In Cinemas this week (20 – 26 September)

White House Down

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation’s government falling into chaos and time running out, it’s up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

Cast:
Channing Tatum (Cale)
Jamie Foxx (President Sawyer)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Finnerty)
Richard Jenkins (Raphelson)

Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: James Vanderbilt
Runtime: 131 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Pain & Gain

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Cast:
Mark Wahlberg (Daniel Lugo)
Dwayne Johnson (Paul Doyle)
Anthony Mackie (Adrian Doorbal)
Tony Shalhoub (Victor Kershaw)

Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Runtime: 129 min
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Grown Ups 2

After having the greatest time of his life three summers ago, Lenny, decides he wants to move his family back to his hometown and have them grow up with his gang of childhood friends and their kids. But between old bullies, new bullies, schizophrenic bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, psycho grade school girlfriends and 400 costumed party crashes he finds out that sometimes crazy follows you.

Cast:
Adam Sandler (Lenny Feder)
Kevin James (Eric Lamonsoff)
Chris Rock (Kurt McKenzie)
David Spade (Marcus Higgins)

Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Fred Wolf, Adam Sandler
Runtime: 101 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series.

Cast:
Lily Collins (Clary)
Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace)
Robert Sheehan (Simon)
Kevin Zegers (Alec)

Director: Harald Zwart
Writer: Jessica Postigo, Cassandra Clare
Runtime: 130 min
Genre: Action, Adventure
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D/2D

In this retelling of Rick Riordan’s book, “The Sea of Monsters”, Percy Jackson, accompanied by his friends Annabeth Chase, Clarisse La Rue and Tyson, his half brother, goes on a journey to the Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood.

Cast:
Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson)
Alexandra Daddario (Annabeth)
Brandon T. Jackson (Grover)
Douglas Smith (Tyson)

Director: Thor Freudenthal
Writer: Marc Guggenheim, Rick Riordan
Runtime: 106 min
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Conjuring

In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.

Cast:
Vera Farmiga (Lorraine Warren)
Patrick Wilson (Ed Warren)
Lili Taylor (Carolyn Perron)
Ron Livingston (Roger Perron)

Director: James Wan
Writer: Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes
Runtime: 112 min
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Smurfs 2 3D/2D

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

Snitch

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

Cast:
Dwayne Johnson (John Matthews)
Susan Sarandon (Joanne Keeghan)
Jon Bernthal (Daniel James)
Michael Kenneth Williams (Malik)

Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Writer: Justin Haythe, Ric Roman Waugh
Runtime: 112 min
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

One Direction: This Is Us 3D

An intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage, this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis’ meteoric rise to fame, from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor, to conquering the world and performing at London’s famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys themselves and see through their own eyes what it’s really like to be One Direction.

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Runtime: 92 min
Genre: Documentary, Music
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Red 2

Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.

Cast:
Bruce Willis (Frank)
John Malkovich (Marvin)
Helen Mirren (Victoria)
Anthony Hopkins (Bailey)

Director: Dean Parisot
Writer: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Planes 3D/2D (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

We’re the Millers

After being robbed of a week’s take, small-time pot dealer David is forced by his boss to go to Mexico to pick up a load of marijuana. In order to improve his odds of making it past the border, David asks the broke stripper Rose and two local teenagers to join him and pretend they’re on a family holiday.

Cast:
Jennifer Aniston (Rose O’Reilly)
Jason Sudeikis (David Clark)
Will Poulter (Kenny Rossmore)
Emma Roberts (Casey Mathis)

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Writer: Bob Fisher, Steve Faber
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: 15
Language: English
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

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

Epic

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
Production Year: 2013