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9: Nine
- 2019
- India
- 2h 29min
- 15
- Directed by: Jenuse Mohammed
- Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Wamiqa Gabbi, Alok
A father does whatever it takes to protect his son from mysterious forces.
83%Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Alita: Battle Angel
- 2019
- US
- 2h 2min
- 12A
- Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
- Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson
Three years after a savage war, Dr Dyson Ido (Waltz) finds a cyborg head on a scrapheap, which he gives to a body and names Alita. The story is a bit of a grab-bag of ideas, but Salazar shines via motion capture as a truly splendid teen action heroine.
53%Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
3D
3D / Over-18s only
Thu 21 Feb
Fri 22 Feb
Over-18s only
All is True
- 2019
- UK
- 1h 41min
- Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
- Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti, Jack Colgrave Hirst
William Shakespeare (Branagh) comes back to Stratford to find his family estranged from him. Branagh and screenwriter Elton search for the man behind the myth, but lose sight of the genius; there’s no sense of the writer’s intelligence or empathy and only McKellen as the Earl of Southampton brings any life to the proceedings.
Wed 20 Feb
Aquaman
- 2018
- US
- 2h 23min
- Directed by: James Wan
- Cast: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman
Jason Momoa stars as the heir to Atlantis in the latest DC superhero flick.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Bohemian Rhapsody
- 2018
- UK/USA
- 1h 31min
- 12A
- Directed by: Bryan Singer
- Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, Mike Myers
The Freddie Mercury story. Malek as Mercury does a great job, with a passionate and impressive performance, but despite the recreation of momentous performances it’s a disappointingly tame affair, with a by-the-numbers screenplay and a bland lack of insight into Mercury’s heritage or sexuality.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Bumblebee
- 2018
- US
- 1h 53min
- 12A
- Directed by: Travis Knight
- Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, Pamela Adlon
In 80s California, Charlie (Steinfeld) is a grieving teenage auto mechanic who finds a broken-down VW Beetle which turns out to be Autobot B-127. Knight’s Transformers prequel injects much needed charm and fun into the franchise, with a nice bond between Bee and Charlie, and even the robot fights have wit and precision.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Sun 24 Feb
Wed 27 Feb
A Dog's Way Home
- 2019
- US
- 1h 36min
- PG
- Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
- Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard (voice), Jonah Hauer-King, Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos
Bella (voiced by Howard) a pit bull mix, has plenty of adventures on her journey from New Mexico back to her own owner in Colorado. Simple, shamelessly manipulative fare for children of all ages, with a sunny disposition that reflects the heroine’s own genial outlook.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
- 2018
- Japan
- 1h 40min
- PG
- Directed by: Tatsuya Nagamine
- Cast: Vic Mignogna, Christopher Sabat, Jason Douglas
Goku and Vegeta face a powerful Sayan warrior.
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
- 2019
- India
- 2h
- 12A
- Directed by: Shelly Chopra Dhar
- Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla
Hindi coming-of-age tale about Sweety (Kapoor), a young lesbian woman whose family want her to get married.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Over-18s only
Thu 21 Feb
Escape Room
- 2019
- South Africa / US
- 1h 40min
- 15
- Directed by: Adam Robitel
- Cast: Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller
A group of people find themselves solving a series of deadly puzzles in an escape room. The acting is convincing and the whole thing is pleasingly put together, but it’s also ridiculously silly, and you may find that if you can solve the puzzles sooner than the characters can, your patience may be tested.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
The Favourite
- 2018
- Ireland / UK / US
- 15
- Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult
In the court of Queen Anne (Colman), power is wielded by Lady Sarah Marlborough (Weisz), but then Sarah’s young cousin Abigail (Stone) arrives. Brash, bawdy and beguiling, and a deceptively acute commentary on the nature of power, with career-best work from Weisz and Stone and a commanding performance from Colman as the ailing Queen.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Glass
- 2019
- US
- 2h 8min
- 15
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin (McAvoy) from Shyamalan’s Split and David (Willis) from his Unbreakable are incarcerated together with the second film’s Mr Glass (Jackson), in this closer to the trilogy. There’s plenty of suspense and fine acting from the three leads, but it would have been better if it had seemed less self-congratulatory. Flawed but entertaining.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Green Book
- 2018
- US
- 2h 10min
- Directed by: Peter Farrelly
- Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Don Shirley (Ali), virtuoso pianist, is chauffeured around the American South in 1962 by his Italian-American driver Tony (Mortensen), and much learning ensues. It’s beautifully made and very worthy, but far too gentle and broad to be effective; Tony, rather than Don, is the heart of the story and it lacks bite.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
The Grinch
- 2018
- US
- 1h 26min
- PG
- Directed by: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
- Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Cameron Seely, Angela Lansbury
The Grinch (Cumberbatch) is a grumpy, green creature who despises Christmas so much that he plots to steal it. The animation is gorgeous, the pace is breezy and Cumberbatch does a decent job with the voice, but the film is stolen by the Grinch’s adorable dog Max.
Sun 24 Feb
Gully Boy
- 2019
- India
- Directed by: Zoya Akhtar
- Cast: Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Siddhant Chaturvedi
Hindi drama about street rappers in Mumbai.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Happy Death Day
- 2017
- US
- 1h 36min
- 15
- Directed by: Christopher Landon
- Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine
Student Tree Gelbman (Rothe) is forced to relive the day of her grisly murder over and over again until she finds out who killed her. Rothe deftly switches between terror, exasperation, composure and mischief, in a surprisingly funny and effective horror comedy which is very aware that it’s Scream meets Groundhog Day.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Fri 22 Feb
Over-18s only
Hey Duggee
- UK
- 1h 3min
- U
- Directed by: Grant Orchard
- Cast: Jasmine Bartholomew, Alexander Armstrong, Poppy Boyes
Episodes of the animated CBeebies show.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Sun 31 Mar
If Beale Street Could Talk
- 2018
- US
- 1h 57min
- Directed by: Barry Jenkins
- Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
Tish (Layne) and Fonny (James) are friends since childhood who grow up to realise that they’re soulmates, but then Fonny gets arrested and charged with rape. Jenkins’s follow-up to Moonlight is an enchanting, heartbreaking love story, adapted from James Baldwin’s novel. A great film with anger in its tender heart.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Instant Family
- 2019
- US
- 1h 58min
- 12A
- Directed by: Sean Anders
- Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner
Pete (Wahlberg) and Elie (Byrne) are a couple who decide to try fostering children, and they take in teenage Lizzy (Moner) and her siblings. A good vehicle for Wahlberg’s blue-collar charm, with humour that feels earned and details that have the smack of real experience. Manipulative but likable.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Kala Shah Kala
- 2019
- India
- Directed by: Amarjit Singh
- Cast: Sargun Mehta, Binnu Dhillon, Nirmal Rishi
Punjabi comedy.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
The Kid Who Would Be King
- 2019
- UK
- 2h
- PG
- Directed by: Joe Cornish
- Cast: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Angus Imrie, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Ferguson
Alex (Serkis), escaping from school bullies, finds a sword sticking out of a cement post which he and mate Bedders (Chaumoo) decide is Excalibur. Entertaining, but with too many unanswered questions, and Ferguson as Morgana is wasted for most of the movie. Shame, because the kids are terrific.
Tue 19 Feb
Subtitled
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
- 2019
- US / Australia / Denmark
- 1h 46min
- U
- Directed by: Rob Schrab
- Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Stephanie Beatriz
Despite living in the Mad Max-style nightmare of Apocalypseburg, Emmet (Pratt) is still his cheery self—until his friends are kidnapped by the alien queen (Haddish). There are lots of good jokes and plenty of fun, but it’s not quite up to the magical original.
Tue 19 Feb
3D
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
3D
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
- 2019
- India
- 2h 53min
- 15
- Directed by: Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi
- Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Danny Denzongpa, Ankita Lokhande
The story of one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Mary Poppins Returns
- 2018
- US
- 2h 10min
- PG
- Directed by: Rob Marshall
- Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep
Michael Banks (Whishaw) is facing ruin after the death of his wife, and his sister Jane (Mortimer) can’t help—but then Mary Poppins (Blunt) sails down from the sky. Blunt is suitably brusque and radiant and a fine songstress, and while it’s a sliver of a story it’s impressively imaginative and unashamedly, triumphantly nostalgic.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Northern Ballet: Elves & the Shoemaker
- 2019
- UK
- Cast: Sebastian Loe, Olivia Holland, Filippo Di Vilio, Kiara Flavin, Saskia Wilkinson, Gavin McCaig, Duncan Anderson, Nami Kitagawa, Dominique Larose, Hironao Takahashi
Northern Ballet retell the classic tale from the Brothers Grimm.
Sat 23 Feb
Ralph Breaks the Internet
- 2018
- US
- 1h 52min
- PG
- Directed by: Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
- Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Taraji P. Henson
Ralph (Reilly) and Vanellope (Silverman) have to go to the internet when her game, Sugar Rush, needs a new part. What could have been yet another film about how amazeballs the internet is, becomes a savvy and sweet tale of friendship, subtly weaving the in-jokes with the emotional stakes.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Sat 2 Mar
Sun 3 Mar
Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
Cervantes's story of the bumbling knight Don Quixote has inspired countless artistic interpretations. Marius Petipa choreographed this sparkling ballet about the encounters of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. At its heart are virtuoso roles for the lovers Basilio and Kitri.
Carlos Acosta chose this joyful classic for his first production for The Royal Ballet. His vibrant staging brings together the whole Company in such roles as exuberant villagers, passionate gypsies and even fantasy flowers.
The story follows Don Quixote's picaresque journey to do deeds in honour of his imaginary noble lady, Dulcinea. Sunny, charming, funny and touching - Don Quixote is a ballet as full of uplifting emotion as it is of astonishing ballet technique.
Choreography by Carlos Acosta after Marius Petipa. Music by Ludwig Minkus. Arranged and orchestrated by Martin Yates.
Tue 19 Feb
Second Act
- 2018
- US
- 12A
- Directed by: Peter Segal
- Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini
Maya (Lopez) is an undervalued employee of Value Shop whose godson, unbeknownst to her, pimps her CV, leading her to a flash new job as a product development consultant. It’s got likeable characters and J. Lo’s superstar charisma remains undiminished, but then it succumbs to the usual comedy clichés.
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Stan & Ollie
- 2018
- UK / Canada / US
- Directed by: Jon S. Baird
- Cast: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Nina Arianda, Rufus Jones, Susy Kane
Stan Laurel (Coogan) and Oliver Hardy (Reilly) are touring postwar Britain in the hope of bankrolling their next picture, but their time seems to be passing. A classy, ambitious look at the gruelling nature of showbiz, weaving Laurel & Hardy’s routines into the fabric of the story; Coogan is particularly good and it’s a loving nod to two of cinema’s greats.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
Uda Aida
- India
- Directed by: Ksshitij Chaudhary
- Cast: Neeru Bajwa, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Karamjit Anmol
Punjabi movie about a family who want their son to go to a posh school.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
The Upside
- 2017
- US
- 2h 6min
- 12A
- Directed by: Neil Burger
- Cast: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman
Dell (Hart) is an unemployed ex-con who gets a job as live-in carer to millionaire Phil (Cranston), paralysed after a hang-gliding accident, and the pair forge an unlikely friendship. Predictable but entertaining remake of the French smash hit comedy-drama Untouchable, with a fine and affecting performance from Hart in particular. Entertaining if formulaic.
Tue 19 Feb
Wed 20 Feb
Thu 21 Feb
Over-18s only
A 25 screen Vue with over 5,100 seats makes it the largest cinema in Birmingham. There are three 'gold class' screens which offer leather seats and a separate bar.
There is free car park. Bus route 66 runs through Star City.
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