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A BAG OF HAMMERS (US) Comedy. Maya Entertainment Group. Dir: Brian Crano. Key cast: Jake Sanvig, Jason Ritter, Rebecca Hall. A comedy about two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they’ve always needed. Gray 4
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MY KINGDOM (DA WU SHENG) (Hong Kong) Martial arts, 97mins. Celestial Pictures. Dir: Xiaosong Gao, Sammo Hung. Key cast: Chun Wu, Geng Han, Barbie Hsu. Palais I
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A BAG OF HAMMERS See box, above
BEST LAID PLANS (UK) Drama, 98mins. AV Pictures. Dir: David Blair. Key cast: Stephen Graham, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David O’hara. An incredibly moving tale of loyalty, love and an unusual friendship. Star 4
BORN TO RIDE (US) Action/Adventure. American World Pictures. Dir: James Fargo. Key cast: Casper Van Dien, Patrick Muldoon, William Forsythe. Two motorcycle riders on their way to Sturgis encounter hustlers, women, corrupt politicians, and mobsters in this action- packed journey reminiscent of ‘Easy Rider’. Palais B
ENTER NOWHERE (US) Horror, 90mins. Indomina Media. Dir: Jack Heller. Key cast: Sara Paxton, Shaun Sipos, Scott Eastwood. Three strangers arrive one by one at a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere only to learn they’ve been brought together for a reason. Gray 2
EVIDENCE (US) Thriller, 90mins.
NORMAN (US) Black comedy, Drama. Camelot Entertainment Group. Dir: Jonathan Segal. Key cast: Adam Goldberg, Billy Lush, Dan Byrd. A troubled high-school kid pretending to be dying of cancer confronts problems with his new girlfriend and terminally ill father as he struggles with his daily existence. Lerins 2
Arsenal Pictures International. Dir: Howie Askins. Key cast: Abigail Richie, Ashley Bracken, Brett Rosenberg. An intense thrill ride as two couples set out for a weekend camping trip only to get caught up in a run for their lives when they discover a secret lab that is hiding a deadly government cover-up. The only evidence of their ordeal is the footage that they shoot. Lerins 1
FLYING PIGS (SKRZYDLATE SWINIE) (Poland) Action/ Adventure, 99mins. Telewizja Polska. Dir: Anna Kazejak. Key cast: Agata Kulesza, Cezary Pazura, Karolina Gorczyca. This isn’t a film about pigs. This isn’t a film about angels. This isn’t a film about soccer. Palais D
LOVE FOR LIFE (China) Drama, Romance. Edko Films. Dir: Changwei Gu. Key cast: Ziyi Zhang, Aaron Kwok. De Yi and Qin Qin, two victims of AIDS, unexpectedly fall in love and risk everything to pursue a last chance at happiness. Buyers only Palais F
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MEETING SPENCER (US) Comedy, 87mins. Orbit Pictures. Dir: Malcolm Mowbray. Key cast: Jeffrey Tambor, Jesse Plemons, Don Stark. After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. Palais H
PROMOREELS STUDIOCANAL 45mins. StudioCanal. Arcades 1
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LITTLE BIRDS See box, right
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DEAR FRIEND HITLER... (India) Drama, Historical, 96mins. Bennett Coleman & Co. Dir: Rakesh Ranjan Kumar. Key cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Avijit Dutt. In 1939, when the dictator’s designs for German expansion in Eastern Europe became increasingly apparent, Mahatma Gandhi, the fervent defender of truth and justice, wrote a letter to the dictator in order to prevent the advent of the Second World War. Palais E
INKUBUS (US) Horror. VMI- Vantage Media
International/Vision Music. Dir: Glenn Ciano. Key cast: Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman. The skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon- to-be-condemned police station are interviewing a suspect who claims he did not kill his girlfriend. The night takes a gruesome turn when a stranger named Inkubus arrives, holding the dead girl’s head in his hands. Gray 3
INTO THE COLD (US) Documentary, 87mins. Vision Films. Dir: Sebastian Copeland. Key cast: Sebastian Copeland, Keith Heger. Widely acclaimed environmental advocate, photographer and polar explorer Sebastian Copeland’s dramatic expedition to the North Pole takes him across 400-plus miles on foot through a magnificent environment that is rapidly vanishing. Gray 1
TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT (Norway) Comedy, 76mins. Celsius Entertainment. Dir: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. Key cast: Helene Bergsholm, Matias Myren, Malin Bjorhovde. Alma is a small-town teen with a big imagination. Horny and looking for love, she has only her lively imagination and a kindly phone sex operator to ameliorate her frustratingly lonely and chaste life. But
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LITTLE BIRDS (US) Drama, 96mins. Westend Films. Dir: Elgin James. Key cast: Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann, Kate Bosworth.
Two idealistic young girls living in a dead-end seaside town, run away from home and straight into a lawless world. But will they — and their friendship — survive their new freedom? Palais J
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