In Cinemas this week (21 – 27 January)

The Next Three Days

Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss whom she had an argument with. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released but there’s no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family especially her son gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

Cast:
Russell Crowe (John Brennan)
Elizabeth Banks (Lara Brennan)
Liam Neeson (Damon Pennington)
Olivia Wilde (Nicole)

Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis, Fred Cavayé
Runtime: 122 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Joneses

Perfect couple Steve and Kate Jones, and their gorgeous teen-aged children Jenn and Mick, are the envy of their posh, suburban neighborhood filled with McMansions and all the trappings of the upper middle class. Kate is the ultimate trend setter – beautiful, sexy, dressed head-to-toe in designer labels. Steve is the admired successful businessman who has it all: a gorgeous wife, big house and an endless supply of high-tech toys. Jenn and Mick rule their new school as they embody all that is hip and trendy – cool clothes, fast cars and the latest gadgets. But as the neighbors try to keep up with the Joneses, none are prepared for the truth about this all-too perfect family.

Cast:
David Duchovny (Steve Jones)
Demi Moore (Kate Jones)
Amber Heard (Jenn Jones)
Ben Hollingsworth (Mick Jones)

Director: Derrick Borte
Writer: Derrick Borte, Randy T. Dinzler
Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

The Tourist

Elise sits next to an American tourist, Frank, on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted for police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole

Cast:
Johnny Depp (Frank Tupelo)
Angelina Jolie (Elise Clifton-Ward)
Paul Bettany (Inspector John Acheson)
Timothy Dalton (Chief Inspector Jones)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie
Runtime: 103 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

My Soul to Take 3D

In the sleepy town of Riverton, legend tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. Now, 16 years later, people are disappearing again. Has the psychopath been reincarnated as one of the seven teens, or did he survive the night he was left for dead? Only one of the kids knows the answer. Adam “Bug” Heller was supposed to die on the last night the Riverton Ripper wrecked havoc on that terrifying night. Unaware of terrifying crimes being committed to the seven children, he has been plagued by nightmares of their murders while not aware if they hold true or if he is simply imagining the images that haunt him. But if Bug hopes to save his friends from the monster that’s returned, he must face an evil that won’t rest…until it finishes the job it began the day he was born.

Cast:
Max Thieriot (Bug)
John Magaro (Alex)
Denzel Whitaker (Jerome)
Zena Grey (Penelope)

Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Runtime: 107 min
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Ziteitai pseftis (Ζητείται Ψεύτης)

Theofilos Ferekis is the new minister of Health and Welfare who has to deal with all the “favours” he promised during the pre-election period. As soon as he realizes that he will not easily pull off, he decides to hire a… professional liar. Theodoros Parlas or Pseftothodoros (Liar Theo) who has a great “talent” for making false promises starts a great career as Ferekis’ right hand man. One lie leads to another and they soon need a lot more lies to handle hilarious situations. 50 years later, the play of Dimitris Psathas remains a classic.

Cast:
Ieroklis Michaelidis
Zeta Makrypoulia
Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos
Pigmalion Dadakaridis

Director: Ieroklis Michaelidis
Writer: Konstadina Yahali, Panagiotis Mantziafos
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Tangled 3D (Greek)

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower’s magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.

Voices:
Mandy Moore (Rapunzel)
Zachary Levi (Flynn Rider)
Donna Murphy (Mother Gothel)
Ron Perlman (Stabbington Brother)

Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Fair Game

Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Cast:
Naomi Watts (Valerie Plame)
Sean Penn (Joe Wilson)
Sam Shepard (Sam Plame)
Bruce McGill (Jim Pavitt)

Director: Doug Liman
Writer: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Switch

Kassie and Wally are best friends. Being unlucky in love, Kassie has decided to have a child using artificial insemination. Wally doesn’t like this idea, but he isn’t capable of admitting to himself, let alone to Kassie, that he’s in love with her. At Kassie’s artificial insemination party, Wally gets very drunk and spies the sperm donor’s sample in the bathroom. Wally was way too drunk to know what he did that night, and Kassie has moved away because she doesn’t feel that New York City is a place to raise a child. Now 7 years later, Kassie has moved back with her son Sebastian. While she is looking to get Roland (the sperm donor) more involved in their lives, Wally can’t help but notice the many striking similarities that he and Sebastian share.

Cast:
Jason Bateman (Wally Mars)
Jennifer Aniston (Kassie Larson)
Jeff Goldblum (Leonard)
Juliette Lewis (Debbie)

Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Writer: Allan Loeb, Jeffrey Eugenides
Runtime: 101 min
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage 3D (Greek)

Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy must do what his fellow newborn sea turtles are doing: race across the beach to the ocean before they are captured by a seagull or crab. After a slow start, Sammy is nearly at the water’s edge when a seagull snatches him. Sammy manages to escape but exhausted after an eventful day, Sammy is unable to continue the last leg of his dash to the ocean. Thankfully, Sammy has landed on a wooden raft that the tide carries out to sea. Thus begins Sammy’s incredible ocean journey. Along the way he meets his best friend, a fellow turtle named Ray, and overcomes obstacles both natural and man-made while trying to fulfill his dream of travelling around the world.

Voices:
Giorgos Kapoutzides (Sammy)
Lina Sakka (Shelly)
Giorgos Lianos (Ray)

Director: Ben Stassen
Writer: Domonic Paris
Runtime: 88 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Little Fockers

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get “in” with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, however, Jack’s suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam’s entire clan-including Pam’s lovelorn ex, Kevin-descends for the twins’ birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he’s fully capable as the man of the house. But with all the misunderstandings, spying and covert missions, will Greg pass Jack’s final test and become the family’s next patriarch…or will the circle of trust be broken for good?

Cast:
Robert De Niro (Jack Byrnes)
Ben Stiller (Greg Focker)
Owen Wilson (Kevin Rawley)
Dustin Hoffman (Bernie Focker)

Director: Paul Weitz
Writer: John Hamburg, Larry Stuckey
Runtime: 98 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Gulliver’s Travels 3D

After Lemuel Gulliver, a lowly mailroom clerk at a New York newspaper, bluffs his way into an assignment writing about the Bermuda Triangle, he goes there only to be transported to an undiscovered land, Lilliput. In this fantastical new world, Gulliver is, at last, a bigger-than-life figure — in size and ego – especially after he starts telling tall tales, taking credit for his world’s greatest inventions, and placing himself at the center of its most historic events. Gulliver’s position is enhanced even further when he leads his new friends in a daring battle against their longtime enemies. But when Gulliver loses it all and puts the Lilliputians in peril, he must find a way to undo the damage. Ultimately, Gulliver becomes a true giant among men only when he learns that it’s how big you are on the inside that counts.

Cast:
Jack Black (Lemuel Gulliver)
Jason Segel (Horatio)
Emily Blunt (Princess Mary)
Amanda Peet (Darcy Silverman)

Director: Rob Letterman
Writer: Joe Stillman, Nicholas Stoller
Runtime: 93 min
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: English
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

Due Date

Peter Highman must get to LA in five days to be at the birth of his firstborn. He is about to fly home from Atlanta when his luggage and wallet are stolen, and he is put on the “no-fly” list. Desperate to get home Peter is forced to accept the offer of Ethan Tremblay to hitch a ride with him cross-country. Peter is about to go on a terrifying and agonizing journey of his life.

Cast:
Robert Downey Jr. (Peter Highman)
Zach Galifianakis (Ethan Tremblay)
Michelle Monaghan (Sarah Highman)
Jamie Foxx (Darryl)

Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Alpha and Omega (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

Despicable Me (English)

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru, planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

Voices:
Steve Carell (Gru)
Julie Andrews (Gru’s Mom)
Jason Segel (Vector)
Russell Brand (Dr. Nefario)

Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Writer: Ken Daurio, Sergio Pablos
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Arthur 3: The War of Two Worlds (Greek)

Maltazard traps Arthur in the Land of the Minimoys and travels in the opposite direction into the humans’ world, where he forces a plastic surgeon to stitch him a human face and tricks his way into Arthur’s grandparents’ house. There he searches for a phial containing the elixir Arthur needs to get back to his normal size! When miniature Arthur, Selenia and Betameche finally reach the house, Maltazard has the phial in his grasp. Time is running out for them. Now over two meters tall, Maltazard assembles an army of giant mosquitoes in the nearby forest. Arthur enlists the help of the Queen Bee, whose magical honey is his only way to grow back to full size. But will that be enough for him to win the war of the two worlds?

Cast and voices:
Freddie Highmore (Arthur)
Mia Farrow (Granny)
Robert Stanton (Armand)
Mylène Farmer (Sélénia)

Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson, Céline Garcia
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Animation
Rating: 12
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010