In Cinemas this week (15 – 20 November)

Prisoners

How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child’s life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

Cast:
Hugh Jackman (Keller Dover)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Detective Loki)
Viola Davis (Nancy Birch)
Terrence Howard (Franklin Birch)

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Aaron Guzikowski
Runtime: 153 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Battle of the Year 3D

Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven’t won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.

Cast:
Josh Holloway (Jason Blake)
Laz Alonso (Dante Graham)
Josh Peck (Franklyn)
Chris Brown (Rooster)

Director: Benson Lee
Writer: Brin Hill, Chris Parker
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Music
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Free Birds 3D

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

Machete Kills

In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

Cast:
Danny Trejo (Machete)
Mel Gibson (Voz)
Amber Heard (Miss San Antonio)
Michelle Rodriguez (Luz)

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Kyle Ward, Robert Rodriguez
Runtime: 107 min
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Closed Circuit

Following a mysterious explosion in a busy London market, the police swoop in, a suspect is detained, and the country prepares for one of the most high-profile trials in British history. Two exceptional lawyers with a romantic past step into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, and when evidence points to a possible British Secret Service cover up, it’s not just their reputations but their lives that are at stake.

Cast:
Eric Bana (Martin Rose)
Rebecca Hall (Claudia Simmons-Howe)
Ciarán Hinds (Devlin)
Jim Broadbent (Attorney General)

Director: John Crowley
Writer: Steven Knight
Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Η Χαρά και η Θλίψη του Σώματος (Joy & Sorrow of the Body)

Filmed in Cyprus and Bulgaria, “The joy and sorrow of the body” is a contemporary drama, a film noir that deals with the timeless subject of friendship and treason.

Cast:
Haris Abrazis
Georges Corraface
Silvia Petkova
Nikolay Mutafchiev

Director: Andreas Pantzis
Writer: Mariya Mozhar, Andreas Pantzis
Runtime: 149 min
Genre: Drama
Rating: 15
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

Insidious: Chapter 2

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Cast:
Patrick Wilson (Josh Lambert)
Rose Byrne (Renai Lambert)
Ty Simpkins (Dalton Lambert)
Lin Shaye (Elise Rainier)

Director: James Wan
Writer: Leigh Whannell, James Wan
Runtime: 106 min
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 18
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

Captain Phillips

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Cast:
Tom Hanks (Captain Richard Phillips)
Barkhad Abdi (Muse)
Barkhad Abdirahman (Bilal)
Catherine Keener (Andrea Phillips)

Director: Paul Greengrass
Writer: Billy Ray, Richard Phillips
Runtime: 134 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Rating: 12
Language: English
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

Blue Jasmine

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

Cast:
Cate Blanchett (Jasmine)
Alec Baldwin (Hal)
Louis C.K. (Al)
Peter Sarsgaard (Dwight)

Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Drama
Rating: 12
Language: English
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/Greek
Production Year: 2013

Planes (Greek)

Dusty Crophopper is a little cropduster plane with a fear of heights and a crazy dream of being a racer. While his friends need convincing, Dusty gets the training he needs from Skipper, a veteran fighter, and qualifies for the Wings Across the World race. In the event, Dusty finds competitors who soon learn that there is something special about this underdog as he is tested to his physical and emotional limits. In doing so, Dusty soon finds enemies, and more importantly friends, who are inspired by his dream. In the face of all obstacles, the winner of this air race will be anyone’s guess.

Cast:
Yiorgos Kapoutzidis (Dusty)
Doretta Papadimitriou (Dottie)
Dinos Soutis (Skipper)
Telemachos Krevaikas (Ripslinger)

Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Jeffrey M. Howard, John Lasseter
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: K
Language: Greek
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