Cinema Times
Cinema times for Vue in Newbury
- The Dictator (15)
In the Republic of Wadiya, a monstrous tyrant rules his people with not just an iron fist, but a chestful of bogus medals and wall-wall-to MTV.
The Dictator is the hotly-anticipated, guffaw-out-loud comedy from the 21st-century’s king of parody. General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) loves his country. In fact, he loves it so much that he’ll do just about anything to ensure that nasty liberal Western views never reach its shores. And while many of the leaders who’ve inspired him have fallen in recent years, Aladeen shows no signs of releasing his grip. So when the tyrant takes his appalling behaviour, his hatred of democracy and his Chief of Security and Procurer Of Women (Ben Kingsley) to America, The Land Of The Free, the laughs are guaranteed to follow..
Duration: 84mins - Rating 3
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- The Raid (18)
A SWAT team is about to bust a safe house in the heart of Jakarta but due to a tip off they are left stranded among the killers they came to take out.
The Raid is a fast-paced, violence-packed adrenaline ride of a thriller set in Jakarta. In the heart of the slums is a safe house where the city’s murderers, drug dealers and a very important drug lord hide out. When a SWAT team is sent in to clear it up, it looks like the days are numbered for the town’s baddies. But, thanks to a tip off, the SWAT team is expected, meaning the violent inhabitants of the safe house have time to lay a sophisticated ambush. Can the team make it through the murderous and highly armed criminals back to safety?
Duration: 101mins - Rating 4
- Dark Shadows (12A)
When a vampire returns to his ancestral home after 200 years of imprisonment, he finds it, and what’s left of his family, falling apart. How will having a monster in their midst affect them all?
Dark Shadows is a deliciously dark gothic horror tale that follows a vampire’s trials with a host of supernatural creatures, and his own dysfunctional family. When Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp), one-time wealthy playboy, breaks the heart of Angelique (Eva Green), a beautiful witch, he lives to regret it. Transformed into a vampire and buried alive for 200 years, he’s then accidentally freed, only to find himself in the 1970’s. Returning to his once-grand family home, Barnabus finds both it, and its inhabitants, led by matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), in shabby shape. What events will the vampire’s sinister reappearance usher in?
Duration: 113mins - Rating 3
- American Pie: Reunion (15)
The kids that we originally met in American Pie are older but not much wiser, as soon becomes clear when they meet up for their reunion.
American Reunion sees all the characters from American Pie back together in a comedy that proves things don’t necessarily improve with age. With ten years having gone by since four lads from a small town in Michigan set out to lose their virginity, the gang are back together in East Great Falls for a reunion. With some of them married, some of them separated and one of them still crazy in love with his buddy’s mum, the friends meet to catch up, reminisce and show that they have well and truly grown up. Except they haven’t!
Duration: 113mins - Rating 4
- Marvel's Avengers Assemble 3D (12A)
A crack team of super humans are pulled together to save the world in its hour of need. And if they can’t save it, they will avenge its destruction.
The Avengers is the much anticipated multi-superhero movie from Marvel. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), head of S.H.I.E.L.D, the organization formed to keep the world at peace, has got his work cut out now that Loki and his army are threatening the future of Earth itself. By drawing together the likes of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), he hopes to save the future of the planet. But it’s not going to be an easy task, especially when those super humans are used to doing things off their own backs.
Duration: 142mins - Rating 4
