In Cinemas this week (11 – 17 February)

No Strings Attached

Emma and Adam are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly “no strings attached.” “No strings” means no jealousy, no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, no baby voices. It means they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, in whatever public place they want, as long as they don’t fall in love. The question becomes – who’s going to fall first? And can their friendship survive?

Cast:
Natalie Portman (Emma)
Ashton Kutcher (Adam)
Kevin Kline (Alvin)
Cary Elwes (Dr. Metzner)

Director: Ivan Reitman
Writer: Elizabeth Meriwether, Michael Samonek
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2011

Sanctum 3D

A team of underwater cave divers is on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team-including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

Cast:
Richard Roxburgh (Frank)
Ioan Gruffudd (Carl)
Rhys Wakefield (Josh)
Alice Parkinson (Victoria)

Director: Alister Grierson
Writer: John Garvin, Andrew Wight
Runtime: 109 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2011

Let Me In

Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, moves next door to Owen. Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbor. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.

Cast:
Kodi Smit-McPhee (Owen)
Chloe Moretz (Abby)
Richard Jenkins (Abby’s Father)
Cara Buono (Owen’s Mother)

Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Matt Reeves, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Gnomeo & Juliet 3D (Greek)

Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

Voices:
James McAvoy (Gnomeo)
Emily Blunt (Juliet)
Michael Caine (Lord Redbrick)
Jason Statham (Tybalt)

Director: Kelly Asbury
Writer: Kelly Asbury, William Shakespeare
Runtime: 84 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2011

Skyline

Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.

Cast:
Eric Balfour (Jarrod)
Scottie Thompson (Elaine)
Brittany Daniel (Candice)
Crystal Reed (Denise)

Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Writer: Joshua Cordes, Liam O’Donnell
Runtime: 94 min
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

All Good Things

A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for an imaginative spellbinding story of family, obsession, love and loss. The film was inspired by the story of Robert Durst, scion of the wealthy Durst family. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella as the powerful patriarch, and captures the emotion and complexion of this real-life unsolved mystery.

Cast:
Ryan Gosling (David Marks)
Kirsten Dunst (Katie Marks)
Frank Langella (Sanford Marks)
Lily Rabe (Deborah Lehrman)

Director: Andrew Jarecki
Writer: Marcus Hinchey, Marc Smerling
Runtime: 101 min
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Roda, tsanta kai kopana (Ρόδα, Τσάντα και Κοπάνα)

This is the sequel of a movie of the same name filmed in 1981 about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their teachers

Cast:
Kostas Voutsas
Steve Douzos
Eleni Filini
Johnny Vavouras

Director: Omiros Efstratiadis
Writer: Giannis Sklavos
Runtime: 99 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2011

The Green Hornet

Playboy Britt Reid becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles’ “The Daily Sentinel” after the sudden death of his father. Britt’s party life is about to change when he and his driver and kung fu expert, Kato, stop a robbery. With the help of Kato, Britt starts a new career of fighting crime as the masked superhero “The Green Hornet”.

Cast:
Seth Rogen (Britt Reid / The Green Hornet)
Jay Chou (Kato)
Cameron Diaz (Lenore Case)
Christoph Waltz (Chudnofsky)

Director: Michel Gondry
Writer: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Runtime: 119 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2011

The Tourist

Elise sits next to an American tourist, Frank, on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted for police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole

Cast:
Johnny Depp (Frank Tupelo)
Angelina Jolie (Elise Clifton-Ward)
Paul Bettany (Inspector John Acheson)
Timothy Dalton (Chief Inspector Jones)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie
Runtime: 103 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Tangled 3D (Greek)

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower’s magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.

Voices:
Mandy Moore (Rapunzel)
Zachary Levi (Flynn Rider)
Donna Murphy (Mother Gothel)
Ron Perlman (Stabbington Brother)

Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Alpha and Omega (Greek)

In Jasper National Park, the wolves, Kate and Humphrey, have known each other since puppyhood, but they are on the opposite ends of the Western Pack’s social structure with Kate as the energetic Alpha daughter of the pack leader and Humphrey being the good humoured Omega. That social structure forces Kate to accept an arranged marriage with Garth of the Eastern Pack to unite the packs for peace, regardless of Humphrey’s hopeless attraction for her. Before that union can occur, Kate and Humphrey are captured by the park’s rangers and sent to an Idaho park as part of a wolf repopulation project. Mindful of her duties, Kate is determined to return to Jasper and Humphrey offers to help with the assistance of two odd geese. However, as this disparate pair struggle through the dangers to get home, a growing mutual appreciation of their talents and then a deeper love threatens to disastrously complicate everything if they make it back.

Voices:
Justin Long (Humphrey)
Hayden Panettiere (Kate)
Dennis Hopper (Tony)
Danny Glover (Winston)

Director: Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Writer: Chris Denk, Steve Moore
Runtime: 88 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds (Greek)

Maltazard traps Arthur in the Land of the Minimoys and travels in the opposite direction into the humans’ world, where he forces a plastic surgeon to stitch him a human face and tricks his way into Arthur’s grandparents’ house. There he searches for a phial containing the elixir Arthur needs to get back to his normal size! When miniature Arthur, Selenia and Betameche finally reach the house, Maltazard has the phial in his grasp. Time is running out for them. Now over two meters tall, Maltazard assembles an army of giant mosquitoes in the nearby forest. Arthur enlists the help of the Queen Bee, whose magical honey is his only way to grow back to full size. But will that be enough for him to win the war of the two worlds?

Cast and voices:
Freddie Highmore (Arthur)
Mia Farrow (Granny)
Robert Stanton (Armand)
Mylène Farmer (Sélénia)

Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson, Céline Garcia
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: 12
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010