Check out what's showing at cinemas across the region...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS CERT tbc (130 mins)
Released Friday 13 February
Starring Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie, Owen Cooper, Alison Oliver, Hong Chau, Martin Clunes 
Directed by Emerald Fennell

You’ve no doubt read the 1847 gothic masterpiece, possibly danced to the 1978 Kate Bush chart-topper, and presumably seen at least one of the various film adaptations of Emily Bronte’s one and only novel... 
Well, now it’s time to catch yet another cinematic version of the famously windswept romance!
This one sees Margot Robbie taking on the lead role of Catherine Earnshaw, a young woman whose life’s journey sees her marry a well-to-do neighbour named Edgar Linton. Trouble is, her lustful passion lies elsewhere, in the form of the dark and brooding Heathcliff, here played by Jacob Elordi, who was all set to take a break from acting before he was offered the part. 

Elordi’s casting hasn’t been without controversy, with critics slamming the decision to give the role of the ‘dark-skinned gypsy’ (as Bronte describes Heathcliff) to a white actor. Director Emerald Fennell has defended her decision to employ Elordi by explaining that he “looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first book that I read.”  

100 NIGHTS OF HERO CERT 15 (91 mins)
Released Friday 6 February
Starring Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli xcx, Richard E Grant
Directed by Julia Jackman 

Loyalty and desire collide in this ‘richly imagined’ film adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s acclaimed graphic novel.

Sitting in the genre of medieval fantasy, the film focuses on the character of Manfred, whose arrival at a remote castle seriously challenges the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride, and their devoted maid... The film received its world premiere last autumn at the Venice International Film Festival, was released pre-Christmas in the US, and has been garnering generally favourable reviews; popular website Rotten Tomatoes called it a whimsical fairytale boasting sumptuous visuals but suffering from a surface-level narrative.

TWINLESS CERT 15 (100 mins)
Released Friday 6 February
Starring Dylan O’Brien, Lauren Graham, Arkira Chantaratananond, Kody Harvard, James Sweeney
Directed by James Sweeney 

When two young men meet in a support group for twinless twins, they form an unlikely friendship. Roman (Dylan O’Brien) and Dennis (James Sweeney, who also wrote and directed the film) are both seeking solace and needing to develop an identity without their other halves. But when Roman meets Dennis’ ebullient co-worker, Marcie, it becomes clear that not everything is quite as it seems, with both men harbouring secrets that could potentially unravel everything...

GOAT CERT PG (95 mins)
Released Friday 13 February
With the voices of Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour
Directed by Tyree Dillihay and Adam Rosette 

If you love an anthropomorphic sports comedy (and who doesn’t?), then be sure to check out Sony Pictures’ latest animated offering. An original action-comedy set in an all-animal world, the film’s story follows the character of Will, a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the pros and play roarball - a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Although his new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, Will is determined to revolutionise the sport and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!”  

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE CERT tbc (137 mins)
Released Friday 20 February
Starring Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Matthew Beard, Christopher Abbott
Directed by Mona Fastvold

After enjoying extraordinary success with last year’s The Brutalist - which she co-wrote - Mona Fastvold takes the helm for an epic musical biopic focusing on Ann Lee, the 18th-century founder of devotional sect the Shakers. 

Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried takes the title role in a film which not only aims to capture the agony and ecstasy of Manchester-born Ann’s struggle to build a utopia, but also features more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements.

“This is one of our first feminists in America,” said Fastvold of Ann, in an interview with Vogue. “Some stories are telling you they want to be big and expansive and have scope and scale, and Ann Lee definitely wanted a grand story.”

COLD STORAGE CERT 15 (91 mins)
Released Friday 20 February
Starring Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, Sosie Bacon, Aaron Heffernan
Directed by Jonny Campbell

As nightshifts go, Teacake and Naomi are about to have their wildest. As they go about their duties as employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old military base, a parasitic fungus escapes from the facility’s lowest sublevel, where it was sealed by the government decades earlier. 

As the temperature rises underground, the highly contagious microorganism multiplies and unleashes its terrors... 

With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi - with the help of a grizzled bioterror operative (Liam Neeson) - to contain the rapidly mutating menace and prevent the explosive extinction of mankind itself... 

SPLITSVILLE CERT 12 (104 mins)
Released Friday 20 February
Starring Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Simon Webster
Directed by Michael Angelo Covino

Fifty Shades Of Grey star Dakota Johnson plays a woman in an open marriage in this well-reviewed farce about love, friendship, and sleeping with your best pal’s wife.

When Ashley asks the good-natured Carey for a divorce, the latter seeks solace and support in the company of his married friends Julie (Johnson’s character) and Paul. 

He is then shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. But when Carey crosses a red line, all of their relationships are thrown into an unexpected and hard-hitting chaos...

SCREAM 7 CERT 15
Released Friday 27 February
Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding
Directed by Kevin Williamson

What’s the next move for a film company when one of its franchises has yielded six successful movies?
A seventh movie, of course! 

And so we have yet another chapter in the ongoing Scream slasher saga. Here’s how the storyline to this one goes: when a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realised as her daughter, Tatum, becomes the next target. 

Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.