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Planes, Trains And Automobiles (15) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

The Scotsman Hotel, 20 North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH1 1TR

Tel: 0131 556 5565

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

Show times: Sun 8.00

Director: John Hughes

Cast: John Candy, Steve Martin, Laila Robbins, Kevin Bacon

Year: 1987

Country: US

Running time: 93mins

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The African Queen (U) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

The Scotsman Hotel, 20 North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH1 1TR

Tel: 0131 556 5565

Dates: 09/01/2009 to 15/01/2009

Show times: Sun 8.00

Director: John Huston

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull

Year: 1951

Country: US

Running time: 103mins

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

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Fri-Tue 11.30 (not Tue) 1.10 3.15 4.40 7.15 8.30; Wed/Thu 3.15 7.15

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

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, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 10.00 (Fri-Mon) 12.15 2.45 5.30 8.15

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

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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Che (Part 1) (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 11.10 (Fri-Mon) 2.00 5.00 8.00 11.00 (Fri/Sat)

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Santiago Cabrera, Rodrigo Santoro, Demian Bichir, Kahlil Mendez

Year: 2008

Country: Fr/Sp/US

Running time: 126mins

The first two hours of Steven Soderbergh's ambitious history lesson focuses on the efforts of Fidel Castro and his guerrilla army to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's government through a bloody and sustained campaign of violence. Ernesto Guevara leads the charge from the front lines, winning the respect and admiration of his compatriots with tactical guile and determination, culminating in a visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1959 to respond to criticism from the international community.

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

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Wed/Thu 1.00 3.30 6.00 8.30

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

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 Reader (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 10.40 (Fri/Sat) 1.45 4.50 7.45 10.40 (Fri/Sat)

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

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 Spirit (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 10.30 (Fri-Mon) 1.00 3.30 6.15 9.00

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

Director: Frank Miller

Cast: Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King, Eric Balfour

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 102mins

A rookie cop in the crime-riddled metropolis of Central City returns from the dead as the masked avenger The Spirit. In his new guise, The Spirit wages war against arch-nemesis and cold-hearted killer Octopus, who seems determined to destroy the city and its denizens in his pursuit of immortality, with the help of punk secretary Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson) and his henchmen. Aided and hindered by a bevy of beauties - including girl next door Ellen, jewel thief Sand, young cop Morgenstern, phantom sister Lorelei and nightclub dancer Plaster Of Paris - The Spirit fights the good fight.

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Twilight (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Romance)

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: 1.30 4.20 7.30

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 121mins

When her mother remarries, teenage misfit Bella Swan leaves behind Phoenix for a new life with her father in the close-knit town of Forks, Washington. Humdrum routine disintegrates when Bella meets the beautiful and alluring Edward Cullen, who seems to be able to see into her very soul. Edward, it transpires, is a vampire - an immortal - but unlike many of his kind, he and the rest of the Cullen clan do not have fangs or drink human blood. Unable to resist his attraction to Bella, Edward embarks on a dangerous romance with the young woman he hopes could be his soul mate, always one bite away from unleashing the animal within.

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WALL-E (U) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Edinburgh Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EN

Tel: 0871 224 0240

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

Show times: Sat/Sun mat 10.00

Price: £6.75, Mon-Fri before 5pm £5.65, concs £4.25-£4.70, family £17 & £17.60, Gold Class £7.95 & £8.95

Transport: BR: Edinburgh Waverly

Director: Andrew Stanton

Cast: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 103mins

In the 28th century, mankind has abandoned the planet aboard giant space-ships, leaving behind cities ravaged by pollution and waste. A single solar-powered droid called WALL-E (an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is left behind to crush up the piles of scrap metal and detritus into cubes, neatly stacking them one atop the other. Out of the blue, a mothership touches down on Earth and spits out a sleek search-robot called EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), whose mission is to seek out signs of life. WALL-E is instantly smitten with the new arrival and he sets about wooing her using tips he picks up from a worn out video cassette of Hello, Dolly!.

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Big Screen Film Reviews

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.