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RELEASED: 26 DEC Philomena A s a pregnant teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee (Dench) was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman” and her baby was taken away to America for adoption. Having spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain, Philomena then meets Martin Sixsmith (Coogan), a world-weary journalist as cynical as Philomena was trusting. Together they set off for America on a journey that reveals the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty I n his secret life, Walter Mitty (Stiller) dreams big...really, really big - there’s no challenge beyond his grasp. When he’s not daydreaming, the not-so-secret life of Walter Mitty is the opposite of his heroic alter-ego’s; he’s just an everyday guy facing imminent career downsizing, who’s too timid to ask out his pretty co-worker (Wiig). But when Walter faces his ultimate real-world test, he springs into action on a global adventure exceeding anything even he could have dreamed of. COMEDY STARS: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Mare Winningham DIRECTOR: Stephen Frears RATING: PG RELEASED: 26 DEC COMEDY STARS: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Sean Penn DIRECTOR: Ben Stiller RATING: TBC DEC/JAN 2014 11