In Cinemas this week (3 July – 9 July)

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (English)

After the events of “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.

Voices:
John Leguizamo (Sid)
Denis Leary (Diego)
Queen Latifah (Ellie)
Ray Romano (Manny)

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writer: Peter Ackerman, Michael Berg
Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Greek)

After the events of “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.

Voices:
Petros Philippides
Yannis Bezos
Yannis Politakis
Leonidas Kakouris

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writer: Peter Ackerman, Michael Berg
Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2009

The Hangover

Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, the four men in the wedding party – Doug, Doug’s two best buddies Phil and Stu, and Tracy’s brother Alan – hop into Tracy’s father’s beloved Mercedes convertible for a 24-hour stag party to Las Vegas. The morning after their arrival in Las Vegas, they awaken in their hotel suite each with the worst hangover. None remembers what happened in the past twelve or so hours. The suite is in shambles. And certain things are in the suite that shouldn’t be, and certain things that should be in the suite are missing. Probably the most important in the latter category is Doug. As Phil, Stu and Alan try to find Doug using only what little pieces of information they have at hand, they go on a journey of discovery of how certain things got into the suite and what happened to the missing items. However they are on a race for time as if they can’t find Doug in the next few hours, they are going to have to explain to Tracy why they are not yet back in Los Angeles. And even worse, they may not find Doug at all before the wedding.

Cast:
Bradley Cooper (Phil Wenneck)
Ed Helms (Stu Price)
Zach Galifianakis (Alan Garner)
Justin Bartha (Doug Billings)

Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.

Cast:
Megan Fox (Mikaela Banes)
Shia LaBeouf (Sam Witwicky)
Isabel Lucas (Alice)
John Turturro (Agent Simmons / Jetfire)

Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci
Runtime: 150 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

The Proposal

When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Cast:
Sandra Bullock (Margaret Tate)
Ryan Reynolds (Andrew Paxton)
Mary Steenburgen (Grace Paxton)
Craig T. Nelson (Joe Paxton)

Director: Anne Fletcher
Writer: Pete Chiarelli
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

The Last House on the Left

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang led by a prison escapee unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims — a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

Cast:
Tony Goldwyn (John Collingwood)
Monica Potter (Emma Collingwood)
Sara Paxton Carter (Mari Collingwood)
Garret Dillahunt (Krug)

Director: Dennis Iliadis
Writer: Adam Alleca, Carl Ellsworth
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Hannah Montana: The Movie (Greek)

With a crazy double life in California as an everyday teen with the secret pop-star persona Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart has forgotten who she really is. To get her back on track, Miley’s dad, Robby Ray Stewart, decides that she needs some time back on the family farm in Tennessee to celebrate Grandma Ruby’s birthday. At first, Miley is belligerent, but with the help of Travis, a former childhood crush who now works for Grandma Ruby as a farmhand, she begins to realize what is really important to her.

Cast:
Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana / Miley Stewart)
Billy Ray Cyrus (Robby Ray Stewart)
Emily Osment (Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle)
Lucas Till (Travis Brody)

Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Daniel Berendsen
Runtime: 102 min
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2009

My Life in Ruins

Georgia is a Greek-American tour guide who leads an assorted group of misfit tourists around Greece. Tourists who would rather buy a T-shirt than learn about history. In a hysterical clash of personalities and culture, everything seems to go wrong. Until one day when a very special tourist, Irv Gordon, shows her how to have fun and take a good look at the last person she’d ever expect to find love with…her quiet and sexy Greek bus driver, Poupi.

Cast:
Nia Vardalos (Georgia)
Richard Dreyfuss (Irv)
Alexis Georgoulis (Poupi)
Alistair McGowan (Nico)

Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Fly Me to the Moon 3D (Greek)

A preteen-aged fly named Nat and his two best friends, I.Q. and Scooter, build a “fly-sized” rocket in a field across from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the Apollo 11 sits on its launch pad. From his earliest memory, Nat remembers his grandfather, Amos, telling him of his daring rescue of Amelia Earhart as she crossed the Atlantic Ocean on her historic flight. Wanting to be an adventurer like his Grandpa, Nat knows what he has to do. Defying the notion that “Dreamers get swatted!” he tells his friends his plan to get aboard the Apollo 11 and go to the moon.

Director: Ben Stassen
Writer: Domonic Paris
Runtime: 84 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2008