Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - High school student Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) thinks he has the perfect life. Yet something is amiss. He discovers he bears an uncanny resemblance to the age-modified image of a boy who went missing many years ago. Then shadowy CIA Agent Burton (Alfred Molina) makes contact with Nathan and warns the teenager that he is a pawn in a dastardly plot.
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BEAUTIFUL LIES - De Vrais Mensonges (12A)
ARC, Stockton (Tonight) - Emilie puts all her heart into running her busy hairdressing salon in sunny South of France. Meanwhile, her mother, has had her heart broken, and needs love. When Emilie starts receiving anonymous love letters, she decides to send them on to her mother, sparking confusion, complications and dilemmas when the secret admirer is revealed.
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COWBOYS & ALIENS (12A)
Odeon (Mon) - 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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CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (12A)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is enjoying a meal with his wife. The silence between the couple speaks volumes and in the car on the way home, she confesses she slept with co-worker David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon) and wants a divorce. The cuckolded husband seeks refuge at a cocktail bar where lothario Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling) takes pity.
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES (U)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Back in school after the summer holidays, sibling rivalry rules as seventh grader Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) and his eponymous bullying brother (Devon Bostick) try to deal with their parents’ misguided attempts to have them bond
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DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (15)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Sally Hurst is sent to live with her architect father Alex and his girlfriend at the Gothic mansion they are restoring. Despite the grim warnings of caretaker Mr Harris, who knows all about the goblin-like creatures in the basement, the Hursts foolishly move a fireplace grate, thereby unleashing the pint-sized horrors upon poor Sally.
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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (15)
Showcase - 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. Since they both have wounded hearts, they agree that it would be perfectly acceptable to enjoy no-strings-attached sex without falling for each other.
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FURRY VENGEANCE (PG)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Property developer Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) has big plans for a stretch of Oregon wilderness but a wily raccoon and his critter chums don’t want their homes disturbed in Roger Kumble’s comedy
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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.
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JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE, Odeon and Regent - Following a disastrous mission in Mozambique, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) turns his back on MI7 and heads to a Tibetan retreat. Section chief Pamela Thornton (Gillian Anderson) woos him back to help thwart an assassination attempt on the Chinese premier and pairs him up with rookie agent Tucker (Daniel Kaluuya).
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JURASSIC PARK (PG)
Cineworld - Jurassic Park and its sequels are being released for the first time on Blu-ray on October 24 and to celebrate, the original film returns to cinemas.
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KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG)
Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - In the sequel, Po (voiced by Jack Black) joins forces with a group of kung fu masters - including Mantis (Seth Rogen), Monkey (Jackie Chan) and Viper (Lucy Liu) - to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.
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MR POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG)
Cineworld & Showcase - Thomas (Jim Carrey) is a workaholic real estate developer who receives his inheritance from his late father: six Gentoo penguins.
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PERFECT SENSE (15)
Showcase - Two neighbours fall madly in love as the world we know comes to a startling end in David Mackenzie’s provocative, apocalyptic romance that begs chilling questions about the emotional and physical connections we forge to the people we love. Stars Ewan McGregor.
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SHARK NIGHT 3D (15)
Cineworld & VUE - A perfect summer break turns sour when holiday makers discover a lake has been stocked with hundreds of vicious, flesh-eating sharks.
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SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG)
Cineworld, VUE & 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 DEBT(15)
Cineword, Showcase & VUE - Helen Mirren stars in this compelling tale of an ex-spy who must face up to the terrible actions of her past.
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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE (15)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - The boys from BAFTA award-winning television series The Inbetweeners make the move to the big screen as they head off on a proper lads’ holiday in Malia, Crete.
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THE LION KING (U)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Disney’s highest-grossing hand-drawn animation of all time strides majestically back onto the big screen, looking more sensational than ever in the increasingly fashionable 3D format.
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THE MESSENGER (15)
Darlington Arts Centre (Wed) - After he is assigned to the Casualty Notification Unit, where he informs the relatives of those killed in action, Sergeant Will Montgomery begins a tentative romance with a recently bereaved woman. Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton.
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THE SMURFS (U)
Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Based on the comic books by Peyo, The Smurfs brings the iconic characters to life on the big screen.
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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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WARRIOR (12A)
Cineworld & Showcase - Marine Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) arrives home unexpectedly after 14 years of service, surprising his father Paddy (Nick Nolte), who has turned to religion to help him beat the bottle. Tommy asks his old man to train him for Sparta, a televised mixed martial arts fighting competition with the biggest purse in the sport’s history.
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WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (15)
Cineworld & VUE - Ally Darling (Anna Faris) reads a newspaper article, which suggests the average person has 10.5 partners in their lifetime and single women are doomed to spinsterhood if they reach 20 sexual partners without hearing a peal of wedding bells. Shocked to discover that a recent drunken fumble with her boss takes the notches on her bedpost to 20, Ally re-evaluates the suitability of her old flames as partners.
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ADVANCE SHOWINGS
THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (12a)
Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon (Wed & Thur) - The classic sword-slinging tale of adventure gets an action-packed makeover. Stars Milla Jovovich, Juno Temple, Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Ray Stevenson, Christoph Waltz, Luke Evans and Matthew MacFadyen.
