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• 2013
• US
• 107 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Paul Weitz
• Cast: Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben, Paul Rudd

Portia (Fey) is an uptight admissions officer at Princeton, whose life is shaken up when she meets John (Rudd), a laid-back teacher at an alternative high school. Admission tries to combine life-crisis drama with rom-com, but the leads are uncharacteristically charmless and the clichéd script takes itself far too seriously.

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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
• 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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• 2013
• US
• 118 min
• 15

• Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Cast: Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Rob Lowe

Soderbergh goes for his sabbatical on a high, with this sparkling account of the relationship between flamboyant pianist Liberace (Douglas) and his much younger lover Scott Thorson (Damon). The two leads are outstanding, and with wonderful cameos from Lowe, Reynolds and Aykroyd it's a surprisingly tender and poignant film.

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• 2013
• US/Fiji
• PG

• Directed by: Stuart St Paul
• Written by: Jean Heard, Stuart St Paul
• Cast: Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman

In their first feature film, ageing rockers Status Quo witness a murder while in Fiji for a gig. They flee with the evidence (naturally), and find time to provide a double-album soundtrack in the process.

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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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• 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

Scene-by-scene spoof of the Paranormal Activity movies, in which Malcolm (Wayans) invites his girlfriend Kisha (Atkins) to his home, only for their evening to be spoiled by predatory white neighbours, a gay psychic, a demon and the fact that Kisha sleeps in a hairnet. Derivative, mean-spirited, misogynistic and shambolic.

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• 2013
• US
• 119 min
• 12A

• 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/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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• 2010
• US
• E

• Directed by: Mary Zimmerman
• Cast: Renee Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford

Rossini's opera version of the myth of a woman who seduces and enchants men into her island prison.

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• 2011
• US

• Directed by: David McVicar
• Cast: Patricia Racette, Sondra Radvanovsky

Set in 15th century Spain, this is a horrifying tale of abduction, murder and torture.

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• 2012
• US
• 185 min

• Cast: Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Verdi's opera about the passionate, consumptive Violetta, broadcast live from The Met Opera in New York.

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• 2013
• US
• 110 min
• U

• Directed by: Dan Scanlon
• Cast: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Tilly

This prequel to Monsters, Inc. explores the tumultuous relationship between Mike and Sulley when they met at the University of Fear.

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• 2012
• US
• 107 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Joss Whedon
• Written by: William Shakespeare, Joss Whedon
• Cast: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Nathan Fillion

Shakespeare's spiky, witty, problematic play is the grandparent of the modern romcom, and Whedon's version is no stunt: he's been conducting private readings of it for years. The actors are experienced and adept (with Acker a particular pleasure as Beatrice) and it's realised with simplicity, elegance and emotional directness.

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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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• 2013
• US

• Directed by: Klay Hall
• Written by: Jeffrey M Howard
• Cast: Voices of Val Kilmer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Teri Hatcher, John Cleese

The cloud-chasing counterparts of Cars sees Dusty, a cropduster, try to overcome his fear of heights to enter an aerial race and make his dreams come true.

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• 2013
• US
• 85 min
• 15

• Directed by: James DeMonaco
• Cast: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane

In an America wracked with crime, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour window where criminal activity goes unpunished. On this one night a family face an intruder and must pull together to survive the encounter.

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A live screening of a mixed programme of five ballets from the choreographer.

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• 2012
• UK
• 105 min

The Royal Ballet performs Frederick Ashton's delightful 1959 version of this chipper two-act comic ballet, whose title translates as The Wayward Daughter.

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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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• 2011
• UK
• E

• Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd
• Cast: Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Dimitri Pittas

Phyllida Lloyd directs a production of Verdi's take on Shakespearean tragedy – live from the Royal Opera House.

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• 2012
• UK
• 133 min

• Directed by: John Eliot Gardiner
• Cast: Dimitri Platanias, Ekaterina Siurina, Vittorio Grigolo

Verdi's great tragic opera, in which a court jester seeks bloody revenge on his dissolute master, the Duke of Mantua, for the abduction of his daughter.

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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/UAE
• 112 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
• Written by: Justin Haythe, Ric Roman Waugh
• Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal

John Matthews (Johnson) is an honest trucking company manager who agrees to go undercover for the DEA after his son is set up by a drug-dealing friend. Waugh's gritty approach sees Johnson successfully moving away from the franchise blockbuster; it's a solid, character-based thriller with a realistic perspective on America's war on drugs.

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• 2013
• UK
• 95 min

• Directed by: Baillie Walsh

Ridley Scott put on his producer hat for this everyman project, where Springsteen fans from around the globe contribute their amateur footage to create a filmic portrait of the Boss.

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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

An on-screen walk through of the major solo exhibition of the Dutch painter's work at the National Gallery in London.

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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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