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Bookings/Inquiries: Odeon, Arundel Gate 0871 2244007; Showroom, Paternoster Row 0114 2757727; Vue, Meadowhall 08712 240240; Cineworld, Valleycentertainment, Sheffield 0871 2002000; Cineworld, Derby Road, Chesterfield 0871 2002000; Paramount Penistone 01226 767532.

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Bonded by Blood, gritty British crime thriller based on the notorious ‘Essex Boys’ murders with Tamer Hassan, Terry Stone and Neil Maskell as the notorious East End gangsters whose rise and ultimate demise is chronicled (Cert 15, Cineworld Sheffield).

Certified Copy, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami sets his first European film in Tuscany where a English writer (William Shimmel) is on a book tour and is taken by a French woman (Juliette Binoche) to the nearby village of Lucignano where they mingle with newly-weds and begin to pretend to be a long-married couple and you begin to wonder if they really are strangers play-acting or actually an estranged husband and wife (Cert 12A, Showroom).

Dinner for Schmucks, from Jay Roach, director of Meet the Parents, a screwball comedy in which rising executive Paul Rudd thinks he has found the perfect guest to bring to his boss’s annual Dinner for Extraordinary People in nerdish tax officer Steve Carell whose hobby is mice taxidermy but  his blundering good intentions prove a disaster (Cert 12A, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

Jonah Hex, Josh Brolin takes the role based on a DC Comics character of a scarred gunslinger and bounty hunter from the US Civil War with a violent history steeped in myth and legend who is offered the chance of redemption by the US military if he can track down terrorist John Malkovich, the man who caused his disfigurement, with Megan Fox as the feisty beauty with scars of her own who is his only human connection (Cert 15, Odeon, Cineworld Sheffield).

The Last Exorcism, disillusioned evangelical minister Patrick Fabian takes along a documentary crew to film what he imagines will be a routine exorcism for Louisiana farmer Louis Herthum who has asked for help in driving out the devil from his daughter (Ashley Bell) but nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters and he must call upon a near-empty well of faith to protect the girl, his film crew and ultimately himself (Cert 15, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

SoulBoy, coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s Northern Soul underground music scene in which teenager Joe (Martin Compstonh) finds himself in a love triangle with brassy hairdresser Nichola Burley and cute and spunky artist Felicity Jones whilst moving to the beat of a new kind of music (Cert 15, Showroom).

The Switch, rom-com starring Jennifer Anniston as a lovelorn singleton (just for a change) who has a baby by artificial insemination after calling on the services of handsome and charming sperm donor Patrick Wilson unaware that neurotic best friend Jason Bateman was forced to substitute his own fluid after spilling the precious cargo - and seven years later all the partipants meet up again with the product of the transaction (Cert 12A, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

Why Did I Get Married Too?,  Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, and Tasha Smith in sequel to Why Did I Get Married? in which the four couples meet up in the Bahamas for their annual reunionto share news about their lives and relationships but their week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of an ex-husband (Cert 12A, Cineworld Sheffield).

PREVIEWS/SPECIALS

Rough Aunties, documentary about a group of feisty women in Durban, South Africa, working day and night to protect abused and neglected children (Showroom, Tuesday followed by Q&A with director Kim Longinotto and Doc/Fest Programmer Hussain Currimbhoy). See panel page 30

Wall Street, Oliver Stone’s 1987 story of Wall Street greed through the story of a young and impatient stockbroker (Charlie Sheen) willing to do anything to get to the top with Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko who became an emblematic figure of the Eighties(Cert 15, Showroom, Wednesday, part of MADE The Entrepreneur Festival, free with ticket obtained in advance from www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/wallstreet for tickets).

Like You Know It All, in the Hong Sangsoo Season: Between Men and Women celebrating the work of Korean master, his ninth feature is a comedy of manners following a hapless film-maker at a festival through two encounters with old friends and their wives (Showroom, Wednesday).

CONTINUING

Avatar 3D Special Edition, James Cameron’s lavish sci fi epic  with added sequences (Cert 12A, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield).

Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore, made with real animals mixed with CGI effects, the sequel to forgettable 2001 kids movie is a James Bond spoof in which canine and feline agents put their ongoing war on hold and join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy (voiced by Bette Midler) with her own sinister plans for conquest (Cert U,).

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, screen version of a popular cartoon book with Zachary Gordon as the 12-year-old grappling with the pre-teen years at school where he is assailed by bullying bigger boys, scarily mature girls and pressures to conform (Cert PG, Odeon, Cineworld Sheffield and Vue).

The Expendables, a throwback to the blockbuster action films of the 1980s co-written and directed by Sylvester Stallone who leads a  team of mercenaries including Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Jet Li on as mission to South America to overthrow a ruthless dictator,  with cameos by Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, (Cert 15, Odeon).

The Girl Who Played with Fire, screen version of the second in the best-selling Millennium trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson with Noomi Rapace as hacker Lisbeth Salander returning to Stockholm and finding herself prime suspect in the killings of two researchers working for Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) on a magazine exposure of a billion dollar sex trafficking ring controlled by high profile government officials (Cert 15, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Showroom).

The Grown Ups, buddy-comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider as five old friends and former teammates who reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend after their high school basketball coach passes away (Cert 12A, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

The Illusionist, animator Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) brings to the screen a long-lost script by the great Jacques Tati from 50 years ago about an old-style vaudevillian magician reduced to performing in a village pub off the west coast of Scotland where  he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever (Cert PG, Showroom).

Inception, Batman director Christopher Nolan returns to his early Memento mode with an  imaginative futuristic thriller set in the hi-tech world of corporate espionage where superthief Leonardo Di Caprio and his gang infiltrate the minds of powerful men and women to  plunder their subconscious of priceless secrets but on a journey into the mind of businessman Cillian Murphy he realises that he has underestimated a cunning adversary (Cert 12A, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield).

The Karate Kid, remake of the 1984 martial arts adventure has Jaden Smith as 12-year-old Dre Parker who moves from Detroit to Beijing with his mother and finds himself prey to bullies until reclusive maintenance man and martial arts master Mr Han (Jackie Chan) intervenes and instricts him in the principles of Kung Fu, giving him the skills and confidence he needs to take on the bullies in a karate contest (Cert 12A).

Knight and Day, frantic action thriller cum rom com starring Cameron Diaz as an unassuming Midwestern gal who gets caught in the crossfire between paranoid government agent Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) and gun-toting assassins which makes her a marked woman, forcing her to learn the tricks of the spy trade to stay alive and avoid an early grave at the hands of villain Jordi Molla and his henchmen (Cert 12A, Cineworld Sheffield and Vue).

The Last Airbender, M Night Shyamalan converts the animated Nickelodeon TV series to live action with Noah Ringer as Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations (Cert PG, Odeon, Cineworld Chesterfield).

The Maid, award-winning Chilean film by Sebastian Silva centring on Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) whose 23 years of loyal drudgery in a well-to-do household begins to take its toll (from the effects of an obsessive use of bleach to clean) but when the lady of the house hires extra help the fiercely territorial servant uses all her wiles to drive them away and maintain her position in the household (Cert 15, Showroom).

Marmaduke, live-action film adaptation of Brad Anderson’s comic strip about a Great Dane (voiced by Owen Wilson) whose family move from Kansas to California where he is humiliated by a fearsome Rottweiler (Kiefer Sutherland) until he discovers he has skills which might just put the top dog in the shade. (Cert U, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

Piranha 3D, re-make of 1970s disaster movie features an ensemble cast headed by Adam Scott, Elisabeth Shue, Kelly Brook, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd and  Ving Rhames as a  group of strangers who band together after a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of man-eating fish (Cert 18, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

Salt, Angelina Jolie as a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy programmed to assassinate the President and is forced to go on the run to prove her innocence (Cert 15, , Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue).

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, comedy based on a comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley in which geeky bass guitarist Michael Cera meets his dream girl (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) but discovers he must defeat her seven evil old flames in order to continue seeing her  (Cert 12A, Odeon, Cineworld Sheffield and Vue).

Shrek Forever After, fourth and final adventure in which our domesticated jolly green hero is longing for the days when he felt like a ‘real ogre’ when he is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking Rumpelstiltskin and suddenly finds himself in a twisted alternate version of Far Far Away - where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met (Cert U, Cineworld Sheffield and Vue).

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, master sorcerer Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) recruits a seemingly everyday guy (Jay Baruchel) in his mission to defend New York City from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath, played by Alfred Molina (Cert PG, Cineworld Sheffield and Vue).

Tales from Earthsea, Japanese anime film from the revered Studio Ghibli based on the third volume of Ursula K. Le Guin series, The Farthest Shore, tells of rebellious Ptrince Arren who flies his kingdom after killing his father and has to find away to reset the balance of a universe gone awry (Cert PG, Showroom, Saturday and Sunday).

Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue, Disney animated tale goes back to the time before the fairy’s Peter Pan adventures to her first encounter with humans as she develops a special bond with a lonely girl (Cert PG, Cineworld Sheffield).

Toy Story 3D, the final instalment in Pixar animation’s trailblazing series has reportedly prompted tears as well as laughter as Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are accidentally packed off to the sinister Sunnyside day centre where they encounter Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear and realise they must band together and plan an escape (Cert PG, Showroom, Odeon, Cineworlds Sheffield and Chesterfield, Vue, also showing in 2D).