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• 2023
• US
• 1h 54min
• 12A

• Directed by: Greta Gerwig
• Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.

• 71%
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• 2023
• 2h 28min
• 15

• Directed by: Wuershan
• Cast: Huang Bo, Kris Phillips, Li Xuejian

A majestic fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters three thousand years ago.

• 72%

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• 2023
• US
• 2h 13min
• 12A

• Directed by: Gareth Edwards
• Cast: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Allison Janney

An old soldier finds a robot, in the form of a young boy, and it could change the course of the war.

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• 2023
• 1h 14min
• 15

• Directed by: Craig Gillespie
• Cast: America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan

The story of how Gamestop became one of the world's most valuable stocks.

• 71%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 49min
• PG

• Directed by: Peter Sohn
• Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen

Elemental is the latest Disney-Pixar feature, based in a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together. When Ember, a fiery young woman meets Wade, a go-with-the-flow guy, they discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), Elemental draws inspiration from Sohn's youth, growing up as the son of immigrants in New York City during the 1970s, highlighting the city's distinct cultural and ethnic diversity.

• 70%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 49min
• 18

• Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
• Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar

Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Feeling surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

• 71%
• 58%

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• 1973 (2000)
• US
• 2h 12min
• 18

• Directed by: William Friedkin
• Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair

Writer William Peter Blatty always griped that, in excising twenty minutes from The Exorcist, Friedkin removed its moral centre and obscured its theological message. To Blatty's horror, some people thought the Devil won. Friedkin has reinstated eleven minutes of footage, and the re-editing job is done so lovingly that fans are unlikely to feel cynically exploited. Even so, Friedkin's cuts have mostly been vindicated but­ it now feels too long, while the infamous 'spider walk' scene merely adds a cheap and redundant shock.

• 81%
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• 2022
• US
• 1h 43min
• 15

• Directed by: Scott Waugh
• Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Megan Fox, 50 Cent, Andy Garcia, Tony Jaa

Sly Stallone and co reunite for another testosterone-heavy actionfest.

• 52%
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• 2023
• 2h 15min

• Directed by: Smeep Kang
• Cast: Ammy Virk, Binnu Dhillon, Jaswinder Bhalla

Struggling to balance his father's materialistic demands and his love for Pooja, Happy lands in a series of comic situations as a red car becomes the centre of chaos.

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• 2023
• US
• 2h 3min
• 12A

• Directed by: Justin Simien
• Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto

After discovering her newly-bought mansion is haunted, a single mother hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise the ghosts.

• 62%
• 47%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarico

Kenneth Branagh returns as Poirot who, now retired, attends a séance at which one of the guests is murdered. Based on Agatha Christie's novel, Hallowe'en Party.

• 68%
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• 2023
• 2h 49min
• 15

• Directed by: Atlee
• Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi

A man sets out to right the many wrongs of society.

• 76%

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• 2023
• UK
• 1h 43min
• 15

• Directed by: Alice Troughton
• Cast: Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy, Daryl McCormack, Stephen McMillan, Crispin Letts, Tomas Spencer, Joseph Meurer

A young writer seeks tutorage from a renowned author.

• 67%
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• 2023
• UK
• 3h 40min
• 18

• Directed by: Ivo van Hove
• Cast: James Norton, Luke Thompson, Omari Douglas, Zach Wyatt, Elliot Cowan, Zubin Varla, Nathalie Armin, Emilio Doorgasingh

James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) stars in the theatrical event as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A Little Life. Filmed live at the Savoy Theatre, London, during its West End run, this record-breaking and ‘beautifully acted’ production of the million-copy bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara comes to the big screen for a limited time only.

The critically acclaimed five-star play also stars Luke Thompson (Bridgerton), Omari Douglas (It’s A Sin), Zach Wyatt (The Witcher), Elliot Cowan (The Crown), Zubin Varla (Tammy Faye), Nathalie Armin (Force Majeure) and Emilio Doorgasingh (Best of Enemies).

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bound by their love for Jude and the mysteries of his past. But when those secrets come to light, they finally learn that to know Jude St Francis is to understand the limitless potential of love in the face of life.

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• 2003
• US / NZ
• 3h 30min
• 12A

• Directed by: Peter Jackson
• Cast: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Christopher Lee

A remarkable end to a remarkable series of films, the journey of Frodo, Sam and Gollum is the pièce de résistance of the trilogy. The tension-filled journey forces both Gollum and Sam to show their true colours as Frodo suffers under the burden of the ring. All around is war as Aragorn fights to reclaim what is rightfully his. Jackson's vision is awesome. The Return of the King is some kind of beautiful, some kind of masterpiece. Unmissable.

• 90%
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• 2023
• 2h 29min
• 12A

• Directed by: Adhik Ravichandran
• Cast: Vishal, S.J. Suryah,Ritu Varma

Three gangsters find a mobile phone that can travel through time.

• 72%

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• 2023
• US
• 2h 36min
• 12A

• Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
• Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise, Pom Klementieff

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.

• 79%
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• 2023
• 1h 31min
• 12A

• Directed by: Nia Vardalos
• Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin

In 2002 the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding became a sleeper hit, delighting audiences with its good-hearted and delightfully eccentric story of Toula and her large, loud Greek family. Now it’s time to bask in some more romance and join the Portokalos family once more as they travel to a family reunion in Greece, which results in a hilarious trip full of love, twists and turns. Starring and directed by Nia Vardalos.

• 54%
• 35%

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• 2023
• 2h 10min
• 15

• Directed by: Ao Shen
• Cast: Yixing Zhang, Gina Chen Jin, Mei Yong

A young model and ace programmer, lured in with the promise of well paid jobs, end up trapped in a huge financial scam organisation.

• 66%

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• 2023
• 1h 50min
• 15

• Directed by: Michael Chaves
• Cast: Bonnie Aarons, Taissa Farmiga, Anna Popplewell

Valak, the demon nun, has returned to the mortal world. Sister Irene must defeat her.

• 59%
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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.

It’s a Film + Discussion + Coffee evening and everyone is welcome to attend. No membership required.

• 70%
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• 2023
• UK / US
• 3h
• 15

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

• 86%
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• 2023
• US / South Korea
• 1h 45min
• 12A

• Directed by: Celine Song
• Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah

A budding childhood romance between Nora and Hae Sung, classmates at a primary school in Seoul, ends abruptly when Nora’s family emigrates to Canada. Twelve years later, Nora - now a playwriting student in New York - notices that Hae Sung’s been searching social media for her. They reconnect online and even imagine a reunion. But another dozen years pass before they finally meet during his visit to New York. Although their lives have changed dramatically, they remain bound by a wistful connection.

An aching, deeply romantic debut feature from playwright Celine Song, Past Lives is a love story told across three moments in time. Song’s artful aesthetic and profound character writing, and the spellbinding performances she draws from Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro (whose fates intertwine) explore love, identity, and ‘In Yun’, a Korean notion of fate stemming from two people’s connection in a past life.

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• 2023
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Cal Brunker
• Cast: Finn Lee-Epp, Ron Pardo, Mckenna Grace

A meteorite gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups.

• 63%

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• 2023
• UK
• 1h 52min
• 18

• Directed by: Nick Nevern
• Cast: Craig Fairbrass, Jamie Foreman, George Russo, Ben Wilson, Stephen McCole, Sadie Frost, Tara Fitzgerald, Arrdee

Tara Fitzgerald and Sadie Frost star in this instalment of the Rise of the Footsoldier saga.

• 68%

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• 1975
• UK
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: Jim Sharman
• Written by: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
• Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray

The cult film to end all others, this rock spoof on old horror movies has created a breed of Rocky Horror crazies, and packs them in at late shows everywhere. The film has its moments, and Curry is splendidly camp as the bisexual Frank N Furter.

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• 2023
• 1h 58min
• 18

• Directed by: Kevin Greutert
• Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Steven Brand

John Kramer travels to Mexico for an experimental surgery to cure his cancer. When he discovers the treatment is a scam, he exacts his revenge.

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• 2010
• US
• 1h 33min
• PG

• Directed by: Mike Mitchell
• Written by: William Steig, Josh Klausner, Darren Lemke
• Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Walt Dohrn, Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson

A fourth and final instalment, rebooting the flagging franchise with a new alternate-reality twist which sees Shrek escape fatherhood for a one-day return to his bachelor years. A warmed-over sequel that lazily re-configures familiar elements to mildly pleasing effect.

• 63%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 39min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeff Rowe
• Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cantu, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Brady Noon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph

The turtles take on an army of mutants.

• 73%
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