Release date: August 3 Cert: 18
Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) is an
unattainable object of adolescent lust
for all the kids at her high school.
A shy teen, Mandy is forced to put up with
the advances of her desperate classmates
while on a weekend trip away.
She thinks these pathetic ‘come-ons’ will
be the worst of it, but she is horrifyingly
mistaken. As school mates are killed off
one-by-one, it becomes clear that a
secret admirer is harbouring terrifying
ulterior motives.
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Release date: September 14 Cert: tbc
Summer 1935 and 13-year-old Briony Tallis
(Saoirse Ronan) watches her older sister
Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off and plunge
into the fountain in the garden of their
country house. Also watching Cecilia is
the housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner
(James McAvoy). When Robbie and
Cecilia cross a boundary they had never
dared to approach they become
victims of the younger girl’s scheming
imagination. Based on Ian McEwan’s best
selling novel.
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Release date: August 17 Cert: tbc
Bratz: The Movie is the first live action
feature film based on the chic fashion dolls.
As long as they can remember, Yasmin
(Nathalia Ramos), Jade (Janel Parrish), Sasha
(Logan Browning) and Cloe (Skyler Shaye)
have been “BFF” – Best Friends Forever.
Inseparable since they first met, the young
girls have always supported each other’s
individual personalities. But now as the
foursome enter Carry Nation High they face
a brand new world: a blackboard jungle,
where for the first time they discover life as
a teenager means dealing with a system
of social cliques.
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Release date: August 31 Cert: tbc
Adapted from a Brian Garfield novel,
Death Sentence tells the story of a family
who fall victim to a vicious attack as part of
a gang’s initiation ritual.
Swearing vengeance, the father
(Kevin Bacon) vows to track down and
punish all the thugs involved in the crime.
Aisha Tyler plays a sympathetic homicide
detective who questions her pledge to
assist Bacon’s character after suspecting
that he may have turned to murder as
a means of exacting his revenge.
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Release date: July 4 Cert: 12A tbc
The latest chapter of the massively
successful Die Hard franchise takes action
to another level as Detective John McClane
(Bruce Willis) confronts a new breed
of terrorism.
This time around, the enemy has hacked
into America’s computer infrastructure –
controlling all communications, transport
and power.
The genius behind the plot has taken
every conceivable outcome into account, but
what he didn’t foresee was McClane – an old
school cop who knows a thing or two about
foiling terrorist plans.
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Release date: Early 2008 Cert: tbc
At the age of 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby,
editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine
French Elle, suffered a massive stroke.
After lapsing into a coma, he awoke to
find himself mentally alert but a prisoner
inside his own paralysed body.
His only means of communicating with
the outside world was the blinking of his
left eye. But as his remarkable story is
played out, it’s clear that nothing is going to
hold him back.
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Release date: July 20 Cert: tbc
Lily McKinnon (Loren Horsley) is an
awkward fast food waitress, excluded
because she simply doesn’t fit.
Wrong dress, wrong walk, wrong talk,
wrong everything. Jarrod Lough (Jemaine
Clement) is a self-obsessed candle maker
more interested in Lily’s pretty workmate.
He doesn’t care at all for the weird girl.
But when Jarrod returns to his hometown
on a mission of revenge, love struck Lily
follows him. Jarrod needs someone to have
a bit of faith in him. Lily needs someone to
love. It’s not the perfect match, but maybe
it’s a match worth fighting for.
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Release date: August 3 Cert: tbc
Steve Carell reprises his role as polished and
preening newscaster Evan Baxter (of Bruce
Almighty) as the next one anointed by God to
accomplish a holy mission.
Newly elected to Congress, Evan
shepherds his family to suburban north
Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned
upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman)
appears and mysteriously commands him
to build an ark.
But his befuddled family can’t decide
whether Evan is simply having an
extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto
something of Biblical proportions…
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Release date: July 20 Cert: PG
Rex, Hollywood’s top-grossing canine,
is known for his amazing abilities.
His perks package rivals that of any
A-list celebrity.
But Rex’s luck runs out while shooting a
commercial. Rebellious Shane Fahey
(Josh Hutcherson) has annoyed his
father Connor (Bruce Greenwood), a fire
chief, for the umpteenth time. As
Connor berates Shane for his behaviour, he
gets a call to a blaze tearing through a
building where Rex has been stuck,
presumed dead, since an aerial stunt
went badly wrong. The fire crew adopt
Rex while Shane goes about trying to find
the dog’s rightful owners.
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Release date: July 20 Cert: tbc
Get ready for something big this summer!
In his first musical since Grease, John
Travolta returns to the dance floor with a
remarkable collection of talent including
newcomer Nicole Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad
and Zac Efron as Link Larkin.
Also appearing are Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen
Latifah, Brittany Snow, James Marsden
and screen legend Christopher Walken.
Featuring new and original material from the
Tony award-winning Broadway show and
based on John Waters’ film about star-struck
teenagers on a local dance show, this is one
film you don’t want to miss.
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Release date: August 31 Cert: 18
Hallam Foe’s obsession with watching
others brings to light his darkest fears –
and his most peculiar desires. Driven to
expose the true cause of his mother’s
death, he instead finds himself searching
the rooftops of Edinburgh for love.
Hallam (Jamie Bell) spies on people. Most
of all, he spies on his feline step-mother
Verity (Claire Forlani). And the more he
becomes obsessed with her guilt, the more
his attraction to her grows.
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Release date: July 12 Cert: 12A
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) returns for his fifth
year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that
much of the wizarding community is in
denial about his recent encounter with evil
Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), preferring to
turn a blind eye to the news that Voldemort
has returned.
The Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge,
fearing that Hogwarts’ venerable
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is lying about
Voldemort’s return in order to undermine his
power and take his job, appoints a new
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher to
keep watch over Dumbledore and the
Hogwarts students.
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Release date: August 10 Cert: U
King Henry V invades France to claim the
crown he believes is rightfully his.
As his army weakens, he retreats to
Calais in the hope of returning to his
homeland. But the French decide
otherwise and Henry finds himself blocked
by a vastly superior army. The Battle of
Agincourt is at hand.
Laurence Olivier stars in this newly
restored digital version of the
Shakespearean classic.
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Release date: June 29 Cert: 18
Three young Americans travelling around
Europe set off to an exotic natural spa.
But the idyllic oasis they imagine quickly
turns into a living bloody nightmare.
The girls find themselves victims for
auction, pawns in the fantasies of a
privileged set from all over the world.
If blood-drenched Hostel wasn’t
gruesome enough for you, writer/director
Eli Roth takes us deeper into the dark
recesses of the human psyche with
this scary sequel.
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Release date: September 21 Cert: tbc
Two straight single Philadelphia
firefighters Chuck (Adam Sandler) and
Larry (Kevin James) pretend to be gay in a
ruse to claim domestic partner benefits.
Chuck and Larry are the pride of their
fire station: two guy's guys, always side
by side and willing to do anything
for each other.
Salt of the earth Widower Larry wants just
one thing: to protect his family. His buddy
Chuck also wants one thing: to enjoy
single life.
And when Larry saves Chuck's life, he
owes him big time.
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Release date: August 24 Cert: 15
From the ‘proud parents’ of the 40 Year
Old Virgin, Knocked Up is a comedy about
an aimless bum who has a one-night stand
with beautiful TV reporter, Alison Scott.
For fun loving party animal Ben Stone
(Seth Rogen), the last thing he ever
expected was for Alison (Katherine Heigl)
to show up on his doorstep eight weeks
later and tell him she’s pregnant. The
unlikely couple are then forced to see
whether they actually have anything in
common and if they can plan a future
together. Or will they come to regret that
one night stand to end all others?
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Release date: August 24 Cert: 18
Lady Constance Reid (Marina Hands) is just
23 when she marries rich Clifford Chatterley
(Hippolyte Girardot). But the year is 1917 and
Clifford is soon drafted into the army. When
he returns from the front in Flanders he is a
broken man, condemned to spend his life in
a wheelchair. The couple move to
Chatterley’s vast estates where Constance
grows increasingly close to gamekeeper
Oliver (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) in this
adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel.
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Release date: July 13 Cert: 18
Marlon Brando stars in this classic
drama as Paul, an American expatriate
whose wife has recently committed
suicide. Maria Schneider is Jeanne,
a young French woman engaged to
be married to an earnest young film-maker.
When they meet by chance in an empty
Paris apartment, Paul and Jeanne embark
on an intense sexual relationship that
obliterates the outside world each is
hiding from.
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Release date: August 17 Cert: tbc
Newly engaged Ben Murphy (John Krasinski)
and his fiancée Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore)
have always dreamed of getting married in
a traditional wedding at her family church.
The problem is, St. Augustine’s has only one
wedding slot available in the next two years
and its charismatic pastor Reverend Frank
(Robin Williams) won’t bless the union
until they pass his patented, foolproof,
marriage-prep course.
Ben and Sadie are about to find out if they
really have what it takes to make it to the
altar…and live happily ever after.
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Release date: July 13 Cert: 12A
Paris, 1644, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste
Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not
yet the writer that history will come to
recognize. He is, in fact, a failed actor.
His Illustrious Theatre Troupe is bankrupt.
Hounded by creditors, Molière is thrown into
jail, released, and then swiftly imprisoned again.
And then he disappears.
So what happened to one of the world’s
great playwrights during these mysterious
lost months?
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Release date: September/October tbc Cert: 12A
This is the emotional, touching and often
hilarious story of one dysfunctional
family’s journey from 1968 West Yorkshire to
freezing Communist East Germany and back
again. Uprooted by Frank Ratcliffe’s (Iain
Glen) passion for Marx and Lenin
and a desire to escape the world of
Marks & Spencer, the naïve Ratcliffe family
travels from a bleak but free England
to state-controlled East Germany.
Catherine Tate also stars.
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Release date: October 19 Cert: PG
Based on characters created by Carolyn Keene, the
family mystery adventure of Nancy Drew follows
Nancy (Emma Roberts) as she accompanies
her father, Carson Drew (Tate Donovan), to Los
Angeles and stumbles across evidence about a
long-unsolved crime involving the death of a
beautiful movie star. Nancy’s resourcefulness
is put to the test when she finds herself in the
middle of the fast-living, self-indulgent world
of Hollywood.
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Release date: August 31 Cert: PG
Chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
lives her life like she runs her kitchen at a
trendy Manhattan eatery: with a
no-nonsense intensity. But her perfectionist
nature is put to the test when she ‘inherits’
her nine-year-old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin),
while contending with a brash new
sous-chef who joins her staff. High-spirited
and freewheeling, Nick Palmer (Aaron
Eckhart) couldn’t be more different from
Kate, yet the chemistry between them
is undeniable.
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Release date: September 2007 Cert: tbc
Winner of the Sundance World Cinema
Audience Award & The Jameson Dublin
International Film Festival Audience Award,
Once is a simple story of two artists falling
in love. A Dublin busker, who ekes out a
living playing guitar and repairing vacuum
cleaners in his dad’s shop, meets a young
Czech immigrant selling roses in the street.
Through music, they find a common bond.
Their relationship quickly blossoms as
they share their music, form a band and
record some demos, all of which results in
them bringing some much-needed impetus
to their artistic and personal lives.
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Release date: June 29 Cert: 15
Directors including the Coen Brothers,
Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven come
together to portray Paris in a way never
imagined before.
This portrait of the city is as diverse as its
creators’ backgrounds and nationalities.
Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Elijah Wood, Steve Buscemi, Nick Nolte,
Bob Hoskins, Juliette Binoche,
Emily Mortimer, Rufus Sewell and
Miranda Richardson grace a series of
startling vignettes.
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Release date: July 20 Cert: 12A
Director Alain Resnais adapts Alan
Ayckbourn’s comedy of manners and moves
the bewitching scenes from London to Paris.
There’s no cure for the desire not to be alone
– it’s the eternal quest for happiness. It’s
easy to believe it’s within your grasp and
hard to accept that it may all be a figment of
your imagination.
Funny, compassionate and sad, Ayckbourn’s
play has 54 scenes with characters who don’t
know each other, including some who
may never meet.
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Release date: September 7 Cert: tbc
Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was
at the altar about to marry Libby (Thandie
Newton), his pregnant fiancée.
But he got cold feet, ran to the hills and he’s
been running ever since.
When Dennis finds out Libby has hooked up
with high-flying Whit (Hank Azaria) he realises
it’s now or never.
He enters a marathon to show he’s not a
quitter but finds out just how much sweat,
strain and tears it takes to change.
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Release date: August 10 Cert: tbc
The beloved action comedy duo of Chris
Tucker and Jackie Chan reprise their
roles as LAPD detective James Carter and
Chinese Chief Inspector Lee.
This time around, the pair travel to
Paris to battle a wing of the
Chinese organised crime syndicate
the Triads.
Chan and Tucker reunite with director Brett
Ratner to deliver the third instalment of the
blockbusting franchise.
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Release date: July 27 Cert: 15
Three years after being jailed for robbery,
former heroin addict Sherry Swanson
(Maggie Gyllenhaal) begins her first day of
freedom. A model prisoner who underwent a
personal transformation, she sets out to
regain custody of her daughter Alexis
(Ryan Simpkins).
Ultimately, she learns the tough realities of
life get in the way of our best intentions.
And sometimes it’s best to take life one small
step at a time.
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Release date: September 14 Cert: tbc
Mr Smith (Clive Owen) is a mysterious loner
who finds himself in the middle of a frenetic
and terrifying adventure.
Deep in the heart of a city’s murky
underworld, Smith faces a race against
time to protect a newborn baby from the
clutches of a determined criminal.
Gritty Shoot ‘Em Up kicks into high gear
with a memorable opening scene and
never relents.
It also stars Monica Belluci as
Mr Smith’s unlikely ally and Paul Giamatti as
the determined criminal hunting them.
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Release date: June 29 Cert: U
When Shrek married Princess Fiona, becoming the
next King and Queen of Far Far Away wasn’t part
of the plan. So when his father-in-law, King Harold,
falls ill, it’s up to Shrek to find the rightful heir to the
throne – Fiona’s rebellious cousin Artie.
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz,
Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Justin
Timberlake, Julie Andrews, John Cleese and
Eric Idle star.
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Release date: June 29 Cert: 15
Driving home from a party, photographer
Tun (Ananda Everingham) and his girlfriend
Jane (Natthaweeranuch Thongmee)
accidentally knock down a teenage girl. But
rather than going to the victim’s aid, Tun
convinces Jane to leave the scene.
In the days following the incident, ghostly
images begin to appear on photographs
taken by Tun. Investigations into the cause of
this mysterious phenomenon lead Tun and
Jane to a girl from Tun’s past, and a very dark
and deeply disturbing secret.
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Release date: June 29 Cert: 12A
In this, his first documentary, film-maker
Sydney Pollack turns the camera on his friend
– architect Frank Gehry.
Pollack doesn’t pretend to understand
architecture – he just knows what he likes. In
an effort to better know Gehry’s work, the
legendary director delves into his friend's
childhood and private passions.
He begins to discover the creative inspiration
behind the bold ideas that have created
iconic structures such as the Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao.
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Release date: September 14 Cert: tbc
Socially inept teenagers Evan (Michael Cera)
and Seth (Jonah Hill) are about to
graduate high school.
Evan is sweet, smart, and generally
terrified. Seth is foul-mouthed, volatile
and consumed with the topic of
human sexuality.
Theirs is a ridiculously dependent friendship
but now they’ve got into different colleges
and are forced to contemplate life apart in
this coming-of-age tale with a difference.
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Release date: August 10 Cert: PG
Teenage penguin Cody Maverick
(voiced by Shia LaBeouf) is an
up-and-coming young surfer.
Followed by a camera crew as he leaves
his home in Shiverpool, Antarctica, Cody
travels to Pen Gu Island for the Big Z
Memorial Surf Off.
Cody believes winning will bring
him the admiration and respect
he desires, but when he comes
face-to-face with an old surfer dude
(Jeff Bridges), he begins to understand
a true winner isn’t always the one
who comes first.
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Release date: July 13 Cert: tbc
This surreal tale follows three
generations of an eccentric family
throughout the 20th Century.
The dim grandfather, an orderly during
World War Two, has bizarre sexual
fantasies. His obese son seeks success as
a speed eater in the post-war Soviet era
while the grandson, a corpse-like
taxidermist, yearns to create a work of
art by stuffing his own torso.
Historical facts and surrealism
become intertwined in a script based
on stories by Hungarian writer
Lajos Parti Nagy.
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Release date: August 16 Cert: tbc
Matt Damon returns as assassin
Jason Bourne for the latest showdown in
The Bourne Ultimatum.
All he wanted was to disappear. Instead,
Bourne is now hunted by the people
who made him what he is. Having lost his
memory and the one person he loved, he is
undeterred by the barrage of bullets and
a new generation of highly trained killers out
to get him.
Bourne has only one objective: to go back to
the beginning and find out who he was.
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Release date: September 14 Cert: tbc
Thirty-something Tom (Zach Braff) is married
to Sofia (Amanda Peet), his heavily pregnant
soulmate, and top environmental lawyer.
After drifting from job to job, Tom ends up
working as a chef in a trendy diner. But
following a spat with his boss, he quits
the same day baby Oliver is born.
The couple moves to Wisconsin where
Sofia’s father Bob has offered Tom a job at
his advertising agency.
That’s when things get interesting…
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Release date: August 3 Cert: 15
Richard Gere stars in the true story of Clifford
Irving, a writer who has the biggest scoop of
the 20th century - or does he? After years
spent struggling to find that one big story,
Clifford decides to make one up. He has been
approached by the one man the entire world
most wants to know about – aviator, movie
mogul, ladies man and eccentric billionaire
Howard Hughes – to ink his priceless
biography. There’s just one little problem: not
a word of what Clifford is saying is true.
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Release date: tbc Cert: tbc
This is a chilling insight into the mind of
Mark David Chapman, the 25-year-old
narcissist who gunned down John Lennon
outside his New York apartment in 1980.
It’s a gritty examination of a celebrity
stalker’s mind, revealing his descent into
madness leading up to the kill. The central
theme of bomb ticking loneliness and, by
extension, the notion that America is a
nation of angry strangers who vent
paranoid resentment toward public figures,
couldn’t be more resonant today.
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Release date: July 20 Cert: PG
The Seventh Seal (re-issued on its 50th
anniversary) is a stunning allegory of man’s
search for the meaning of life.
With the plague decimating the population of
Europe, the figure of Death appears before
knight Antonius (Max Von Sydow) as he
returns from the Crusades.
Asking for the chance to live, he proposes a
game of chess to decide his fate. The knight
takes his squire, a troupe of travelling
players and a young deaf girl under his
protection as the game is played out.
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Release date: September 14 Cert: tbc
It’s New Year’s Eve and chaos seems
to be this year’s resolution.
All forms of communication have been
jammed by an enigmatic signal that
preys on the fears and desires of everyone
in the city.
Told from three unique perspectives by
three visionary directors, The Signal
is a horrific journey towards the chilling
discovery that a brutal monster lies
within us all.
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Release date: July 27 Cert: PG tbc
In the eagerly awaited animated feature film based
on the hit TV series, Homer Simpson has to save the
world from a catastrophe he himself has created.
Packed with all your favourite characters from the
cult classic cartoon created by Matt Groening and
starring the voice talent of Dan Castellanata, Julie
Kavner and Yeardley Smith, this is one film fans of
Homer and his dysfunctional clan can’t miss.
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Release date: September 28 Cert: tbc
One evening, nightclub crooner Alain
Moreau (Gérard Depardieu) spots the
young, beautiful and blonde Marion (Cécile
de France) in the audience and decides to
fix up a meeting with her through his friend
Bruno (Mathieu Amalric).
Marion is a single mother with an unhappy
story. Although she is cautious, before too
long a tentative relationship begins to
develop between the two. However, Bruno
himself soon becomes a rival for beautiful
Marion’s affections.
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Release date: August 10 Cert: tbc
Carter Page (Woody Harrelson) is a
society walker. His ‘job’ entails escorting
the wives of the rich and powerful to
the opera when their husbands can’t
be bothered.
The wife of a liberal senator contacts Carter
when she finds her lover murdered. To save
her and her husband political
embarrassment, Carter agrees to say that he
discovered the body.
But he is quickly implicated in the killing.
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Release date: July 27 Cert: 12A
Earth is about to be transformed this
summer when robotic aliens make our
planet their final battleground.
With the destructive Decepticons
seeking the key to ultimate power, the last
chance for survival of our race lies in
the hands of young Sam Witwicky
(Shia LaBeouf), and the combined firepower
of his Autobot allies and massed human
armies. John Turturro and Jon Voight
also star.
Directed by Michael Bay and produced by
Steven Spielberg, Transformers won an
award in the US even before its release.
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Release date: August 31 Cert: tbc
Two Days in Paris follows the relationship of
a New York couple; a French photographer,
Marion (Julie Delpy) and an American
interior designer, Jack (Adam Goldberg) — as
they attempt to re-infuse their relationship
with romance by taking a holiday in Europe.
Their trip to Venice didn’t work out but they
have higher hopes for Paris. However, the
combination of Marion’s overbearing
non-English speaking parents and flirtatious
ex-boyfriends could spell disaster.
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