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VIDEO: Your weekend movies... Trance and our own Saoirse Ronan

Cinema trip this weekend? TheJournal.ie brings you snippets from new releases to help you decide where to put your money…

WHICH NEW MOVIE release is worth the price of a cinema ticket this weekend? We’re here to help you decide just that, with these trailers.

Good Vibrations

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For fans of: Music, record stores, playing the same song twice

Avoid if: You’re dead inside

Who doesn’t love record stores? (If you don’t, please don’t tell me or I’ll only be upset). This Northern Ireland-set film tells the story of Terri Hooley, known as the Godfather of Belfast punk, and how he set up a record store and label during the Troubles. He seems like a very interesting chap indeed and we salute anyone who brought the Undertones to prominence.

  • RottenTomatoes.com critics rating: 78 per cent. Audience rating: 91 per cent want to see

The Host

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For fans of: Love, our girl Saoirse Ronan

Avoid if: You prefer vampires

This is the beginning of a love story, and a film about a world where humans are taken over by alien invaders – oh, and it’s written by the woman who wrote the Twilight series. Our own Saoirse Ronan stars as Melanie, battling for survival in a world where mankind is threatened by creatures who take over human bodies. Can love conquer all? We’ll give you two guesses.

  • RottenTomatoes.com critics rating: No score yet. Audience rating: 93 per cent want to see

GI Joe Retaliation

(CieonMovies/YouTube)

For fans of: Shaved heads, soldiers, action

Avoid if: You prefer GI Jane

I don’t really know what to say about this except, well, it’s GI Joe. You know what to expect.

  • RottenTomatoes.com critics rating: 67 per cent. Audience rating: 96 per cent want to see

Trance

(movietrailers/YouTube)

For fans of: James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel, hypnotherapy, dapper crooks

Avoid if: You are easily disorientated

The wonderful Danny Boyle is back, with a film about an art auctioneer who falls foul of crooks during a heist, gets hit on the head and then sent to a hypnotherapist to try and ‘help’ him remember what happened to a lost painting they were trying to steal. Trippy.

  • RottenTomatoes.com critics rating:  68 per cent. Audience rating: 96 per cent want to see
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