Your weekend cinema guide at a glance

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(8) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA: Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown. His brother's heart has given out suddenly and Lee has been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. (Walmer Park)

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(6) RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER: This is the sequel to Resident Evil: Retribution and the final instalment in the series. Alice and her friends are betrayed by Albert Wesker, who gathers the forces of Umbrella into one final strike against the apocalypse survivors. (Hemingways, Baywest, Boardwalk)

(6) THE SPACE BETWEEN US: Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, begins an online friendship with a teen in Colorado. Problems arise when scientists discover that Gardner’s organs can’t withstand living in the earth’s atmosphere. (Walmer Park, Hemingways)

(4) FIFTY SHADES DARKER: When an emotionally wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy figures from Christian’s past circle them. (Walmer Park, Boardwalk, Hemingways, Baywest)

(10) LA LA LAND: Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts, so does the fragile fabric of their affair. (Walmer Park)

(6) xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE: Daredevil operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) must race against time to recover Pandora’s Box, a device that controls every military satellite in the world. (Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest, Walmer Park, Boardwalk)

(4) COLLATERAL BEAUTY: A New York advertising executive (Will Smith) suffers a tragedy and retreats from life. While his concerned friends try to reconnect with him, he writes letters to Love, Time and Death, seeking answers. (Hemingways, Baywest, Walmer Park)

(8) RAEES: This Indian film explores how a man named Raees’s relationships and meteoric rise helped him build an empire from scratch. (Baywest)

(No rating available) HOENER MET DIE ROOI SKOENE: Kaptein Hendrik Greyling, known among colleagues as the “Iron Rooster”, is appointed as the investigating officer of an abnormal murder scene, where the body disappears without a trace. (Bridge)

(8) LION: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train in India and is later adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years on he sets out to find the family he lost. (Baywest, Walmer Park)

(7) BALLERINA: Computer-animated musical adventure about an orphan who dreams of becoming a ballerina. She flees rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and becomes a pupil at the Grand Opera. (Bridge, Baywest)

(5) WHY HIM?: Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad is a stuffy conservative dad, with James Franco the sexually ostentatious, flash-the-cash nemesis who is after his daughter. (Boardwalk, Bridge)

(9) HACKSAW RIDGE: Fantastically moving and bruising war film about Desmond T Doss, who saved 75 men in Okinawa without firing a shot. Directed by Mel Gibson. (Walmer Park, Bridge)

(7) SING: Set in a world inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) as a dapper koala presiding over a theatre that has fallen on hard times. Buster loves his theatre above all and will do anything to preserve it. (Boardwalk, Bridge) (Ratings are out of 10)