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• 2021
• US / Canada
• 1h 33min
• U

• Directed by: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
• Cast: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon Walton, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, Bill Hader

The further adventures of Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday and the rest of the Addams family.

• 54%

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• 2021

• Cast: André Rieu

The King of the Waltz brings you a festive spectacular from his newly created Winter Palace in his hometown of Maastricht.

Immerse yourself in the spirit of the season while singing and dancing away to lovely Christmas carols, romantic waltzes and beautiful melodies like Jingle Bells, O Holy Night, Hallelujah, a show-stopping performance of Walking in the Air and many more! Marvel at the magnificent palace decorations including 150 beautiful chandeliers, over 50 Venetian candelabras and huge arched windows revealing a joyous wintery landscape including ice rinks and ice skaters.

Christmas with André is guaranteed to warm your hearts and get you in the festive spirit. Join André for his inaugural Christmas concert all from the comfort of your local cinema. An unforgettable festive treat for the whole family.

André Rieu says: “Christmas is my favourite time of the year and nothing could be better than spending it with my friends, family and fans in my hometown. I want to invite my cinema audiences on this beautiful journey to Christmas wonderland.”

Bring your loved ones and enjoy this spectacular musical event on the big screen. Accompanying classic Christmas tunes and some incredible surprises, cinema audiences will also enjoy exclusive backstage access, and cinema host Charlotte Hawkins will be speaking with André about the creation of his musical winter wonderland.

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• 2021
• UK

• Directed by: Kathleen Marshall
• Cast: Sutton Foster, Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendal, Gary Wilmot

Filmed live at the Barbican in London, this major new 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster reprising her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney, alongside three-time Olivier Award and Tony Award winner Robert Lindsay (My Family), Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and beloved West End Legend Gary Wilmot (Chicago).

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic, directed by the multi-award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, features Cole Porter’s joyful score, including I Get A Kick Out of You, You’re the Top and the show stopping Anything Goes.

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• 2020
• 1h
• U

• Directed by: Declan Doyle
• Cast: Rafferty Railton, David Threlfall, Eve Bentley

Bing, Flop, Sula and Sula's cousin Nicky open presents and tell festive stories. Also includes the episodes 'Leaf Pictures', 'Face Paint' and 'Puppet Show'.

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• 2017
• USA
• 1h 37min
• U

• Directed by: Tom McGrath
• Written by: Marla Frazee/Michael McCullers
• Cast: Miles Christopher Bakshi, Alec Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi

The Boss Baby (Baldwin) is a tot with the mannerisms of a ruthless corporate tycoon, who upsets seven year old Tim (Bakshi). The frantic visual style and crude slapstick overwrite the charm of the original story by Marla Frazee, and there’s not much for audiences to take to their hearts.

• 63%
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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 5min
• U

The annual CBeebies Christmas show. For 2021, the magical story is The Night Before Christmas.

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• 2020
• UK
• 1h 34min
• PG

• Directed by: Jacqui Morris
• Cast: Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman

An inventive re-imagining of Dickens' classic, which enters the imagination of a young child in the audience of a Victorian production of A Christmas Carol.

• 49%

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• 1988
• US
• 2h 11min
• 18

• Directed by: John McTiernan
• Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov

Willis plays a cop who attends a tower block Christmas party with his estranged spouse. The building is raided by terrorists, so it's left to Willis to bump off the baddies and save the hostages while the police and FBI languish ineptly on the sidelines. Unbearably tense actioner that gets good mileage out of yawning lift-shafts and flying bullets, while Willis is convincing as an ordinary guy trying to cope with it all. Watch out for Brit Rickman as a villain with a sense of humour.

• 82%
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• 2021
• US
• 2h 35min
• 12A

• Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
• Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen

The director of Blade Runner 2049 takes a crack at Frank Herbert's notoriously unfilmable sci-fi epic. The story is to be split across two films.

• 82%

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• 2003
• US
• 1h 36min
• PG

• Directed by: Jon Favreau
• Written by: David Berenbaum
• Cast: Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen

Buddy (Ferrell) is a big Elf who, though accepted in his Elvish community at the North Pole, manages to wreak havoc on a daily basis. Fed up and confused by his charge, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) sends him to the US in search of his true identity. Hilarious and puerile Yuletide comedy.

• 70%
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• 2021
• US
• 1h 39min
• PG

• Directed by: Byron Howard, Jared Bush
• Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, John Leguizamo, María Cecilia Botero, Diane Guerrero, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Wilmer Valderrama

A Colombian girl is frustrated at being the only member of her family without magic powers.

• 77%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: Chloé Zhao
• Cast: Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Dong-seok Ma, Lia McHugh, Lauren Ridloff

Another team of superhumans from the pages of Marvel comic books.

• 68%

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 48min
• 15

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Cast: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson

A collection of comedy-drama stories published in the eponymous fictional newspaper, The French Dispatch.

• 75%

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• 2021
• India
• 1h 54min
• PG

• Directed by: Pankaj Batra
• Cast: Jasmin Bajwa, Binnu Dhillon, Siddhika Sharma, Jassie Gill, Gurnam Bhullar, Annu Chaudhary

All hell breaks loose when the decision maker of a family, Arjun Singh, approves of a marriage proposal for his niece with his arch-rival, Chand. As they navigate the new dynamics of their relationship in a comedy of errors, both realise that there's more to life than holding grudges.

• 71%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 4min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jason Reitman
• Cast: Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim

Another instalment for the ever popular Ghostbusters franchise. This is a sequel to the first two films and is directed by Jason Reitman, son of their director, Ivan Reitman.

• 77%

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 45min
• 18

• Directed by: David Gordon Green
• Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, Andi Matichak

The continuing saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.

• 57%

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• 2005
• UK / US
• 2h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: Mike Newell
• Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Harry and his mates get busy at the inter-school of magic TriWizard Tournament, only to be faced with the return of evil mastermind Lord Voldemort (Fiennes). Overlong but entertaining enough adaptation of fourth Potter book directed with by Brit Newell.

• 77%
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• 2007
• UK / US
• 2h 18min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Yates
• Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

With Harry's fifth return to Hogwarts comes the realisation that Voldemort's return to power is not the only factor that will trouble him and he is forced to confront a different force that matches his growing pains. Rowling's most complex and uneven book has proven to be the most difficult to adapt. Missing the talents of a big name director this still contains some enjoyable moments courtesy of newcomer Imelda Staunton, playing the latest Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Sadly exposition over action is this film's real undoing.

• 75%
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• 2020
• UK
• 1h
• U

• Directed by: Grant Orchard

An hour of fun with Duggee and pals.

• 63%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 37min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino

The turbulent marriage and divorce of Patrizia and Maurizio Gucci, the head of the Gucci fashion house, leads to murder.

• 70%

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• 2020
• India
• 2h 13min
• PG

• Directed by: Pankaj Verma
• Cast: Aditi Sharma, Satinder Sartaaj, Shiwani Saini

A romantic film directed by Pankaj Verma.

• 83%

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• 2021
• Pakistan
• 2h 11min
• 12A

• Directed by: Nabeel Qureshi
• Written by: Nabeel Qureshi, Fizza Ali Meerza
• Cast: Bilal Abbas Khan, Sajal Aly, Marina Khan, Samina Ahmed, Jawed Sheikh, Farhan Ally Agha, Naveed Raza, Mojiz Hasan, Sheheryar Munawar, Ramsha Khan

Two generations; one responsible for brutality against Bangladeshis and a younger generation who have been lied to.

• 79%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 18min
• 12A

• Directed by: Reinaldo Marcus Green
• Cast: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, Jon Bernthal

Venus and Serena Williams came from an unlikely background to dominate the world of tennis. Taking a look these tennis superstars and how they became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.

• 76%

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• 2021
• India
• 2h 20min
• 12A

• Directed by: Srinath Rajendran
• Cast: Dulquer Salmaan, Indrajith Sukumaran, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sunny Wayne, Bharath Srinivasan, Shine Tom Chacko, Surabhi Lakshmi, Vijayaraghavan Pillai

Biopic of the notorious criminal Sukumara Kurup.

• 80%

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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 56min
• 18

• Directed by: Edgar Wright
• Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, Rita Tushingham

A psychological horror thriller from director Edgar Wright.

• 73%

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• 2003
• UK / US
• 2h 15min
• 15

• Directed by: Richard Curtis
• Written by: Richard Curtis
• Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Rowan Atkinson

Curtis aims to prove the anodyne point that love is actually all around us with a huge cast and several different story strands. So we see Nighy, Thompson, Grant, Colin Firth, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Andrew Lincoln and Laura Linney all pop up to play out their roles. Lightweight and over-populated romantic comedy.

• 76%
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• 1999
• US / Australia
• 2h 16min
• 15

• Directed by: The Wachowskis
• Written by: The Wachowskis
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano

Absolutely gobsmacking science fiction thriller boasting cutting edge special effects, rocking action sequences, a smart story and an immensely entertaining cartoon sensibility (the film was storyboarded by comic artist Geoff Darrow). In the future day-to-day life is merely a scam, a matrix camouflaging reality - a post-apocalyptic nightmare world in which humankind are a power source for domineering super-computers. Only Reeves' cyber hero, Neo, and a gang of hacker pirates stand between the evil technology and their race's extinction.

• 87%
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• 1993
• US
• 1h 16min
• PG

• Directed by: Henry Selick
• Written by: Tim Burton (story), Michael McDowell (adaptation), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
• Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Ken Page

Jack Skellington, the skinny trickster king of Halloweentown, is restless with success and needs a new challenge, so he hatches a plot to kidnap Santa and creates a mixed-up Yuletide which isn't quite what the kids expected. Produced and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton.

• 80%
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• 2021
• UK
• 2h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen

The 25th James Bond film is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and sees Daniel Craig in the lead for one last time.

• 74%

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• 2021
• India
• 1h 47min
• 12A

• Directed by: Vijay Kumar Arora
• Cast: Gippy Grewal, Neeru Bajwa

Singer Gulli and his group try to shortcut their way to success.

• 65%

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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 20min
• 15

• Directed by: Reggie Yates
• Cast: Elliot Edusah, Jordan Peters, Reda Elazouar, Kassius Nelson, Youssef Kerkour, Rebekah Murrell

Three eighteen-year-old friends travel across London on New Year's Eve 1999.

• 62%

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• 2021
• US / Germany
• 1h 46min
• 15

• Directed by: Johannes Roberts
• Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia, Donal Logue, Neal McDonough

Set in 1998, this origin story serves as a reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise.

• 56%

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• 2021
• UK / US
• 1h 46min
• PG

• Directed by: Sarah Smith
• Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, Ricardo Hurtado, Marcus Scribner, Thomas Barbusca

Ron receives a faulty robot for his birthday and together they find friendship.

• 72%

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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 43min
• 15

• Directed by: Russell Owen
• Cast: Tom Hughes, Kate Dickie, Gaia Weiss, Greta Scacchi

A young Scottish shepherd fights to maintain his sanity when the past catches up to him following the death of his unfaithful wife.

• 58%

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• 2021
• India
• 2h 25min
• 12A

• Directed by: Rohit Shetty
• Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif

DCP Veer Sooryavanshi is the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad in India.

• 64%

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• 2021
• UK / US / Germany / Chile
• 1h 51min
• 12A

• Directed by: Pablo Larraín
• Cast: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins

Pablo Larraín’s sublime ‘fable from a true story’ imagines a Christmas weekend at Sandringham in the early 1990s, as an unhappy Princess Diana contemplates saying ‘no’.

As played with intoxicating perfection by Kristen Stewart, who dominates almost every scene of Spencer, Diana is dying on the vine, showing only flashes of her former effervescence. Hers is the world’s most scrutinised persona since she began living the fairy-tale life of a girl who grew up to marry a prince; in reality, her husband rather publicly loves someone else. She’s also suffocating under the expectations of total subservience to Royal protocol. Working from a beautiful script by Steven Knight, Larraín (Jackie) ingeniously depicts a world in which every polished spoon and heavy curtain, every steely stare from staff, even a seemingly ‘jolly’ Christmas tradition, expresses Her Majesty’s disapproval of the young princess. The exquisite craft of Spencer makes you want to freeze every moment. director of photography Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) shoots in 4:3 ratio with a micro-universe of colour emerging from the muted environments designed by Guy Hendrix Dyas. And Jonny Greenwood illuminates Diana’s internal tussle with solo piano and strings. It’s oppressive, until it isn’t anymore. Stewart and Larraín deliver a finale that will break your heart and make it skip all at once.

• 70%

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• 2021
• UK
• 53min
• U

Five favourite Timmy Time episodes plus a special Christmas treat.

The episodes are Timmy’s Snowball, Timmy’s Monster, Timmy’s Christmas Surprise, Timmy’s Snowman and Timmy Slips Up.

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 30min
• 15

• Directed by: Andy Serkis
• Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson

An eccentric and largely entertaining superhero sequel.

• 61%

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• 2013
• India
• 1h 49min
• 12

• Directed by: Gurmeett Singh
• Cast: Santosh Barmola, Jitin Gulati, Manjari Phadnis

Indian thriller.

• 47%

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