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Capitalism: A Love Story (12A)

Michael Moore's latest documentary takes on the forces of capitalism itself, examining a series of social injustices and exploring the idea that capitalism is at best anti-democratic and at worst downright evil.

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Director

Michael Moore

Starring

Michael Moore, Wallace Shawn, Elijah Cummings, Baron Hill

 

 

Everybody's Fine (PG)

Drama starring Robert De Niro as a widower trying to reconnect with his four grown-up children: Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Austin Lysy and Sam Rockwell.

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Director

Kirk Jones

Starring

Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Lucien Maisel

 

 

Extraordinary Measures (PG)

The latest disease-of-the-week movie based on a true story, starring Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell as the parents of two children with Pompe Disease, who pin all their hopes on the innovative theories of a reclusive, grouchy and under-funded doctor (Harrison Ford).

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Director

Tom Vaughan

Starring

Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Jared Harris, Meredith Droegar

 

 

 

Freestyle (12A)

British drama starring Lucy Konadu as an aspiring Oxford student who enters a basketball freestyle competition and falls for her streetwise coach and fellow entrant (Arinze Kene), against the wishes of her ambitious mother (Suzann McLean).

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Director

Kolton Lee

Starring

Arinze Kene, Lucy Konadu, Danny John-Jules, Colin Salmon, Suzann McLean, Alfie Allen

 

 

 

 

From Paris With Love (15)

Action thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a civil servant and low-level intelligence operative who's teamed with loose cannon CIA agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta) in order to foil a terrorist plot in Paris.

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Director

Pierre Morel

Starring

John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Amber Rose Revah

 

Leap Year (PG)

Romantic comedy starring Amy Adams as a woman who decides to fly to Ireland propose to her boyfriend (Adam Scott), but ends up miles away from her destination with only a scruffy Irishman (Matthew Goode) to help her.

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Director

Anand Tucker

Starring

Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Noel O'Donovan

 

 

 

 

 

MICMACS (12A)

French comedy-drama directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, starring Dany Boon as a man with a bullet in his brain who plots to take down two big weapons manufacturers, with the aid of a makeshift family of junk-collecting misfits.

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Director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Starring

Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Nicolas Marie, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier

 

 

 

 

 

She, A Chinese (18)

Drama starring Lu Huang as Li Mei, a young Chinese woman who escapes the boredom of her Chinese village, only to find herself in a series of equally depressing situations as she travels from East to West.

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Director

Xiaolu Guo

Starring

Lu Huang, Wei Yi Bo, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris Ryman