In Cinemas this week (13 – 19 December)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D

After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest – without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves. The party must complete the journey to Lonely Mountain and burglar Baggins must seek out the Secret Door that will give them access to the hoard of the dragon Smaug. And, where has Gandalf got off to? And what is his secret business to the south?

Cast:
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
Martin Freeman (Bilbo)
Richard Armitage (Thorin)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)

Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Runtime: 161 min
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Homefront

Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss’ son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter, Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy’s sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who was bullying her at school and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands.

Cast:
Jason Statham (Phil Broker)
Phil Broker (Morgan ‘Gator’ Bodine)
Kate Bosworth (Cassie Bodine Klum)
Winona Ryder (Sheryl Marie Mott)

Director: Gary Fleder
Writer: Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Logan
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Carrie

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King.

Cast:
Julianne Moore (Margaret White)
Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie White)
Gabriella Wilde (Gabriella Wilde)
Portia Doubleday (Chris Hargensen)

Director: Kimberly Peirce
Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Drama, Horror
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Mikra Anglia (Μικρά Αγγλία)

A house, a secret, a man, two sisters. A 20-year old Orsa is madly in love with lieutenant Spiros Maltabes. Her closed nature does not reveal her secret.

Cast:
Pinelopi Tsilika (Orsa Saltaferou)
Sofia Kokkali (Moscha Saltaferou)
Aneza Papadopoulou (Mina Saltaferou)
Andreas Constantinou (Spyros Maltabes)

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Writer: Ioanna Karystiani
Runtime: N/A
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

The Magic Snowflake (Greek)

Nicholas is the new Santa Claus – with a gigantic toy factory to manage and billions of presents to make, it’s a huge responsibility for a seven year-old boy!

Director: Luc Vinciguerra
Writer: David Freedman, Alexandre Reverend
Runtime: 82 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

A year after winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and her partner, Peeta Mellark must go on what is known as the Victor’s Tour wherein they visit all the districts. But before leaving, Katniss is visited by President Snow who fears that Katniss defied him a year ago during the games when she chose to die with Peta. With both Katniss and Peeta declared the winners, it is fueling a possible uprising. He tells Katniss that while on tour she better try to make sure that she puts out the flames or else everyone she cares about will be in danger. But unfortunately she fails to do that. So Snow decides to enact what is known as the Quarter Quell, the right to make a change to the Hunger Games, which he is allowed to do every 25 years. He decides to hold an edition of the Hunger Games wherein previous winners will compete again. Their mentor Haymitch thinks their best chance to survive is form an alliance with some of the others. They decide to align themselves with Finnick and his partner, Mags. But Snow is secretly hoping Katniss will be killed.

Cast:
Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen)
Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne)
Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark)
Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy)

Director: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt
Runtime: 146 min
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Yummy Gummy Bears Search for Santa (Greek)

Join dancing internet sensation Gummibar in his first ever movie adventure! When Santa vanishes on Christmas Eve, Gummibar and his band of wacky, misfit friends shake their booties from the North Pole to the tropics on a madcap search. But when they discover Santa was abducted by a dance-crazed alien, the fate of Christmas morning rests in the hands – and feet – of our lovable green gummy bear!

Cast:
Nicholas Stravopodis
Christos Grigoriadis
Thanassis Drakopoulos
Christina Constantinou

Director: Bernie Denk, Jurgen Kordouletsch
Writer: Robert David Stevenson, Jurgen Kordouletsch
Runtime: 61 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

Thor: The Dark World 3D

There are nine realms of Asgard and once every 5,000 years they align. Earth happens to be one of these realms. These realms create portals between the worlds during the alignment which is called “Convergence”. On Earth, in London, Jane Foster believes she and her crew have discovered one such portal. Foster, while investigating the phenomenon, is transported to another realm and comes in contact with a substance called Aether. Upon coming into contact with the substance, it draws Thor from Asgard back to Earth. Thor takes Jane to Asgard to be cured from the Aether. Unfortunately in doing so it draws more than just Jane to the world. Another being called Malekith wants to use the Aether to destroy Asgard. Devising a plan with his brother – the war criminal Loki, Thor heads to “The Dark World” to destroy the Aether and save Asgard. But can Loki be trusted?

Cast:
Chris Hemsworth (Thor)
Natalie Portman (Jane Foster)
Tom Hiddleston (Loki)
Anthony Hopkins (Odin)

Director: Alan Taylor, James Gunn
Writer: Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus
Runtime: 112 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Counselor

A rich and successful lawyer named Counselor is about to get married to his fiancée but soon meets up with the middle-man known as Westray who tells him his drug trafficking plan has taken a horrible twist and now he must protect himself and his soon bride-to-be lover as the truth of the drug business uncovers and targets become chosen.

Cast:
Michael Fassbender (Counselor)
Penélope Cruz (Laura)
Cameron Diaz (Malkina)
Javier Bardem (Reiner)

Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Cormac McCarthy
Runtime: 117 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Free Birds

After years of fruitless warning of his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie’s easy life is disrupted by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experiment time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymouth colony, Reggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a turkey clan’s struggle for survival. In doing so, their preconceptions of the world and themselves are challenged forever in a conflict from which the world will never be the same. In Greek dubbed by Yiannis Stefopoulos, Dinos Soutis, Tasos Kostis, Petros Spyropoulos.

Cast:
Owen Wilson (Reggie)
Woody Harrelson (Jake)
Amy Poehler (Jenny)
George Takei (S.T.E.V.E.)

Director: Jimmy Hayward
Writer: Jimmy Hayward, Scott Mosier
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Rating: K
Language: English/Greek
Production Year: 2013

Escape Plan

Ray Breslin is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He’s framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

Cast:
Sylvester Stallone (Ray Breslin)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Emil Rottmayer)
Jim Caviezel (Hobbes)
Amy Ryan (Abigail)

Director: Mikael Håfström
Writer: Miles Chapman, Jason Keller
Runtime: 115 min
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Οικόπεδο 12 (Block 12)

English satellites who conduct research from space discover large oil deposits in the area of the Old Mines in Cyprus. A big part of the area belongs to Costantas Rizites (he has bought half of it from his Turkish Cypriot colleague Ahmet Beyoglu) who has retired there with his wife Ellou. The outbreak of a big economic crisis leads the two sons of the family to bankruptcy forcing them to move their families to the house. This whole situation is made worse when the Cyprus government keeps asking to buy the house, and Costantas stubbornly refuses. Moreover two English agents and Hasan Beyoglu (son of Ahmet) camp outside the house. The house is in a state of internal and external siege.

Cast:
Costas Dimitriou
Karmen Rouggeri
Michalis Marinos
Yiannis Tsimitselis

Director: Kyriakos Tofarides
Writer: Panos Stathogiannis
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 12
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Greek)

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

Cast:
Dinos Soutis
Maria Zervou
Argiris Pavlidis
Sophia Kapsampeli

Director: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn
Writer: Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

The Smurfs 2

The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world’s greatest sorcerer. It’s up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?

Director: Raja Gosnell
Writer: J. David Stem, David N. Weiss
Runtime: 105 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Turbo (Greek)

Theo, a.k.a Turbo, is a garden snail who dreams of being the greatest racer in the world, just like his hero, 5-time Indianapolis 500 champ, Guy Gagne. His obsession with speed and all things fast has made him an oddity and an outsider in the slow and cautious snail community, and a constant embarrassment to his cautious older brother, Chet. Turbo desperately wishes he could escape the slow-paced life he’s living, but his one chance to live proves a near fatal disaster. Demoralized Theo wanders onto a freeway to admire the traffic and gets into a freak accident when he gets sucked into the supercharger of a drag racer, fusing his DNA with nitrous oxide on a street race.

Cast:
Yiorgos Skoufis
Antinoos Albanis
Yiannis Stefopoulos
Fotis Petridis

Director: David Soren
Writer: Darren Lemke, Robert D. Siegel
Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

Despicable Me 2 (Greek)

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster Despicable Me entertained audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In summer 2013, get ready for more Minion madness in Despicable Me 2.

Cast:
Steve Carell (Gru)
Kristen Wiig (Lucy)
Benjamin Bratt (Eduardo / El Macho)
Russell Brand (Dr. Nefario)

Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Writer: Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013