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• 2013
• US
• 100 min
• 12A

• Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
• Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman

Director Shyamalan follows a disastrous run (The Happening, The Last Airbender) with this sci-fi drama featuring father and son Will and Jaden Smith crashing back to Earth in the next millennium.

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• 2013
• US
• U

• 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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• 2012
• UK
• 128 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Mike Newell
• Written by: Charles Dickens, David Nicholls
• Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng

Pip (Irvine) is a poor orphan who wants to become a gentleman; thanks to a mysterious benefactor, he soon becomes involved with Estella (Grainger) and her eccentric mother Lady Havisham (Bonham-Carter). Despite an all-star cast, the flat and uninspired script makes for an overlong and limp adaptation.

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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
• 86 min
• 15

• Directed by: Michael Tiddes
• Written by: Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez
• Cast: Marlon Wayans, Marlene Forte, Essence Atkins

A couple move into a new home only to discover it's haunted not only by a ghost but by Marlon Wayans' sex jokes.

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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
• 143 min
• 12A

• 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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• 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
• 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
• US

• Directed by: James Mangold
• Cast: Hugh Jackman

This sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine sees the eponymous hero travel to Japan where he takes training from a samurai warrior.

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• 2013
• US/UK
• 15

• Directed by: Marc Forster
• Written by: Max Brooks (novel), Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay)
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox

Glasgow fills in for Philadelphia in this adaptation of Max Brooks' post-apocalyptic horror novel.

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• 2013
• UK

• Directed by: Edgar Wright
• Written by: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
• Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman

Five middle-aged friends reunite to recreate a pub crawl of their youth. As the drunken night progresses they begin to realise that all is not well in their home town. The final instalment of Pegg & Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy.

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