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• 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
• 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
• UK
• 158 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Tom Hooper
• Written by: Claude-Michael Schonberg, Alain Boublil, Victor Hugo
• Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway

Boublil & Schönberg’s musical of Hugo’s 1862 novel is transferred to the screen by King’s Speech director Hooper. It all depends on your tolerance for people bursting into song; easy to mock, perhaps, but fun while it's on, and the sincere performances (especially Hathaway's) aid the immersion.

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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
• 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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