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Simon Killer, a deeply disturbing character study of a ‘post-graduation summer’ in Paris, by a handsome sociopath in the making, from director Antonio Campos, the writer and director of the critically acclaimed feature film Afterschool.

Brady Corbet plays Simon, a recent college graduate full of promise and potential, who goes to Paris to begin a trip around Europe after a bad break-up with his long-time girlfriend. Although he’s leaving behind a bad memory, he can’t manage to shake off his feelings of loss. Like many young people living overseas and away from home for the first time, he’s both an adventurer and an outsider in a very strange land. When Simon falls in love with a young, mysterious prostitute (Mati Diop), their fateful journey begins.

Emotionally compelling and visually stunning, Simon Killer is a film of casual brutality and profane sexuality, all cut to a killer soundtrack starring Brady Corbet (Melancholia, Thirteen, Martha Marcy May Marlene) & Mati Diop, (35 Shots of Rum).

Simon Killer will be released in the UK & Eire in selected cinemas nationwide from 12 April 2013, followed by a DVD & Blu-ray in the UK & Eire on 10 June 2013.  Available to pre-order now on DVD and blu-ray.

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In the fast-paced action thriller Snitch, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission — risking everything, including his family and his own life.

The shortlist for the Jameson Empire Awards were revealed.

The Jameson Best Actor Award is particularly strong, with Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), Daniel Craig (Skyfall), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), Martin Freeman (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Robert Downey Jr. (Marvel Avengers Assemble).

Jameson have created an infographic with background and facts for the Jameson Best Actor Category.

Out in cinemas on the 29th March, Good Vibrations is the heartwarming, uplifting real life story of Terri Hooley and his Belfast based record store “Good Vibrations”.

When the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city and all of his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk scene. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an Alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life.

Starring Liam Cunningham (The Guard, Clash of The Titans), Adrian Dunbar (Ashes to Ashes, Mo), Dylan Moran (Run Fatboy Run, Sean of the Dead), Andrew Simpson (Notes on a Scandal), Mark Ryder (Albatross) and Kerr Logan (Game of Thrones) as Fergal Sharkey. It is the second film from Cherrybomb directing duo Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn and scored by David Holmes(Ocean’s Eleven, Analyze That); Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn and Nathan Connelly, who have known and loved Terri for many years, are executive producers. Producers are Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, Bruno Charlesworth and David Holmes.

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Check out the brand new one sheet for the heart warming, family caper One Night In Istanbul, starring Steven Waddington (The Sweeney, Sleepy Hollow, Last of the Mohicans), Paul Barber (Only Fools and Horses, The Full Monty) and Lucien Laviscount (Coronation Street, Waterloo Road).

A movie adaptation of the sell-out play of the same name, One Night In Istanbul tells the tale of two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, who strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash.

It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.