The Adventures of Tintin

US / Paramount / tbc / tbc / Adventure
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Scr: Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig

Tintin and his friends discover directions to a sunken ship commanded by Capt. Haddock's ancestor and go off on a treasure hunt.

From Oscar® winning director Steven Spielberg and Oscar® winning producer Peter Jackson, two of today’s most visionary storytellers, comes a 3D motion picture event:  an epic, globe-hopping quest that spans hidden mysteries, menacing criminals and ancient secrets -- and brings to dazzling life the classic escapades that have enthralled generation after generation with their one-of-a-kind mix of action, humour and scintillating tale-spinning in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

Based on the internationally beloved and irrepressible characters created by Hergé, the story follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret.  Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin finds himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig), a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has  stolen a priceless treasure tied to dastardly pirate named Red Rackham.  But with the help of his dog Snowy, the salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) and the bumbling detectives Thompson & Thomson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), Tintin will travel half the world, outwitting and outrunning his enemies in a breathless chase to find the final resting place of The Unicorn, a shipwreck that may hold the key to vast fortune . . . and a ancient curse.

Running time: 106 mins

ALBATROSS

Seventeen year old force-of-nature and aspiring novelist EMELIA (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) starts a new job at The Cliff House, a small hotel on the South Coast of England, run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. BETH FISCHER (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her exams in a desperate bid to escape to University. Emelia and Beth strike up a surprise friendship: Emelia represents everything Beth would like to be.  Emelia’s free-spirit helps Beth learn to let her hair down and Emelia is inspired by Beth’s determination and focus. However Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences. Secrets are revealed and relationships implode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs round her neck and rewrite herself?

ANONYMOUS

Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, Anonymous speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Sigmund Freud, namely: who actually created the body of work credited to William Shakespeare?  Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. Anonymous poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when scandalous political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles lusting for the power of the throne were brought to light in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.

Running time: 130 minutes

Ghana / Dogwoof Films / PG / 90 mins / Documentary
Dir: Jarreth J. Merz, Kevin Merz
Scr: Erika Tasini, Shari Yantra Marcacci

This feature documentary looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of Ghana's third world democracy as it struggles to legitimise itself to its first world contemporaries. The election process is by turns bright, entertaining, dark and dangerous.

THE ARTIST

Starring Jean Dujardin & Bérénice Bejo  

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

100 min

The Awakening

London, 1921, as the country turns to séances and spiritualism for solace from the war, academic and writer Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a determined realist with an unwavering confidence in logic and science, but when schoolmaster Robert Mallory (Dominic West) tells her of incidents at a boys' boarding school following the death of a child, Florence starts to uncover more secrets than she bargained for. Referencing The Others and The Innocents, Murphy's debut feature is a classy haunted-house yarn.

BEGINNERS

EWAN McGREGOR, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, MÉLANIE LAURENT, GORAN VISNJIC KAI LENNOX, MARY PAGE KELLER, KEEGAN BOOS

Running Time: 104 mins

When it comes to relationships, we’re all beginners.

From writer/director Mike Mills comes Beginners, a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments.

Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal Fields (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away.

This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend, Andy (Goran Visnjic of ER). The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavours to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.

At once deeply personal and universal, Beginners was inspired by Mike Mills’ own father and is meant in turn to inspire everyone weighing their chances and choices in life and love.

A BETTER LIFE

From Chris Weitz, director of About a Boy and producer of A Single Man and In Good Company, comes A BETTER LIFE - a poignant, multi-generational story about a father's love and everything a parent will sacrifice to build a better life for his child.

Carlos Galindo dreamed of good things for his wife and future son when they crossed the border into the US. But when his wife left him, wanting more than he could give, Carlos' only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. After years of hard work and trying to set an example for his child, he still finds himself drifting apart from Luis, now a teenager, who is susceptible to peer pressures that could lead him down a dangerous path. Seeing a way to control their own destiny, Carlos borrows what little money he can and invests it all into his own gardening business, hoping to finally achieve the better life he always envisioned for his son.

However, after an unexpected turn of events, when everything he's worked for is suddenly taken away, it is Luis, despite years of growing apart, who teams up with Carlos to take it back. Together, father and son embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover something more important - that family is the most important part of the American dream.

Running time: 98 mins
Cert: 12A

USA / Dogwoof Films / tbc / 80mins / Documentary
Dir: Alma Har'el

This documentary charts the triumphs and disappointments of three men living in Bombay Beach, one of the poorest communities in South California.Winner of the Tribeca film festival doc competition.

CARS 2  

Star race car Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places in “Cars 2” when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car.  But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.  Torn between assisting Lightning McQueen in the high-profile race and towing the line in a top-secret spy mission, Mater’s action-packed journey leads him on an explosive chase through the streets of Japan and Europe, trailed by his friends and watched by the whole world.  Adding to the fast-paced fun is a colourful new all-car cast that includes secret agents, menacing villains and international racing competitors.

CONTAGION

Directed by Steven Soderbergh   Written by Scott Z. Burns   Starring Matt Damon, Gywneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jennifer Ehle, Elliot Gould   Running time: 106 mins Released in the UK on 21st October 2011   www.contagionmovie.co.uk    

An international traveler reaches into the snack bowl at an airport bar before passing her credit card to a waiter.  A business meeting begins with a round of handshakes.  A man coughs on a crowded bus…   One contact.  One instant.  And a lethal virus is transmitted.   When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minneapolis from business in Hong Kong, what she thought was jet lag takes a virulent turn.  Two days later, she’s dead in the ER and the doctors tell her shocked and grieving husband (Matt Damon) they have no idea why.   Soon, others exhibit the same mysterious symptoms: hacking coughs and fever, followed by seizure, brain hemorrhage…and ultimately, death. In Minneapolis, Chicago, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, the numbers quickly multiply: one case becomes four, then sixteen, then hundreds, thousands, as the contagion sweeps across all borders, fueled by the countless human interactions that make up the course of an average day.  A global pandemic explodes.  

At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers mobilize to break the code of a unique biological pathogen as it continues to mutate.  Deputy Director Cheever (Laurence Fishburne) tries to allay the growing panic despite his own personal concerns, and must send a brave young doctor (Kate Winslet) into harm’s way.  At the same time, amid a rising tide of suspicion over a potential vaccine—and who gets it first—Dr. Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) of the World Health Organization works through the network of connections that could lead back to the source of what they’re dealing with.

As the death toll escalates and people struggle to protect themselves and their loved ones in a society breaking down, one activist blogger (Jude Law) claims the public isn’t getting the truth about what’s really going on, and sets off an epidemic of paranoia and fear as infectious as the virus itself.

UK / Lionsgate / 15 / 123mins / Historical Drama
Dir: Ralph Fiennes
Scr: John Logan
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox

The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody. Manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventually breaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.

A DANGEROUS METHOD

Canada/ RPC / tbc/ tbc/ Drama
Dir: David Cronenberg
Scr: Christopher Hampton
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightly, Viggo Mortensen

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

The Descendants

US / Fox / tbc / 117mins / Comedy / Drama
Dir: Alexander Payne
Scr: Alexander Payne
Cast: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lilliard

Matt King (George Clooney) looks like a man leading a charmed life. Living on Hawaii's Big Island, he has a law practice, a wife and family, and is the trustee of a large family plot of beautiful and valuable land. But when his thrill-seeking wife Elizabeth suffers a boating accident off Waikiki, he's faced with a massive wake-up call.

India/ IG Interactive Entertainment Limited / 12A / 102 mins / Drama
Dir: Kiran Rao
Scr: Kiran Rao
Cast: Aamir Khan, Monica Dogra and Kriti Malhotra

The story of four people from very different backgrounds, whose worlds intersect and leave them forever altered. Shai - an investment banker with a penchant for photography, Arun - a lonely painter, Munna - the "dhobi" who aspires to become an actor and Yasmin - making a video in her camcorder for her brother, who hasn't been to Mumbai before. Fragments of their experience - seen through a video diary, black and white photos and paintings form a compelling portrait of Mumbai and its people.

DREAMS OF LIFE

UK / Dogwoof Pictures / 94 mins/ 12A / Documentary Drama

Dir: Carol Morley
Scr: Carol Morley
Cast: Zawe Ashton, Jonathan Harden and Daren Elliott Holmes

A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.

George Harrison: Living in the Material World plus Q+A

US / Arts Alliance Media / 12 / 209mins / Documentary
Dir: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese turns his documentary skills on former Beatle George Harrison in this documentary centering on the musician's time with the Fab Four as well as his solo career, spiritual beliefs, and time working in the movie business.

USA-Sweden/Sony Pictures/tbc/Drama
Dir: David Fincher
Scr: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Stellan Skarsgård

In this remake of the 2009 Swedish hit, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker.

Ghostwatch plus Q+A

A remarkable achievement in broadcasting, way ahead of it's time, Ghostwatch is gripping, slowly building tension as a TV crew camp out live in a suburban house... haunted by an unsettling spirit named Pipes. One of the most influential and controversial television dramas ever screened by the BBC (and never screened again!) Ghostwatch is a remarkable blurring of reality and fiction, to genuinely frightening effect.

GNOMEO AND JULIET

Directed by: Kelly Asbury
Produced by: Baker Bloodworth, Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish.
Starring: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen, Jason Statham and Ozzy Osbourne.

Garden rivalry is taken to new heights as we introduce a world you have never gnome before! The hats are off as the infamous star-crossed lovers and their colourful companions come to life in the hilarious, action-packed, family 3D adventure, .

Set in the gardens of fair Verona Drive, we witness the blossoming romance of two young gnomes, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt), amidst a turf war between the reds and the blues. Between the high-speed lawnmower chases and stealth missions, hearts (and hats) are broken, loyalties are tested and garden boundaries drawn, but can true gnomance conquer all? When your best friends are an over-excitable frog, a lovelorn flamingo, a loyal mushroom, a team of Bond-esque bunnies and a dopey fawn, there's a shedload of fun and adventure around every plant pot!

The miniature monuments are voiced by massive household names including James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen, Jason Statham and Ozzy Osbourne to gnome a few! Featuring classic and original songs by Elton John and directed by Kelly Asbury (Shrek 2) GNOMEO AND JULIET is a great love story.....with a very small difference.

Running Time: 83 mins
Cert: U

The Help

US / WDSMP UK / 12a / 146mins / Drama
Dir: Tate Taylor
Scr: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer

The Help tells the story of Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny; three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times.

THE IDES OF MARCH

Directed by: George Clooney
Produced by: Grant Heslov, George Clooney and Brian Oliver
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood 

Oscar® and Golden Globe nominated writer-director George Clooney has assembled the leading actors of our generation to star in this riveting thriller. The cast has received a combined 13 Academy Award® nominations, 3 Academy Awards®, 23 Golden Globe nominations and 6 Golden Globe Awards.

With sharp, quick-witted dialogue and set against the spectacle of modern world power and politics, THE IDES OF MARCH is an intense tale of sex, ambition, loyalty, betrayal and revenge. The film follows a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics, the treacherous manipulations of veteran operatives and seduction by a young intern.

In the film, George Clooney plays Governor Morris, a candidate running in the presidential primary race for the Democratic Party ticket. Ryan Gosling plays his press spokesman, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays his campaign manager, Paul Giamatti plays a rival campaign manager, Marisa Tomei plays a reporter for the New York Times, Evan Rachel Wood plays an intern for the Morris campaign, Jeffrey Wright plays a key senator, and Max Minghella plays Ben Harper, a campaign worker for Morris.

Running time: 98 mins
Cert: 15

JANE EYRE

In a bold new feature version of JANE EYRE, director Cary Joji Fukunaga and screenwriter Moira Buffini infuse a contemporary immediacy into Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in the iconic lead roles of the romantic drama, the heroine of which continues to inspire new generations of devoted readers and viewers.

In the 19th Century-set story, Jane Eyre (played by Mia Wasikowska) suddenly flees Thornfield Hall, the vast and isolated estate where she works as a governess for Adèle Varens, a child under the custody of Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). The imposing residence – and Rochester’s own imposing nature – have sorely tested her resilience. With nowhere else to go, she is extended a helping hand by clergyman St. John Rivers (Jamie Bell) and his family. As she recuperates in the Rivers’ Moor House and looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, Jane wonders if the past is ever truly past…

Aged 10, the orphaned Jane (played by Amelia Clarkson) is mistreated and then cast out of her childhood home Gateshead by her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed (Golden Globe Award winner Sally Hawkins). Consigned to the charity school Lowood, Jane encounters further harsh treatment but receives an education and meets Helen Burns (Freya Parks), a poor child who impresses Jane as a soulful and contented person. The two become firm friends. When Helen falls fatally ill, the loss devastates Jane, yet strengthens her resolve to stand up for herself and make the just choices in life.

As a teenager, Jane arrives at Thornfield. She is treated with kindness and respect by housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax (Academy Award winner Judi Dench). Jane’s interest is piqued by Rochester, who engages her in games of wit and storytelling, and divulges to her some of his innermost thoughts. But his dark moods are troubling to Jane, as are strange goings-on in the house – especially the off-limits attic. She dares to intuit a deep connection with Rochester, and she is not wrong; but once she uncovers the terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever, she flees, finding a home with the Rivers family. When St. John Rivers makes Jane a surprising proposal, she realizes that she must return to Thornfield – to secure her own future and finally, to conquer what haunts both her and Rochester.

Running Time: 120 mins

J EDGAR

During his lifetime, J. Edgar Hoover would rise to be the most powerful man in America.  As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years, he would stop at nothing to protect his country.  Through eight presidents and three wars, Hoover waged battle against threats both real and perceived, often bending the rules to keep his countrymen safe.  His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted, if ever elusive, prize.

Running time:  137 mins
www.jedgarmovie.co.uk

UK / Soda Pictures / 99 mins / Drama
Dir: Tinge Krishnan
Writer: Simon Frank
Cast:Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge and Romola Garai
Junkhearts is a suspense drama about a vulnerable ex-soldier haunted by his past, who finds himself manipulated by a young couple as they attempt to use his home as a drugs den.

KNUCKLE

An epic 12-year journey into in the world of an Irish Traveller community,
KNUCKLE takes us inside their brutal, secretive and exhilarating bare-knuckle fighting lives.

Chronicling a history of violent feuding between rival families, the story focuses on
two brothers as they fight for their reputations and the honour of their family name.

Brutal, yet captivating and ultimately moving, this unforgettable documentary
offers an exclusive insight into the world of Irish Travellers and the lengths they will
go to protect their family name.

Spain / Verve Pictures / 85 mins / Drama
Director: Pablo Giorgelli
Writers: Pablo Giorgelli, Salvador Roselli
Cast: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte and Nayra Calle Mamani

Las Acacias tells the story of a long distance lorry driver (German de Silva) who agrees to drive a woman (Hebe Duarte) and her 5 month old child en route from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. A subtle and tender road movie exploring loneliness and the pain of loss, Las Acacias grows into a searingly poignant tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and the unlikely bond that grows between them.

MACHINE GUN PREACHER

Directed by
MARC FORSTER

GERARD BUTLER, MICHELLE MONAGHAN, MICHAEL SHANNON
KATHY BAKER and MADELINE CARROLL

CERTIFICATE: 15
RUNNING TIME: 123mins

Machine Gun Preacher tells the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds his unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children in war-torn Sudan. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned founder of the Angels of East Africa rescue organization in Golden Globe®-nominated director Marc Forster’s (Monster’s Ball, The Kite Runner) moving story of violence and redemption.

When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region’s vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it’s most needed—in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces children to become soldiers before they even reach their teens.

But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA’s intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives—and eventually his own. An explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement,

US / Fox / tbc / 150 mins / Drama
Dir: Kenneth Lonergan
Scr: Kenneth Lonergan
Cast: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo

Lisa, a 17-year-old New York City high-school student, feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman’s life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.

Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene

USA/ Fox Searchlight/ tbc/ tbc/ Drama
Dir: Sean Durkin
Scr: Sean Durkin
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

Melancholia

Denmark / Sweden /Artificial Eye / 15 / 136mins / DRAMA
Dir: Lars Von Trier
Script: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Keifer Sutherland

Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth.

STARRING Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard,Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson

Running time: 94 mins

This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It’s about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. It stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni among others.

MONEYBALL

Columbia Pictures’ Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) – once a would-be baseball superstar who, stung by the failure to live up to expectations on the field, turned his fiercely competitive nature to management.  Heading into the 2002 season, Billy faces a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland A’s have lost their star players (again) to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries) and he is left to rebuild his team and compete with a third of their payroll. Driven to win, Billy takes on the system by challenging the fundamental tenets of the game. He looks outside of baseball, to the dismissed theories of Bill James, and hires Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a brainy, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist.  Together they take on conventional wisdom with a willingness to reexamine everything and armed with computer driven statistical analysis long ignored by the baseball establishment.  They reach imagination-defying conclusions and go after players overlooked and dismissed by the rest of baseball for being too odd, too old, too injured or too much trouble, but who all have key skills that are universally undervalued.  As Billy and Peter forge forward, their new methods and roster of misfits rile the old guard, the media, the fans, and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who refuses to cooperate. Ultimately this experiment will lead not only to a change in the way the game is played, but to an outcome that would leave Billy with a new understanding that transcends the game and delivers him to a new place.

Directed by Bennett Miller/Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin/ Story by Stan Chervin /based on the book by Michael Lewis /Produced by Michael De Luca Rachael Horovitz Brad Pitt /Executive Producers Scott Rudin Andrew Karsch Sidney Kimmel Mark Bakshi

www.moneyball-movie.co.uk

US / UK / Inbetween Space / 12 / 83 mins / Documentary
Dir: Nichola Bruce

Bitten by the 'Moonbug', photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavors of our time. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these pioneers in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signpost for history.

Director: Simon Curtis
Screenwriter: Adrian Hodges, based on the diaries by Colin Clark
Producers: David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein
Executive producers: Jamie Laurenson, Simon Curtis, Ivan Mactaggart, Christine Langan, Bob Weinstein, Kelly Carmichael
Director of photography: Ben Smithard
Production designer: Donal Woods
Music: Conrad Pope, Alexandre Desplat
Costume designer: Jill Taylor
Editor: Adam Recht
100 minutes

Watch the trailer at www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk/theatrical/my-week-marilyn

Further information at www.entertainmentfilms.co.uk/theatrical/my-week-marilyn

In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished.

THE RED STATE

Directed by: Kevin Smith
Produced by: Jonathan Gordon
Starring: Melissa Leo, Kerry Bishe Joseph Keenan, John Goodman and Michael Angarano

From cult writer/director KEVIN SMITH (Clerks; Dogma) comes his tenth film, the hotly anticipated RED STATE, a unique, intense thriller hell bent on leaving audiences feeling uncomfortable, tense and never knowing what's going to happen next.

In Middle America, three horny teenagers travel to Cooper's Dell after responding to an older woman's online invitation for sex. However, their schoolboy fantasy turns sinister as Christian extremists led by the twisted preacher Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) holds them captive in his compound known as the Five Points Church. As the Pastor and his congregation embark on a reign of terror forcing the boys to witness executions before being prepared for their own death, they have to contend with the arrival of Federal Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman) and his team who are armed, dangerous and ready to bring these mother****ers down.

Stylish, compelling and visually exhilarating, RED STATE is unlike anything Kevin Smith has ever made before.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

is a reality-based cautionary tale that blends science fiction and science fact, which depicts how mankind’s hubris leads to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.  Oscar®-winning visual effects house WETA Digital – employing certain of the groundbreaking technologies developed for “Avatar” – will render, for the first time ever in the film series, photo-realistic apes rather than costumed actors.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX presents a CHERNIN ENTERTAINMENT Production JAMES FRANCO ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ FREIDA PINTO JOHN LITHGOW, BRIAN COX, TOM FELTON and ANDY SERKIS Music by PATRICK DOYLE Costume Designer RENEE APRIL Film Editing CONRAD BUFF, A.C.E. MARK GOLDBLATT A.C.E. Production Designer CLAUDE PARE Director of Photography ANDREW LESNIE ACS ASC Executive Producer THOMAS M. HAMMEL Produced by PETER CHERNIN DYLAN CLARK RICK JAFFA AMANDA SILVER Written by RICK JAFFA & AMANDA SILVER Directed by RUPERT WYATT

Running time: 105mins

The Rum Diary

US / Entertainment / tbc / 110mins / Drama
Dir: Bruce Robinson
Scr: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean.

Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson. Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen's financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.  In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

Certificate: 15

Running time: 118 minutes

Snowtown

AUS/ Screen Australia/ tbc/ tbc/ Drama
Dir: Justin Kurzel
Scr: Justin Kurzel
Cast: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Craig Coyne

When 16 year-old Jamie begins a friendship with a charismatic man, his world becomes threatened by his loyalty and fear of his newfound father figure, John Bunting: Australia's most notorious serial killer.

SUPER 8

Written and directed by J.J. AbramsProduced by Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burke
Starring Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills 

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

Running time: 112mins

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A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Take Shelter

USA/ Grove Hill Productions / tbc/ tbc/ Drama
Dir: Jeff Nichols
Scr: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastian, Shea Wingham

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

India / Mara Pictures / tbc / tbc / Drama
Dir: Anurag Kashyap
Scr: Anurag Kashyap, Kalki Koechlin
Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Prashant Prakash, Naseeruddin Shah

Ruth (Kalki Koechlin) is a girl from England and has come to Mumbai to find her Indian father, who abandoned her family when she was a child. She is without a work permit, which drives her to work at a massage parlour. She starts dating a drug addict Prashant (Prashant Prakash). A city that feeds on her misery, a love that eludes her and above all, a devastating truth that she must encounter. And everyone wants a piece of her. Will she find her father or not?

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Directed by: Paul W S Anderson
Produced by: Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer and Paul WS Anderson
Starring: Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Matthew MacFayden, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen, Gabriella Wilde, James Corden, Juno Temple, Freddie Fox, Orlando Bloom and Christoph Waltz

The legend comes to life like never before as THE THREE MUSKETEERS prove that the only way to fight, love and live is all for one and one for all.

Showing their names aren't merde and with balls and swords of steel, cunning plans and razor sharp wit, THE THREE MUSKETEERS against all odds vow to dutifully defend the Queen's honour and fight to protect France from the upcoming Apocalypse.

This explosive, family action adventure sees Aramis, Porthos, Athos and the spirited D'Artagnan take on the deadly, double-crossing, mysterious Milady, as Buckingham's evil plot takes flight, masterminded by the dastardly devout Cardinal Richelieu.

Running time: 110 mins
Cert: 12a

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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1

Directed by: Bill Condon
Produced by: Wyck Godfrey, Stephenie Meyer and Karen Rosenfelt 
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Peter Facinelli, Billy Burke and Michael Sheen

Bella is awkwardly adapting to life as Edward's fiance. As Alice, the Cullens and even Renee happily get swept up in preparations for the wedding of the century, the 18-year old Bella contemplates life as an immortal and the realisation of leaving behind her friends and family.

During an idyllic honeymoon, the happy couple finally succumb to passion but the unexpected happens as Bella discovers she's carrying a baby and this pregnancy is accelerating fast. As Jacob instinctively protects his friend, his wolf pack divides and Jacob, Bella and Edward all have to make decisions that will change their lives forever whilst contending with a threat that could destroy their world.

The suspenseful and deeply romantic Breaking Dawn Part 1 continues the epic tale of supernatural fantasy and passionate love that has made The Twilight Saga a worldwide phenomenon.

Running time: 117 mins
Cert: 12A tbc

USA / Walt Disney Pictures / 146 mins / War Drama
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Scr: Lee Hall, Richard Curtis
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and David Thewlis

The bond between a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, is shattered when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

WASTELAND

Directed by: Lucy Walker 
Produced by: Angus Aynsley

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives.

British filmmaker Lucy Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

Running time: 99 mins
Cert: PG

W.E.

Directed by: Madonna
Written by: Madonna, Alek Keshishian,
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac

W.E. is a beautifully crafted, passionate tale about the search for true love in the modern world, viewed through the prism of one of history's most fabled romances. The year is 1998, and Manhattan is abuzz with anticipation about the upcoming auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But the auction is far more than a diversion for Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a transplanted Southerner trapped in an unhappy and abusive marriage. Transfixed by the exquisite artifacts of the Windsors' lives, Wally becomes obsessed with the love story of Wallis Simspon (Andrea Riseborough), the chic, charismatic American who captured the heart of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy). As she learns more about the sacrifices Wallis made in choosing to be with Edward, Wally finds the courage to follow her own heart and create her own happiness.

Running time 115mins

Weekend

UK/ Peccadillo/ tbc/ 96mnis / Drama
Dir: Andrew Haigh
Scr: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Tom Cullen, Chris New

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief and feelings of responsibility for her child's actions.

USA/ tbc/90 mins/ Documentary
Dir: David Weissman, Bill Weber

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

UK / Artificial Eye / 129 mins / Drama
Dir: Andrea Arnold
Scr: Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed
Cast: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson and Oliver Milburn

A poor young English boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

YOUNG ADULT

Starring

Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser

Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson).  When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either. “Young Adult” reunites Jason Reitman, Academy Award© nominated director of “Juno,” and Academy Award© winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody.

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