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3D Despicable Me 2 
Starring: Miranda Cosgrove, Al Pacino, Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Running time: mins
Synopsis: Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Writers: Ken Daurio (screenplay), Cinco Paul (screenplay) Stars: Steve Carell, Al Pacino, Kristen Wiig
3D Monsters University
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Dave Foley, Julia Sweeney
Director: Dan Scanlon Running time: mins
Synopsis: Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer-and he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, "Sulley", a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. To make matters worse, they realize they will have to work together, along with...
Bula Quo!
Starring: Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman, Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt
Director: Stuart St. Paul Running time: mins
Synopsis: It started with guitars and ended with guns!
Confine
Starring: Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett, Daisy Lowe, Corinne Kempa, Adam Leese
Director: Tobias Tobbell Running time: 81 mins
Synopsis: After hiding away for years, now all she wants to do is escape...
Monsters University
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Dave Foley, Julia Sweeney
Director: Dan Scanlon Running time: mins
Synopsis: Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer-and he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, "Sulley", a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. To make matters worse, they realize they will have to work together, along with...
Now You See Me
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher
Director: Louis Leterrier Running time: 116 mins
Synopsis: During their performances, the world's greatest illusionists known as "The Four Horsemen" pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders. The super-team of illusionists shower the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of an elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse.
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: DON QUIXOTE
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Synopsis: The adventures of the bumbling knight Don Quixote and his ever-faithful squire Sancho Panza have been the inspiration for countless ballets, of which one of the most well-loved is the version by 19th-century Russian choreographer Marius Petipa. Acosta has danced the virtuoso role of Basilio many times, and now brings his unique and vibrant vision to the story, drawing on Petipa and with music by Ludwig Minkus, full of Spanish flair and atmosphere. Don Quixote, with its famously bravura Act III pas de deux and...
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: GISELLE
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Director: Running time: 150 mins
Synopsis: Giselle remains one of the most popular Romantic ballets of all time. The story brings together an engaging mix of human passions, supernatural forces, and the transcendent power of selfsacrificing love. The production by Sir Peter Wright catches the atmosphere of this great Romantic ballet, especially in the perfection of its White Act, with ghostly maidens drifting through the forest in spectacular patterns – one of the most famous of any scenes for the corps de ballet. Giselle dances with lightness and fragility, giving the...
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: THE NUTCRACKER
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Director: Running time: 130 mins
Synopsis: Clara, a young girl, creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to retrieve her favourite present. But a mysterious magician, Drosselmeyer, is waiting to sweep her off on a magical adventure.
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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Director: Running time: 175 mins
Synopsis: The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, announcing its move from Sadler’s Wells to Covent Garden. Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful princess Aurora in the first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived, returning Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage once again.
ROYAL BALLET LIVE: THE WINTER'S TALE
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Synopsis: Following his charming Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and a series of short ballets including Aeternum and Polyphonia, Christopher Wheeldon presents a new full-length work at Covent Garden. He draws on another much-loved work of English literature: The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s late, great romance. The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a statue comes miraculously to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and...
ROYAL OPERA LIVE: DON GIOVANNI
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Director: Running time: 205 mins
Synopsis: The impulsive and charismatic Don Giovanni travels through Europe seducing women, accompanied by his long-suffering servant Leporello. When he commits murder, he unleashes vengeance from beyond the grave.
ROYAL OPERA LIVE: LES VEPRES SICILIENNES
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Director: Running time: 270 mins
Synopsis: Stefan Herheim brings Verdi’s tale of revenge, family relations and patriotism to Covent Garden for the first time. His imaginative production draws parallels between the opera and the opera house for which it was written, including a spectacular re-creation of the Paris Opéra itself. Musically, the work contains impressive choruses, passionate duets and some wonderful showpiece arias for the principal singers. Particular highlights include Procida’s aria on returning to Sicily ‘Et toi, Palerme’, the Act IV duet ‘De courroux et d’effroi’ in which Hélène expresses...
ROYAL OPERA LIVE: MANON LESCAUT
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Synopsis: Manon is on her way to a convent when she meets the young student Des Grieux. The pair fall in love and escape to Paris, but when the elderly Geronte offers Manon a life of wealth and luxury, her head is turned. Puccini’s publisher tried to prevent him from adapting Abbé Prévost’s L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – Massenet had already created a highly successful opera based on the novel. But Puccini was not to be dissuaded, claiming ‘a woman like Manon...
ROYAL OPERA LIVE: PARSIFAL
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Director: Running time: 315 mins
Synopsis: A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the ‘pure fool, enlightened by compassion’, who, it has been prophesied, will purify the kingdom? The creative team behind The Royal Opera’s production of The Minotaur, director Stephen Langridge and designer Alison Chitty, bring a new staging of Parsifal to Covent Garden. Parsifal, Wagner’s final opera, was first given at Bayreuth in 1882. For many years, at the insistence of Wagner and then his widow Cosima,...
ROYAL OPERA LIVE: TURANDOT
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Director: Running time: 170 mins
Synopsis: ‘I will win’ exclaims Prince Calaf as he boldly sets out to thaw the heart of the ice princess Turandot. In the final months of his life Puccini struggled to depict Calaf’s triumph: he died before finishing the final act. Turandot was completed by Franco Alfano two years later and given its premiere in 1926 at La Scala, Milan. During this initial performance the conductor Arturo Toscanini famously laid down his baton in Act III, declaring ‘at this point, the Maestro died’. Turandot has gone...
THE HAUNTING OF HARRY PAYNE
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Synopsis: Ex-gangster HARRY PAYNE leaves prison after serving ten years for the murder of his best friend and gang boss EUGENE McCANN. Retiring to a small village in Norfolk to care for his innocent but vulnerable wife SUSAN PAYNE, Harry believes he has finally left his violent past behind. Instead, he becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome occult murders.
The Internship
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Will Ferrell, John Goodman
Director: Shawn Levy Running time: 119 mins
Synopsis: Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.
This Is The End
Starring: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride
Director: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Running time: 107 mins
Synopsis: Follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
