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Benedict Cumberbatch plays a baddie in Star Trek Into Darkness

11:14am Thursday 9th May 2013

Playing a Star Trek baddie involved bulking up and a bit of business with his hair, according to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, reports STEVE PRATT

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Review: All Stars - Cert U; 106 minutes ***

11:38am Thursday 2nd May 2013

THIS treads familiar territory, harking back to those “let’s put a show on right here” movies of yesteryear, like Cliff in The Young Ones more than 50 years ago.

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Films portraying impact of Japanese tsunami shown in York

8:05am Wednesday 1st May 2013

A SERIES of short films portraying the devastating impact of the tsunami which struck Japan in 2011 have gone on show in York.

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Review: Iron Man 3 - Running time: 129 mins, Certificate 12A****

11:50am Thursday 25th April 2013

HAVING saved New York with the help of a few of his chums in Avengers Assemble, surely there’s nothing left for billionaire industrialist turned superhero Tony Stark to do?

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New age for Iron Man

11:40am Thursday 25th April 2013

Robert Downey Jr delivers another master-class in charm alongside fellow cast members of Iron Man 3. STEVE PRATT listens in to what threatens to be a loved-up luvvie-festI

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Review: Olympus Has Fallen - Running time: 120 mins, Certificate15 ****

12:10pm Thursday 18th April 2013

THINGS are looking pretty black in the White House. Terrorists have stormed the building, shot every security man in sight, taken the president hostage and are holed up inside a nuclear-proof bunker.

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Flying Blind and Q&A with Bruce McLeod, City Screen cinema, April 17

2:15pm Monday 15th April 2013

CITY Screen marketing manager Dave Taylor reckons Polish director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s debut feature, Flying Blind, is “one of the most fascinating and deliberately ambiguous films we'll see this year”.

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City screen news

11:57am Thursday 11th April 2013

CITY Screen, York, will play host to no fewer than three question-and-answer sessions in the week ahead.

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