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Anglia Contemporary Theatre: Ophelia"s Aria: Anglia Ruskin University (Category: Things to do, Amateur)

Mumford Theatre East Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1PT

Tel: 0845 196 2320

Dates: 11/01/2009 to 12/01/2009

Show times: Jan 11 & 12, 7.30pm

Price: £6, concs £4

Anna Bucknall's fusion of literature exploring the female psyche, a performance text created from extracts of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis, Heiner Muller's Hamlet Machine and poems by Sylvia Plath.

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Anglia Contemporary Theatre: The Wonderful World Of Dissocia: Anglia Ruskin University (Category: Things to do, Amateur)

Mumford Theatre East Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1PT

Tel: 0845 196 2320

Dates: 06/01/2009 to 07/01/2009

Show times: Jan 6 & 7, 7.30pm

Price: £6, concs £4

Anthony Nielson's play about a girl trying to retrace her tracks and grab back an hour of her life.

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Australia (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 12.45 (not Sun) 4.15 7.45 (not Tue)

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn

Year: 2008

Country: US/Australia

Running time: 165mins

Lady Sarah Ashley leaves behind the finery of the English aristocracy to travel to the Australian outback and confront her husband Lord Ashley on the Faraway Downs cattle station, where he spends most of his time. She finds a huge property in financial disarray, on the brink of takeover by scheming King Carney, who controls most of the local cattle market. With the help of a swarthy drover, Sarah decides to challenge Carney's monopoly by herding 500-strong of prize cattle all the way to port in the face of stiff resistance from her rival's right-hand man and heir apparent, Neil Fletcher.

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Australia (Subtitled) (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Sun mat 12.45; Tue 7.45

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn

Year: 2008

Country: US/Australia

Running time: 165mins

Lady Sarah Ashley leaves behind the finery of the English aristocracy to travel to the Australian outback and confront her husband Lord Ashley on the Faraway Downs cattle station, where he spends most of his time. She finds a huge property in financial disarray, on the brink of takeover by scheming King Carney, who controls most of the local cattle market. With the help of a swarthy drover, Sarah decides to challenge Carney's monopoly by herding 500-strong of prize cattle all the way to port in the face of stiff resistance from her rival's right-hand man and heir apparent, Neil Fletcher.

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Bedtime Stories (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 10.00 (Fri-Sun) 12.30 3.00 5.30 8.00 10.30 (Fri/Sat/Wed)

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Adam Shankman

Cast: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer, Jonathan Pryce, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 99mins

Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson may not be the huge success he always hoped to be, but he is devoted to his sister Wendy and her two adorable kids, Patrick and Bobbi. The imaginative uncle agrees to tell the youngsters bedtime stories to help them drift off to sleep, inventing tall tales full of magic, mystery and daring deeds. When elements from these stories, suggested by the tykes, unexpectedly impact on real life, Skeeter realises that his fairy-tales are coming true and he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with the two excited youngters.

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Easy Virtue (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Stephan Elliott

Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall

Year: 2008

Country: UK

Running time: 96mins

Prodigal son John Whittaker returns to his family's stately pile with his new bride, American racing car driver Larita in tow. His sisters Hilda and Marion are terribly impressed by the glamorous, out-spoken new addition to the clan, and his war-wounded father Jim seems charmed too. However, John's neurotic mother Veronica is horrified that her golden boy has married... an American, when he could have proposed to one of the neighbours' daughters, thereby ensuring their social standing within the local community. Tensions escalate as Veronica blatantly tries to drive a wedge between John and Larita.

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Inkheart (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Iain Softley

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Sienna Guillory, Rafi Gavron

Year: 2008

Country: Ger/UK/US

Running time: 106mins

Doting father Mo Folchart has kept a terrible secret from his daughter Meggie since she was three-years-old: he is a Silvertongue and inadvertently sent his beloved wife Teresa into the pages of a book called Inkheart. Ever since, Mo has scoured second-hand bookshops for a copy, desperate to undo his misdeeds. Stumbling upon a tatty, old copy of Inkheart, Mo finally believes he could be reunited with Teresa only for the past to catch up with him. Joining forces with a stranger called Dustfinger, Mo risks everything to outwit the villain Capricorn and his goons, and reunite his fractured family.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Baldwin, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Cedric The Entertainer

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 89mins

Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York's Central Park Zoo. Boarding a rickety plane with ring-tailed lemur King Julien the 13th, his second-in-command Maurice and the penguins - Private, Rico, Skipper and Kowalski - the animals crash-land shy of their destination, ending up on the plains of Africa where Alex comes mane-to-mane with his long lost father Zuba.

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Role Models (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: David Wain

Cast: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Bobb'e J Thompson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 98mins

Danny Donahue and his best buddy Wheeler work for the same energy drink company, touting a noxious, fizzy brew called Minotaur to bored, impressionable schoolchildren. After an unfortunate altercation at one school, the two men are sentenced to 150 hours community service and reluctantly take part in a mentoring program run by reformed addict Sweeny. She assigns Danny and Wheeler a troubled kid apiece - teen Augie and foul-mouthed 10-year-old Ronnie - and instructs the men to use their community service time to get to know the boys and bring them out of their shells.

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The Day The Earth Stood Still (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Sci-fi)

Vue, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 1PS

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Price: £7.10, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.90, concs £4.85-£5.30, family £18-£20.60; Tue all tickets £4.50; Kids' Club £1.50, accompanying adult free

Transport: BR: Cambridge

Director: Scott Derrickson

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, John Hamm, John Cleese, Kathy Bates

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 103mins

A spacecraft arrives on Earth, bringing with it Klaatu, a messenger from another world, who has been sent to observe the strange race known as mankind. At first, scientists are curious about the invader and question him thoroughly. He warns of impending doom. While under surveillance, Klaatu meets Helen Benson and her son Jacob who allow the alien into their lives, planting a tiny seed of hope for humanity's survival. However, suspicion and paranoia run rampant and eventually the US military uses force against Klaatu, initiating a countdown to the complete destruction of Earth at the hands of the visitor's robot protector.

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