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

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 11.50 1.20 3.20 4.30 7.00 8.00

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 11.30 2.00 4.20 6.40 9.00

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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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Changeling (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Fri/Sat/Mon/Wed/Thu 7.50

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Jason Butler Harner

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 141mins

Single mother Christine Collins works as a supervisor at the telephone exchange to keep a roof over the head of her nine-year-old son Walter. One weekend, Christine is unexpectedly called into work and when she returns home, Walter has disappeared without trace. After months of fearing the worst, Captain JJ Jones contacts Christine with incredible news: Walter has been found safe in a neighbouring state. The jubilant mother races to the train station to meet her son, except the boy who claims to be Walter is an impostor. With the press swarming, the mother is forced against her will to take in the boy as if he were her son.

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Changeling (Subtitled) (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Sun/Tue 7.50

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Jason Butler Harner

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 141mins

Single mother Christine Collins works as a supervisor at the telephone exchange to keep a roof over the head of her nine-year-old son Walter. One weekend, Christine is unexpectedly called into work and when she returns home, Walter has disappeared without trace. After months of fearing the worst, Captain JJ Jones contacts Christine with incredible news: Walter has been found safe in a neighbouring state. The jubilant mother races to the train station to meet her son, except the boy who claims to be Walter is an impostor. With the press swarming, the mother is forced against her will to take in the boy as if he were her son.

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Inkheart (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 12.45 3.00 5.30

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 12.00 1.10 2.20 3.40 4.50 6.00 7.00

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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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Quantum Of Solace (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 8.20

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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Director: Marc Forster

Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Stana Katic, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen

Year: 2008

Country: UK/US

Running time: 106mins

Consumed with rage, Bond joins M to interrogate Mr White, who sheds light on a secret organization responsible for blackmailing Vesper Lynd. The trail of evidence leads to Haiti, where Bond meets the alluring Camille, a woman pursing a secret vendetta. She, in turn, introduces Bond to ruthless businessman Dominic Greene, a member of the organization, who is planning to help exiled General Medrano regain power in exchange for a piece of land. As Bond edges closer to discovering those responsible for Vesper's death, he takes justice into his own bloody hands.

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

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Wed/Thu 6.50 9.10

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 5.55 8.30

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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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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The Reader (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Cardiff Millennium Plaza, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1LA

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 11.40 2.40 5.40 8.40

Price: £6.20, Mon-Fri before 5pm £4.85, concs £4-£4.20, family £15.60-£16.60; Tue all tickets £4

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Director: Stephen Daldry

Cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Jeanette Hain, Susanne Lothar

Year: 2008

Country: US/Ger

Running time: 123mins

Barrister Michael Berg struggles with memories of his troubled past as he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter Hanna. He thinks back to the years after World War II when, as a young man, he fell dangerously ill and was aided in his hour of need by a passing stranger, Hanna Schmidt. Fully recovered and back on his feet, Michael returns to thank Hanna and the pair embark on a passionate affair, with the older woman offering expert tutorials in sex in exchange for Michael reading her extracts from some of the greatest works of fiction.

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The Reader (15) 123 mins
Review by Victor Olliver - This is Kate Winslet's film, one in which she persuades any doubters (post-Titanic) of her extraordinary gifts.

Che: Part One (15) 126 mins
Review by Victor Olliver - I have not sensed such movie pomposity since Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra entered Rome on a juggernaut borne by slaves.

The Spirit (12A) 103 mins
Review by Victor Olliver - A movie trailer can give unintended clues as to what to expect - The Spirit's (see it on YouTube if you missed it) is one long piece of chaos. And so is the pic.