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PREVIEW: THE STAR (U)
DIRECTOR Timothy Reckart reimagines the Nativity of Jesus as a computer-animated comedy adventure through the eyes of four-legged and feathered critters, who witness the birth in a barn in Bethlehem. An angel visits Mary, pictured (voiced by Gina Rodriguez) to inform her that she will bear the messiah.
Three months later she falls pregnant and informs husband Joseph (Zachary Levi) of the miraculous news. They embark on the long and arduous journey from Nazareth, unaware that King Herod (Christopher Plummer) has dispatched two dogs, Thaddeus (Ving Rhames) and Rufus (Gabriel Iglesias), to track and kill the newborn.
When Bo the donkey (Steven Yeun) and his dove pal Dave (Keegan-Michael Key) learn of Herod’s plans, they warn Mary and Joseph, and join the animal caravan heading for Bethlehem.
Meanwhile, three wise men aboard trusty camels Cyrus (Tyler Perry), Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and Felix (Tracy Morgan) also head to Bethlehem.
JUSTICE LEAGUE (12A) ★★★★★
THE superhero blockbuster picks up a few months after the devastation at the end of Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, with the world mourning the death of Superman (Henry Cavill) and a newly awakened threat on the horizon in the shape of Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds) and his army of red-eyed flying Parademons.
The imminent disaster prompts Bruce Wayne/ Batman (Ben Affleck) to enlist the help of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, above) to recruit a team of people with special abilities to defeat the new enemy, in the shape of Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and The Flash (Ezra Miller).
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (15) ★★★★★
DRAMA, based on a true story, that charts a starcrossed romance across class and cultural divides, conducted in the shadow of terminal illness.
In the summer of 1979, jobbing actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) and Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening, above) are neighbours in a London guesthouse. It is more than two decades since Gloria’s halcyon years, but Peter is smitten. He follows her to America but struggles to find work and when Gloria receives a devastating diagnosis, she ends the affair to spare her beau greater pain.
Two years later, she returns to the UK for a stage role and collapses in her dressing room. Gloria calls for Peter and he takes charge of her recuperation in the home he shares with his father Joe (Kenneth Cranham), mother Bella (Julie Walters) and brother Joe Jnr (Stephen Graham).