In Cinemas this week (28 June – 4 July)

The Great Gatsby 3D/2D

New York, 1929. Bond-seller Nick Carraway, in a sanitarium for depression and alcoholism, is persuaded by his doctor to write a therapeutic account of what put him there. Nick’s journal describes how, seven years earlier, he had moved to a tiny house on Long Island adjoining the sumptuous mansion owned by enigmatic neighbour, the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. After attending one of Gatsby’s legendary parties Nick is asked by Gatsby to arrange a meeting with his cousin, Daisy, now married to the brutish and philandering Tom Buchanan, who was Gatsby’s true love, prior to war service. As Nick complies he comes to see that Gatsby, once a poor boy, has recreated himself as a fascinating millionaire purely to win Daisy back but the events of a drunken afternoon conspire to bring about an ending which is anything but happy.

Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Jay Gatsby)
Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway)
Carey Mulligan (Daisy Buchanan)
Joel Edgerton (Tom Buchanan)

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Runtime: 142 min
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

World War Z 3D

United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Cast:
Brad Pitt (Gerry Lane)
Mireille Enos (Karin Lane)
Daniella Kertesz (Segen)
James Badge Dale (Captain Speke)

Director: Marc Forster
Writer: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

The Internship

Billy and Nick are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

Cast:
Vince Vaughn (Billy McMahon)
Owen Wilson (Nick Campbell)
Rose Byrne (Dana)
Aasif Mandvi (Mr. Chetty)

Director: Shawn Levy
Writer: Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern
Runtime: 119 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Man of Steel 3D/2D

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Cast:
Henry Cavill (Clark Kent / Kal-El)
Amy Adams (Lois Lane)
Russell Crowe (Jor-El)
Kevin Costner (Jonathan Kent)

Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: David S. Goyer
Runtime: 143 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Monsters University 3D (Greek)

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

Cast:
Thanasis Tsaltampasis (Mike)
Antonis Loudaros (Sullivan)
Leonidas Kakouris (Randy)
Vina Papadopoulou (Dean Hardscrabble)

Director: Dan Scanlon
Writer: Robert L. Baird
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2013

Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Cast:
Chris Pine (Kirk)
Zoe Saldana (Uhura)
Benedict Cumberbatch (Khan)
Zachary Quinto (Spock)

Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Runtime: 132 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Trance

A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.

Cast:
James McAvoy (Simon)
Vincent Cassel (Franck)
Rosario Dawson (Elizabeth)
Danny Sapani (Nate)

Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Joe Ahearne, John Hodge
Runtime: 101 min
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rating: 18
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

After Earth

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Cast:
Will Smith (Cypher Raige)
Jaden Smith (Kitai Raige)
Sophie Okonedo (Faia Raige)
Zoë Kravitz (Senshi Raige)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: Gary Whitta, M. Night Shyamalan
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Epic 3D/2D

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/Greek
Production Year: 2013

The Hangover Part III

In the aftermath of the death of Alan’s father, the wolfpack decide to take Alan to get treated for his mental issues. But things start to go wrong on the way to the hospital as the wolfpack is assaulted and Doug is kidnapped. Now they must find Mr. Chow again in order to surrender him to the gangster who kidnapped Doug in order to save him.

Cast:
Bradley Cooper (Phil)
Ed Helms (Stu)
Zach Galifianakis (Alan)
Justin Bartha (Doug)

Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 15
Language: English
Production Year: 2013

Fast & Furious 6

Since Dom and Brian’s Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty. The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Cast:
Jason Statham (Ian Shaw)
Dwayne Johnson (Luke Hobbs)
Vin Diesel (Dominic Toretto)
Paul Walker (Brian O’Conner)

Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Runtime: 130 min
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2013