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Flights From The United Kingdom Your cabin crew will announce which listing you should refer to at the beginning of your fl ight. If you need further help they will be happy to advise you. A – Caribbean USA Saudi Arabia BUSINESS, PREMIUM ECONOMY AND ECONOMY CH 1 Appaloosa CH 2 Eagle Eye CH 3 [...]
Flights From The United Kingdom
Your cabin crew will announce which listing you should refer to at the beginning of your fl ight. If you need further help they will be happy to advise you.
A – Caribbean USA Saudi Arabia
BUSINESS, PREMIUM ECONOMY AND ECONOMY
CH 1 Appaloosa CH 2 Eagle Eye CH 3 Transsiberian CH 4 Hellboy II:The Golden Army CH 5 Bottle Shock CH 6 The Mummy:Tomb of the
Dragon Emperor CH 7 The House Bunny CH 8 Pineapple Express – Manchester only CH 8 Asad Wa Arbaa Qutat – Saudi Arabia only CH 9 Beverly Hills Chihuahua CH 10 Enter the Dragon CH 11 A Night at the Opera
B – DE/DF/DG/DH/DJ – BUSINESS
CH 1 Appaloosa CH 2 Bottle Shock CH 3 Hellboy II: The Golden Army CH 4 Pineapple Express CH 5-7 See TV programmes, pages 110 -113 CH 8 Eagle Eye / Star Wars: The Clone Wars CH 9 Airshow – track the progress of your fl ight with the moving map display (except DE) ECONOMY* See column, this page right
C – DK/DL – BUSINESS
• Eagle Eye • Hellboy II: The Golden Army • Bottle Shock • Ghost Town • Tropic Thunder • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor • Rock ‘n’ Rolla • Enchanted • Nim’s Island
ECONOMY
CH 1 Eagle Eye CH 2 Hellboy II: The Golden Army CH 3 Bottle Shock CH 4 Ghost Town CH 5 Beverly Hills Chihuahua
D – DM/DN – BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
• Eagle Eye • Hellboy II: The Golden Army • Bottle Shock • Ghost Town • Tropic Thunder • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor • Rock ‘n’ Rolla • Enchanted • Nim’s Island • Airshow – track the progress of your flight with the moving map display
Movies
Flights To The United Kingdom
Caribbean USA Saudi Arabia
A – BUSINESS, PREMIUM ECONOMY AND ECONOMY
CH 1 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People CH 2 Ghost Town CH 3 Nights in Rodanthe CH 4 Rock ‘n’ Rolla CH 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars CH 6 Brideshead Revisited CH 7 The Duchess CH 8 The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 – Manchester only
CH 8 Ahlam Hakikeya – Saudi Arabia only CH 9 Open Season 2 CH 10 Catch Me If You Can CH 11 Road to Perdition
B – DE/DF/DG/DH/DJ
BUSINESS
CH 1 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People CH 2 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor CH 3 Rock ‘n’ RollaCH 4 The House Bunny CH 5-7 See TV programmes, pages 110 -113 CH 8 Beverly Hills Chihuahua / Ghost Town CH 9 Airshow – track the progress of your fl ight with the moving map display (except DE)
ECONOMY*
See column, this page right
C – DK/DL
BUSINESS
• Eagle Eye • Hellboy II: The Golden Army • Bottle Shock • Ghost Town • Tropic Thunder • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor • Rock ‘n’ Rolla • Enchanted • Nim’s Island
ECONOMY
CH 1 Tropic Thunder CH 2 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People CH 3 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor CH 4 Rock ‘n’ Rolla CH 5 Open Season 2
D – DM/DN
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
• Eagle Eye • Hellboy II: The Golden Army • Bottle Shock • Ghost Town • Tropic Thunder • How to Lose Friends and Alienate People • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor • Rock ‘n’ Rolla • Enchanted • Nim’s Island • Airshow – track the progress of your flight with the moving map display
EAGLE EYE
118 MINS THRILLER 12A STARRING: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
In this race against time, two strangers (LaBeouf and Monaghan) are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and families, she pushes them into a series of increasingly dangerous situations. They eventually fi nd themselves the country’s most wanted fugitives, and are forced to fi ght for their lives while at the same time try to discover what is happening.
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
112 MINS FANTASY/ADVENTURE 12A STARRING: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li
The blockbuster Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action goes to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Explorer Rick O’Connell (Fraser) combats the resurrected Han emperor in an epic journey that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. The series’s trademark thrills and spectacular action are present and correct. Contains brief violence.
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
120 MINS ACTION/SCI-FI 12A STARRING: Ron Perlman, John Hurt
The saga of the world’s toughest kittenloving hero from hell continues to unfold in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. A marauding army of creatures is set on the world by a diabolic villain from another realm. Selma Blair also returns as Hellboy’s pyrokinetic girlfriend, and together hopefully they can save the world once hell, quite literally, breaks loose. Contains scenes of violence.
THE HOUSE BUNNY
97 MINS COMEDY 12A STARRING: Anna Faris
Playboy bunny girl Shelley (Faris) is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the socially clueless sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta, who are on the verge of losing their house to their rivals. The challenge leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves. Contains moderate language.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLLA
114 MINS ACTION/CRIME 15 STARRING: Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson
Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie, takes us on another trip into London’s gangland. Real estate has supplanted drugs as the biggest market, and criminals are its most enthusiastic entrepreneurs. But as high rollers and petty criminals alike jockey for dominance, the true prize of one multi-million-dollar deal will fall into the hands of a junkie rock star. Contains bad language and rapid camera movement.
GHOST TOWN
103 MINS COMEDY/DRAMA 12A STARRING: Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni
After the genius of sitcom The Offi ce, many people were worried Ricky Gervais’s distinctively British humour would be lost in the translation to Hollywood leading man. They didn’t need to fear – Ghost Town is funny and moving. Gervais is Bertram Pincus, a New York dentist who fi nds he can see the dead (including love-lorn Greg Kinnear) after a near-death experience. Contains moderate language.
THE DUCHESS
110 MINS DRAMA 12A STARRING: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
An ancestor of Princess Diana who had a spookily similar life, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Knightley) became the darling of 18th-century London with her vibrant beauty and strong political views, despite being in a loveless marriage. However her life descended into scandal when she fell passionately in love with an ambitious young politician (Cooper).
BOTTLE SHOCK
108 MINS DRAMA 12A STARRING: Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman
Bottle Shock is the intoxicating tale of the California Chardonnay that turned the wine world upside down. Pullman and Chris Pine play father and son owners of Chateau Montelena, Jim and Bo Barret, who generally resolve their differences of opinion with boxing gloves. Alan Rickman is the elitist wine buff who is shocked to discover the American upstarts might be able to compete with the French vintages.
TROPIC THUNDER
107 MINS ACTION/ADVENTURE 15 STARRING: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Stiller) joins co-stars who include Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr), a three-time Oscar-winning actor and Jeff Portnoy, star of the popular comedy franchise “The Fatties” on location shooting a war fi lm in south-east Asia. Yet adverse circumstances force the cast to become the fi ghting unit they’re portraying. Contains strong language and comic violence.
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
92 MINS ROMANCE PG STARRING: Richard Gere, Diane Lane
Gere and Lane reunite on screen in this romantic drama, based on Nicholas Sparks’s best-selling novel about two people who discover there is always a second chance to fi nd love. Adrienne, a woman still reeling from her husband’s betrayal, agrees to manage an isolated inn for the winter. But her life soon changes with the arrival of doctor Paul – and a major storm which strands them together.
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
110 MINS COMEDY 18 STARRING: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Stiller) joins co-stars who include Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr), a three-time Oscar-winning actor and Jeff Portnoy, star of the popular comedy franchise “The Fatties” on location shooting a war fi lm in south-east Asia. Yet adverse circumstances force the cast to become the fi ghting unit they’re portraying. Contains strong language and comic violence.
APPALOOSA
108 MINS WESTERN 15 STARRING: Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger
A ruthless, powerful rancher named Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) has allowed his band of outlaws to run roughshod over the town. After the cold-blooded murder of Appaloosa’s city marshal, sheriff Virgil Cole (Harris) and his deputy Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) have to establish their authority with equal parts grit and guns – as well as dealing with provocative newcomer Allison French (Zellweger).
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
112 MINS COMEDY/ACTION 15 STARRING: Seth Rogen, James Franco
Lazy pothead Dale Denton (Rogen, recently
een in Knocked Up) and his equally lazy dealer (Franco) fi nd themselves on the run after Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord. Another slacker comedy from the team behind Superbad. Contains strong language and scenes of violence.
ASAD WA ARBAA QUTAT
106 MINS COMEDY PG STARRING: Hany Ramzy, Four Cats band
In Asad Wa Arbaa Qutat (Lion and Four Cats) Shebel Dhargam is an offi cer assigned to provide security at a hotel where the famous Lebanese band Four Cats’s concert is to be held. During the event a murder takes place and the only witnesses are the members of the band. Offi cer Shebel decides to give them protection and takes them to his uncles’ house, where the comical events start.
TRANSSIBERIAN
111 MINS ACTION 15 STARRING: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer
A thriller set on one of the most legendary train trips in the world – the Trans-Siberian Express. The husband of an American couple travelling from China becomes separated from the train at a stopover. His wife begins to realize the compatriots they’ve befriended on the train aren’t exactly who or what they seem – the real trip has only just begun. Contains moderate language and scenes of violence.
AHLAM HAKIKEYA
105 MINS THRILLER/MYSTERY PG STARRING: Hanan Turk , Khalid Saleh
Ahlam Hakikeya (Real Dreams) is a suspense film which revolves around the idea: ‘What if your nightmare comes true?’ Maryam is married to Dr Ahmed. She starts having nightmares and dreams of people she knows being murdered. She wakes up to fi nd that her dreams are coming true. But then, one day she dreams that her only daughter will be murdered. What will happen?
WARS: THE CLONE WARS
98 MINS ANIMATION/SCI-FI PG STARRING: Samuel L Jackson, Christopher Lee
Star Wars fans – which means practicallyeverybody – won’t want to miss this latest instalment. Classic characters including Anakin Skywalker (otherwise known as Darth Vader), Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda make the move into stylised computer animation for this tale of the battle between the Jedi Knights and the forces of the Dark Side. Contains animated sci-fi violence.
BRIDESHEAD
133 MINS DRAMA 12A STARRING: Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw
A big-screen outing for Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel about the lives and loves of a decadent aristocratic family between the wars. Although the 1980s TV adaptation was long considered to be the definitive version, a top-notch cast (including up-and-coming star Whishaw) and sumptuous photography means that this fi lm more than holds its own. Contains moderate language.
SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS 2
120 MINS COMEDY/ROMANCE 12A STARRING: America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn
Based on the best-selling books, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 follows the four best friends (one of which you will probably recognise as America Ferrera – TV’s Ugly Betty – despite her lack of glasses and braces), as they embark on separate paths for their fi rst year of university and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have – with honesty and humour.
Kids
OPEN SEASON 2
96 MINS FAMILY/ ANIMATION PG STARRING: Cody Cameron,Joel McHale
After falling in love with Giselle the deer, Elliot’s road to the altar takes a detour when their dachshund friend is kidnapped by a group of pets determined to return him to his owners. Can he be rescued?
BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA
90 MINS FAMILY PG STARRING: Drew Barrymore
An LA chihuahua (voiced by Barrymore) gets lost in Mexico and seeks help from a crew of streetwise animals to get home. The comedy chronicles their adventures, as the mini dog learns to cope on the mean streets of Mexico.
NIM’S ISLAND
96 MINS FAMILY/ ADVENTURE U STARRING: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster
Young Nim (Breslin) is surrounded by her exotic animal friends and inspired by legends and books. But when the island and Nim’s scientist father suddenly come under threat, she reaches for help and faces the challenge of her life.
ENCHANTED
108 MINS FAMILY PG STARRING: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey
This romantic comedy sees Disney poke fun at its own back catalogue. Beautiful princess Giselle (Adams) is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) only to fi nd herself in modern Manhattan.
Classics
ENTER THE DRAGON
97 MINS ACTION 15 STARRING: Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee’s last and most successful film introduced the world to kung fu – but he died six days before it was released. Lee is recruited to infi ltrate a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han on a secret island fortress. Contains martial arts violence.
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
96 MINS COMEDY PG STARRING: The Marx Brothers
A much-loved classic and often judged to be the funniest fi lm ever made. To further the career and love life of a promising young Italian tenor, the wise-cracking Marx Brothers embark on a campaign which sets opera back a hundred years.
ROAD TO PERDITION
131 MINS COMEDY/DRAMA 12A STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio
Based on the true story of scam artist and forger Frank Abagnale Jr (DiCaprio), who worked as a doctor, lawyer and co-pilot for a major airline – all before his 18th birthday. Tom Hanks is the FBI agent sent to track Frank down. Steven Spielberg directs.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Based on the true story of scam artist and forger Frank Abagnale Jr (DiCaprio), who worked as a doctor, lawyer and co-pilot for a major airline – all before his 18th birthday. Tom Hanks is the FBI agent sent to track Frank down. Steven Spielberg directs.
