What’s On : Your Guide to the Cinema This Week

January is a huge month for film with some of the year's most-anticipated releases due to hit theatres over the coming weeks. While this week may be the calm before the storm that is Les Misérables and Gangster Squad, the big screen still has a lot to offer...

The Impossible (12A)

This intense film tells the story of a family on holiday in Thailand when the 2004 tsunami strikes. Starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.

Playing For Keeps (12A)

Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel star in this romantic comedy about a former sports star who decides to coach his son's soccer team and gets far more than he bargained for.

Quartet (12A)

At a home for retired opera singers the annual performance for Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean who is a diva. Dame Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Michael Gambon are among the cast.

Jack Reacher (15A)

A homicide investigator decides to look deeper into a case involving a trained sniper who shot five random victims. Starring the King of Action Tom Cruise.

Life of Pi (PG)

A young man survives a disaster while at sea and is soon catapulted into a world of adventure. Along the way he develops a strong bond with a tiger.

Pitch Perfect (12A)

In this musical comedy, the new girl at school is persuaded to join The Bellas who are an all-girl singing group. Turns out she is just the thing they need. Starring Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12A)

This Lord of the Rings prequel goes back 60 years to when Gandalf asks Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) to help a group of dwarves reclaim their home from a dragon. Along the way they encounter quite a few interesting characters including one that keeps mentioning his precious.

Seven Psychopaths (16)

Martin (Colin Farrell) is a screenwriter whose best friend, Billy (Sam Rockwell), runs a dog-kidnapping scheme with Hans (Christopher Walken). Charlie (Woody Harrelson) is a gangster whose dog gets taken and you don't need to be a genius to tell that these slightly-unhinged characters are eventually going to meet.

Rise of the Guardians (G)

The Boogeyman wants to steal the power of the Guardians (Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy) to fill the world with fear. They call on Jack Frost to help them in their fight against evil.

Argo (15A)

Ben Affleck stars in and directs this dramatization of an operation to get six American diplomats out of revolutionary Iran.