Any Questions For Ben?
(M)

9 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
Ben is a twenty-something, life-loving protagonist who has what many people would call the best lifestyle of anyone they know. He's well known, trusted - loves sex, parties & money and has the social finesse that would leave most people for dust. So when life is perfect, what's to question? Enter the realm of the quarter-life crisis, or is it about just growing up?

Directed by Rob Sitch (The Dish, The Castle).

Stars Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Daniel Henshall, Christian Clark, Felicity Ward.

GENRE:
Comedy

CLASSIFICATION:
(Coarse language & sex scene)

DURATION:
129 mins

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Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in 3D (PG)

9 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
The evil Trade Federation, led by Nute Gunray is planning to take over the peaceful world of Naboo. Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to confront the leaders. But not everything goes to plan. The two Jedi escape, and along with their new Gungan friend, Jar Jar Binks head to Naboo to warn Queen Amidala, but droids have already started to capture Naboo and the Queen is not safe there.

Eventually, they land on Tatooine, where they become friends with a young boy known as Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon is curious about the boy, and sees a bright future for him. The group must now find a way of getting to Coruscant and to finally solve this trade dispute, but there is someone else hiding in the shadows. Are the Sith really extinct? Is the Queen who she really says she is? And what's so special about this young boy?

Directed by George Lucas.

Stars Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson & Natalie Portman.

GENRE:
Action Adventure Fantasy

CLASSIFICATION:
(Mild Violence)

DURATION:
151 mins

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Safe House  (M)

9 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
For the past year, Matt Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town. A “housekeeper” who aspires to be a full-fledged agent, the loyal company man has been waiting for an opportunity to prove himself. When the first and only occupant he’s had proves to be the most dangerous man he’s ever met, Weston readies for duty.

Tobin Frost has eluded capture for almost a decade. One of the best ops men that the CIA’s known, the ex-intelligence officer has given up assets and sold military intel to anyone with cash since he turned. From trading secrets to North Korea to aiding splinter cells, the damage he’s done to the U.S. is immeasurable. And he’s now back on the reservation with a secret.

As soon as Frost is brought in for debriefing, mercenaries come and tear apart Weston’s safe house. Barely escaping, the unlikely partners must discover if their attackers have been sent by terrorists or someone on the inside who will kill anyone standing in the way. Now it’s up to Weston to figure out who he can trust before they’re both eliminated from the game.

Directed by Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money).

Stars Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Patrick, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson.

GENRE:
Action Crime Mystery

CLASSIFICATION:
(Violence and infrequent coarse language)

DURATION:
130 mins

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The Vow  (PG)

9 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.

Directed by Michael Sucsy.

Stars Rachael McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neil, Scott Speedman.

GENRE:
Romance Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(Mild themes, coarse language, nudity & sexual references)

DURATION:
119 mins

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This Means War  (M)

14 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
Two of the world’s top secret agents are best friends who never let anything come between them -- until they inadvertently fall for the same woman. It’s all-out war between them, as the two spies battle each other with high-tech surveillance, advanced tactics, and an arsenal capable of bringing down a small country. At the same time, she struggles with the difficult task of choosing between two very different, but equally attractive romantic propositions.

Directed by McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie's Angels).

Stars Reese WItherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Abigail Spencer, Til Schweiger.

GENRE:
Action Comedy Romance

CLASSIFICATION:
(Sexual references, action violence & coarse language)

DURATION:
113 mins

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The Artist  (PG)

COMING TO THE RITZ
16 February 2012

 

WINNER OF
3 GOLDEN GLOBES

NOMINATED FOR AN INCREDIBLE 10 OSCARS including BEST PICTURE

SYNOPSIS:
Hollywood, 1927.  George Valentin is one of Hollywood's reigning silent screen idols, instantly recognisable with his slim moustache and signature white tie & tails.  Starring in exotic tails of intrigue and derring-do, the actor has turned out hit after hit for Kinograph, the studio run by cigar-chomping mogul Al Zimmer.  His success has brought him an elegant mansion and an equally elegant wife, Doris.  Chauffeured to the studio each day by his devoted driver Clifton, George is greeted by his own smiling image, emblazoned on the posters prominently placed throughout the Kinograph lot.  As he happily mugs for rapturous and reporters at his latest film premiere, George is a man indistinguishable from his persona - and a star secure in his future.

For young dancer Peppy Miller, the future will be what she makes of it.  Vivacious and good-humoured, with an incandescent smile and flapper's ease of movement, Peppy first crosses George's path at his film premiere and then as an extra on his latest film at Kinograph.  As they film a brief dance sequence, they fall into a natural rhythm, the machinery of moviemaking fading into the background.  But the day must finally end, sending the matinee idol and the eager hopeful back to their respective places in the Hollywood ladder.

And Hollywood itself will soon fall under the sway of a captivating new starlet: talking pictures.  George wants no part of the new technology, scorning the talkie as a vulgar fad destined for the dustbin.  By 1929, Kinograph is preparing to cease all silent film production and George faces a choice: embrace sound, like the rising young star Peppy Miller: or risk a slide into obscurity.

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius.

Stars Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller.

GENRE:
Comedy Romance Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(Mild themes)

DURATION:
115 mins

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My Week With Marilyn  (M)

16 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way into the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl" - the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on holiday with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.

Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl & Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week With Marilyn - this is the story of that week.  When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.

Directed by Simon Curtis.

Stars Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson.

GENRE:
Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(Coarse language)

DURATION:
114 mins

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The Grey (CTC)

16 February 2012

 

SYNOPSIS:
Produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, the film tells of a group of oil-rig workers who find themselves stranded on the freezing Alaskan tundra after their plane home crashes. Their efforts to survive and find a way home to their loved ones are threatened when the men come under attack by a pack of vicious, aggressive wolves, who see the humans as intruders in their territory who must be killed.

Directed by Joe Carnahan.

Stars Liam Neeson, Dermott Mulroney, Dallas Roberts.

Genre
Adventure Thriller

Rating

Duration
TBA mins

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close  (CTC)

23 February 2012

SYNOPSIS:
Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.

Directed by Stephen Daldry (The Reader, The Hours, Billy Elliot).

Stars Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Zoe Caldwell, John Goodman, Max von Sydow.

GENRE:
Drama

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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Late Bloomers  (PG)

23 February 2012

 

 

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SYNOPSIS:
In writer/director Julie Gavras' delightfully warm and wise romantic comedy, the inestimable Isabella Rossellini and Academy Award-winner William Hurt play a couple whose 30-year marriage is starting to run into trouble.

Adam is a London-based architect, horrified to find himself the recipient of awards that suggest he's reached the end of his career.  Wife Mary, taken aback by an unexpected health scare, sets a course of radical action in league with her vivacious best friend Charlotte.  As Adam & Mary respond to these challenges in completely opposite and unpredictable ways (successfully infuriating each other in the process), their three adult children plot to find ways to keep them together...

With luminous supporting performances from a mix of established and upcoming British acting talent, Late Bloomers is an elegant and engaging portrait of marriage, and the joys & realities of getting on.

Directed by Julie Gavras.

Stars William Hurt, Isabella Rosellini & Doreen Mantle

GENRE:
Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(
mild sexual references and coarse language)

DURATION:
104 mins

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Carnage (M)

1 March 2012

 

SYNOPSIS:
After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of childrearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage.

Directed by Roman Polanski.

Stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz & John C Reilly.

GENRE:
Comedy Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(
Coarse language and mature themes)

DURATION:
94 mins

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John Carter in 3D (CTC)

8 March 2012

 

SYNOPSIS:
Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.

Directed by Andrew Stanton

Stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe.

GENRE:
Action Adventure Fantasy

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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21 Jump Street (MA15+)

15 March 2012

SYNOPSIS:
In the action-comedy 21 Jump Street, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring.  But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier – and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.

Directed by Phil Lord & Chris Miller

Stars Channing Tatum & Jonah Hill, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle & Ice Cube.

GENRE:
Action Comedy

CLASSIFICATION:
(Strong violence, crude humour, coarse language & drug use)

DURATION:
124 mins

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The Hunger Games (CTC)

22 March 2012

 
SYNOPSIS:
In a not-too-distant future, North America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.

Directed by Gary Ross

Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth

GENRE:
Action Drama Sci-Fi

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (M)

22 March 2012

SYNOPSIS:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

Directed by John Madden.

Stars Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith.

GENRE:
Comedy Drama

CLASSIFICATION:
(
Mild themes, sexual references & coarse language)

DURATION:
138 mins

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Dr Seuss' The Lorax (CTC)

29 March 2012

SYNOPSIS:
Dr Seuss' The Lorax, an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope.  The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old boy as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams.  To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

Directed by Chris Renaud & Kyle Balda.

Features the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito, Betty White & Ed Helms.

GENRE:
Animated Family Fantasy

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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Wrath of the Titans (CTC)

29 March 2012

SYNOPSIS:
A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus - the demigod son of Zeus - is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius.  Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans.  Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon.  The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld.

Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares, switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans' strength grows stronger as Zeus' remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth.  Enlisting the help of Queen Andromeda, Poseidon's demigod son, Argenor, and fallen god Hephaestus, Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind.

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: LA).

Stars Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Rosamund Pike, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy

GENRE:
Action Adventure Fantasy

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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American Reunion (CTC)

5 April 2012

SYNOPSIS:
In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion.  In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn't and that time and distance can't break the bonds of friendship.

It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity.  In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye.  Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler's mom.  Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about - and get inspired by - the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend.

Directed by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg.

Stars Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddis Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Coolidge

GENRE:
Comedy

CLASSIFICATION:

DURATION:
TBA mins

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