THE GOOD LIAR (15)
Career con artist Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) can hardly believe his luck when he meets recently widowed Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) online who is worth millions. He means to take it all but, as Betty opens her life and home to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life. Mirren and McKellen are on top form as they star together on screen for the first time in this fascinating, suspenseful and very enjoyable drama about the secrets people keep and the lies they live. A first rate supporting cast includes Russell Tovey, Lily Dodsworth-Evans and Jim Carter. (109 mins)
THE GREAT ESCAPER (12)

In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary. The story captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene (Glenda Jackson), as this inspiring true story celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation. (92 mins)
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG)
This spectacular and original musical celebrates the birth of show business, telling the story of visionary impresario, P.T. Barnum who rose from nothing to create a mesmerising spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Step right up and into the spellbinding imagination of a man who set out to reveal that life itself can be the most thrilling show of all. Hugh Jackman, who devoted years to bring the film to the screen, is dazzling in the central role while Michael Gracey’s expert direction showcases original songs by Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ('La La Land'). Fasten your seatbelts for the ultimate crowd pleaser. (105 mins) 
A HAUNTING IN VENICE (12)

In post-World War II Venice, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. He soons gets thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets when one of the guests is murdered and it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer. Branagh’s third outing as Agatha Christie’s celebrated detective is a moody, sinister whodunnit, beautifully filmed with an excellent cast that includes Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly & Michelle Yeoh. (100 mins)
THE HOLDOVERS (15)

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, the film is set in 1970 and follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during the holiday break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them - a damaged, brainy troublemaker - and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam. This genial, gentle, redemptive comedy drama boasts an impeccably crafted and perceptive screenplay with rich characterisation, a melancholy sense of time and place and outstanding performances. (133 mins) 
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (12)
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA. Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this spectacular and exciting fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones and Mads Mikkelsen. (144 mins)

KNIVES OUT (12)
This sparkling tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie is a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When a renowned crime novelist Harlan (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast, including Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon & Toni Collette, this is a witty and stylish whodunnit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing. (130 mins)

THE LOST KING (12)

In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. This is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's history. Starring Sally Hawkins & Steve Coogan. (108 mins)
LOVE SARAH (12)

Determined to fulfil her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend and her eccentric estranged grandmother. Three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts and differences to honour the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London bakery filled with love, hope and colourful pastries from all over the world. This charming tale is the perfect antidote to all the current doom and gloom. Starring Celia Imrie, Candice Brown, Rupert Penry-Jones & Bill Paterson. (98 mins)
A MAN CALLED OTTO (15)
Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, this is the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grumpy, fastidious widower who is set in his ways with contempt for everyone. His only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbours. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that will turn his world upside-down. With a first- class performance from Hanks, this funny, heartwarming story about how some families come from the most unexpected places packs an emotional punch with it’s winning mixture of drama and humour. (126 mins) 
THE MIRACLE CLUB (12)

Ballygar, Dublin, Ireland, 1968: close friends Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), and Dolly (Agnes O’Casey) win the trip of a lifetime - a pilgrimage to Lourdes. With each woman desperately in need of a personal miracle, the trip seems like an answer to all their prayers. But when they are joined by Chrissie (Laura Linney), returning to Dublin after decades in America, deep wounds from the past are re-opened. As they confront one another and embrace their shared past, the group reckon with revelations that will change them forever.Beautifully acted, this is a heartfelt andgently humerous story of friendship, family and forgiveness. (95 mins)

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (12)

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With the fate of the world at stake & confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie continue to push the boundaries of daredevil blockbuster filmmaking with this breathtaking, adrenaline fuelled blockbuster. With Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg & Ving Rhames. (163 mins)
ONE LIFE (12)
The stirring true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis in Prague in a race against time before the borders closed. Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades. Starring Anthony Hopkins & Helena Bonham Carter. (109 mins)

OPERATION MINCEMEAT (12)
It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. Two  intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) formulate the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. This extraordinary, gripping and true story also stars Penelope Wilton & Kelly Macdonald & Jason Isaacs. (128 mins)
OPPENHEIMER (15)

Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan (Inception/Dunkirk), this epic and thoroughly engrossing true life drama thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. An unprecedented cinematic event, the film features a stunning performance from Cillian Murphy as the titular scientist, ably supported by an all-star cast that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh. (180 mins)
PRISCILLA (15)
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla’s own memoir, director Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.Starring Cailee Spaeny & Jacob Elordi. (113 mins)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN (12)
The remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator and optimistic dreamer from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the support of his family and friends, managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. With pluckiness and unwavering self-belief, he pulls off a series of stunning, hilarious and heartwarming attempts to compete at the highest level, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a British folk hero in the process. This upbeat comedy-drama stars Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins & Rhys Ifans. (106 mins)

SAVE THE CINEMA (15)
A Welsh hairdresser (Samantha Morton) starts a campaign in the 90’s to save her small town's listed art decco cinema from being demolished. With the help of a local politician, a phone call later and one of Hollywood’s elite agree to offer a very special treat for Carmarthen, but does this help save the cinema? Inspired by the true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and linchpin to the local Carmarthen community, and in the mould of the old Ealing comedies, this is a fun, uplifting underdog tale that stands as a testament to how passionate people can achieve inspirational success. With Jonathan Pryce. (120 mins)
SOUTH PACIFIC (U)

Rodgers & Hammersteins Oscar winning 1958 evergreen musical masterpiece with Mitzi Gaynor & Rossano Brazzi finding love on a US army base in the South Pacific during WW2. Timeless songs - including 'Bali Hai', 'There is nothing like a dame', 'Some Enchanted Evening' -  beautifully filmed in a stunning newly restored print. (150 mins)
THELMA (12)
When feisty 93-year-old grandmother Thelma Post (June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles, accompanied by aging friend Ben (Richard Roundtree) and his motorised scooter to reclaim what was taken from her. Inspired by a real-life experience of writer-director Josh Margolin's own centenarian grandmother, this charming action comedy puts a clever and refreshing spin on movies like 'Mission: Impossible', shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero, with Sqibb performing most of her own stunts. (98 mins)

TICKET TO PARADISE (12)
Hollywood superstars George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite as the divorced couple, who find themselves racing to the idyllic island of Bali on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from marrying a farmer and making the same mistake they once made. However, as they desperately try to sabotage the wedding, the bickering duo start to rekindle old feelings that once made them happy together. This escapist, feel good tale boasts likeable performances from the stars, coupled with breathtaking photography to produce an entertaining, old fashioned romantic comedy. (117 mins)

THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY (12)
A seemingly unremarkable man in his 60s, Harold (Jim Broadbent) lives a life without purpose. One day he learns his old friend Queenie is dying. He embarks on a walk to mail a letter, only to keep going for 450 miles until he reaches Queenie's hospice, convinced that his journey can keep her alive, much to the despair of his wife Maureen (Penelope Wilton). Based on the best selling book, this is a celebration of everyday joy and human connection and the power of hope and faith, with powerful performances from Broadbent and Wilton. (103 mins)
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (12)
For documentary-maker Zoe (Lily James), online dating has only delivered an endless stream of Mr Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbour Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.This charming British romantic comedy also shines a perceptive light on the strains and compromises of blending different cultures. (109 mins)
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (15)
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, centreing on two neighbours: conservative local Edith (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose (Jessie Buckley). When Edith & fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar & a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss. (100 mins)

WONKA (PG)

Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of 'Roald Dahl’s' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this is the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate‐maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen musical spectacle introduces audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock‐full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time—proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible. This visual feast with catchy songs is a heart-warming crowd pleaser. (116 mins)
YESTERDAY (12)

Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter...but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack (Himesh Patel) discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie (Lily James) - the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all. Kate McKinnon and Ed Sheeran also star in this crowd pleasing, critically acclaimed romantic musical comedy from Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle ('Slumdog Millionaire') and screenwriter Richard Curtis ('Love Actually'). (116 mins)

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