Films for future national release. Please note that not all films will play at this cinema. All release dates may be subject to change.
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November 2008
21st November 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong
A CIA operative is sent to Jordan to find a high-ranking terrorist. While in Jordan, the operative forms an uneasy alliance with the head of Jordan's covert operations.
21st November 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, Dane Cook
Alexis Smart, beautiful and headstrong, is the girl of Dustin’s dreams. But after only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down – permanently.
21st November 2008, Cert: 18
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald
From maverick author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and breakout new writer-director Clark Gregg comes the subversively comedic tale of Victor Mancini, con artist, sex addict, Colonial village re-enactor, angst-filled son, serial restaurant choker . . . and unsuspecting romantic antihero for our unsettling times.
21st November 2008, Cert: 18
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover
From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling story of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human nature, both bad and good--people's selfishness, opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy, love and sheer perseverance.
21st November 2008, Cert: 18
Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties.
28th November 2008, Cert: 12A
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn
Brad and Kate meet and fall in love on Christmas Eve at the movies, munching popcorn in an empty theater, each avoiding their dysfunctional families. Realizing the root of their happiness lies in avoiding family gatherings, they invent elaborate lies about why they have to miss Christmas year after year!
28th November 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan
Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a provocative thriller based on actual events: Changeling. In the film, Christine Collins’ (Jolie) prayers are met when her kidnapped son is returned. But amidst the frenzy of the photo-op reunion, she realizes this child is not hers. Facing corrupt police and a skeptical public, she desperately hunts for answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.
28th November 2008, Cert: 12A
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Nathaniel Parker
FLAWLESS is a period crime drama about a female executive and elderly janitor who plan to rob a London diamond house in 1960
28th November 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione
Lorna is a young Albanian living in Belgium. In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, she becomes an accomplice to a plan devised by a mobster named Fabio.
28th November 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci
What Just Happened is a satirical comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the life of Ben a middle aged Hollywood producer trying to juggle his work and private life in tinsel town.
December 2008
5th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake
As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school, racing bikes, knocking about down by the lake with Katy, Shaun's first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an education that cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking Daz down with him as he self-destructs.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Julit Aubrey, Sarah Barrand, Ralph Brown
CAUGHT IN THE ACT is a funny, heart-warming comedy about deceit and integrity, friendship and folly and the triumph of humanity over greed.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Andy Garcia, Ines Sastre, Tomas Milian
In 1958, the city of Havana is the Paris of the Caribbean. There, a bright sun burns by day while passion and music burn by night in the City's elegant clubs. But all is not well in the lush and pleasure-driven, tropics.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
In Lakeview Terrace, a young couple has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbour, who disapproves of their interracial relationship.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Jason Statham, François Berléand, Natalya Rudakova
Jason Statham returns as former Special Forces mercenary Frank Martin who has relocated to Paris to continue his business of delivering packages without questions. Only this time someone else is making up the rules as Frank faces a race against time to safely deliver his latest consignment.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Guillaume Canet, Clotilde Hesme
Lyon, the late 1970s Police inspector François learns that his brother, Gabriel, has been released from prison after serving ten years for murder.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Patti Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty, Flea
Patti Smith Dream of Life is a plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith.
5th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Alessandro Nivola
Playwright David Auburn’s directorial debut, The Girl in the Park, is a complex drama about parents and children, loss and recovery, and the complexities and joys of family life.
12th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
A contemporary re-invention of the 1951 classic in which Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval.
12th December 2008, Cert: U
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
England,1904. Henslowe Fisk and his ailing father, Horatio Fisk, decide to go to a lecture given by the Swami Nala Prash on reincarnation, called "The Transmigration of Souls". While there, they meet one Dean Spanley as well as Wrather, a self-described facilitator from the Colonies.
12th December 2008, Cert: PG
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman
Salma, a Palestinian widow, has to stand up against her new neighbour, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma‘s trees pose a threat to the Minister’s safety and issue orders to uproot them. Together with Ziad Daud, her young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees.
12th December 2008, Cert: PG
Starring: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Billy Boyd
STONE OF DESTINY, a feature film based on the daring plan to return the Stone of Scone to Scotland.
12th December 2008, Cert: PG
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett
Twelve-year-old Meggie Folchart and her father Mo share a passion for books. What they also share - which Meggie has yet to discover – is the ability to hear the whispers of the characters’ voices and a gift for bringing fictional characters from books to life when they are read aloud.
12th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicja Bachleda-Curus
When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her.
12th December 2008, Cert: U
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
‘White Christmas’ is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among them ‘Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep’, ‘Sisters’, ‘Blue Skies’, and the beloved holiday song, ‘White Christmas.’ Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there’s the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby & Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who’s now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of.
19th December 2008, Cert: 15
Starring: Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Acosta
"Gonzo" is the definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called our "greatest comic writer," whose suicide, by gunshot, led Rolling Stone Magazine, where Thompson began his career, to devote an entire issue (its best-selling ever) to the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism - named "gonzo" after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker.
19th December 2008, Cert: PG
Starring: Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, George Von Bergen
Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera in a big budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, starring the opera world's dream team, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazon.
19th December 2008, Cert: U
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Gino Saltamarenda
The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, THE BICYCLE THIEF, is a treasure of world cinema.
19th December 2008, Cert: 120
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern day love story between a teenage girl who falls in love with a “good” vampire who must protect her from the “bad” vampires while resisting his natural instincts.
26th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Jim Carrey, Sasha Alexander
"Yes Man" stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say "yes" to everything...and anything.
26th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell
An adventure comedy starring ADAM SANDLER as Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true.
26th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman
AUSTRALIA is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II.
26th December 2008, Cert: tbc
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Sean Bean, Michelle Krusiec
Far North is a dark and tragic epic thriller about the battle for survival. Saiva and her adopted daughter Anja live in near isolation as they are forced further North on the Arctic Tundra
26th December 2008, Cert: 18
Starring: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori
The film stars Perry Benson (Somers Town, This is England), the father figure of a psychotic family 'unit' living at the end of Heathrow's runway.
January 2009
2nd January 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson
Adapated from Will Eisner’s graphic novels, this is the action-packed story of a man who fakes his death to fight crime from the shadows, whilst a bevy of beautiful women try to seduce, love or kill him.
2nd January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in Role Models as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.
2nd January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Benjamin Bratt, Franka Potente
The first film in Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che Guevara epic tracks the charismatic revolutionary as he joins Fidel Castro’s band of Cuban exiles and journeys to the island on a leaky boat in 1956.
2nd January 2009, Cert: 18
Starring: Warren Oates, Gig Young, Isela Vega
When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced his daughter, two money-hungry men recruit a small-town bartender, Bennie, to help them do their dirty work.
9th January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell
Based on an extraordinary true story, DEFIANCE is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell star as brothers who turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential – a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others.
9th January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Lionel Mark Smith
Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant, accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, sending him flying through the windscreen. Not wanting to jeopardize a possible job promotion, she chooses not to get him medical help, leaving him clinging to life in her garage. But soon her psyche begins to unravel as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a bloody...even outrageous battle for survival.
9th January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan
Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" Arrested on suspicion of cheating, he tells the police the incredible story of his life on the streets, and of the girl he loved and lost.
9th January 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Michael Sheen, Frank Langella, Rebecca Hall
Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan’s (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon. Reprising their roles from Morgan’s stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.
16th January 2009, Cert: U
Starring: Drew Barrymore (voice), Piper Perabo, Andy Garcia (voice)
Chloe, a diamond-clad, bootie wearing Beverly Hills Chihuahua enjoys her luxurious lifestyle so much, she hardly notices Papi, a hilarious Chihuahua who happens to be crazy for Chloe. But when the most pampered pooch gets lost in Mexico with only a street-wise German Shepherd to help her find her way home, Papi heads south of the border -- joining forces with a motley crew: three dogs, two humans, a sly rat and a nervous iguana – to rescue his true love.
23rd January 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch
Gay Rights Activist. Friend. Lover. Unifier. Politician. Fighter. Icon. Inspiration. Hero. His life changed history, and his courage changed lives.
30th January 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winsle, Kathy Bates
An incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank and April Wheeler. Yates' story of 1950's America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever since: can two people break away from the ordinary without breaking apart?
30th January 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action.
30th January 2009, Cert: 12A
Starring: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Aaron Yoo
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music.
February 2009
6th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school’s strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline.
6th February 2009, Cert: U
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Dakota Blue Richards, Natascha McElhone
Maria Merryweather’s father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
6th February 2009, Cert: 12A
Starring: Javier Bardem, Pénélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson
Woody Allen’s breezy new romantic comedy is about two young American women and their amorous escapades in Barcelona, one of the most romantic cities in the world.
13th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow
Based on the book by best-selling author Lois Duncan, “Hotel for Dogs,” stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you
13th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman
For super-dog BOLT, every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling.
13th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie
NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace who, through raw talent and sheer determination, transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler to become the greatest rapper of all time, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
13th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer
The Pink Panther 2, the sequel to the 2006 worldwide hit, stars Steve Martin as he reprises the role of intrepid-if-bumbling French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
27th February 2009, Cert: tbc
Starring: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good
Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit.
27th February 2009, Cert: 15
Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette
The comedy smash of Sundance 2008, Steve Coogan has teamed up with the producers of Little Miss Sunshine and the writers of South Park and Team America to bring us Hamlet 2, the hilarious and irreverent new comedy about a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama teacher .
