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Film A-Z LISTINGS
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All films are currently on general release unless otherwise stated. For full listing information, including times and dates, visit www.whatsonlive.co.uk 12 Years A Slave 15 The true story of Solomon Northup, a cultured and educated family man who’s kidnapped while visiting Washington DC and sold into slavery. Stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender. Showing at Forest Arts Centre, Walsall, Thurs 26 Mar
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American Sniper 15 The Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle was not nicknamed ‘Legend’ for nothing. He was the most deadly sniper in US military history. This is his story. Stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller. Showing at The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Fri 13 Mar; Ludlow Assembly Rooms, South Shropshire, Wed 18 - Thurs 19 Mar
Dancing In Jaffa PG
Bad Hair 15 Junior is a nine-year-old boy who has stubbornly curly hair, or "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer with long, ironed hair. This puts him at odds with his mother, Marta, a young, unemployed widow who finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior's fixation with his looks. Showing at mac, Birmingham, Sun 1, Wed 4 - Thurs 5 Mar Big Hero 6 U The fourteen-year-old robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada forms a team of crime-fighting robots, along with the eminently outsize, huggable Baymax. With the voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit. Showing at Festival Drayton Centre, Market Drayton, Mon 30 - Tues 31 Mar; The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Mon 30 Tues 31 Mar
Casablanca Calling A documentary regarding the four hundred women who’ve started to work as Muslim leaders or Morchidats for the first time in Morocco. Their mission is simple: to liberate women
by sharing the true teaching of Islam, freed from misogynist interpretations. Showing The Drum, Birmingham, Sun 8 Mar Filmed at a variety of locations in Birmingham in 1963, The Colony is remarkable for its time in giving a voice to working-class settlers from the Caribbean. This unique screening boasts a live score performed by Birmingham Jazz. Showing The Drum, Birmingham, Tues 24 Mar Four-time ballroom dancing world champion Pierre Dulaine returns to the place of his birth, Jaffa - a city in which two communities continue to grow apart. Via his Dancing Classrooms programme, Pierre seeks to find some common ground between the Jewish and Palestinian Israeli children. Showing at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, South Shropshire, Mon 9 - Tues 10 Mar
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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 12a Here, Caesar and his army of genetically modified simian soldiers face a band of humans that survived the virus that all but wiped out mankind. It’s ten years on from the events of the last film (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes), but can the apes and their subordinate humans reach a truce? Stars Jason Clarke and Gary Oldman. Showing at Forest Arts Centre, Walsall, Fri 6 Mar
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18 Exploration of the deep love of two women who inhabit an almost exclusively female world, and who’re united by their interest in sado-masochism and moths and butterflies. Expect a degree of sexual fetishism. Stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D'Anna. Showing at Electric Cinema, Birmingham, Sat 14 - Mon 16 Mar
Effie Gray 15 Back in the 1850s, ‘Effie,’ the wife of the eminent art critic John Ruskin, met the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. The resultant affaire de cœur has been the subject of much speculation. Stars Dakota Fanning & Emma Thompson. Showing at Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, Mon 23 Mar; Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffs, Tues 24 Mar Fantastic Mr Fox PG For twelve years, Mr and Mrs Fox (voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep) have lived a peaceful life in the wilderness with their son, Ash. Shortly after their young nephew, Kristofferson, arrives for a visit, Mr. Fox's long-suppressed animal instincts begin to take over and the faithful family man resorts back to his old ways as a cunning chicken thief, endangering not only his family but the entire animal community as well. Showing at The Courtyard, Hereford, Tues 31 Mar
Fifty Shades Of Grey 18 The first volume of EL James’ ‘literary’ trilogy was initially deemed smutty, even pornographic. In August of 2012, Amazon announced that it had sold more copies of the novel than the entire Harry Potter series put together. So a film version was inevitable, and here we have it. Stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. Showing at Light House Media Centre, until Thurs 5 Mar; Electric Cinema, Birmingham, until Thurs 5 Mar
Foxcatcher 15
one (a true story) Channing Tatum dons the tights as Mark Schultz, as does Mark Ruffalo as his brother, Dave. But it’s Steve Carell’s performance as Channing’s sponsor and coach that people are talking about. Showing at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Sun 1 - Tues 3 Mar; Stoke Film Theatre, Thurs 5 - Fri 6 Mar; The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Fri 6 Mar; Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury, Tues 24 - Thurs 26 Mar
Gone Girl 18 Nick Dunne, on his fifth wedding anniversary, reports the disappearance of his wife. Then, as a media frenzy builds around the gone girl, suspicion starts to fall on Nick himself… Stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike. Showing at Stourbridge Townhall, Mon 16 Mar
The Hundred-Foot Journey PG When Hassan Kadam and his family are displaced from their native India, they set up a new restaurant in the South of France. However, Madame Mallory, the proprietress of a traditional French restaurant down the street, is determined to give the new upstarts hell. Stars Helen Mirren and Om Puri. Showing at Stourbridge Town Hall, Mon 2 Mar
A documentary telling the story of Ras Seymour Maclean, who was convicted and imprisoned for reclaiming over two thousand books on Ethiopian and African history from British institutions. Showing at The Drum, Birmingham, Thurs 19 Mar
The Judge 15 Estranged from his family, top city lawyer Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr) returns to the small town of Carlinville, in Indiana, for his mother's funeral. He then discovers that his father, the local judge, has been accused of murder. Also stars Robert Duvall. Showing at Edge Arts Centre, Mon 16 Mar Kingsman: The Secret Service 15
Poland 1962; orphaned novice nun Sister Anna is about to take her vows when she finds out that she was originally named Ida and is Jewish. So she goes on a search for the truth about her parents. Stars Agata Kulesza. Showing at The Hive, Shrewsbury, Mon 2 Mar
The Imitation Game 12a
Kon Tiki 15
Based on the biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, the film chronicles Turing’s part in winning the Second World War (by helping to crack the Nazi’s Enigma code) and then his criminal prosecution for being homosexual. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley. Showing at mac, Birmingham, Mon 2- wed 4 Mar
In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft to prove that South Americans could have settled on the Polynesian islands. This is an old-fashioned man-against-the-elements adventure epic, propelled by human-scaled heroics. Part classic adventure tale, part history lesson. Stars Pal Sverre Hagen, Anders Christiansen. Showing at Old Market Hall, Shrews-
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Into The Woods PG A complex weave of the
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The Jamaican Book Liberator
This spy adventure unites director Matthew Vaughn with the scenarist Jane Goldman for the fourth time (cf. Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class). Colin Firth plays a veteran secret agent who takes on a young protégé. Showing at The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Sun 22 - Wed 25 Mar; Festival Drayton Centre, Market Drayton, Fri 20 & Mon 23 Mar
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fairytales Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack And The Beanstalk and Rapunzel, dexterously shuffling our notions of these legends and coming up with something altogether more elaborate and darker. Stars Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt. Showing at Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury, Fri 27 - Sun 29 Mar; Ludlow Assembly Rooms, South Shropshire, Tues 31 Mar; Wem Town Hall, North Shropshire, Tues 31 Mar
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Laura Mvula & The Metropole Orkest 12a Laura Mvula Live At The Paradiso With The Metropole Orkest in Amsterdam was sold out months in advance, but can now be seen exclusively in cinemas for one night only. With a Q&A introduction by Laura Mvula - live from London - plus a live finale acoustic set especially for cinema audiences. Showing at mac, Birmingham, Thurs 5 Mar
Locke 15 While driving from Birmingham to London, a construction manager receives a phone call. The remainder of the film sees Ivan Locke attempting to salvage his life via mobile phone as he continues to race home. Stars Tom Hardy, with the voices of Tom Holland, Olivia Colman. Showing at The Hive, Shrewsbury, Fri 20 Mar
Love, Honour And Disobey A documentary investigating domestic violence in Britain's black and ethnic minority communities through the eyes of Southall Black Sisters. Showing at mac, Birmingham, Sun 1 - Tues 3 & Thurs 5 Mar; The Drum, Birmingham, Fri 6 Mar
Love Is Strange 15 After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart until they can find an affordable new home. Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. Showing at mac, Birmingham, Sun 1 Tues 3 & Thurs 5 Mar; Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffs, Tues 10 Mar
Magdala Campaign An account from Ras Seymour regarding the desecration, destruction and theft by British forces in 1868 of thousands of priceless religious icons, books, manuscripts, vestments and vessels with sacred significance, when they stormed the fortress city of Magdala in Ethiopia. Showing at The
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