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Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis
Following the trials and tribulations of an over-the-hill Hollywood producer trying to cope with a thousand different scenarios and the actors that stand in his way, Ben (De Niro) needs to produce a film for the Cannes Film Festival, but will his ego and the studio’s ego get in the way?
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Ghost Town
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Starring: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni
When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
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Burn After Reading
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Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. Directed and written by the Coen brothers.
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Body Of Lies
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Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe
Roger Ferris uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. Action drama starring DiCaprio and Crowe.
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Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa
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Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen
The sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", in which New York Zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, start to leave the island. All of a sudden, they land in the wilderness of Africa, where Alex meets the rest of his family, but has trouble communicating with them after spending so much time at the Central Park Zoo.
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Quantum of Solace
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Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Judi Dench
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply
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The Secret Life Of Bees
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Starring: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys
Based on a best selling novel. A touching story about a fourteen-year-old girl trying to replace the loss of her mother. When she is taken in by three honey-making sisters she discovers the secret to her mother’s past, and the love of a real family
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Transporter 3
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Starring: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea.
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The Express
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Starring: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Blindness
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Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover
A tense thriller about a city ravaged by an epidemic of white blindness. In a facility where those affected have been quarantined, paranoia takes hold and the strong prey upon the week. As society breaks down, “Blindness” follows one woman whose sight is unaffected, as she attempts to lead a group of victims to safety.
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Lakeview Terrace
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Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
An LAPD officer will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door.
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Quarantine
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Starring: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris
A Hollywood remake of Spanish film ‘REC’. A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
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Four Christmases
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Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Voight, Robert Duvall
Romantic comedy about a couple whose plans for an exotic Christmas are thrown into disarray when the airport becomes fog-bound. Instead, they find themselves forced to attend four separate family celebrations on the same day.
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Saw V
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Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson  
Forensics expert Hoffman goes on the hunt in order to protect