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Events for January 2009

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (15)

Friday 2nd January to Saturday 3rd January
Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the conservative New York based Sharps Magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen that will either make him or break him.
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Brideshead Revisited (12A)

Monday 5th January to Tuesday 6th January
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence prior to the Second World War.  Filmed on location at Castle Howard and in the charming cities of Venice and Oxford, the film is worth seeing for the richness of the costumes, set designs and excellent performances from Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon. Event details »

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I've Loved You So Long (12A) - Subtitles

Thursday 8th January to Friday 9th January
Starring actors Kristin Scott-Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Laurent Grevill and Serge Hazanavicius, I've Loved You So Long is a film about the complex relationship between two sisters. Based on an original screenplay by director, Philippe Claudel, the film recounts the story of Juliette (Scott-Thomas), who after 15 years in prison returns to her hometown of Nancy.Event details »

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Rocknrolla (15)

Saturday 10th January 2009
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this fast-paced crime comedy.   When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate deal, every criminal in London wants a piece of the action. Everyone from unrelenting crime boss Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) to street-smart criminal One Two (Gerard Butler), corrupt accountant Stella (Thandie Newton) and unpredictable punk rocker Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell) conspire and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick. As the bullets start to fly, there's no telling who will walk away with the fortune. Event details »

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Easy Virtue (PG)

Monday 12th January to Tuesday 13th January
Easy Virtue is a witty comedy adapted from a play by Noel Coward. Set during "The Roaring Twenties", John Whittaker falls madly in love with a sexy and glamorous American woman, Larita (Jessica Biel), and they impetuously get married in the South of France. However, when the couple arrive at the stately family home in the English countryside, things start to unravel. Event details »

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Man on Wire (12A)

Thursday 15th January 2009
In 1974 Philippe Petit committed one of the world's greatest ‘art crime' stunts walking across a tightrope strung between the then unfinished World Trade Center towers. James Marsh's inspiring documentary Man on Wire tells artist Philippe Petit's story from his early days as an aspiring performer of circus arts, through to his wire walks between the towers of Notre Dame, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and culminating in the lengthy planning and execution of his famous World Trade Center high-wire stunt. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Event details »

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The Changeling (15)

Friday 16th January to Saturday 17th January
Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a provocative thriller based on an actual event. 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 realises this child is not hers. Facing corrupt police and a sceptical public, she desperately hunts for answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.
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Baby Mama (12A)

Monday 19th January to Tuesday 20th January
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own but her plan is thrown into turmoil after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant.
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Quiet Chaos (Cert tbc) - Subtitles

Thursday 22nd January 2009
Quiet Chaos is what Pietro Paladini has felt in his heart ever since his wife's sudden death.  Pietro is a successful executive, happily married and father of a 10-year old daughter, Claudia.  One day, after having saved the lives of two women who were drowning, he arrives home only to discover his wife has suddenly died and from that moment on his life changes radically.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A)

Friday 23rd January to Thursday 29th January
Based on John Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas focuses on the friendship that springs up between an eight year old German boy, Bruno, and a Jewish boy of the same age, Shmuel.  Bruno is unaware that Shmuel is an inmate of a concentration camp, known only to him as a ‘farm'.  He is also oblivious to the fact that his father, ‘a good soldier and decent man', is actually the man who runs the camp.  Slowly the illusions that hold the family together crumble as the truth seeps into their home and lives. Event details »

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Burn After Reading (15)

Friday 30th January to Saturday 31st January
In this dark spy-comedy from Academy Award-winners Joel and Ethan Coen, hilarity ensues when a computer disk containing an ousted CIA official's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of two foolish gym employees intent on exploiting their find.
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