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

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 11.30 12.30 1.10 3.30 4.10 5.00 7.15 8.00 8.40 11.00 (Fri/Sat)

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 10.30 11.30 1.00 2.00 (not Sun) 3.40 5.00 (not Mon) 6.10

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: Sun 2.00; Mon 5.00

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 3.00

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 11.30 2.30 5.30 8.30 11.30 (Fri/Sat)

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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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Four Christmases (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Comedy)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 8.50

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

Director: Seth Gordon

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 88mins

Happily unmarried couple Brad and Kate have been together for years and love one another's company - so much so, that every December 25, they make their excuses so they can spend the holiday season together in an exotic location, soaking up the sun. Unfortunately, this year, thick fog traps Brad and Kate at San Francisco airport where a local TV news crew follows their plight and reveals to their respective families, who are all watching, that they have nowhere to go for the holidays. Reluctantly, the lovebirds must visit their divorced parents and respective partners for four Christmas celebrations, each more deranged than the last.

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Frost/Nixon + Q&A (15) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: Sun 4.00

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

Director: Ron Howard

Cast: Michael Sheen, Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 121mins

On August 9, 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first President of the United States to resign from the Oval Office. Rather than answer tough questions about his so-called crimes, Nixon was sensationally pardoned by Gerald Ford, his successor at The White House, effectively robbing the American public of the trial of this shamed statesman. Frost/Nixon sensationally documents the efforts of one man - British talk show host David Frost - to interview Nixon on camera and to effectively tease a confession from the wily orator.

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Ghajini (15) (Category: Cinemas, Thriller)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 11.00 7.00

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

Director: AR Murugadoss

Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Jiah Khan, Riyaz Khan, Pradeep Rawat

Year: 2008

Country: India

Running time: 184mins

Successful businessman Sanjay reads an interview in which a model called Kalpana falsely claims to be his lover, when in truth they have never met. Determined to track down this liar, Sanjay falls in love at first sight with Kalpana so introduces himself under a false name, in order that she shouldn't realise his true identity. Soon after, hoodlum Lakshman and his goons attack the businessman and Kalpana: she is killed and Sanjay knocked unconscious. He slips into a coma and wakes some time later, blighted with short-term memory loss. Aided by medical college student Sunita, Sanjay attempts to reconfigure his memory and track down the men responsible for killing his beloved.

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Inkheart (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: 10.30 1.10 3.40

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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)

Cineworld Renfrew Street, 7 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 3AB

Tel: 0871 200 2000

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

Show times: Fri-Sun/Tue-Thu 10.40 11.10 (Fri-Sun) 12.50 3.20 (not Sun) 5.40 (not Sun) 8.20; Mon 10.40 12.50 3.20 8.50

Price: £6.80, Mon-Thu before 5pm £5.80, concs £4.70, family £17.60 & £19; Early Bird £4.50

Credit card tel: 0871 200 2000

Transport: BR: Glasgow Queen Street

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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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.