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• 2020
• US
• 1h 45min
• 15

• Directed by: Roger Kumble
• Cast: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Dylan Sprouse, Shane Paul McGhie, Candice King, Khadijha Red Thunder, Inanna Sarkis, Samuel Larsen, Selma Blair

This sequel to After finds Tessa and Hardin navigating more curveballs as dark secrets are revealed about the origins of their relationship.

• 52%
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• 1979
• US
• 1h 56min
• 18

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

Agatha Christie in outer space as a freighter lands on a mysterious planet and is ingeniously invaded by a ravenous intruder which proceeds to chomp its way through the cast list. Edge-of-the-seat suspense thriller with a strong cast and ghastly special effects.

• 84%
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• 2019
• Latvia
• 1h 15min
• U

• Directed by: Gints Zilbalodis

Dialogue-free animation in which a boy and a bird travel across a strange island.

• 66%
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• 2020
• US
• 1h 18min
• PG

• Directed by: Dean Parisot
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Anthony Carrigan, Kid Cudi, Jillian Bell

The third movie in the Bill and Ted series is currently in development. Alex Winter, who played Ted, has stated that the film will be about the pair as grown-ups and will not simply be a reboot of the original.

• 62%
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• 2014
• US
• 1h 37min
• PG

• Directed by: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi
• Cast: Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan

Eggs (Hempstead-Wright) lives underground with a family of Boxtrolls, marginalised creatures who make their home from rubbish. But then the trolls are hunted by a group of exterminators, led by the grotesque Snatcher (Kingsley). Adventurous, intense and sometimes disturbing animated movie, with plenty to keep adults occupied; whether kids will respond is another question.

• 68%
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• 1976
• US
• 1h 38min
• 18

• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Cast: Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Betty Buckley, PJ Soles, and Piper Laurie

DePalma's adaptation of Stephen King is still the high school angst movie to end 'em all. Distressingly awkward teen Spacek's adolescent experience is so humiliating that she develops telekinetic powers, and the school bullies finally get their comeuppance.

• 74%
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• 2020
• US
• 1h 24min
• U

• Directed by: Sean McNamara
• Cast: Princess Davis, Sarah Giles, Max Greenfield

Gwen the Cat and Roger the Dog are secret agents who save the world without humans knowing. A supervillain parrot hatches a devious scheme to break the long-standing truce between cats and dogs, and it's up to Gwen and Roger to stop him.

• 35%

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• 2020
• US
• 1h 37min

• Directed by: Zoe Lister-Jones
• Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, Michelle Monaghan, David Duchovny

Sequel to the 1996 film about young witches.

• 39%
• 55%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 59min
• 15

• Directed by: David Leitch
• Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, Morena Baccarin

When tragedy splinters Wade Wilson’s own life, it takes a meeting with a mutant kid (Dennison) and vengeful cyborg Cable (Brolin) to renew his sense of purpose. Filthy, ferocious and funny, it surpasses its predecessor by doubling down on the gleeful self-awareness and excess; the whole cast shines, and the climax is surprisingly touching.

• 77%
• 66%

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• 2019
• 1h 18min
• PG

• Directed by: Ute von Münchow-Pohl
• Cast: Jella Haase, Louis Hofmann, Leon Seidel

For more than 200 years, the Elfkins have been living beneath the earth, hiding from the upper world and avoiding any interaction with human beings. But one day, sparky Elfkin girl Helvi, unhappy at the lack of space and individual fulfilment afforded underground, climbs up to the earth's surface to find adventure.

• 61%

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• 1987
• US
• 1h 24min
• 18

• Directed by: Sam Raimi
• Written by: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
• Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry

Bruce 'fastest axe in the West' Campbell and another selection of hardy citizens gird their loins and set their chainsaws running for another ding-dong battle with the evil forces in the woods.

• 78%
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• 2013
• US
• 1h 31min
• 18

• Directed by: Fede Alvarez
• Cast: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas

The aptly-named Diablo Cody joins Sam Raimi and others in penning this remake of the 1981 horror classic.

• 65%
• 57%
• 61%

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• 1978
• US
• 1h 31min
• 18

• Directed by: John Carpenter
• Written by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
• Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis

The first and best of the series – and one of the best of all slasher movies. Escaped psycho Michael Myers returns to the town where he killed his sister several years before and picks up where he left off with remarkable ease. Pleasence is the obsessive psychiatrist on his trail, convinced he is to blame for the escape. A scary reminder of what a blood-soaked genre could achieve if only it recovered from sequelitis.

• 78%
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• UK
• 1h 3min
• U

• Directed by: Grant Orchard
• Cast: Jasmine Bartholomew, Alexander Armstrong, Poppy Boyes

Episodes of the animated CBeebies show.

• 89%

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• 1993
• US
• 1h 37min
• PG

• Directed by: Kenny Ortega
• Written by: David Kirschner/Mick Garris
• Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw

Three 17th century witches are brought back to life in modern-day Salem, and go searching for young blood to keep them immortal. Max (Katz) is our hapless hero, helped out of one predicament to the next by resourceful heroine Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The story cracks along, the effects are moderate, the gags good, but it's for the younger end of the teen market.

• 69%
• 30%

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• 2020
• US
• 1h 39min
• 15

• Directed by: Mark Williams
• Cast: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney

When a notorious bank robber falls in love, he decides to turn himself in and make a fresh start, only to be betrayed by two FBI agents.

• 62%
• 46%

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• 1993
• US
• 2h 7min
• PG

• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Wayne Knight

A group of scientists are invited to give their approval to a theme park filled with genetically engineered dinosaurs, but the giant reptiles are soon running amok. Top-notch computer effects ensure that the dinosaurs themselves are terrifyingly believable (more so than the PG certificate would suggest), but by the half-way point, it's more or less a chase movie with superior technology.

• 81%
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• 2016
• US
• 1h 42min
• PG

• Directed by: Travis Knight
• Cast: Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara, Ralph Fiennes, Brenda Vaccaro, George Takei

One-eyed origami expert Kubo (Parkinson) joins forces with no-nonsense Monkey (Theron) and goofy human/insect warrior Beetle (McConaughey) on a quest to defeat the Moon King (Fiennes). Breathtakingly beautiful stop-motion animation, maybe too scary for young kids, but with plenty of humour, fine voice performances and a story full of heart.

• 78%
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• 2019
• US
• 1h 38min
• 12A

• Directed by: Sean Olson
• Cast: Tanner Buchanan, Chad Michael Murray, Marina Sirtis

Five teens compete to win a mansion owned by an eccentric billionaire.

• 62%

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• 1984
• US
• 1h 31min
• 18

• Directed by: Wes Craven
• Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Perhaps the quintessential teenage slasher flick, A Nightmare on Elm Street obliterates the distinction between fantasy and reality. Nancy (Langenkamp) and her friends Glen (Depp), Tina (Amanda Wyss) and Rod (Nick Corri), discover they’re all being stalked in their dreams by the grotesque psychopath Freddie Krueger (Englund). As Krueger begins to systematically target each of them, the teens must stay awake for long enough to formulate a plan to stop him, or become mincemeat at the hand of his notorious razor-blade glove …

• 75%
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• 2020
• US
• 1h 52min
• U

• Directed by: Dan Scanlon
• Cast: Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Octavia Spencer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger

Adventure set in a fantasy world which has lost its magic due to a reliance on technology.

• 74%
• 61%

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• 2012
• US
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Chris Butler/Sam Fell
• Written by: Chris Butler
• Cast: Voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Norman (Smit-McPhee) can communicate with the dead, which complicates his life when he's tasked with protecting his town from a centuries-old curse. A funny and stylish kids' film, but given the reanimated corpses and terrifying witch, it's worth making sure your little 'un is prepared for terror as well as laughs.

• 70%
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• 2020
• UK

• Directed by: Barnaby Thompson
• Cast: Olivia Cooke, Alec Baldwin, Ben Hardy

A young woman plans a heist to avenge her mother's death, only to be chased by gangsters across Ireland.

• 67%

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• 1987
• US
• 1h 47min
• 18

• Directed by: John McTiernan
• Written by: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
• Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Richard Chaves, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Shane Black

Arnie and his dirty half-dozen are hired to enter a dense South American jungle to free a hostage, but lurking unseen in the foliage is a chameleon-like being waiting to skin alive any unsuspecting human to cross its path. Slow to build, but ultimately gripping macho mayhem with a real sense of threat.

• 78%
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• 1960
• US
• 1h 49min
• 15

• Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
• Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh

Hitch's misogynistic masterpiece has a young secretary take off to hicksville with a bagful of her boss' money. Unfortunately for her, she chooses to put up at the Bates' Motel, run by that nice Norman boy. The ironic dialogue ('Mother's not quite herself today') make it a joy to catch any time around. We liked it, didn't we mother … mother?

• 85%
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• 2014

Puccini's opera, performed at the Royal Opera House in London.

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• 2019
• UK
• 1h 24min
• 15

• Directed by: Rose Glass
• Cast: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight

Maud (Clark) is an obsessively religious nurse, working in palliative care for retired dancer Amanda (Ehle), whose uninhibited lifestyle sets Maud on edge. Impressive first feature from Glass, which turns into a surreal nightmare of loneliness and doom: barnstorming performances from Clark and Ehle set the screen on fire.

• 71%
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• 1980
• US
• 2h 4min
• U

• Directed by: Irvin Kershner
• Written by: George Lucas, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan
• Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz

Arguably the best Star Wars film, the middle part of the original trilogy is packed with drama, tension, humour and a belter of a cliffhanger. Much of its impact has been lost to familiarity (that twist) but it's a masterpiece, impeccably directed by George Lucas' old UCLA tutor Kershner.

• 87%
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• 2020
• UK / US
• 2h 30min
• 12A

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh

• 78%
• 69%

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• 2020
• Ireland, Luxembourg
• 1h 25min
• U

• Directed by: Toby Genkel, Sean McCormack
• Cast: Max Carolan, Ava Connolly, Dermot Magennis

Best friends Finny and Leah are sailing along on Noah's Ark when they're washed overboard, and must contend with an active volcano and odd island creatures in their attempt to reunite with their family.

• 64%

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• 2020

• Directed by: Ian Rickson
• Cast: Toby Jones, Richard Armitage, Aimee Lou Wood

Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson’s new adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play is a portrayal of life at the turn of the 20th century, full of tumultuous frustration, dark humour and hidden passions.

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