Cineworld Didsbury

• 2013
• UK
• 106 min
• U

• Directed by: Ben Gregor
• Written by: Paul Gerstenberger
• Cast: Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ashley Jensen

To save the youth centre, two kids look to the power of movement to raise funds in an ambitious dance show.

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• 2013
• Netherlands
• E

• Cast: André Rieu

The virtuoso violinist returns again to his hometown for a huge open air concert, broadcast live via satellite.

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• 2012
• US
• 90 min
• 15

• Directed by: Justin Zackham
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton

There's a big family wedding coming up, so long-divorced couple Ellie (Keaton) and Don (De Niro) do the only proper thing – pretend to still be married.

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• 2009
• Austria
• 300 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Claus Guth
• Cast: Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Bo Skovhus

Live production of Mozart's classic from The Royal Opera.

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• 2013
• US

• Directed by: Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud
• Cast: Al Pacino, Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove

This sequel to the 2010 film sees Al Pacino and Steve Coogan join the cast.

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• 2013
• US
• 102 min
• U

• Directed by: Chris Wedge
• Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé Knowles

From the director of Ice Age comes this story of a teenage girl who is sucked from the earthly realm into a fantastical woodland, where she finds the forces of good and evil at battle. Mary Katherine (voiced by Seyfried) joins the fray – on the side of good, one suspects – in order to help save this magical world – and ours.

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• 2013
• US
• 130 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Justin Lin
• Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Gina Carano, Jordana Brewster

Justin Lin's third entry into this series sees O'Conner and Toretto team up to take down a heroin importer.

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• 2000
• UK
• 140 min
• E

• Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
• Cast: Josephine Barstow, Tom Randall

Phyllida Lloyd's 1984 film adaptation of the opera about Elizabeth I, written by Benjamin Britten to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.

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• 2013
• US/Australia
• 143 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton

Luhrmann's typically exuberant take on the novel by F Scott Fitzgerald features DiCaprio as the titular millionaire.

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• 2013
• US
• 100 min
• 15

• Directed by: Todd Phillips
• Cast: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms

Phil, Stu and Alan face another morning filled with headache and regret in Todd Phillips' comedy juggernaut.

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• 2013
• US

• Directed by: Shawn Levy
• Written by: Vince Vaughn
• Cast: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella

Two friends in their forties become interns for an internet company where their managers are half their age.

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• 2013
• US/China
• 129 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Shane Black
• Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow

Screenwriting legend Shane Black takes the reins for Robert Downey Jr's third individual outing as billionaire eccentric Tony Stark.

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• 2013
• US/Canada

• Directed by: Zack Snyder
• Cast: Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams

Snyder brings Superman back to life in this reboot written by Batman beginner David S Goyer.

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• 2010
• US
• 207 min
• E

• Cast: Karita Mattila

The Met Opera's powerful version of Puccini's dramatic three-way love story between a doomed heroine, a persecuted artist and a ruthless villain.

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• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Stephen Daldry
• Written by: Peter Morgan
• Cast: Helen Mirren

Mirren puts on a crown once more to play at being the Queen. Broadcast live from London's West End, The Audience finds HRH taking audiences with each of the twelve Prime Ministers of her reign in a play written by The Queen screenwriter Morgan.

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• 1982
• US
• 124 min
• 15

• Directed by: Taylor Hackford
• Written by: Douglas Day Stewart
• Cast: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr, David Keith, Lisa Blount, Robert Loggia, Tony Plana

On the surface this popular 80s romance is a manipulative weepie charting the relationship between Gere's military pilot and lover Winger. Beneath, it's a hymn to Reagan's self-serving America. It's also racist, misogynistic and pro-military trash. Avoid.

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• 2013
• US
• 130 min
• PG

• Directed by: Sam Raimi
• Cast: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz

Raimi's visually lush prequel to The Wizard of Oz, spawned from L Frank Baum's 1900 novel, finds Oz (Franco) deciding which side of the curtain of good and evil he'll end up on.

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• 2013
• UK
• 85 min

This live screening, hosted by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and others, looks at the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, and features films depicting how these Roman cities look today.

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• 2013
• UK

Big-screen projection of the Royal Opera House's staging of Tchaikovsky's melancholic and poignant opera, based on the novel by Pushkin.

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• 2013
• UK

Benjamin Britten's three-act opera depicting the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.

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• 2013
• UK

Rossini's opera based on the poem 'The Lady of the Lake', by Sir Walter Scott, performed by the Royal Opera House.

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• 2013

One of Shakespeare's many plays about men with numbers in their names, in a live screening direct from the Globe in London.

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• 2013

A live screening, direct from the Globe in London, of Shakespeare's play that's about either a mouse-like creature or a headstrong woman. One or the other.

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• 2013

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some are actors bringing you Shakespeare's 1601 comedy live from the Globe in London.

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• 
• 2013
• US
• 129 min
• 12A

• Directed by: JJ Abrams
• Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana

When ex-Starfleet commander John Harrison (Cumberbatch) attacks Earth, the Enterprise crew pursues him. It's more of the same: funny, dramatic and exciting, and if it's not as fresh as the 2009 film, Pine and Quinto's squabbling bromance gives it heart, Pegg and Urban are excellent and Cumberbatch is thrillingly cold.

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• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Shane Meadows

Meadows' documentary charts the eagerly anticipated return of the seminal Madchester band.

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• 2012
• US
• 92 min
• U

• Directed by: Roberts Gannaway, Peggy Holmes
• Cast: Voices of: Timothy Dalton, Lucy Hale and Megan Hilty

The latest adventures of the mischievous fairy.

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• 2012
• US
• 108 min

• Directed by: Rich Moore
• Cast: Voices of John C Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch

This cleverly-targeted family romp set in the world of videogames marks a step up both commercially and artistically for the non-Pixar side of Disney animation. The script is brilliantly witty; the visuals sweep, swoop and sparkle; and the message about flawed individuals finding their own way to be heroes is a kindly one, intelligently expressed.

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