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All Stars

• 2013
• UK
• 106 min
• U

• Directed by: Ben Gregor
• Written by: Paul Gerstenberger
• Cast: Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ashley Jensen
• UK release: 3 May 2013

To save the youth centre, two kids look to the power of movement to raise funds in an ambitious dance show.

Calum's Road

The National Theatre of Scotland and Communicado Theatre Company present David Harrower's take on the true tale of a man on the Isle of Skye who, faced with council indifference to his remote village's isolated plight, built a two-mile stretch of road all by himself with nothing but a pick, a wheelbarrow and a shovel.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)

The Reduced Shakespeare Company barrel through the Bard's greatest histories, tragedies and comedies for a whirlwind look at one of our best-loved writers without all the boring bits they insist on teaching at school.

Despicable Me 2

• 2013
• US
• U

• Directed by: Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud
• Cast: Al Pacino, Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove
• UK release: 28 June 2013

This sequel to the 2010 film sees Al Pacino and Steve Coogan join the cast.

Educating Ronnie

Joe Douglas' one-man show about his friendship with a Ugandan boy and how what began as a request for help turned into something much more complicated.

Epic

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• 2013
• US
• 102 min
• U

• Directed by: Chris Wedge
• Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé Knowles
• UK release: 22 May 2013

From the director of Ice Age comes this story of a teenage girl who is sucked from the earthly realm into a fantastical woodland, where she finds the forces of good and evil at battle. Mary Katherine (voiced by Seyfried) joins the fray – on the side of good, one suspects – in order to help save this magical world – and…

Fire in the Night

• 2013
• UK
• 93 min

• Directed by: Anthony Wonke
• Written by: Stephen McGinty
• UK release: 21 June 2013

Documentary about the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, combining archive footage and interviews.

I Am Breathing

• 
• 2012
• Denmark/UK
• 72 min

• Directed by: Emma Davie/Morag McKinnon
• UK release: 21 June 2013

Documentary about a man facing the onset of Motor Neurone Disease.

I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)

• 
• 2013
• Spain
• 90 min
• 15

• Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
• Cast: Javier Cámara, Pepa Charro, Cecilia Roth
• UK release: 3 May 2013

In Almodovar's oddball comedy, a passenger plane suffers technical failure threatening mortal danger to all onboard. As the cockpit crew try to put things right, the cabin crew decide to make the rest of the journey as enjoyable as possible.

The Lady Boys of Bangkok: Glamorous Amorous

The Lady Boys present their world-famous show with renditions of J-Lo, Whitney, Kylie et al.

The List

The award-winning tale of a bereaved woman struggling to come to terms with rural living, who begins to stick rigorously to her lists until this ritual introduces a new set of troubles.

Mud

• 2012
• US
• 130 min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeff Nichols
• Written by: Jeff Nichols (screenplay)
• Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon
• UK release: 10 May 2013

McConaughey stars as a fugitive who enlists the help of two teenage boys to escape his pursuers.

Summer in February

• 
• 2013
• UK
• 100 min
• 15

• Directed by: Christopher Menaul
• Cast: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens
• UK release: 14 June 2013

Melancholic melodrama about the pre-WW I love triangle between artists Alfred Munnings (Cooper) and Florence Carter-Wood (Browning), and Gilbert Evans (Stevens). Aimed squarely at the Downton Abbey crowd, it's hardly unconventional but handsomely shot, with a rousing performance from Cooper and a heartfelt one from…