Odeon Bridgend

• 2023
• 3h
• U

• Cast: André Rieu

The King of Waltz brings you a festive spectacular from his winter palace in his hometown of Maastricht.

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• 1982 / 2012
• UK
• U

A double bill of Raymond Briggs' animated classics.

'The Snowman' weaves a spell of magical enchantment as a young boy's snowman comes to life and escorts him on a magical flying visit to the North Pole.

In 'The Snowman and The Snowdog' a young boy moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him, fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa, who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him.

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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.

• 71%
• 66%
• 84%

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• 2023
• 1h 36min
• 12A

• Directed by: Oliver Parker
• Cast: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Wolf Kahler

The Great Escaper Oliver Parker | UK, USA | 2023 | Cert and running time tbc

In the summer of 2014 - the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings - octogenarian Bernie Jordan made global headlines. He’d staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. It was a story that captured the imagination of the world - Bernie seemed to embody the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was the story we all tell ourselves to make war and old age bearable. The bitter-sweet script explores the reality with wit and a very big heart. Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene – the story celebrates their love without sentimentality and with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from the Greatest Generation.

Free tea and coffee will be available before the film.

• 70%
• 67%

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• 2023
• US
• 2h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: Francis Lawrence
• Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Josh Andrés Rivera, Viola Davis

A prequel to the Hunger Games series.

• 72%
• 54%

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• 2023
• 1h 35min
• 15

• Directed by: Chris Atkins
• Cast: James Blunt

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• 2023
• 3h 26min
• 15

• Directed by: Martin Scorsese
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. After members of the tribe are found dead, a murder investigation begins, in order to find the culprits.

• 80%
• 89%

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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%
• 55%
• 63%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 45min
• 12A

• Directed by: Nia DaCosta
• Cast: Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson

Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau swap places with one another whenever they use their powers.

• 60%
• 50%

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• 2023
• UK / US
• 2h 37min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim

Director Ridley Scott’s film takes a personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte's origins, and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor viewed through the prism of his addictive, and often volatile, relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.

• 66%
• 64%

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• 2021

A series of exclusive, advance screenings of thought provoking and controversial films. You don't know what you're going to see until the curtain goes up. Can you handle the suspense?

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• 2023
• UK
• 1h 53min
• 15

• Directed by: Ken Loach
• Cast: Debbie Honeywood, Trevor Fox, Laura Lee Daly, Neil Leiper, Jordan Louis, Reuben Bainbridge

The Old Oak

Ken Loach | UK, France, Belgium | 2023 | 113m | 15

New drama from director Ken Loach. The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the Syrian refugees.

• 71%
• 62%

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• 2023
• US
• 2h 30min
• 15

• Directed by: Mark Ritchie
• Cast: Beyoncé, Blue Ivy Carter

Concert film of Beyoncé recorded on her Renaissance world tour.

• 92%
• 88%

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• 2023
• UK / US
• 2h 11min
• 15

• Directed by: Emerald Fennell
• Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan

A university student is drawn into the world of an aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's estate for the summer.

• 75%
• 60%

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• 1998
• US
• 2h 50min
• 15

• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Written by: Robert Rodat
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Tom Sizemore

Like no film in recent memory, 'Saving Private Ryan' focuses its attention squarely on the brutalities endured by American soldiers in World War II. Central to this impact is the already legendary opening half hour, detailing with remorseless brilliance the carnage of the D-Day landings. Understandably enough, Spielberg finds it hard to follow up this bravura introduction. The actual meat of the story, in which Hanks is sent off with the remnants of his unit to locate the eponymous Ryan, is built on rugged rather than subtle lines.

• 86%
• 91%
• 92%

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• 1983
• US
• 2h 49min
• 18

• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Written by: Oliver Stone
• Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin

Tony Montana is back and loving it in a new digital print of the gangster classic.

• 83%
• 65%
• 82%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 46min
• 18

• Directed by: Eli Roth
• Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes a town.

• 70%
• 63%

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• 2003
• Japan
• 1h 32min
• 12

• Directed by: Satoshi Kon
• Cast: Tōru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

• 78%
• 74%
• 89%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Walt Dohrn
• Cast: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Camila Cabello, Eric André, Troye Sivan, Kid Cudi, Daveed Diggs, RuPaul, Amy Schumer, Andrew Rannells, Zosia Mamet

Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.

• 60%
• 53%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
• Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Evan Peters, Harvey Guillén

Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

• 59%
• 48%

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• 2023
• UK / US
• 1h 52min
• PG

• Directed by: Paul King
• Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant

An origin story for Willy Wonka featuring an all-star cast and directed by Paddington's Paul King.

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