COLD MOUNTAIN (15): Epic movie, starring Nicole Kidman, about love, devotion and endurance against the odds, set amid the bloody and brutal turmoil of the American Civil War.

OUT OF TIME (12A): Denzel Washington stars as a sheriff whose marriage to a detective is ending with much bad feeling. He's having an affair with a married woman behind the back of her violent and abusive husband.

PETER PAN (PG): One magical winter's night, Wendy meets Peter Pan, who invites her on an adventure in far-off Neverland. PJ Hogan's version of JM Barrie's children's classic focuses on Wendy and Peter's romance.

STUCK ON YOU (12A): In this new Farrelly brothers' film, conjoined twins Bob and Walt have to think about separating as one of them dreams of becoming a Hollywood star while the other wants to lead a quiet life.

BROTHER BEAR (U): Environmentally-friendly Disney animation about a boy who is turned into a bear by the spirits to teach him a lesson about love.

ELF (PG): Seasonal family comedy about a man who has been brought up as one of Father Christmas's elves and who returns to New York to find his biological father.

FREAKY FRIDAY (PG): A bickering mother and teenage daughter who have difficulty understanding each other swap bodies. They have to live as each other until they work out how to return to their own bodies. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

GOOD BOY (U): A boy discovers that he can communicate with his recently-adopted dog, who is actually a visitor from another planet - the Dog Star.

KILL BILL - VOLUME 1 (18): Quentin Tarantino returns to the big screen with this gore-filled martial arts movie. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, an assassin who seeks violent revenge against her former gang who tried to kill her.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (12A): The final part of the trilogy sees the remaining members of the Fellowship of the Ring face their toughest challenge yet. Frodo is becoming increasingly addicted to The Ring, while Gandalf & co find themselves in the middle of the battle to save Middle Earth.

THE LAST SAMURAI (15): See review pages

LOST IN TRANSLATION (15): See review

LOVE ACTUALLY (15): British comedy about several intersecting love stories, including Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister who falls for his tea lady and Liam Neeson as a bereaved husband helping his stepson through his first love.

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (12A): Adventure on the high seas set in Napoleonic times about the crew of a British ship who are in pursuit of a French vessel which has been plundering and destroying other ships.

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (15):Keanu Reeves' final outing as Neo - the chosen one who has to save the human world and free the minds of those trapped in the computer-generated Matrix.

SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (12A): See preview

S.W.A.T. (12A): A disgraced cop is given the chance to redeem himself by joining an elite S.W.A.T. unit, whose first assignment is to keep a drug baron in custody after he offers $100m to anyone who frees him.