Empire Basildon

• 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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• 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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• 2013
• US
• 98 min
• U

• Directed by: Kirk De Micco/Chris Sanders
• Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone

Passing from Aardman to DreamWorks, this animation follows a caveman's position as leader of his tribe, and how it's threatened by a prehistoric genius who keeps inventing things like fire.

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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
• 91 min
• 18

• Directed by: Fede Alvarez
• Cast: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas

The aptly-named Diablo Cody joins Sam Raimi and others in penning this remake of the 1981 horror classic.

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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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• 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/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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• 2012
• US
• 127 min
• PG

• Directed by: Ang Lee
• Written by: Yann Martel, David Magee
• Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall

Ravishing version of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, in which Indian boy Pi (Sharma) is lost at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. A beautiful and faithfully-adapted adventure story, demonstrating that Lee hasn’t lost his knack for turning literary subjects into cinematic gold.

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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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• 2012
• US
• 130 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeff Nichols
• Written by: Jeff Nichols (screenplay)
• Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon

McConaughey stars as a fugitive who enlists the help of two teenage boys to escape his pursuers.

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• 2013
• US
• 126 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
• Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough

Cruise stars as a court martialled soldier sent to a distant planet where he is tasked with destroying an alien race. Director Kosinski's follow-up to TRON: Legacy is based on a graphic novel he himself wrote.

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• 2013
• US
• 120 min
• 15

• Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
• Written by: Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt
• Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman

When a team of Korean paramilitaries take the US President (Eckhart) hostage, it's up to disgraced security chief Mike Banning (Butler) to stage a rescue attempt. In its certainty about good guys and bad guys it has a certain nostalgic seduction, but it's basically derivative, cheesy and fantastically unconvincing.

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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

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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• 2012
• Belgium
• 92 min
• U

• Directed by: Vincent Kesteloot/Ben Stassen
• Cast: Voices of Wesley Johnny, Isabelle Fuhrman, Billy Unger

This charmless sequel to 2010's forgettable A Turtle's Tale would be better titled Sammy's Painfully Long Incarceration, as leatherback turtle Sammy and pal Ray are kidnapped by employees of a restaurant. A truly disturbing scene in which a lobster watches a pal being cut up and eaten makes this suitable only for the naughtiest children.

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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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• 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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