In Cinemas this week (31 December – 6 January)

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Vince, a naive young man, assumes a dead man’s identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Cast:
Jason Statham (Jasper)
Mickey Rourke (Jefferson)
Sam Riley (Vince)
50 Cent (Jimmy)

Director: Géla Babluani
Writer: Géla Babluani
Runtime: 91 min
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: 18
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

Vampires Suck

A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their prom.

Cast:
Jenn Proske (Becca Crane)
Matt Lanter (Edward Sullen)
Diedrich Bader (Frank Crane)
Chris Riggi (Jacob White)

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Writer: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Runtime: 82 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
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

Gulliver’s Travels

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

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 (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

Unstoppable

“Unstoppable”, a 20th Century Fox drama about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. An engineer and his conductor are in a race against time. They’re chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town and can endanger the lives of 100,000 inhabitants.

Cast:
Denzel Washington (Frank)
Chris Pine (Will)
Rosario Dawson (Connie)
Ethan Suplee (Dewey)

Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Mark Bomback
Runtime: 99 min
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 12
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

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

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

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