Cineworld, & Showcase - Dwayne (Danny McBride) and his pal Travis (Nick Swardson) cower in the shadow of Dwayne’s domineering father, The Major (Fred Ward), who won 10 million dollars on the lottery and has frittered away most of the cash. Money-grabbing lap dancer Juici (Bianca Kajlich) suggests a radical solution: pay hit man Chongo (Michael Pena) 100,000 dollars to kill the old man.
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BODYGUARD (12A)
Cineworld - Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is a young man with a very peculiar habit. He worships anyone who has a trace of heroism. Once he develops such a fixation, he finds himself compelled to follow the object of his adulation. In doing so, he acts as a sort of unofficial bodyguard.
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CARS 2 (U)
Cineworld & VUE - Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is goaded by Francesco Bernoulli (John Turturro) into participating in a newly announced championship which a group of rogue cars is plotting to sabotage.
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COLOMBIANA (15)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - In 1992 Colombia, 10-year-old Cataleya (Amandla Stenberg) witnesses the deaths of her parents at the hands of thug Marco who is in the employ of druglord Don Luis. Determined to avenge her parents’ murders, the girl heads to Chicago to reunite with her gangster uncle Emilio (Cliff Curtis). Fast-forwarding 15 years, Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) has blossomed into a sexy assassin responsible for 22 murders.
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COWBOYS & ALIENS (12A)
Showcase - Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes in the desert with a gunshot wound, a large metal bracelet on his wrist and no memory of who he is or how he came to be in the dirt. He struts into town and is unmasked as a killer with a sizeable bounty on his head. Arrested by the sheriff and bound for prison alongside Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano), Jake makes his escape from the prison coach during a devastating attack by extraterrestrial craft.
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FINAL DESTINATION 5 (15)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE and Regent - Sam (Nicholas D’Agosto) dreams of becoming a chef while working in the office of a paper manufacturer. He’s been tasked with organising a staff away day for his colleagues. All is well until the bus they’re travelling on gets stuck in traffic on a suspension bridge. Sam has a premonition about his friends’ impending doom and as his daydream comes to an end, Sam realises what he saw in his mind’s eye and hurries his friends off the bus. But very quickly Sam and his friends are under threat.
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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (15)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Corporate headhunter Jamie (Mila Kunis) woos talented website director Dylan (Justin Timberlake) to New York with a view to securing his employment at GQ magazine. She shows him around the city and quickly wins him over. Since they both have wounded hearts, Jamie and Dylan agree that it would be perfectly acceptable to enjoy no-strings-attached sex without falling for each other. While Dylan’s work colleague Tommy (Woody Harrelson) and Jamie’s mother Lorna (Patricia Clarkson) foresee trouble on the horizon, the pair continue with their agreement, blind to the consequences.
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FRIGHT NIGHT (15)
Cineworld - Geeky teen Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) warns best friend Charley (Anton Yelchin) that the hunky drifter, Jerry (Colin Farrell), who has moved in next-door is a vampire. When Ed vanishes without trace, Charley wonders if Jerry might be responsible. As the teenager investigates, he imperils his divorced mother, Jane (Toni Collette), and girlfriend Amy (Imogen Poots). Thankfully, showman and self-anointed vampire expert Peter Vincent (Tennant) has some valuable tips on defeating the creatures of the night.
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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (PG)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Tue Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) blags a travel trip to the Bermuda Triangle and winds up as a giant in the land of Lilliput ruled by King Theodore (Billy Connolly) and Queen Isabelle (Catherine Tate).
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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II (12A)
Cineworld & Showcase - The final chapter of JK Rowling’s epic story opens with Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) stealing the powerful Elder Wand from Dumbledore’s grave. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) continue their mission to track down the final Horcruxes, which contain fragments of Voldemort’s blackened soul.
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HOP (U)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Young rabbit EB (voiced by Russell Brand), destined to ascend the throne as master of all that is sugary, dreams of being a drummer in a rock band and runs away to Hollywood and meets eternal loser Fred O’Hare (James Marsden).
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HORRID HENRY - THE MOVIE (U)
Showcase & VUE - Henry (Theo Stevenson) is a lazy boy with dreams of pop stardom, who runs rings around his mum (Siobhan Hayes) and dad (Mathew Horne). And when a series of pranks in front of two school inspectors threatens the future of Ashdown Primary School Henry grimly faces the prospect of attending the local private school.
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I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (12A)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is determined to have it all, balancing a high-powered, well-paid job as a financial executive and a family that she can spend some of her time and energy on while still bringing home the bacon. But it's no easy task and her life turns into a roller-coaster of competing demands as she runs - literally runs - between her young family and her demanding boss.
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JANE EYRE (PG)
Cineworld , Showcase & VUE - Mia Wasikowska, Jamie Bell, Holliday Grainger, Tamzin Merchant, Sally Hawkins and Judi Dench star in the latest remake of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel in which Mr Rochester falls under Jane’s spell but he conceals a dark secret that could poison their relationship forever.
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KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Po (voiced by Jack Black) joins forces with a group of kung fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.
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MR POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG)
Cineworld & Showcase - Workaholic property developer Thomas (Jim Carrey) is desperate to close the deal on a building when he receives his inheritance from his late father: six Gentoo penguins, which take over his life and rebuild bridges with ex-wife Amanda and children.
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ONE DAY (12A)
Cineworld & Showcase - Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess take the leads as bookish Yorkshire lass Emma Morley and charming ladies’ man Dexter Mayhew, who have a drunken encounter on their graduation on St Swithin’s Day in 1988, and make a pact to remain friends. As the years pass by they often lose touch before reconnecting again.
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RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (12A)
Cineworld, Showcase, & VUE - Rupert Wyatt directs this opening instalment of a proposed franchise breathing new life into the Planet Of The Apes series. Scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. He feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on chimpanzees, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects. A baby called Caesar, born to one of the test chimps, is scheduled to be destroyed so Will smuggles the animal home. But does meddling with nature have repercussions?
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SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG)
Cineworld & Odeon - Marissa Wilson Cortez (Jessica Alba) is called out of retirement when the mysterious Timekeeper accelerates time, meaning the world is heading for Armageddon.
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THE CHANGE-UP (15)
Cineworld, Showcase VUE & Odeon - Overworked lawyer Dave Lockwood (Jason Bateman) is on the verge of securing the vice presidency at his firm. Dedication to his job has dulled his marriage to wife Jamie (Leslie Mann) and taken him away from his three children. Dave’s best friend Mitch Planko (Ryan Reynolds) is a fast-talking, jobbing actor, who ricochets from one meaningless sexual encounter to the next. One drunken night, the two bemoan their lots and proclaim, “I wish I had your life,” as they urinate in a fountain. The next morning, Dave and Mitch are trapped in each other’s bodies and have no obvious way to change back.
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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE (15)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - The boys from BAFTA award-winning television series The Inbetweeners have made the move to the big screen. As the four wave goodbye to Rudge Park Comprehensive, they decide they need a proper lads’ holiday in Malia, Crete, to reinvent themselves. Of course, nothing goes according to plan. There’s humiliation on a regular basis - but somehow the chums actually meet some girls.
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THE SKIN I LIVE IN (15) La Piel Que Habito
ARC, Stockton - Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Mygale, this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter.
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THE SMURFS (U)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE and Regent - The iconic characters come to life on the big screen.
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THE TREE OF LIFE (12A)
Odeon, Mon - The life of Jack in the 1950s Midwest is told in parallel with a tale of the dawn of time.
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (15)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - John Le Carré’s spy novel is brought to the big screen with John Hurt as Control, the chief of a 1970s British Secret Intelligence Service unit known as the Circus. Control turns to trusted protege, Smiley (Gary Oldman) to unmask a traitor in their ranks. With Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, David Dencik and Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch with Kathy Burke as Connie Sachs.
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WIN WIN (15)
Darlington Arts Centre, Wed - With his business failing, lawyer Mike (Paul Giamatti) embarks on a devious and unethical scheme to earn some extra cash from a senile client. But his plan is complicated by the arrival of the old man’s grandson, a star athlete.
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YOU INSTEAD (15)
Cineworld - Preening indie star Adam (Luke Treadaway) arrives at T In The Park music festival with keyboardist Tyko (Mathew Baynton), eager to headline the main stage and the pair become involved in a confrontation with grungy fem-rock outfit The Dirty Pinks.
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ADVANCE SCREENINGS
WARRIOR (12A)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE, Wed/Thur - two brothers (Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton) clash in the fighting ring.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
THOMAS & FRIENDS: DAY OF THE DIESELS (U)
VUE Sat/ Sun - The Steamies and the Diesels face off in this action-packed movie adventure!
PEARL JAM TWENTY (15)
VUE Wed/Thur - The definitive portrait of Pearl Jam: part concert film, part intimate insider-hang, part testimonial to the power of music and uncompromising artists.
