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Here are the big movies hitting your local cinema this month!

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2nd March

Chappie

In a state policed by mindless police droids, a loveable self-aware robot is hunted down by powerful forces who see him as a threat to law and order. Neill Blomkamp of District 9 and Elysium directs.

Unfinished Business

Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson go on the business trip of a lifetime as they try to seal the biggest deal of their careers. As you can imagine, things don’t go entirely to plan…

Still Alice

Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance as a linguistics professor with early onset Alzheimer’s finally hits UK screens.

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13th March

Run All Night

Liam Neeson is an aging hitman who has to protect his son from his ex-boss, played by the always intimidating Ed Harris. It sounds promisingly familiar”¦

X+Y

Who’s ready for some maths? Anyone?! Ah well, X+Y follows an awkward teenage maths genius after he wins a place on the British Maths squad. It looks better than it sounds!

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20th March

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

The Hunger Games-ish young adult drama continues with Beatrice Prior fighting to save her society while grappling with her inner demons.

The Gunman

The ever-grumpy Sean Penn follows Liam Neeson into the ”˜older gentlemen who can still kick seven bells out of baddies’ club’, as he travels Europe trying to clear his name of a crime he didn’t commit. It’s by the same bloke who directed Taken too!

Home

Rihanna and Jim Parsons (AKA Sheldon Cooper) star in this animated tale of an alien who gets lost on earth and befriends a young girl. Think E.T but a bit more sassy.

Wild Card

Jason Statham is Nick Wild, a bodyguard with a massive gambling debt. The only way to get out of that debt? Beat the living daylights out of every mobster in sight, of course!

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27th March

Cinderella

Kenneth Branagh directs this live action remake of the classic fairytale, with Downton Abbey’s Lily James stepping into the glass slippers.

Get Hard

Will Ferrell plays a multi-millionaire bound for a jail after a fraud conviction. His only hope for survival in the big house is the tuition of street-smart friend Kevin Hart.

Seventh Son

Ben Barnes and Jeff Bridges play a pair of demon fighters pitted against the most dangerous witch in the land.

Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Out of Water 3D

The residents of Bikini Bottom return for their 2nd big screen outing, although they look ever-so-slightly different as they take to dry land to reclaim the stolen Krabby Patty formula from an evil pirate.

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DVDs

2nd March: Sons of Anarchy Season 7, Nightcrawler, Dying of the Light, Pride, Mr. Turner, Love, Rosie.

9th March: The Imitation Game, ”˜71

16th March: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1, Broadchurch Series 2

23rd March: Paddington

30th March: Interstellar, Get On Up