In Cinemas this week (17 – 23 December)

TRON: Legacy 3D

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

Cast:
Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn / Clu)
Garrett Hedlund (Sam Flynn)
Olivia Wilde (Quorra)
Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley / Tron)

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writer: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz
Runtime: 127 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Red

Frank, Joe, Marvin and Victoria used to be the CIAs top agents but the secrets they know just made them the Agency’s top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.

Cast:
Bruce Willis (Frank Moses)
Morgan Freeman (Joe Matheson)
John Malkovich (Marvin Boggs)
Helen Mirren (Victoria)

Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Runtime: 111 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Megamind 3D (Greek)

Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known…and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day?

Voices:
Christodoulos Stylianou (Megamind)
Leonidas Kakouris (Metro Man)
Mandy Lampou (Roxanne Ritchie)
Antinoos Albanis (Titan)

Director: Tom McGrath
Writer: Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Megamind (English)

Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known…and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day?

Voices:
Will Ferrell (Megamind)
Brad Pitt (Metro Man)
Tina Fey (Roxanne Ritchie)
Jonah Hill (Titan)

Director: Tom McGrath
Writer: Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Life as We Know It

Holly and Eric were set up on a blind date by their friends, Peter and Allison who are married. A few years later after Peter and Allison were killed in an accident, they learn that Peter and Allison have named them as the guardians to their daughter, Sophie. So they move into their house and try their best to honor their friends’ wishes. But raising a child puts a crimp on their style and they don’t exactly get along.

Cast:
Katherine Heigl (Holly Berenson)
Josh Duhamel (Eric Messer)
Josh Lucas (Sam)
Hayes MacArthur (Peter Novak)

Director: Greg Berlanti
Writer: Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson
Runtime: 114 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

Cast:
Georgie Henley (Lucy Pevensie)
Skandar Keynes (Edmund Pevensie)
Ben Barnes (Caspian)
Gary Sweet (Drinian)

Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Runtime: 115 min
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3D

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.

Cast:
Georgie Henley (Lucy Pevensie)
Skandar Keynes (Edmund Pevensie)
Ben Barnes (Caspian)
Gary Sweet (Drinian)

Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Runtime: 115 min
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Town

Doug MacRay is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage–bank manager, Claire Keesey. Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name… and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug… not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

Cast:
Ben Affleck (Doug MacRay)
Rebecca Hall (Claire Keesey)
Jon Hamm (FBI S.A. Adam Frawley)
Jeremy Renner (James Coughlin)

Director: Ben Affleck
Writer: Peter Craig, Ben Affleck
Runtime: 125 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Machete

The highly skilled Federale Machete is hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator. But just as he’s about to take the shot, he notices someone aiming at him and realizes he’s been set up. He barely survives the sniper’s bullet, and is soon out for revenge on his former employers, with the reluctant assistance of his brother, who has become a priest and taken a vow of nonviolence. If you hire him to take out the bad guys, make sure the bad guys aren’t you!

Cast:
Danny Trejo (Machete Cortez)
Robert De Niro (Senator John McLaughlin)
Jessica Alba (Sartana Rivera)
Steven Seagal (Torrez)

Director: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Robert Rodriguez, Álvaro Rodríguez
Runtime: 105 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Voldemort’s power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore’s work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for the Trio, and the rest of the Wizarding World, so everything they do must go as planned.

Cast:
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)
Emma Watson (Hermione Granger)
Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)
Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort)

Director: David Yates
Writer: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Runtime: 146 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Last Exorcism

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late.

Cast:
Patrick Fabian (Cotton Marcus)
Ashley Bell (Nell Sweetzer)
Louis Herthum (Louis Sweetzer)
Iris Bahr (Iris Reisen)

Director: Daniel Stamm
Writer: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
Runtime: 87 min
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Alpha and Omega 2D (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