Astro Boy (PG) ****

Cast: The voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, Matt Lucas, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kristen BellRead

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wSURROGATES (12) stars Bruce Willis as a FBI agent in the future, where everyone stays at home hooked up to a machine while younger and better-looking robots live your life for you, until a surrogate is killed and his user dies too. An intriguing concept with an OK twist and a good cast including Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike and James Cromwell.Read

Disney reveal why they went back to 2D

From Snow White And The Seven Dwarves to The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, Walt Disney's classic hand-drawn animations have enriched many childhoods over the past 70 years.Read

Armored (12A) **

Cast: Matt Dillon, Columbus Short, Laurence Fishburne, Jean RenoRead

The Boys Are Back (12A) ****

IN other hands, this sentimental drama about family life might dissolve into a puddle of tears.Read

A Prophet (18) ***

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel BencherifRead

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wCLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (U) is a colourful and fun animated adventure. Flint Lockwood (the voice of Bill Hader) invents a machine which turns water into food. It gets shot into the atmosphere and suddenly it’s raining cheeseburgers, then TV weathergirl Anna Faris arrives to report on the phenomenon. Great in 3D as giant hot dogs fall from the sky.Read

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w500 DAYS OF SUMMER (12) is a smart romcom with the ability to surprise. It flits backwards and forwards throughout the 500 days of the relationship between Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel). Witty, well-observed and original.Read

Up In The Air (15) ****

IN a topical recession-set comedy drama, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, whose job is to make people redundant.Read

All About Steve (12A) **

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley CooperRead

44 Inch Chest (18) ****

Cast: Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Joanne WhalleyRead

Daybreakers (15) ****

Vampires are THE subject matter of films and TV dramas these days, from Twilight to True Blood. Though the blood-suckers in this film aren’t particularly sexy, apart from their amber eyes. Ten years after ‘the outbreak’, 95 per cent of the population are vampires, capturing the few remaining humans and farming them for their blood.Read

It's Complicated (15) ****

WRITER and director Nancy Myers has a good track record with feelgood comedies, having produced What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday – and was even Oscar-nominated for her Private Benjamin script 30 years ago.Read

The Road (15) ****

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy PearceRead

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15) ***

Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris, Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone, Bill MilnerRead

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wTHE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (15) teams up Denzel Washington (pictured) and director Tony Scott again in a remake of a 1974 thriller. John Travolta is an unhinged criminal who hijacks a New York subway train, holding the passengers hostage and demanding $10 million. Denzel is back at the control centre, listening to his demands, which James Gandolfini provides dry humour as the Mayor of New York. It’s gripping enough to keep us watching.Read

Daybreakers (15) ****

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael DormanRead

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DISTRICT 9 (15) is a cleverly-made sci-fi film, directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter ‘Lord of the Rings’ Jackson. Read

Post Grad (12A) ***

Cast: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton, Jane LynchRead

Did You Hear About The Morgans? (PG) **

THE poster for this romantic comedy shows Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker poking their heads through tall ears of corn.Read

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