Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego directs this science fiction horror styled as found footage a la The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. In December 1974, the two-man crew of Apollo 18 blasts off from Earth bound for the Moon. Touching down on the surface, the astronauts nostalgically look at the footprints of the men who have boldly walked before them. However, the Americans are in for a shock: they discover a dead Russian cosmonaut on the surface and evidence of foul play.

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ARTHUR AND THE GREAT ADVENTURE (PG)

Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) - Arthur (Freddie Highmore) improvises a passage back to the Minimoys where he joins forces with bar owner Max (Snoop Dogg) and his pickpocket cousin Replay (Stacy Ferguson) to rescue Princess Selenia (Selena Gomez)

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CARS 2 (U)

Cineworld - Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) returns home to Radiator Springs as the four-time champion of the Piston Cup. Italian racing car Francesco Bernoulli (John Turturro) goads Lightning into participating in a newly announced championship. However, a group of rogue cars led by the diabolical Professor Zundapp (Thomas Kretschmann) is plotting to sabotage the three races in Japan, Italy and the UK.

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN (15)

Cineworld, Showcase & VUE - A group of warriors descend upon a village destroying everything in their path to find the final piece of a magical mask that will bring back to life the evil wife of warlord Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang). When Corin (Ron Perlman) sacrifices himself in order for his son Conan to survive, it leads Conan on a personal vendetta to seek revenge for his father’s death. Along the way Conan (Jason Momoa) encounters terrifying monsters, Zym’s hulking henchmen and Marique (Rose McGowan), a powerful witch.

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COWBOYS & ALIENS (12A)

Cineworld & VUE - 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 & Odeon - 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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FRIGHT NIGHT (15)

Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - 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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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II (12A)

Cineworld, Showcase, & VUE - 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 - 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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MR POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG)

Cineworld, Showcase, & VUE - Thomas (Jim Carrey) is a workaholic real estate developer for the money-grabbing triumvirate Franklin (Philip Baker Hall), Reader (Dominic Chianese) and Yates (William C Mitchell). To secure promotion, Thomas must persuade Mrs Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury) to sell the Tavern On The Green restaurant in Central Park. She rebuffs his pitch, determined to sell the historic property to a person of worth. While he attempts to close the deal, Thomas 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 & VUE - 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. True to their words, the two friends stay in touch throughout the next few years, as Dex travels around the world while Emma slaves away in a Mexican restaurant in London. As the years pass by, and despite the friends working in London, they often lose touch before reconnecting again. One Day charts their lives throughout 20 years, as they deal with the joys and heartbreaks of life.

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RANGO (PG)

Cineworld Sat 10am (games plus choice of films for £1) & VUE daily - A pampered chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) lost in the desert is taken by iguana Beans (Isla Fisher) to the town of Dirt where the water supply is running low and pretends to be a famous gunslinger who must protect the locals from predators including Rattlesnake Jake (Bill Nighy).

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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?

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG)

Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - A heavily pregnant Marissa Wilson Cortez (Jessica Alba) is on her final mission as a spy to capture evil baddie Tick Tock. Later at the Wilson family home, the baby is now almost a toddler and Marissa’s husband Wilbur is juggling time with the twins Rebecca and Cecil and presenting his TV show Spyhunter. Over at OSS (Organisation of Super Spies) HQ, news breaks that the mysterious Timekeeper has accelerated time, meaning the world is heading for Armageddon. Marissa is called out of retirement, but not before she’s gives Rebecca a necklace, which is actually a ’chronos sapphire’ capable of disrupting the Armageddon device. The Timekeeper despatches his minions to the Wilson home to destroy the sapphire and the kids are quickly initiated into the secret world of their step-mum.

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SARAH’S KEY - ELLE S’APPELAIT SARAH (15)

ARC, Stockton - A tragic and shameful moment in French history continues to have consequences in the present day in this screen adaptation of the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay.

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SUPER 8 (12A)

Cineworld - In the sleepy industrial town of Lillian, Ohio, teenager Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother. The youngster invests his time in making a low-budget zombie film with his friends. The children head down to the local rail station to shoot and just as the camera starts rolling, they see a truck drive on to the tracks and derail an oncoming freight train. As they make a hasty escape, the trespassing teens are oblivious to the monstrous creature crawling free from the twisted wreckage.

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THE ART OF GETTING BY (12A)

Showcase - High school student George Zinavoy (Freddie Highmore) doesn’t see any point in completing class assignments and the socially awkward loner is on the verge of failing to graduate. When his mother Vivian (Rita Wilson) and step-father Jack (Sam Robards) discover he is on academic probation, George convinces them as well that there is no need to worry. By chance, George crosses paths with Sally (Emma Roberts) and he takes the blame and the punishment for her transgression during school hours. In return, she introduces George to a world of parties and colour he never knew existed.

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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE (15)

Cineworld, Showcase, VUE, Odeon & Regent - 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 SMURFS (U)

Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon - Based on the comic books by Peyo, The Smurfs brings the iconic characters to life on the big screen using the same digital trickery as Alvin And The Chipmunks to seamless meld the little blue heroes with live action. As the Blue Moon Festival approaches, Papa Smurf experiences a horrifying vision of arch-nemesis Gargamel imprisoning the entire Smurf village in cages and loveable Clumsy fumbling a dragon-shaped wand that could save the Smurfs.

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THOR (12A)

Odeon, Mon - The eponymous hero (Chris Hemsworth), an arrogant heir to his father Odin’s throne, is stripped of his power and banished to earth where the fallen god befriends scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard), protegee Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and intern Darcy (Kat Dennings)

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YOGI BEAR (U)

VUE Fri-Sun 10.30am - Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh) struggles to keep pace with the picnic basket stealing antics of Yogi Bear (voiced by Dan Aykroyd) and pal Boo Boo (Justin Timberlake).

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ADVANCE SCREENINGS

A LONELY PLACE TO DIE (15)

Showcase, Wed - Experienced mountaineers Alison (Melissa George), Rob (Alec Newman), Alex (Gary Sweeney) and Jenny (Kate Magowan) and the relatively inexperienced Ed (Ed Speleers) head into the Scottish Highlands. During a hike through a forest, the friends discover a Serbian girl called Anna (Holly Boyd) buried in a chamber in the earth. No sooner have the mountaineers rescued Anna than they come under fire from a kidnapper.

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (15)

Cineworld, Showcase, VUE & Odeon Sat & Sun only - Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis discover that a relationship based solely on sex has its pitfalls.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

THE WIGGLES BIG BIRTHDAY (U)

Cineworld Sat & Sun; VUE today, Sat & Sun - The Wiggles are celebrating their 20th birthday and you can join in the party with a one-hour cinema special packed with a collection of some of their best moments.