In Cinemas this week (6-12 August)

The Last Airbender 3D

The world is divided into four kingdoms, each represented by the element they harness, and peace has lasted throughout the realms of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire under the supervision of the Avatar, a link to the spirit world and the only being capable of mastering the use of all four elements. When young Avatar Aang disappears, the Fire Nation launches an attack to eradicate all members of the Air Nomads to prevent interference in their future plans for world domination. 100 years pass and current Fire Lord Ozai continues to conquer and imprison anyone with elemental “bending” abilities in the Earth and Water Kingdoms, while siblings Katara and Sokka from a Southern Water Tribe find a mysterious boy trapped beneath the ice outside their village. Upon rescuing him, he reveals himself to be Aang, Avatar and last of the Air Nomads. Swearing to protect the Avatar, Katara and Sokka journey with him to the Northern Water Kingdom in his quest to master “Waterbending” and eventually fulfill his destiny of once again restoring peace to the world. But as they inch nearer to their goal, the group must evade Prince Zuko, the exiled son of Lord Ozai, Commander Zhao, the Fire Nation’s military leader, and the tyrannical onslaught of the evil Fire Lord himself.

Cast:
Noah Ringer (Aang)
Dev Patel (Prince Zuko)
Nicola Peltz (Katara)
Jackson Rathbone (Sokka)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Runtime: 103 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Dear John

While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn’t mean they didn’t find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other?

Cast:
Channing Tatum (John Tyree)
Amanda Seyfried (Savannah Curtis)
Richard Jenkins (Mr. Tyree)
Henry Thomas (Tim Wheddon)

Director: Lasse Hallström
Writer: Jamie Linden, Nicholas Sparks
Runtime: 108 min
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Rebound

Sandy, upon discovering her husband’s infidelity while watching her son’s birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that’s above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram’s family thinks he’s wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children were born. It isn’t long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?

Cast:
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Sandy)
Justin Bartha (Aram Finklestein)
Megan Byrne (Molly Foster)
Eliza Callahan (Sadie)

Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Bart Freundlich
Runtime: 95 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2009

Grown Ups

Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn’t mean growing up.

Cast:
Adam Sandler (Lenny Feder)
Kevin James (Eric Lamonsoff)
Chris Rock (Kurt McKenzie)
Rob Schneider (Rob Hilliard)

Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf
Runtime: 102 min
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Leap Year

Anna Brady from Boston is a planner that stages apartments for Realtors. Anna has been dating cardiologist, Jeremy, for four years and they are buying a high standard apartment in Davenport together. Anna expects Jeremy to propose to her on a dinner date but he gives her a gift instead, after which he travels to Dublin for a congress. Anna decides to meet him in Dublin on the February 29th and propose to him in accordance with an old Irish folklore tradition from the 5th Century of leap-year proposals by women. However, due to bad weather the Dublin airport is closed. Anna hires the unfriendly innkeeper Declan to drive her to Dublin. Declan agrees to drive her as he needs the money to pay of his debts but their journey is fraught with many incidents.

Cast:
Amy Adams (Anna Brady)
Matthew Goode (Declan)
Adam Scott (Jeremy)
John Lithgow (Jack Brady)

Director: Anand Tucker
Writer: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Inception

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Arthur)
Ellen Page (Ariadne)
Michael Caine (Miles)

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Runtime: 148 min
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Knight and Day

June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn’t supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.

Cast:
Tom Cruise (Roy Miller)
Cameron Diaz (June Havens)
Peter Sarsgaard (Fitzgerald)
Jordi Mollà (Antonio)

Director: James Mangold
Writer: Patrick O’Neill
Runtime: 109 min
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can’t do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness. It’ll take all the courage Dave can muster to survive his training, save the city and get the girl as he becomes The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Cast:
Nicolas Cage (Balthazar)
Jay Baruchel (Dave)
Alfred Molina (Horvath)
Monica Bellucci (Veronica)

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Writer: Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
Runtime: 110 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Furry Vengeance

In the Oregon wilderness, a real estate developer’s new housing subdivision faces a unique group of protesters, local woodland creatures who don’t want their homes disturbed.

Cast:
Brendan Fraser (Dan Sanders)
Ricky Garcia (Frank)
Brooke Shields (Tammy Sanders)
Matt Prokop (Tyler Sanders)

Director: Roger Kumble
Writer: Michael Carnes, Josh Gilbert
Runtime: 92 min
Genre: Comedy, Family
Rating: K
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Toy Story 3 (Greek)

Andy is now 17 and ready to head off to college, leaving Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the rest of the toy-box gang to ponder their uncertain futures. When the toys are accidentally donated to the Sunnyside Daycare center they’re initially overjoyed to once again be played with, but their enthusiasm quickly gives way to horror as they discover the true nature of the establishment under the rule of the deceptively welcoming “Lotso” Bear. So, it’s all for one and one for all as the toys join Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear to plan their great escape.

Voices:
Alkis Kourkoulos
Eleonora Meleti
Mihalis Marinos
Demitris Piatas

Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt, John Lasseter
Runtime: 103 min
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Rating: K
Language: Greek
Production Year: 2010

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince and a mysterious princess race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time — a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal (Dastan)
Gemma Arterton (Tamina)
Ben Kingsley (Nizam)
Alfred Molina (Sheik Amar)

Director: Mike Newell
Writer: Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010

Robin Hood

“Robin Hood” chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richards army against the French. Upon Richards death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marian, a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marian and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.

Cast:
Russell Crowe (Robin Longstride)
Cate Blanchett (Marion Loxley)
Max von Sydow (Sir Walter Loxley)
Danny Huston (King Richard The Lionheart)

Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Brian Helgeland
Runtime: 140 min
Genre: Action, Drama
Rating: 12
Language: English
Production Year: 2010