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

Odeon Magdalen Street Magdalen Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AE

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Fri-Tue 8.15

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seats £8.50

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)

Odeon Magdalen Street Magdalen Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AE

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Wed/Thu 2.30 5.45 8.15

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seats £8.50

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)

Odeon Magdalen Street Magdalen Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AE

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Fri-Tue 12.00 2.30 5.30

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seats £8.50

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

Odeon Magdalen Street Magdalen Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AE

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Fri/Sat 11.15 1.45 4.30 7.00 9.30; Sun-Thu 12.30 3.15 6.00 8.45

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seats £8.50

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

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: 12.30 4.15 8.00

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

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)

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: 12.00 2.30 5.00 7.45

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

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)

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Fri-Mon/Wed/Thu 8.15

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

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)

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Fri-Sun mat 11.30

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

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)

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: 1.00 3.15 5.45

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

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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Nights In Rodanthe (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Romance)

Odeon George Street George Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2BL

Tel: 0871 224 4007

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

Show times: Wed mat 10.45

Price: £7.50, child/OAP £5.50, NUS £6, family £22, Premier Seating £9

Director: George C Wolfe

Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Becky Ann Baker, Scott Glenn

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 97mins

Facing major decisions in her life, Adrienne Willis elects to clear her head by taking care of a friend's inn for the weekend in the tiny North Carolina coastal community of Rodanthe. The promise of peace and quiet is short-lived with news of an impending storm, which could trap Adrienne in town for longer than expected. As she battens down the hatches, Adrienne is stunned to meet the inn's one and only guest, Dr Paul Flanner, whose personal life is also in turmoil. With the storm raging around them, these two lost souls cling to one another for emotional and physical comfort, consequently sparking a passionate dalliance that will change their lives forever.

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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.