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CINEMA - What's On? & Previews...

Here's what's on at the cinema!

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This week's big cinema release...

UK TOP 10 BOX OFFICE: 25th November

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1. WICKED

Directed by: Jon M. Chu

Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey.

The Wicked Witch of the West was always more of a rock star than heel-clicking goodie-goodie Dorothy – hence the global success of Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz’s stage musical Wicked, telling her origin story before The Wizard Of Oz. Frankly, it’s baffling that nobody adapted Wicked for the big screen before, but director Jon M. Chu is going big, hiring Cynthia Erivo as the soon-to-be-mean greenie, Ariana Grande as her kind-hearted counterpoint Glinda Upland, and a supporting cast including Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh.

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2. GLADIATOR II

3. PADDINGTON IN PERU

4. RED ONE

5. HERETIC

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6. THE WILD ROBOT

Directed by: Chris Sanders

Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Mark Hamill.

At first glance, Peter Brown’s acclaimed children’s book was a simple tale of a shipwrecked droid that goes feral – but it left our brains rattling with deep questions about nature, technology and the meaning of soul. Likewise, kids and adults can get as philosophical as they like with this acclaimed Dreamworks animation. Set against jaw-dropping impressionistic animation the likes of which you’ve never seen before, Lupita Nyong'o gives an Oscar-worthy voice performance as the robot developing humanity in real-time – while Pedro Pascal’s Fink the fox has to be the cheekiest big-screen redhead since Puss In Boots.

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7. SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

8. TOSCA - MET OPERA 2024

9. LISTY DO M.6 (LETTERS TO SANTA 6)

10. VENOM: THE LAST DANCE

COMING SOON!!!....

13th December...

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM

Directed by: Kenji Kamiyama

Starring: Brian Cox, Miranda Otto, Gaia Wise

Dragons. Elves. Massive fiery volcano-eyes. Since Peter Jackson’s Hobbit series wrapped in 2014, miserable fantasy fans assumed we were done with all that, and that J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy world was over as a cinematic experience. But here’s the big screen spin-off you weren’t expecting, with The War of the Rohirrim offering a spellbinding animation set 183 years before the events of The Two Towers and centred on Brian Cox’s legendary king of Rohan, Helm Hammerhand. And if you thought the orcs were nasty, just wait until you get a load of the Dunlendings.