Vue Manchester Lowry

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• 2013
• US
• 93 min
• 15

• Directed by: Jon Lucas/Scott Moore
• Cast: Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Jonathan Keltz

Promising student Jeff (Chon) is coerced by best friends Miller (Teller) and Casey (Astin) into going on a drinking spree the night before his medical school interview. The central trio lack presence, the gags mostly miss and it's not as much fun as Lucas and Moore's script for The Hangover.

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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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• 1967
• US
• 111 min
• 18

• Directed by: Arthur Penn
• Written by: David Newman, Robert Benton, Special Consultant:, Robert Towne
• Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons

This stylish and gritty account of the relationship and activities of two self-publicised bank robbers was a late-1960s milestone in making extreme screen violence curiously fashionable. Great performances from Hackman and Dunaway, a genuine sense of the thrill involved in their nefarious activities, and telling period detail make this one of Penn's best.

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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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• 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
• 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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• 1995
• UK
• 93 min
• 18

• Directed by: Danny Boyle
• Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald

John Hodge's screenplay perfectly captures the desperate humour of Irvine Welsh's novel, keeping the episodic structure of junkie scenes for the first half before concentrating on Renton in London in the later stages. Fast and stylish direction, with a creative soundtrack and acting that's off-the-rails excellent, this cinematic blast from beginning to end shows a complex – and true – understanding of the lure and fatal consequences of drug-taking.

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