Your weekend cinema guide at a glance

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(6) THE GREAT WALL: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defence of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures. (Hemingways, Baywest, Walmer Park, Boardwalk) (6) COLLIDE: To pay for his girlfriend’s medical emergency while abroad, a man (Nicholas Hoult) hatches a scheme to pull off a drug heist for an eccentric gangster (Anthony Hopkins). When the heist goes wrong, he finds himself on the run from Hopkins. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Bridge)

(7) A CURE FOR WELLNESS: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s chief executive from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness centre” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets his sanity is tested. (Walmer Park)

(4) RINGS: A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery. (Bridge)

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(8) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA: Lee Chandler is a brooding loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One winter’s day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown. His brother’s heart has given out and Lee has been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. (Walmer Park) (8) THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE: There are big changes brewing in Gotham, but if Batman wants to save the city from the Joker’s hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and learn to lighten up in this fun animated film that will delight all ages. (Hemingways, Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Baywest, Bridge)

(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, Bridge)

(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. (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, Bridge)

(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, Baywest, Boardwalk, Bridge)

(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. (Baywest)

(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)

(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. (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. (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)