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• 2012
• UK/France
• 15

• Directed by: Ken Loach
• Cast: Roger Allam, John Henshaw, Daniel Portman

New drama from top Brit director Loach about a young father with a criminal past who is determined to give his son a better life than he had.

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• 2012
• US
• 113 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Tim Burton
• Written by: John August, Seth Grahame-Smith
• Cast: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bella Heathcote

18th century vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp) escapes from his coffin to find himself in Maine in 1972. It's fun, thanks to a smart script and plenty of surreal humour; Burton regulars Depp and Bonham-Carter are a hoot, but Moretz and Green could have used more restraint.

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• 2011
• Finland/France/Germany
• 93 min
• PG

• Directed by: Aki Kaurismaki
• Cast: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jean-Pierre Leaud

In the dismal seaport of Le Havre, elderly shoe-shiner Marcel (Wilms) attempts to help a young African immigrant boy to cross the Channel to a better life. Kaurismaki’s inimitable sense of grim comedy is as sharp as ever, and the glorious Technicolor style bestows dignity on his beloved underclass.

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• 2012
• Finland, Germany, Australia
• 93 min

• Directed by: Timo Vuorensola
• Written by: Michael Kalesniko (screenplay), Timo Vuorensola (screenplay), Johanna Sinisalo (story), Jarmo Puskala (concept)
• Cast: Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie Paul, Udo Kier

Nazis on the moon! In Finland’s first blockbuster, a US lunar expedition discovers a hidden moonbase where Nazis have been hiding since the end of WW II. Shame that Vuorensola’s flat satire and B-movie plotting don’t live up to the inspired premise. For once, a Hollywood remake might be in order.

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• 1943
• UK
• 163 min
• U

• Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Written by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook

In Powell & Pressburger's poignant masterpiece, Clive Candy (Livesey, superb) starts out as a hotheaded Boer War hero and ages 40 years into a portly Home Guard general who keeps falling for the same kind of girl (Kerr, luminous). Spry and delightful after nearly 70 years, it's presented here in a crisp digital restoration.

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• 2012
• US
• 94 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Written by: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
• Cast: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman

When 12-year-old orphan Sam (Gilman) convinces Suzy (Hayward) to run away with him, her parents (Murray, McDormand), the local scoutmaster (Norton), sheriff (Willis) and Social Services (Swinton) are soon in pursuit. Anderson's new movie will delight his fans; others may consider it overlong, whimsical and emotionally lightweight.

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• 2012
• Australia
• 152 min

• Directed by: Roger Hodgman

Opera Australia's finest singers perform the story of forbidden romance between a British Army soldier stationed in India during the Raj and a beautiful Hindi princess.

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• 2012
• France

• Directed by: John Lanchbery

Ballet performance of Marius Petipa's seminal work recounting the impossible love between a dancer and a warrior.

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• 1949
• UK
• 84 min
• U

• Directed by: Henry Cornelius
• Cast: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray

A London borough discovers an ancient charter and declares its independence and exemption from rationing. Wonderful wit and fun as the Ealing Studios satirise British red tape and bureaucracy.

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• 2012
• US
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Written by: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof
• Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron

Sci-fi adventure in which a team of scientists investigating alien life forms becomes stranded and has to fight a battle in which the safety of mankind is at stake.

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• 2011
• UK
• 111 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Lasse Halström
• Written by: Simon Beaufoy
• Cast: Ewan Mcgregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas

A nerdish fisheries expert (McGregor) and a sophisticated legal aide (Blunt) are recruited by an angling-obsessed sheik (Waked) to realize the vision of the title. What worked on the page is an insubstantial muddle on film, thanks to an unfocused script and Hallström’s preference for broad emotions over subtlety and complexity.

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• 2011
• Belguim/Italy/France
• 124 min
• 15

• Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu
• Written by: Alain-Michel Blanc, Radu Mihaileanu
• Cast: Leila Bekhti, Hafisa Herzi, Biyouna

In a drought-ridden village somewhere between Africa and the Middle East, the men do little while the women are expected to fetch the water in sweltering heat; eventually, Leila (Bekhti) organises a revolt. What could have been a one-dimensional tale deepens into something more considered, told with engaging warmth.

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• 1982
• US
• 96 min
• PG

• Directed by: Steven Lisberger
• Cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor

One of the first films about computer gaming, this thriller sees Bridges' games designer ripped off by his boss and subsequently sucked into a virtual world where he must play against his own programmes to survive.

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