In Cinemas this week (12 – 18 July)

Pacific Rim 3D

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes – a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee – who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Cast:
Charlie Hunnam (Raleigh Becket)
Idris Elba (Stacker Pentecost)
Rinko Kikuchi (Mako Mori)
Charlie Day (Dr. Newton Geiszler)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Travis Beacham, Guillermo del Toro
Runtime: 131 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Now You See Me

Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horseman, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Vargas of Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see.

Cast:
Jesse Eisenberg (J. Daniel Atlas)
Mark Ruffalo (Dylan Rhodes)
Woody Harrelson (Merritt McKinney)
Morgan Freeman (Thaddeus Bradley)

Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin
Runtime: 115 min
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Lone Ranger

The year is 1869 and the first transcontinental railroad is nearing completion. As Texas-born attorney John Reid travels home from college, his train is attacked by a band of outlaws who have come to break their cannibalistic leader Butch Cavendish out of custody. John joins his brother Dan and the rest of the Texas Rangers to track him down, only to be ambushed by Cavendish in the desert to be slaughtered like cattle. Left for dead, John is nursed back to life by a Comanche Indian named Tonto. Both men want to bring Cavendish to justice for their own reasons, so they decide to team up. But on their quest to take down Cavendish and his men, the pair uncovers a larger plot involving railroad tycoon Latham Cole.

Cast:
Johnny Depp (Tonto)
Armie Hammer (John Reid)
Tom Wilkinson (Cole)
Helena Bonham Carter (Red Harrington)

Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott
Runtime: 149 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Despicable Me 2 3D/2D

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: English/Greek
Production Year: 2013

The Great Gatsby

New York, 1929. Bond-seller Nick Carraway, in a sanitarium for depression and alcoholism, is persuaded by his doctor to write a therapeutic account of what put him there. Nick’s journal describes how, seven years earlier, he had moved to a tiny house on Long Island adjoining the sumptuous mansion owned by enigmatic neighbour, the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. After attending one of Gatsby’s legendary parties Nick is asked by Gatsby to arrange a meeting with his cousin, Daisy, now married to the brutish and philandering Tom Buchanan, who was Gatsby’s true love, prior to war service. As Nick complies he comes to see that Gatsby, once a poor boy, has recreated himself as a fascinating millionaire purely to win Daisy back but the events of a drunken afternoon conspire to bring about an ending which is anything but happy.

Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby)
Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway)
Carey Mulligan (Daisy Buchanan)
Joel Edgerton (Tom Buchanan)

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Runtime: 142 min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

World War Z

United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Cast:
Brad Pitt (Gerry Lane)
Mireille Enos (Karin Lane)
Daniella Kertesz (Segen)
James Badge Dale (Captain Speke)

Director: Marc Forster
Writer: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Internship

Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

Cast:
Vince Vaughn (Billy McMahon)
Owen Wilson (Nick Campbell)
Rose Byrne (Dana)
Aasif Mandvi (Mr. Chetty)

Director: Shawn Levy
Writer: Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern
Runtime: 119 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Man of Steel

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Cast:
Henry Cavill (Clark Kent / Kal-El)
Amy Adams (Lois Lane)
Russell Crowe (Jor-El)
Kevin Costner (Jonathan Kent)

Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: David S. Goyer
Runtime: 143 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Monsters University (Greek)

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

Cast:
Thanasis Tsaltampasis (Mike)
Antonis Loudaros (Sullivan)
Leonidas Kakouris (Randy)
Vina Papadopoulou (Dean Hardscrabble)

Director: Dan Scanlon
Writer: Robert L. Baird
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

Epic 3D/2D

Young Mary Katherine (M.K.) returns to her eccentric scientist father’s home, but his all-consuming quest to discover a tiny civilization in the neighboring forest drives them apart. However, M.K. soon finds herself shrunken down by Queen Tara of that forest, mortally wounded by the putrefying Boggans, and charged to deliver a pod bearing the new Queen to safety. Together with a veteran Leafman warrior, two goofy mollusks and a young maverick, M.K. agrees to help. As the villainous Boggan leader, Mandrake closes in, M.K. and her new friends must draw on the best of themselves together and discover what they have to save their world.

Cast:
Amanda Seyfried (Mary Katherine)
Josh Hutcherson (Nod)
Christoph Waltz (Mandrake)
Colin Farrell (Ronin)

Director: Chris Wedge
Writer: James V. Hart, William Joyce
Runtime: 102 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: English/Greek
Production Year: 2013