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INTERSTELLAR The McConauhaisance continues with his starring role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epicâ&#x20AC;Ś

hen Ăźber-cool director Christopher Nolan, orchestrator of The Dark Knight Trilogy, makes a new film, it's always a big event and one cloaked in the utmost secrecy until the last possible moment. And so it is with Interstellar, Nolan's sure-tobe blockbusting sci-fi epic. Details are scant relating to this right now, but what we do know is that there's enough talent involved to pique the interest of even the most jaded film fan. Nolan stalwarts Caine and

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Hathaway are in for a start, plus the ever impressive Casey Affleck, but it's the tantalising prospect of McConaughey that has us most excited. As Cooper, he plays 'an educated man, a trained pilot and an engineer', living on an Earth that's fast running out of food. So Caine convinces Cooper to go into space to travel through a wormhole with a crew of likeminded explorers. Obviously! Who knows where it will all end? But it's sure to be as incredible as it sounds, so go to YouTube/ODEONUK for the latest trailer.

DEEP SPACE P PACE Mankind has been searching the cosmos for answers since forever. These are our favourite big-screen, deep-space adventures.

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PROMETHEUS 2012

Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender Ridley Scott's thematic prequel to Alien sees Man searching for intelligent life in space, and learns that it hates our guts. OUTLOOK FOR HUMANS: 1/5

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DIRECTOR Christopher Nolan STARRING Matthew McConaughey Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck

SUNSHINE 2007

Rose Byrne, Cillian Murphy Scientists attempt to jump-start our dying sun before we all have to buy thicker coats and loot IKEA for tealights. OUTLOOK FOR HUMANS: 3/5

EVENT HORIZON 1997

Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill Rescuers find a lost spaceship only to discover its dodgy blackhole drive opened up a portal to Hell. Damn you scientists! OUTLOOK FOR HUMANS: 0/5

THE BLACK HOLE 1979 Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins Mad scientist lobotomises crew and tries to send his spaceship through a black hole. Did we mention this is a Disney film? OUTLOOK FOR HUMANS: 2/5

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THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PT.1 1 This film is the first of two that will make up the finale to the The Hunger Games films, and splits the final installment from the book trilogy, Mockingjay, into two. 2 The story continues following reluctant hero and symbol of hope, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who wakes up in District 13 after the world-changing events of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Lawrence said of Katniss that she, 'has to adjust to a completely different life, one in which she's barely able to keep it together.' 3 Sadly, this was the last film for Philip Seymour Hoffman, who passed away before filming completed. Hoffman had finished all of his work as rebellion leader Plutarch Heavensbee however, and it is sure to be a great turn. 4 Julianne Moore took the part of District 13 president – and ultimate head of the rebellion – as her two children are both huge fans of the novels. 5 Mockingjay Part 1 is slated for release on 20 November this year, and Part 2 is scheduled for exactly the same date in 2015. A long but no doubt exciting wait!

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Film gossip Breaking news, direct from Hollywood… Ridley Scott's EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS promises much epicness, telling the biblical tale of the relationship between Moses (Christian Bale) and Ramses (Joel Edgerton). Check out the trailer. The film will be released 26 6 ODEON.CO.UK

December (that's Boxing Day, FYI). Guillermo del Toro has haunted house horror CRI CRIM CRIMSON SON PEAK due for release in October 2015, with plans to shoot a 'really bizarre' film after that before the

follow-up to PACIFIC RIM. This is very early news, but Steven Spielberg has set a release date for his big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's BFG: 22 July 2016. It's a long way off, but honestly we just cannot wait to see what the big man does with the, er, big man.

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FROM THE CREATORS OF BBC HIT SHOW OUTNUMBERED COMES THIS HEART WARMING BRITISH COMEDY…

e can all relate to keeping secrets from other family members and, sometimes, hoping the kids won’t spill the beans can become even more stressful than the secrets themselves! This very funny British take on that family dynamic takes place on a trip to Scotland, to visit Granddad on his birthday… Firstly, the cast is enticing enough on its own here, with David Tennant as Doug McLeod, Rosamund Pike playing his fun-loving wife Abi, and then there's the legendary 'Big Yin' himself, Billy Connolly, who's birthday party they all travel up for. We can never get

enough of Connolly's acting performances, and this looks to be up there with his best outings. But as you'd imagine

with this film coming from the makers of the huge hit TV show Outnumbered, it's actually the breakout young child cast that's particularly strong, and who provide many of the laugh-out-loud moments throughout. Just search for the trailers now to see how it's revealed that the parents are actually quite different behind closed doors… Ah the exquisite uncomfortableness of it all! What We Did On Our Holiday lands in cinemas on September 26, and is a comedic family adventure that will delight as much as the absolutely brilliant Outnumbered did for countless families. FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 7

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this World War II Enigma code thriller… Based on the true story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Cumberbatch), this film looks not only at the race against time that he and his brilliant team faced in cracking the Enigma code during WWII, but also at his awful subsequent treatment by the British government. Something which Cumberbatch described as, 'a really shameful, disgraceful part of our history.' The Imitation Game hits cinemas on 14 November.

LOVE, ROSIE Should best friends gamble everything for love? ased on the bestselling novel of the same name, Love, Rosie is author Cecilia Ahern's follow up to the 2007 romantic box office hit P.S. I Love You. Hankies at the ready folks, we're in for an emotional roller coaster. Rosie (Lily Collins – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) and Alex (Sam Claflin – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) have been best friends since they were six and always dreamed of travelling the world together. But fate had other plans. Misunderstandings and sheer bad luck have kept them apart – will they risk it all for the chance to be together? Love, Rosie opens on 22 October.

He likes nothing better than staring at cheeks!

FRANKENSTEIN LIVE Not a happy monster…

Back in the cinema for a limited time only… National Theatre Live's broadcast of Frankenstein proved so popular that it's coming back. It's directed by Danny Boyle ((Slumdog Millionaire Millionaire) and stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. You can see Cumberbatch as the monster on 30 October while Miller plays him on 6 November.

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Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) plays alongside Tom Hardy as Bob Saginowski.

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THE DROP Hardy and Gandolfini head up a stunning cast

om Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises, Locke, Lawless) has a star very much in the ascension right now, and he's to be applauded for not choosing the straight-up Hollwood blockbuster roles that he's surely being offered. The Drop looks like a proper, gritty,

grown-up drama, with Hardy playing a lonely bartender who finds himself in the middle of a robbery gone awry. This film will also drive home how missed James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) is, putting in a star turn as Hardy's underworld boss. The Drop opens 14 November.

Chances are that you know how this story goes, when a young Peruvian bear with a large passion for all things British â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and an admirable weakness for marmalade â&#x20AC;&#x201C; travels all the way to London in search of somewhere that he can call home. Thankfully our intrepid bear gets taken in by the charming Brown family, but can this rarest of bears avoid the eye of a museum taxidermist? See it on 28 November.

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NATIVITY 3 Dude, where's my donkey? That strapline is indeed part of this film's title, which gives you enough of a clue as you need. Mr Poppy is back, and about to get into some more hilarious scrapes. It opens 14 November. FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 9

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Paddington heads to the big screen

The Book

The most enchanting animated fantasy of the year takes you to worlds

rought to you by Guillermo del Toro, the visionary behind the likes of Hellboy, Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth, The Book of Life is the most visually stunning film in years, with a colourful cast of characters that are voiced by some truly intriguing actors. With the likes of Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, Magic Mike) as Joaquin, Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) as Maria, Diego Luna (Y tu mamá también, Milk) as Manolo and Christina Applegate (Mars Attacks!, Anchorman) as Mary Beth, plus a host of other greats, you know you're in for a real treat. The story is loosely based around the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, and follows the fantastical journey of Manolo (Luna),

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a man torn between pleasing his family or chasing the love of his life. Manolo then attracts the attentions of the spirits La Muerte (Kate del Castillo) and Xibalba (Ron Perlman) who decide to bet on his fate – a fate which is somewhat altered by Xibalba who tries to tip the balance in his own favour by having a snake kill Manolo… But this isn't the end for our hero. It leaves him in a precarious yet incredible situation, as he embarks on a journey that spans three magical worlds and sees him facing his greatest fears. All IN THE ART You'll see from the trailer – and this issue's cover – quite how amazing and vibrant the visual style of this film is. It very deliberately sticks to the pre-production concepts in the ‘Art of ’ book. Keeping to those concepts was something that director Jorge Gutierrez pushed right from the very beginning: “My biggest heartbreak is that I see all this glorious art [for other films], and then the movie doesn't look like that! The mandate of

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of Life never before seen. Here's what to expect… this movie was: 'our Art of… book is going to look exactly like the movie. Every artist poured their heart and soul into that.” Tatum found that aspect of the film particularly enticing: “These guys are artists of the highest regard,” he said.

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Manolo (left), voiced by Diego Luna, is put on a very different life path when Ron Perlman's spirit Xibalba interferes with his fate.

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THE DAY OF THE DEAD At the most recent Comic Con event, The Book of Life panel featured most of the big names from this film, where Perlman was passionate about it not only as a visual spectacle but also as way of sharing a big part of Mexican culture: “When I did my first movie with Guillermo (Cronos) I was introduced to the concept of The Day of the Dead. That [idea] is a beautiful relationship between the living and the dead,” he said. “You demystify it and celebrate it in a way where you bring beauty to it. To be able to be part of a film that's going to introduce that to little kids, that's dazzling!” You can go and search on YouTube.com/ ODEONUK now to see The Book of Life trailer – you won't be disappointed!

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Kingsman THE SECRET SECRET SERVICE

After shaking up the superhero genre with KickAss and revitalising X-Men, Director Matthew Vaughn has spy movies in sights…

irector Matthew Vaughn loves to play with convention. This is the man who persuaded Taxi Driver himself, Robert De Niro, to wear women's underwear in Stardust.. It was Vaughn who, along with comic book legend Mark Millar, turned the superhero genre on its head with Kick-Ass. And now, with Kingsman: The Secret Service – another collaboration with Millar and inspired by his brilliant comic book, The Secret Service – Vaughn is turning his playful, but always respectful, eye on spy films. Y'see, the thing about spy films, is that they have gotten understandably – if a little relentlessly – hard-edged and serious. The humour that once peppered filmgoers' favourite espionage flicks has all but gone. So Vaughn and Millar were chatting about this one day and decided to do something about it. Kingsman: The Secret Service is their spook film wish list made real: a full-fat action 12 ODEON.CO.UK

film first, but with its tongue lodged firmly in its cheek. The premise is an inspired fusion of classic-era Bond, gentleman

espionage and, well, something a little bit more street. Colin Firth plays Harry Hart, codename Galahad – a member of Kingsman, an independent international intelligence agency (think a privatelyfunded MI6) founded after WWI by wealthy gentlemen

tired of seeing their sons sent to war. Believing that they couldn't trust the government to do the right thing they created the Kingsman (named after the tailors where they first met) to protect the nation's interests. Fast forward to the present day and Kingsman's elite membership of ten 'knights' is looking for a new recruit. Alongside the expected monied and privileged young potentials fielded by the other members, Hart introduces a wild card in the form of Eggsy (Taron Egerton), a clever and resourceful but completely off-the-rails delinquent from a rough, London sink estate.

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It's the culture shock caused by the rough and initially incredulous Eggy's uneasy immersion in Kingsman's gentleman-spy values during the potential recruits' training that gives the film many of its biggest laughs, but it reveals a big heart underpinning the

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Special Preview story, too. Hart's unwavering belief in his protégé's potential, even when the rest of Kingsman's members doubt it, is never sugary or overdone – a real testament not only to Firth and Egerton's finely-tuned performances, but also to Vaughn's skill as a director. The result is a cut above your usual big-screen blockbuster – insane amounts of bang for your buck, plus ample reason to care about the characters caught in the middle of all of the massive and impressive pyrotechnics.

Underneath this normal looking suit hides a top super spy…

COLIN ALL HEROES!

Ooooh it'll take ages to get those fingerprints off that mirror.

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The filmmakers aren't done confounding the audience's expectations with Eggsy's fish-out-of-water story either. While Firth's Hart is the experienced mentor to this unlikely spy in training, he's clearly still at the top of his game as an ass-panning secret agent. A fact underlined by Vaughn's insistence that the actor, more used to action-free roles in the likes of The King's Speech and (ironically) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, undergo six months of intensive physical training with a Thai kick boxing champ, stuntman, Olympic gold medal gymnast and a martial arts tough nut who's previously given Jackie Chan a run for his money. Firth enthusiastically took up the challenge, chipping a tooth during filming, proudly developing what he calls a ‘one pack’, and also getting in tune with his inner action hero. All of this comes across on-screen in spades in a film full of surprises and one that's set to leave the jaded spy genre shaken and very much stirred. Check the trailer now! FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 13

Competition A WALK E H AMONG TN ES O T S B TOM S IN CINEMABER M E 19 SEPT

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Walk Among the Tombstones stars the legend that is Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars, Batman Begins) as private investigator Matthew Scudder, a man hired to find out who kidnapped and murdered a drug kingpin's wife. Obviously, Scudder also happens to be hard as nails, which is happy days for us, as things get a little more complicated than they at first seem, so Scudder has to remedy a few tricky situations. This is the role that Neeson has been waiting for, darker and grittier than ever before. We

can't wait to see how it plays out. To help celebrate the release of A Walk Among the Tombstones, we're giving away a Samsung 32" HD LED TV with smooth 1080p visuals and built-in Freeview. We are also giving away a Sony Blu-ray player to help you make the most of that HD screen. A Walk Among the Tombstones hits cinemas on 19 September. Head over to ODEON.co.uk for tickets, and for more info, check Facebook.com/TombstonesUK and you can use or search the hashtag #TombstonesMovie to join the conversation.

HOW OW TO ENTER JUST ANSWER THIS QUESTION In this film Liam Neeson plays a…? A Private investor B Private investigator C Private manager To enter, open the web browser of your choice and go directly to: www.futurecomps.co.uk/tombstones where you can answer the above question. To be eligible you must do this by midday on 29 October. PRIZE INCLUDES Samsung 32" HD LED TV with Freeview, and a Sony Blu-ray player with media streaming.

Terms and conditions: Closing date is 29 October. The competition is open to UK residents only and excludes employees or agents of ODEON, Universal or anyone professionally connected with the promotion and their immediate families. The winner will be drawn at random from all correct entries received. If you have only supplied your email address for us to contact you, no response within 21 days means that the winner will be re-drawn. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. There is no cash alternative. Please allow 28 days prize fulfilment from the date of claim. By entering this competition, you agree to be bound by Future’s competition rules and to receive details of future offers and promotions from Future Publishing Limited and related third parties. If you do not want to receive this information, include “no info” at the end of your entry. Late or incomplete entries will be disqualified. Entries must be submitted by an individual (not via any agency or similar) and are limited to one per household. For full terms and conditions go to www.futurenet.com/futureonline/competitionrules.asp

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HUGH GRANT AND MARISA TOMEI REWRITE THE SCRIPT OF THEIR LIVES IN THIS CHARMING, HILARIOUS ROM-COM…

creenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) had it all. A hit movie, a Golden Globe award, a beautiful wife, a cute son – he was on top of the world. But that was 15 years ago. Now he's divorced, almost 50, hasn't written a hit in years and is close to broke. His life needs a rewrite. Keith flees Hollywood for what he thinks will be a cushy teaching job in New York allowing him to pay the bills and write his next masterpiece on the side. But, as it tends to, life gets in the way. Soon he's surprisingly

attached to his students, bonding with colleagues and inexplicably drawn to a single mom (Marisa Tomei) working two jobs to earn her degree – together they have a second chance to rewrite the next chapter of their lives. Will they take it? Hugh Grant, the reigning king of smash-hit romantic comedies (Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones' Diary to name a few) is joined by Oscar-winning Marisa Tomei and multiple Golden Globe winner Alison Janney to head up a dream rom-com cast.

This is the fourth collaboration between Hugh Grant and director Marc Lawrence following on from the success of Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics and Did You Hear About the Morgans? and looks set to be their funniest and most charming yet. And they're clearly thrilled to be working together again: "I just can't imagine anyone doing this part better," Marc told us. The Rewrite is going to be the perfect Autumn feel good treat and will be released on 10 October. FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 15

outnow! DID YOU KNOW?

The production crew used Basic Math as the film’s working title because it was hard to secure filming locations for a project called Sex Tape.

This is a turtley different take on the TMNTs. (Not sorry.)

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES PG RELEASED 17 OCTOBER

DIRECTOR Jonathan Liebesman STARRING Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Whoopi Goldberg, William Fichtner

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SEX TAPE TBC RELEASED 3 SEPTEMBER

DIRECTOR Jake Kasdan STARRING Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Lowe

ow far would you go to spice up a ten-year marriage that’s got into a bit of a rut? How about creating a deeply private sex tape only for your iPad to automatically sync it to The Cloud and share it with an unwitting bunch of your nearest and dearest? It’s certainly one way to liven things up, and it's the premise of this near-theknuckle, feel-good comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel. With their evening of experimental passion downloaded as gifts for family and friends, the 16 ODEON.CO.UK

pair set off on a hilarious, night-long mission to retrieve all the tablets before personal embarrassment turns into very public humiliation. Diaz, Segel and director Jake Kasden have proven cinematic chemistry, having worked together before on the superb Bad Teacher, which mined a similar vein (no pun intended. Well, maybe…) of gleefully outrageous humour. Ably supported by the likes of Rob Lowe, Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine) and Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids) Sex Tape is face-plant cringe comedy at its best.

There are two things you can say with absolute certainty about this franchise reboot for the world’s premier quartet of amphibious martial artists: firstly, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been crying out for the current generation of state-of -the-art CGI to bring them to life properly. And secondly, from the looks of it Leo, Donnie, Mike and Raphael must have been guzzling protein shakes along with their pepperoni pizzas to get this bodaciously ripped. But that’s new TMNT for you all over. From William Fichtner’s cyborg samurai Shredder to Megan Fox’s casting as ace reporter April O’Neill, everything about this incarnation of the turtles is harder, tougher, sexier and generally turned all the way up for maximum effect. Not that the TMNTs are getting all po-faced and Taken on us – they’re still the wisecracking, skateboard-loving dudes that they always were. Some things never change.

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Looking for a beautifully stylised animated movie? Think inside the box…

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THE BOXTROLLS TBC RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi VOICES OF Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette

The latest wildly creative cheese dream of a movie from the guys behind Coraline and ParaNorman is a visually stunning, super-stylised stop-animation/CGI hybrid.

The Boxtrolls are pink-nosed scavengers who live in the shadows of the Victorian-era town of Cheesebridge, hiding in plain sight, and creating marvellous inventions from the humans’ trash. Among them lives Egg, a boy raised lovingly by his adopted Boxtroll family. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley),

hatches a plot to rid the town of the Boxtrolls, Egg is given a crash course in being ’human’ by the feisty Winnie so he can go ’top-side’ and put his case to the ignorant townsfolk for sparing his people. But can the well-meaning Egg cut it in polite Victorian society? The Boxtrolls proves that Aardman aren’t the only stopanimation masters around.

THE EQUALIZER TBC RELEASED 26 SEPTEMBER

DIRECTOR Antoine Fuqua STARRING Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas, Bill Pullman

Here at ODEON Magazine, we tend to reserve our frowniest frown-face for filmmakers who plunder beloved vintage telly for inspiration. But with the dream-pairing of Denzel Washington and director, Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), plus suitably hard-edged source material in the shape of McCall (Washington), a former special-ops soldier turned vigilante avenger of the weak and downtrodden in a cold, uncaring city, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t fully excited about this reboot. Washington does a stand-up 18 ODEON.CO.UK

Denzel’s Equalizer believes that revenge is a dish best served cold.

job of inhabiting McCall – a man with a violent past, trying to live quietly, but who finds himself drawn back into his old ways when a young woman is brutalised by Russian

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gangsters. With McCall’s desire for justice reawoken, the question is, can he defeat the criminals around him without succumbing to his own lingering darkness?

"What do you mean I’m getting typecast?"

We’re not going anywhere near this caption…

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DIRECTOR Scott Frank STARRING Liam Neeson, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Stevens

Liam Neeson continues to carve a niche for himself as the conflicted, complex action hero of our time with this thriller,

based on the none-more-bleak novel by Lawrence Block. Neeson’s private investigator, Matt Scudder is hired by a drug dealer to find his wife’s kidnappers, only to discover that they’re not after a ransom. Dark as you like and featuring a pitch-perfect cast of characters, this is edge-of-the-seat stuff.

PRIDE 15 RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Matthew Warchus STARRING Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West,

The latest period Brit-com in the mould of Brassed Off and The Full Monty tells the story of an unlikely true-life alliance between a LGBT group and striking miners during the ’80s face off against Thatcher’s government. Prepare to laugh and cry in equal measures.

One Direction on the big screen will probably prove to be somewhat popular…

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL LIVE TBC RELEASED 28 SEPTEMBER

DIRECTOR Stephen Daldry STARRING Matteo Zecca, Mitchell Tobin, Bradley Perret, Elliott Hanna

ONE DIRECTION: WHERE WE ARE TBC RELEASED 11 & 12 OCT ONLY

Stephen Daldry’s staging of his own big-screen directorial debut is predictably brilliant. This live broadcast is a real treat and an event that fans shouldn’t miss.

1D's first ever concert film on the big screen will be in the cinema for one unmissable weekend this October. Billed

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DIRECTOR Paul Dugdale STARRING Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles

as the 'ultimate musical cinematic experience for all 1D fans', this one-off opportunity is perfect for people that missed the tour or want to re-live the magic. Filmed live at the iconic San Siro Stadium in Milan, this also features a never-before-seen 15 minutes with the boys.

Affleck puts in a stellar turn in this gripping thriller.

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THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY TBC RELEASED 5 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Lasse Hallström STARRING Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal

Lasse ‘Chocolat’ Hallström revisits similar outsidershakes-up-French-village territory with this gladdening tale of an Indian family who open a restaurant opposite the disapproving village matriach’s traditional French eatery.

GONE GIRL TBC RELEASED 2 OCTOBER

DIRECTOR David Fincher STARRING Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

Gone Girl is a brilliantly brooding thriller crafted from director, David Fincher’s trademark obsession with moral ambiguity and the

different versions of lives that combine to tell the whole story. When Nick’s (Affleck) wife Amy (Pike) goes missing, he’s soon suspected of murdering her despite his apparent grief. Where is the body? Is Nick guilty? And if so, of what? A taut, twisting movie that’ll keep you guessing until the end.

At last, with The Book Of Life, we have wooden performances we can really get into…

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THE BOOK OF LIFE TBC RELEASED 24 OCTOBER

DIRECTOR Jorge R. Gutierrez STARRING Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, Ron Perlman

Drawing visual cues and some of its colourful underworld characters from the Mexican holiday, The Day of the Dead,

this animated feature is dropdead-gorgeous. When spirits La Muerte and Xibalba make a wager over the outcome of a love triangle on Earth, events bring one of the suitors into the underworld where he must battle to live again and get the girl.

THE RIOT CLUB TBC RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Lone Scherfig STARRING Natalie Dorner, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth

Just how much could money and privilege let you get away with? It’s the question posed by this gripping thriller, centred on the pampered members of a fictional, elite Oxford University society. FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 21

Vlad, bad, and dangerous to know – the man who’ll become Dracula gets the origin-story treatment.

You've never seen The Wizard of Oz quite like you will in IMAX!

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DRACULA UNTOLD TBC RELEASED 3 OCTOBER

DIRECTOR Gary Shore STARRING Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks

Just as Maleficent has taken a one-note villain and given her depth, so this dark epic recasts everyone’s favourite blood guzzler as a misunderstood anti-hero. When his family’s

safety is threatened the man who will become Dracula is forced to take drastic measures and make a pact with evil. The way he wrestles with the consequences of his actions makes this thrilling, sword-swinging Game of Thrones-friendly origin story (think Dracula Begins) surprisingly moving.

THE WIZARD OF OZ TBC RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Victor Fleming STARRING Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

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THE MAZE RUNNER TBC RELEASED 1O OCTOBER DIRECTOR Wes Ball STARRING Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter

If you’re already eyeing the end of The Hunger Games trilogy and wondering where your next big-screen teen-fic trilogy is coming from, look no further. Based on the post-apocalyptic novel of the same name by

Enter this maze at night and you risk losing a lot more than your way…

James Dashner, The Maze Runner centres on Thomas, a teenager who awakes in a safe haven at the heart of a gigantic, peril-filled maze. With no memory of how he got there or of his life before, he must work with the other ‘Gladers’ to piece together his past and find a way out of the maze. That should make the loss of Katniss Everdeen more bearable…

It doesn't seem a day over 68 years but, incredibly, 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the musical of musicals, The Wizard Of Oz. To celebrate this groundbreaking slice of classic Hollywood the movie has been painstakingly remastered in humungo-screen IMAX 3D, and it looks absolutely stunning. So why not take this opportunity to be a friend of Dorothy at an ODEON IMAX cinema near you? The locations are Southampton, Cardiff, Greenwich, Wimbledon, Kingston, Uxbridge, Norwich, Metrocentre, Manchester Trafford Centre, Manchester Printworks, Braehead, LiverpoolOne and Swiss Cottage. Repeat after us, "There's no place like ODEON, there's no place like ODEON.' FANATICAL ABOUT FILM 23

Yes, that is Colin Firth again. We should’ve called this the ‘Colin issue’ shouldn’t we?

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MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT TBC RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Woody Allen STARRING Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden

After the brilliant, bruising, Oscar-decorated Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen returns to out and out comedy with this breezy tale of Stanley, a British master illusionist (Colin Firth) sent to the French Riveria to debunk a fraudulent

spiritualist, Sophie, (Emma Stone in her kooky, charismatic element) who may or may not be preying on a minted family with her unerringly accurate insights and predictions. But as Stanley observes Sophie at work and tries to catch her out, he falls, not only for her story, but for Sophie herself. Could she be the real thing after all, or is Stanley just one more victim of this

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charming stranger? Woody Allen has visited the 1920s-1930s before with great success – Bullets Over Broadway, and Sweet And Lowdown. Not only does Magic In The Moonlight ooze spot-on period detail but, soused as it is with quickfire dialogue and Allen’s unique talent for slowburning human folly, this feels like a welcome shot of vintage Allen.

Billy Connolly plus the writers of Outnumbered? Every bit as brilliant as that sounds.

DIRECTORS Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin STARRING Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly

Written and directed by the guys behind brilliantly sharp BBC sitcom Outnumbered, What We Did On Our Holiday does a similarly bang-on job of sending up the bizarre behaviour and tangled relationships in the average modern family. Set during a family summer holiday for Doug (David Tennant), Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three kids to the Highlands to celebrate grandpa Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday, tensions 24 ODEON.CO.UK

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rise as the extended family bicker, kids unintentionally reveal family secrets, and everything goes hilariously and wonderfully awry. With a fantastic cast across the board (including a great

performance by Ben Miller as Doug’s overbearing brother), the real stars are newcomers Bobby Smalldridge, Amelia Bullmore and Emilia Jones as the kids, who deliver some of the best lines in the movie.

Philip Seymour Hoffman has rarely been better.

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Sept/Oct

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BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP RELEASED 5 SEPTEMBER

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THE BOXTROLLS

DIRECTOR Anton Corbijn STARRING Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman

If there’s ever a pointed reminder of just what an incredible actor we’ve lost in Philip Seymour Hoffman, this tense, intelligent thriller is it.

Based on John Le Carré’s novel, and with a Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy meets Bourne vibe, A Most Wanted Man follows a jaded intelligence expert (Hoffman) as he tries to cultivate contacts in Hamburg’s Islamic community that can shed light on a newly-arrived refugee who may or may not be a threat to national security.

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PRIDE RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER

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Nicole immediately regrets taking a #selfie on the toilet.

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BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL LIVE SHOWING 28 SEPTEMBER

GONE GIRL RELEASED 2 OCTOBER

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BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP TBC RELEASED 5 SEPTEMBER DIRECTOR Rowan Joffe STARRING Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong

We can’t remember how many brilliant thrillers there have been with amnesiac heroes, but Before I Go To Sleep gives us the best Memento flashbacks we’ve had in years. Nicole Kidman

plays a woman whose memory effectively resets every day she awakes. When a psychiatrist (Mark Strong) gets in touch and lets her see a video diary she made in therapy, she starts to realise her memory loss stems from a harrowing event that has her questioning the few certainties and loved ones she has.

Denzel Washington is on form in The Equalizer. Do the apes rule the Earth yet? Find out soon...

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MOMENT IN TIME Classic ODEON moments…

Lawrence and Co. make the most of a premiere photo opportunity… s we were getting all excited for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt1, we stumbled across this great picture from the premiere of Catching Fire. Shot on 11 November 2013, you can see that its stars – Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson – have genuine fun together. You’ll be able watch the next installment in cinemas from 20 November, and you can read our 5 Things You Need to Know About… Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt1 right now on p6.

COMING NEXT ISSUE! Check out our most anticipated film of 2014, Interstellar in the next issue. ODEON mag will be in cinemas 29 October.

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