In Cinemas this week (2 – 8 April)

Brooklyn’s Finest

The story revolves around three New York police officers over one week. Eddie is a patrolman who only has 7 days left before he can pull the pin and retire. Eddie has seen it all, and he has become so disenchanted with life that he must find some reason each day not to blow his own brains out. Undercover cop Tango has been on the streets too long, causing him to protect Caz, the drug kingpin target he is out to catch. Sal is a narcotics cop who is under tremendous pressure to provide a healthy home for his pregnant wife and two children. This stress from home and the temptation of all that drug money at his job is causing him to jump back and forth from being a good cop to a bad cop. In the end, all three police officers will eventually come together.

Cast:
Richard Gere (Eddie)
Don Cheadle (Tango)
Ethan Hawke (Sal)
Wesley Snipes (Caz)

Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Michael C. Martin
Runtime: 132 min
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

The Spy Next Door

Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend’s three kids, who haven’t exactly warmed to their mom’s beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob’s longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.

Cast:
Jackie Chan (Bob Ho)
Amber Valletta (Gillian)
Billy Ray Cyrus (Colton James)
Will Shadley (Ian)

Director: Brian Levant
Writer: Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer
Runtime: 94 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

How to Train Your Dragon 3D (English)

The adventure comedy is set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.

Voices:
Jay Baruchel (Hiccup)
Gerard Butler (Stoick)
Craig Ferguson (Gobber)
America Ferrera (Astrid)

Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: Cressida Cowell, Dean DeBlois
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Animation, Family
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

How to Train Your Dragon 3D (Greek)

The adventure comedy is set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.

Voices:
Evangelos Evangelou (Psaris)
Iro Bezou (Astrid)
Nikos Papadopoulos (Stoikos)
Harris Grigoropoulos (Skordos)

Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: Cressida Cowell, Dean DeBlois
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Animation, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

How to Train Your Dragon (English)

The adventure comedy is set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.

Voices:
Jay Baruchel (Hiccup)
Gerard Butler (Stoick)
Craig Ferguson (Gobber)
America Ferrera (Astrid)

Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: Cressida Cowell, Dean DeBlois
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Animation, Family
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

How to Train Your Dragon (Greek)

The adventure comedy is set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.

Voices:
Evangelos Evangelou (Psaris)
Iro Bezou (Astrid)
Nikos Papadopoulos (Stoikos)
Harris Grigoropoulos (Skordos)

Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: Cressida Cowell, Dean DeBlois
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Animation, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

The Road

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food–and each other.

Cast:
Viggo Mortensen (Father)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (Boy)
Charlize Theron (Mother)
Robert Duvall (Old Man – Eli)

Director: John Hillcoat
Writer: Cormac McCarthy, Joe Penhall
Runtime: 111 min
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Shutter Island

It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Teddy Daniels)
Mark Ruffalo (Chuck Aule)
Ben Kingsley (Dr. Cawley)
Max von Sydow (Dr. Naehring)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane
Runtime: 138 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Ο Μικρός Νικόλας (Le petit Nicolas)

Primary school pupil Nicolas’s life is turned upside down when his friend Joachim doesn’t return to school after the birth of a little brother. Convinced Joachim’s parents have abandoned him in the woods to devote themselves to their new offspring and certain his parents are plotting the same, Nicolas foments a plan to kidnap his sibling immediately after the birth, with the help of his friends, Alceste the glutton, Geoffroy the rich kid, Clotaire the dunce, Eudes the tough kid and Rufus, who wants to become a police officer.

Cast:
Maxime Godart (Nicolas)
Valérie Lemercier
Kad Merad

Director: Laurent Tirard
Writer: René Goscinny, Alain Chabat
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2009

Green Zone

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission. Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

Cast:
Matt Damon (Roy Miller)
Greg Kinnear (Clark Poundstone)
Brendan Gleeson (Martin Brown)
Amy Ryan (Lawrie Dayne)

Director:Paul Greengrass
Writer: Brian Helgeland, Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Runtime: 115 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Lovely Bones

Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. Watching over her family – and her killer – from heaven, she must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

Cast:
Mark Wahlberg (Jack Salmon)
Rachel Weisz (Abigail Salmon)
Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon)
Susan Sarandon (Grandma Lynn)

Director:Peter Jackson
Writer: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Runtime: 121 min
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Alice in Wonderland

19-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

Cast:
Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter)
Mia Wasikowska (Alice)
Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen)
Anne Hathaway (White Queen)

Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Princess and the Frog (Greek)

A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.

Voices:
Katerina Tsavalou
Giannis Zouganelis
Chrisoula Diavati
Stamatis Kraounakis

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: Ron Clements, John Musker
Runtime: 97 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2009

Valentine’s Day

February 14th, Valentine’s Day, is not a national holiday, but it is one of those days that must be celebrated. There are “special someones” in your life who expect to receive romantic gifts from their lovers. Commercialism has put a tremendous amount of pressure on men to give their lovers a romantic day with all the trimmings. Women are under pressure to have a man, or they feel desperate and unloved. “Valentine’s Day” follows the lives of several couples during this day. Their stories are told through the interconnections they have with each other. Some will find romance in their relationship, and others will feel the heartbreak of ending a relationship. In this Russian roulette world of finding love, everyone in the film is asking for advice on how to find and keep true love.

Cast:
Jessica Alba (Morley Clarkson)
Jessica Biel (Kara Monahan)
Bradley Cooper (Holden)
Anne Hathaway (Liz)
Jennifer Garner (Julia Fitzpatrick)
Ashton Kutcher (Reed Bennett)

Director: Garry Marshall
Writer: Katherine Fugate
Runtime: 125 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010