Release date: tbc Cert: tbc
Drought, famine, flooding, record rainfall,
hurricanes, acid rain – catastrophe is reported on
the daily news as isolated incidents. But are they
really pieces of a larger global puzzle that could
unlock humanity’s future? Narrated by Leonardo
DiCaprio, The 11th Hour explores how humanity
lives, how we impact on the earth’s ecosystems
and what we can do to change our course. Mikhail
Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking
and more than 50 leading experts discuss the
most important issues facing our planet.
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Release date: April 11 Cert: 12A tbc
21 is inspired by the true story of students who
trained to become experts in card counting, and
took Las Vegas casinos for millions in the 1980s
and 90s. The story follows a maths genius
recruited by a maverick mentor to join the
so-called Blackjack Team of card counters. The
young group make cash, go to parties and attend
lectures while outwitting security and
investigators. It is based on the best-selling book
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six
M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.
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Release date: March 14 Cert: tbc
Emmy-winner Katherine Heigl is always a
bridesmaid but never the bride as Jane in this
romantic comedy. She is an idealistic, romantic
and completely selfless woman whose own
happy ending is nowhere in sight. When
younger sister Tess captures the heart of
Jane’s boss – with whom she is secretly in love
– she begins to re-examine the way she lives.
Her entire life has been about making other
people happy – and she has a closet full of 27
bridesmaid dresses to prove it.
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Release date: March 14 Cert: tbc
It was a time when man and beast were
untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the
earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born
that forever shaped mankind. 10,000 B.C. follows
a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to
lead an army across a vast desert, battling
sabre-toothed tigers and prehistoric predators
as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts
to rescue the woman he loves (Camilla Belle)
from an evil warlord determined to possess her.
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Release date: February 29 Cert: tbc
Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) has a hit radio talk
show, an impending book deal and a loving
relationship with fiancé Richard (Colin Firth). So,
she is shocked to discover she’s already
married to a New York firefighter she’s never
met. The victim of a prank orchestrated by
Patrick (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who has been
jilted by one of Emma’s avid listeners, she
needs to track him down and get an
annulment. But Patrick pretends to be baffled.
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Release date: February 15 Cert: 18
Mandy Lane is beautiful, untouched, and high
school royalty waiting to be crowned. Men try to
possess her, and some have even died in pursuit of
this 16 year-old Texas angel. Chloe and Red invite
Mandy out to Red’s family ranch for the weekend.
Mandy sees it as an excellent opportunity to
cement her new friendships. The boys see it as an
opportunity to finally get with Mandy Lane. As night
falls and the booze, drugs, and hormones take over,
Mandy finds herself in a struggle for survival.
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Release date: April 4 Cert: tbc
In this psychological thriller Clay Beresford
(Hayden Christensen) suffers anaesthetic
awareness while undergoing heart surgery.
When the anaesthetic fails, Clay is left awake
but paralyzed throughout the operation and
unable to tell his doctors what is happening.
And those who planned his murder never
thought he’d be one of the few to wake up
on the operating table. Clay’s wife (Jessica
Alba) has to make life-altering decisions
while wrestling with her own dramas.
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Release date: February 22 Cert: 12A
From the wild imagination of Academy Awardwinner
Michel Gondry. Jerry (Jack Black) becomes
magnetized while trying to sabotage a power
plant he believes is melting his brain and
accidentally erases all the tapes in the video
store where his best friend Mike (Mos Def) works.
To keep the customers happy, they remake one of
the movies in Jerry’s junkyard. Astonishingly,
their version is a hit and soon they start full-time
filmmaking – from Ghostbusters to King Kong.
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Release date: March 7 Cert: tbc
Young suicide bomber Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha) has been sent by a Muslim
fundamentalist group to target Delhi’s Red Fort. In the days leading up to his mission,
he lives among the people of Chandni Chowk, a thickly populated and vibrant district
in the city. During his roller coaster journey, Numair takes shelter in a professor’s
house and wins the trust of the academic and his wife. While the professor helps
Numair to get a job and entry pass for the celebrations at Red Fort, Numair is
introduced to the warm and loving people of Chandni Chowk who co-exist side by
side, irrespective of their religion. Immersed in this colourful community full of
characters who all love life while defying restrictive stereotypes, Numair is caught in
an emotional dilemma as to whether blast the bomb or not, as he realises there
is no black and white.
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Release date: February 22 Cert: 15
Grace, her boyfriend Adam and younger sister
Lee decide to take a river tour while holidaying in
Northern Australia. As they drift into a mangrove
swamp, their boat is suddenly capsized and Jim,
their guide, disappears. Realising they’ve been
attacked by a crocodile, Adam drags Grace to the
safety of a tree whilst Lee clings on top of the
overturned boat. Adam and Grace try and
manoeuvre Lee and the boat to the tree but it is
firmly stuck. Stranded in the flooded swamp, they
must work out what to do to survive.
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Release date: Out now Cert: tbc
Shankar (Shreyas Talpade), a petty thief in
desperate need of money, steals from a local
crime lord before escaping with a team of
doctors heading for Bangkok. After losing all
his ill-gotten money, Shankar bumps into the
beautiful Jasmine (Lena Christiansen) at a bar
and his world is turned upside down. Despite a
language barrier, Jasmine is sucked into his
bumbling adventures, as they, together with
his goofy friend Rachinder, flee the pursuing
crime lord and his henchmen.
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Release date: February 15 Cert: 12A
A long time ago, Carter Chambers’ (Morgan
Freeman) philosophy professor suggested he
compose a ‘bucket list’ of all the things he
wanted to do before he kicked the bucket. But
while Carter was trying to define his, reality got
in the way. Meanwhile, corporate billionaire
Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) was always too
busy making money to think about his deeper
needs. Then, life delivered an urgent and
unexpected wake-up call to both of them.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: 15 tbc
Dave has set his mind on becoming a stand-up
comedian, despite his lack of success on stage.
Kags is his mentor. He’s an established
comedian with delusions of grandeur and a
womanising streak. Joey is a comedian and a
Muslim, torn between the temptations of his
vocation and duty to his religion. The three are
joined by Cope, a weird and wandering
acquaintance who epitomizes aimlessness, as
they slip out of the city to a rock festival in the
wilds where they hope to dazzle the crowds.
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Release date: May tbc Cert: tbc
In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty
salon: a colourful microcosm of the city where
several generations come to talk and confide in
each other. Each of them has a very different
story. Layale loves Rabih, but he is married.
Nisrine is Muslim and her forthcoming marriage
poses a problem because she is not a virgin.
Rima is tormented by her attraction to women –
particularly a beautiful client. Jamale is refusing
to grow old. Meanwhile, Rose has sacrificed her
life to take care of her elderly sister.
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Release date: April tbc Cert: 15
Expelled from yet another private school for his
illegal activities, wealthy teenager Charlie
Bartlett (Yelchin) finds himself at regular high
school. His geeky appearance gets him a first
day beating from the school bully and his
medicated mother (Hope Davis) calls in a
psychiatrist to help. A chance not to be missed,
Charlie sets up as the school agony aunt,
dishing out advice and prescription drugs,
courtesy of the shrink. This and his charm win
him the attention of the principal’s daughter.
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Release date: April 11 Cert: 15
Laranjinha and Acerola, who grew up
together in the favela on Pool Hall Hill in Rio
de Janeiro, come of age and face the first
difficulties of their adult lives. With a twoyear-
old son, a night job and a hasty
marriage, Acerola misses the freedom of his
younger days. Laranjinha wants to find the
father he has never met. The month they
both turn 18, Laranjinha pledges to find his
father and Acerola to liven up his love life.
But war breaks out in the favela threatening
to bring their friendship to an end.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: 12A
Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-
something Manhattan dad in the midst of a
divorce when his young daughter, Maya
(Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about
life before marriage. She wants to know
everything about how her parents met and fell
in love. The political consultant finds
himself trying to explain his impending
break-up and past relationships to his daughter.
Also stars Oscar winner Rachel Weisz and
Isla Fisher.
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Release date: March 7 Cert: 18
Following a zombie outbreak, a group of student
filmmakers try to get back home, only to discover
they no longer have homes to get back to. Armed
only with video cameras, the group document
their terrifying encounters. The latest film by
horror director George A. Romero, Diary Of The
Dead is his most daring work to date. Fusing the
post-modern cinema verite style with the classic
horror concepts he invented, the film brings a
new type of terror by creating the sensation
these are real events happening to real people.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: tbc
Elephant Horton hears a tiny cry for help coming
from a speck of dust floating through the air.
Suspecting there may be life on the particle,
Horton is determined to help. However, the rest
of the community believes Horton has lost his
mind and mock his attempts to protect the dust.
Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who is a new
computer-animated film from 20th Century Fox,
the creators of Ice Age.
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Release date: March 28 Cert: tbc
Ryan, Wade and Emmit attend their first day at
high school full of hope and laughter…until they
meet up with Filkins, a school bully who acts like a
little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become
engulfed in Filkins’ reign of terror, the friends seek
out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of
Fortune magazine. Their best response – and the
cheapest – comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen
Wilson), a homesless soldier of fortune who lives
on the beach. And so begins the training.
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Release date: April 18 Cert: tbc
Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) is a fading Hollywood
star whose hedonistic lifestyle of sex and
celebrity has taken its toll. Handsome, even in
his drug-addled 40s, he leads a directionless,
life in his Malibu mansion. Flash back 25
years to the 1970s and Joe’s rites of passage
as a young man (Harry Eden) in a tiny British
seaside resort lay the foundations for his
Hollywood dream. His teenage actions lead to
unforeseen, tragic consequences, which force
him to flee in search of a new life.
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Release date: April 11 Cert: 12A
Ben “Finn” Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey)
is a surf bum-turned-treasure hunter obsessed
with finding the legendary Queen’s Dowry – 40
chests of treasure lost at sea in 1715. Finn has
sunk everything he has, including his marriage
to Tess (Kate Hudson) and his boat, into this
quest. Just as Tess has begun to rebuild her
life, working aboard a mega-yacht owned by a
billionaire (Donald Sutherland), Finn discovers
a clue. He manoeuvres himself onto the yacht
and convinces the tycoon to join his quest.
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Release date: April 4 Cert: 18
Middle-class housewife Anna, her husband George
and their 10-year-old son Georgie, arrive at their
secluded holiday home in the Hamptons for a twoweek
holiday. A young stranger makes a surprise
call, and asks to borrow some eggs on behalf of
the family’s neighbours. When the man is joined by
his charming friend what initially appears to be an
innocuous visit soon turns into a horrifying ordeal
as they embark upon a twisted campaign of
torment and raw terror.
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Release date: March tbc Cert: tbc
Destiny has a way of playing tricks on us. Struggling to become a TV star, Arun
(Salman Khan) begins blaming his lack of success on God. Although he is in love with
Alia (Priyanka Chopra), Arun is never able to reveal his true feelings to the famous
and successful TV anchor. And when Rocky (Sohail Khan), one of her former college
friends, is appointed as her fellow presenter, Arun fears he will lose Alia forever.
Following an encounter with God (Amitabh Bachchan), Arun is granted the power to
run earth for seven days. After Arun becomes God, he changes his life and becomes
wildly successful. He alters his nagging father’s outlook, puts Rocky in an uneasy spot
and tries to win Alia’s heart. In the meantime, he grants everybody’s wish, which
turns out to create the biggest hassles of his life.
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Release date: April 4 Cert: 18
This darkly comedic tale follows the adventures
of hitmen Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan
Gleeson). After a difficult job in London, they are
ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to
cool their heels and rest quietly in Bruges. Very
much out of their comfort zones, the men find
themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous
and visible entanglements with locals, tourists
and even a film crew. As they chat about their
situation, their perspectives on life and death
become violently skewed.
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Release date: January 25 Cert: tbc
Algeria, 1959, and French military operations are
being stepped up. High in the mountains of
Kabylia, idealistic lieutenant Terrien takes over the
command of a platoon at a remote army outpost.
Here he meets Dougnac, a cynical sergeant. Their
differences, and the harsh realities of combat
drive the two men to breaking point. Lost
in an undeclared war, they discover that in
battle your worst enemy is not the other man –
it’s yourself.
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Release date: February 14 Cert: tbc
David Rice (Hayden Christensen) is a ‘Jumper’
able to teleport himself anywhere in the
world. He can whisk his girlfriend (Rachel
Bilson) around the globe in the blink of an
eye. David’s life takes a deadly turn when he
finds himself pursued by a secret
organisation sworn to kill Jumpers. Forming
an uneasy alliance with another Jumper
(Jamie Bell), David becomes a key player in a
war that has raged for thousands of years.
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Release date: February 14 Cert: 12A
Juno MacGuff is a 16-year-old whose confident
exterior crumbles when she falls pregnant.
Along with friend Leah, and with the support of
her father and stepmother she hatches a plan
to find the baby the perfect parents and sets
her sights on Mark and Vanessa Loring, a
seemingly faultless suburban couple. Described
by America’s Entertainment Weekly as, “an
original funky charmer”, Juno was one of the
big hits at the recent Toronto Film Festival.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: 12A
Lars Lindstrom is a lovable introvert living in a
garage apartment next to his brother Gus and
sister-in-law Karen. Lars is sleepwalking through
life until a new friend comes to visit. Bianca is a
stunning, half-Brazilian, half-Danish missionary.
The trouble is – Bianca isn’t a real woman at all
but a doll ordered online from a company called
Real Girl. To Lars, who believes she is a living
human being, she is a source of emotional
support. Taking the advice of a psychologist, his
family agrees to play along with Lars’ delusion.
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Release date: February 29 Cert: 15
Margot Zeller, a savagely bright, razor-tongued
short-story writer who creates chaos wherever
she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the
wedding of her estranged, free-spirited and
unassuming sister Pauline. From the minute
she meets Pauline's fiancé – the unemployed
artist Malcolm – Margot starts to plant seeds of
doubt about the union. As the wedding
approaches, the two sisters find themselves at
the precipice of an unexpected transformation.
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Release date: March 14 Cert: tbc
A Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna)
lives alone in Paris and performs on the streets
to make ends meet. At a show in a retirement
home, he falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe
lookalike (Samantha Morton) who suggests he
move to a commune of impersonators in
Scotland. At the seaside castle, Michael finds
everyone preparing for the commune’s firstever
gala – Abe Lincoln, the Three Stooges, the
Queen, Madonna, and Sammy Davis Jr as well
as Marilyn’s daughter Shirley Temple and her
possessive husband Charlie Chaplin.
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Release date: February 22 Cert: 12A
Wong Kar Wai’s debut English language film
takes us on a journey between heartbreak
and a new beginning. After a rough breakup,
Elizabeth (Norah Jones’ screen debut)
sets out across America, leaving behind
memories, a dream and a new friend
(Jude Law) in search of something to ease
her pain. Waitressing to earn a crust,
Elizabeth meets others with yearnings
greater than hers – a troubled cop
(David Strathairn), his estranged wife
(Rachel Weisz) and an unlucky gambler
(Natalie Portman).
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Release date: February 8 Cert: PG
Treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) once
again sets out on an exhilarating global quest to
unearth hidden history and treasures. When a
missing page from the diary of John Wilkes
Booth surfaces, Ben’s great-great grandfather is
suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in
Abraham Lincoln’s death. Determined to prove his
ancestor’s innocence, Ben follows an international
chain of clues, leading him to the world’s most
treasured secrets in Disney Studio’s latest film.
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Release date: April 4 Cert: tbc
What will it sound like when you die? In this
supernatural thriller, a chain of people receive
terrifying mobile messages of their own final
fatal moments. Beth Raymond is traumatised
when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two
friends just days apart. Even more disturbingly,
she knows both of them had received phone
messages – recordings of their own last
moments. Impossibly, the calls were received
days before they died, but each death occurred
precisely when and how the messages foretold.
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Release date: May tbc Cert: 18
It’s late and Angela, a young executive, has just
closed one last deal from her deserted office. It’s
Christmas Eve and she’s planning to head home to
her family. On reaching the underground car park,
she’s unable to start her car. A flirtatious security
guard tries to help out – and suggests they have
Christmas dinner in his office. When his advances
are rebuffed Angela is knocked unconscious.
Waking up to find herself tied to a chair, Angela
realises his invite wasn’t optional. If Angela wants
to live to see Christmas, she has to escape.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: tbc
Nobody is safe in this gruesome chiller. A group of
medical students has devised a deadly game
where one of them commits the perfect murder
while the rest compete to determine the cause of
death – by examining the dead victims’ remains.
With the power of life and death, and by choosing
victims they feel deserve to die, it is not long
before their egos spiral out of control. And when a
brilliant new resident joins the group, he is
unaware he has entered a murderous game with
terrifying consequences.
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Release date: May tbc Cert: tbc
Beautiful adventuress Irène mistakes Jean, a
shy waiter in a grand hotel, for a young
millionaire. When she discovers his lowly
status, Irène (Audrey Tatou) beats a hasty
retreat. But lovestruck Jean has no intention
of letting her escape, and pursues her to the
Côte d’Azur. Quickly running out of money, he
adopts his beloved’s lifestyle, setting himself
up as a gigolo and moving into a magnificent
luxury hotel. Irène at last accepts this new
Jean. As she starts to give him advice, she
grows closer and closer to him, not realizing
that love is working its subtle magic on her.
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Release date: tbc Cert: tbc
Edward Norton and Colin Farrell star in Pride and
Glory, an authentic, gritty, and emotional saga set
in the New York City Police Department. The film
follows a multi-generational police family whose
moral code is tested when Ray Tierney (Norton),
one of two sons on the force, investigates an
incendiary police corruption scandal involving his
older brother and brother-in-law (Farrell).
The case forces the family to choose between
their loyalties to one another, as well as the
police department.
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Release date: February 22 Cert: 18 tbc
John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has
retreated to Thailand where he works on a
longboat on the Salween River. A group of
missionaries seek him out to help guide them
upstream so they can deliver medical
supplies, food and bibles to the persecuted
Karen hill tribes. Less than two weeks later,
Rambo discovers they did not return. A group
of mercenaries is hired to free them and
Rambo knows he has to help.
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Release date: March 28 Cert: 18 tbc
A team of local TV reporters asks to follow a fire
crew on overnight duty. On their first job, the squad
must rescue a lady trapped inside her apartment.
But during the operation something goes wrong.
What seemed to be a routine procedure turns into
hell. Trapped inside the building, the team confront
an unknown and lethal horror. Something evil is
spreading throughout the building, out of control.
Suddenly, the rules change. Now, the only thing
that matters is surviving, and to keep on recording
the live footage. No matter what happens.
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Release date: February Cert: tbc
When an accident leaves Duke paralysed
from the neck down, his world falls apart.
His fiancé leaves him, friends stay away and
those who want to be by his hospital
bedside are yelled at by Duke. The previously
successful doctor wishes he were dead. A
man, who was an angel to many, loses all
hope himself. And then a young boy called
Roshan enters his life. Slowly, Roshan brings
hope to Duke as he relates stories of the
world he can see through the window.
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Release date: February 29 Cert: tbc
Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro; a comedy set in
1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA –
a fast-paced, crazy basketball league to rival the
NBA. ABA has made a name for itself with
innovations like the three-point shot and slamdunk
contest. Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit
wonder who owns a basketball team.
Unfortunately, the Flint Michigan Tropics are the
worst outfit in the league. When the ABA
announces its plans to merge with the NBA, the
Tropics must do the seemingly impossible – win.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: tbc
From a beloved best-selling series of books
comes The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy
adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar
things start to happen the moment the Grace
family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister
Mallory and their mother) leave New York and
move into a secluded old house owned by their
great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to
explain disappearances that seem to be
happening on a daily basis, the family blames
Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate
what’s going on, they uncover the truth of the
Spiderwick estate and the creatures within it.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: tbc
The follow-up to the smash hit Step Up
sees rebellious street dancer Andie arrive
at the elite Maryland School of the Arts.
She fights to fit in while also trying to hold
onto her old life. When she joins forces with
the school’s hottest dancer, Chase, to form
a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in
Baltimore’s underground dance battle The
Streets, she ultimately finds a way to live
her dream while building a bridge between
her two separate worlds.
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Release date: January 25 Cert: tbc
There’s a missing Sunday in Sehar’s (Ayesha
Takia) life. Her memories of that day are
filled with jumbled snapshots of surviving a
terrible attack. While she tries to recall what
happened, others are investigating a
murder – and all the clues point to her. As
she tries to fill in her missing memories she
meets some strange and dangerous
characters. Is Sehar the accused? And if not
will the actual murderer be put behind
bars? One thing is for sure, the missing 24
hours show that every day is not Sunday.
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Release date: April 11 Cert: 15 tbc
During the Algerian war, Jacques Vergès argued
for the anti-colonialist cause, defending Djamila
Bouhired who had been sentenced to death for
planting bombs in cafes. He obtained her release,
married her and had two children with her. Then
suddenly, at the height of his illustrious career, he
disappeared without trace for eight years. He reemerged
from his mysterious absence to take on
the defence of terrorists of all kinds, from Carlos
the Jackal to Nazi Klaus Barbie. The documentary
follows the trail left by this ‘devil’s advocate’.
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Release date: April 11 Cert: U tbc
The original version of Alfred Hitchcock’s
thriller, starring legendary British
heartthrob Robert Donat, is a true classic.
After hearing a gunshot in a London
theatre, Richard Hannay (Donat) and the
rest of the audience flee. Making his way to
the exit, Hannay encounters a terrified
young woman who asks if she can come
along with him. But during the night she is
murdered in his flat, forcing Hannay to
become involved in the search for a master
spy as he tries to clear his name.
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Release date: March 14 Cert: 18 tbc
Brothers David (Andy Serkis) and Peter (Reece
Shearsmith) kidnap the daughter of mob boss
Arnie and hold her to ransom. But Tracey (Jennifer
Ellison) turns the tables on her captors and, with
Peter as her hostage, escapes to a farmhouse to
alert her father and his fearsome henchmen. As
two of his thugs arrive and with Arnie himself on
his way, the game is almost up for the hapless
brothers. What they don’t count on is something
far more terrifying lurking in the darkness.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: 12A
Jean-Dominique Bauby, the chief editor of fashion
magazine Elle, was a seducer of women in the
prime of his life. Then, a terrible accident left him
in a coma for several months. When he eventually
awoke he was paralyzed and only able to move
his left eyelid – one blink for yes, two for no.
Although physically afflicted, his brain was in
perfect working order. After a year and two
months in a hospital room, his ‘bedridden travel
notes’ that formed his book The Diving Bell And
The Butterfly were complete.
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Release date: February 22 Cert: 15
This film is opening at selected cinemas
nationwide and for the first time,
simultaneously, on Sky Box Office. Having
moved from his native Turkey to Germany,
retired widower Ali enjoys a chance meeting
with prostitute Yeter. As she is Turkish, Ali
proposes she live with him for a low rent.
Ali’s son Nejat initially disapproves but
grows fond of Yeter, when he finds out most
of her money is sent to help fund her
daughter’s studies. When Yeter dies in an
accident, Nejat decides to find her daughter.
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Release date: March 7 Cert: U
Rugged superstar quarterback Joe Kingman
(Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), is living the
ultimate fantasy: he’s rich, famous and the life of
the party. But during a crucial time in his career,
he discovers the eight-year-old daughter
(Madison Pettis) he never knew he had. Figuring
out how to juggle his parties, practices and dates
with the newfound ballet classes, bedtime stories
and dolls that come with his daughter, Joe
learns there is more to life than money,
endorsements and thousands of adoring fans.
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Release date: March 7 Cert: tbc
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana
bring one of history’s most controversial love
triangles to life in this sultry epic romance. When
rumours begin to circulate that King Henry VIII
(Bana) is no longer intimate with a wife who has
been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas
Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to
prominence. Mary (Johansson) gives in to her
father’s pressure and provides the King with a boy.
But her power-hungry sister (Portman) enacts a
plan that threatens to tear the family apart.
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Release date: April 18 Cert: 15 tbc
Martin, a young American grad student (Elijah
Wood) visiting Oxford, is drawn into a complex
murder mystery when his landlady is slain in this
tense and stylish thriller from director Alex de la
Iglesia’s. The gifted student joins forces with
Professor Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) to solve a
series of murders seemingly linked by a series of
codes. As they try to crack the code and track
down a killer, an elaborate puzzle begins to
unravel in which every action has an effect
beyond anything that Martin could have imagined.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: U
Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian
Andersen, The Ugly Duckling and Me tells the
story of Ratso, a wheeler-dealer city rat, and
Ugly, a baby bird. Ratso is a travelling scammer
who longs to make it in the profitable world of
showbusiness. He ends up on a duck farm and
becomes the caretaker of an egg, which cracks,
and an unsightly hatchling emerges. Ratso
nicknames it "Ugly" and finds himself assuming
the role of the chick’s dad. Together, the pair
escape the duck yard for the Big Time,
embarking on an adventure-filled odyssey.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: PG
Lonely young Scottish boy Angus MacMorrow
yearns for the return of his father from war.
One day, Angus takes home a mysterious,
enchanted object he finds on the beach and
soon realizes it is a magical egg. From it
hatches a creature: the mythical “water horse”
of Scottish folklore. As he tries to hide his
friend, who he names Cruose, Angus begins a
journey of discovery.
The special effects for this film were created by
the teams who worked on The Lord of the Rings
and King Kong and dreamed up the fantastical
creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Release date: February 8 Cert: 12A
An epic of family, faith, power and oil set on
the frontier of California’s turn-of-thecentury
petroleum boom. Daniel Plainview
(Daniel Day-Lewis) transforms himself from a
down-and-out silver miner raising a son
alone into a self-made oil tycoon. When he
gets a tip-off there’s a town out West with
an ocean of oil, he and his son take their
chances in Little Boston. The well raises
their fortunes but every human value is
imperilled by corruption and deception.
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Release date: March 21 Cert: 15 tbc
Zeina lives in Dubai. In the midst of a divorce,
she sends her son Karim to stay with her sister
in a village in the south of Lebanon. A few days
later war breaks out there. Desperately worried,
Zeina sets out to find Karim. In Lebanon she
meets Tony, the only taxi driver who agrees to
take her to the south. Tony is a Christian. Zeina
is a Shi’ite Muslim. They have little in common,
but with war hanging over them, that is
irrelevant. Together, they begin to search for
the boy through a war-ravaged country…
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Release date: February 29 Cert: tbc
Within the FBI there exists a division dedicated to
finding and catching criminals who operate on the
internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on
cyber crime, where special agent Jennifer Marsh
has seen it all before – until now, when she is
assigned to investigate a new untraceable website
where a serial killer is placing live footage of his
murders. The more people who watch the site, the
faster his victims will die. Jennifer must race
against the clock to track down and stop the killer
before she becomes the next victim.
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Release date: March 7 Cert: tbc
Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor
(Matthew Fox) are agents assigned to protect
President Ashton (William Hurt) at a summit on
the global war on terror. When the President is
shot moments after his arrival in Spain,
disparate lives collide. Watching are Howard
Lewis (Forest Whitaker), a tourist in the crowd
videoing the event, and Rex (Sigourney
Weaver), a TV news producer in a control room.
It’s only as we follow each person’s perspective
that the truth behind the assassination
attempt is revealed.
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Release date: August 1 Cert: tbc
Teenager Poppy is a self-obsessed brat living a
pampered life in LA. Although she’s handed
credit cards with unlimited balances, Poppy
can’t escape the mounting frustration she feels
with her family situation. After a prank pushes
her father one step too far, Poppy is shipped
off to an English boarding school. Finding
herself in a foreign world of early curfews,
matrons and lacrosse, she meets her match: a
school of girls who won’t tolerate her ways.
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Release date: March 28 Cert: 15
You The Living is about you, the audience. About
your greatness, joy and sorrow, self-confidence
and anxiety. Inspired by the old Icelandic saying:
‘Man is man’s delight’, it is a comic tragedy
about human beings. If man is the joy of others,
he is also the source of his problems and pain.
This contradiction is shown in the film through a
series of tableaux illustrating the human
condition in which different characters represent
varying facets of existence. The problems they
face range from the huge to the small.
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