Films showing in the Hampshire region until December 26

ANITA AND ME (12A) ***: British film following the life of 12-year-old Meena as she and her family attempt to come to terms with English life after moving from India - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (15) ***: A powerful, fiercely critical look at American gun culture in the light of recent tragedies - Harbour Lights Picture House, Ocean Village.

DEATHWATCH (15) **: In the middle of First World War, nine English soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone, and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

DIE ANOTHER DAY (12A) ****: The 20th instalment of the James Bond series - Odeon Cinema, Southampton

HARRY POTTER & CHAMBER OF SECRETS (PG) ****: Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

HEY ARNOLD! (U) ***: Children's movie based on the late Nineties popular TV show Hey Arnold. A fourth grader and his best friend set out to stop an industrialist from bulldozing their town - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (U) *****: James Stewart stars in this gloriously sentimental testament to homely small-town moral values - Harbour Lights, Southampton.

LIKE MIKE (PG) **: A 14-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials M.J. inside - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (12A) *****: Second instalment of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy - Odeon Cinema, Southampton; Harbour Lights Picture House, Ocean Village

MR DEEDS (12A) **: Adam Sandler plays a great-nephew to one of the world's richest and inherits 40 billion dollars but struggles to find uses for his new found fortune - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

SANTA CLAUSE 2 (U) **: Tim Allen stars as Santa, who has difficulty juggling his work commitments with is family life - Odeon Cinema, Southampton.

SWEET HOME ALABAMA (12A) **: A young woman with a white trash background runs away from her husband in Alabama and reinvents herself as a New York socialite.- Odeon Cinema, Southampton

8 WOMEN (15) ***: Somewhere in the French Countryside, a murder has been committed - but which one of the eight glamorous women is the guilty party? - Harbour Lights Picture House, Ocean Village.