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Based on a children's book by Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon is an animated film about a young viking called Hiccup who befriends a dragon despite his tribe's long standing feud with the creatures.

Out Now: Alice in Wonderland

By Trish Lewis on Mar 5, 10 11:45 AM

Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp serve up their latest duo offering in this real life version of Alice in Wonderland.

Although the film borrows heavily from the original books by Lewis Carroll, typically of a Dinsey film the main plot is entirely the company's design.

Alice returns to Wonderland as a 17-year-old teenager. Since her absence the world has been taken over by the Red Queen. Now Alice must join forces with the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and all the other crazy characters of her childhood to defeat the queen.

Alice in Wonderland is in cinemas from today.

In Cinemas Now: It's Complicated

By Trish Lewis on Jan 20, 10 03:24 PM

Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin star in this light romantic comedy about love and divorce.

Meryl Streep plays divorcee Jane. Jane still gets on with her former husband but when the two have dinner, old flames reignite.

But things are not so straight forward as her ex-husband is now in a relationship with another woman.

It's Complicated is in cinemas now.

Coming Soon: Avatar

By Trish Lewis on Dec 10, 09 02:30 PM

Not to be confused with the film adaption of the kid's cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, director James Cameron's Christmas sci-fi is tipped to be one of the biggest movies in years with promises it will launch films into a new era of 3D cinema.

Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, a soldier who is paralysed from the waist down. Samis offered the chance to regain his feet - but there is a catch. He must travel to the distant world of Pandora and infiltrate an alien society in the guise of his own mind-controlled alien to track down a rare, precious metal which his men want.

But as Sam gets closer to the natives will he change sides?

Avatar is out from the 16th of December.

Out Now: 2012

By Trish Lewis on Nov 25, 09 03:01 PM

As the name implies, the movie is set in the not too distant future. The film is based on a significant date in the Mayan calender that the world will end in 2012.

John Cusack must somehow survive the end of the world and save his children.

2012 is in cinemas now.

Out Now: Twilight: New Moon

By Trish Lewis on Nov 25, 09 02:54 PM

Teenage girls have been going crazy for the latest release in the Twilight series of films, adapted from the book series of the same name.

Twilight: New Moon returns to the romance of human Bella Swan and her boyfriend vampire Edward Cullen. But the two seperate and after a bad bout of depression Bella finds comfort in a new love interest Jacob Black. However, things get a little hairy when it turns our Jacob is a werewolf and Bella must choose between the two men.

Twilight: New Moon is in cinemas now.


Out Now: Fame

By Trish Lewis on Sep 28, 09 03:51 PM

A remake of the hit 1980's TV show set in a performing arts school in New York City.

Respectively remade with a new cast and updated dances and music, this is a must-see for anyone who loves musicals and those who love a happy ending where all dreams come true.

Fame is in cinemas now.

Coming soon: Surrogates

By Trish Lewis on Sep 16, 09 02:26 PM

Bruce Willis teams up with Radha Mitchell to investigate two mysterious deaths in a futuristic world where the populace live their day-to-day lives through robotic versions of themselves that are controlled from the safety of the populations homes.

However, when two robots are destroyed and their human controllers subsequently killed in the comfort of their own homes Willis and Mitchell discover that living your life artifically could be as dangerous as living in the real world.

The late Heath Ledger stars in his final film role as Dr Tony Parnassus. Due to the actor's untimely death, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law provide the additional footage for the movie that would not have been completed otherwise.

Based on a fantasy by Terry Gilliam, Tony Parnassus embarks on a daring, fantasy-filled adventure to save the daughter of a friend from the devil.

Already causing controversy before its release on Friday with Advertising Standards over its movie posters, the deliberately incorrectly spelled Inglorious Basterds is one of this year's hotly anticipated films.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt a group of soldiers venture into Germany to kill Hitler during the Second World War.

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