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We Bought A Zoo
Turn off the lights
SYNOPSIS:
Acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.
Release Date:02/05
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church
Rated:PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language)
Genre:Family
Duration:124 mins
War Horse
Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.
SYNOPSIS:
DreamWorks Pictures' "War Horse," director Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war-- a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
Release Date: 02/05
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and David Thewlis
Rated:M (War violence and themes)
Genre:Drama
Duration:146 mins
The Descendants
What's the price of loyalty?
SYNOPSIS:
From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning SIDEWAYS, set in Hawaii, THE DESCENDANTS is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Release Date: 09/05
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller
Rated:M (Mature themes and coarse language)
Genre:Drama
Duration:115 mins
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
They're on the case again
SYNOPSIS:
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.”
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large--Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)--and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Around the globe, headlines break the news: a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate... No one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events--no one, that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes, who has discerned a deliberate web of death and destruction. At its center sits a singularly sinister spider: Moriarty.
Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany and finally Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead, and moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan. If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but alter the course of history.
Release Date: 10/05
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Jared Harris
Rated:M (Violence)
Genre:Action
Duration:129 mins
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
What are you really worth?
SYNOPSIS:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carre's classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan.
The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus - as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses. Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government's behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England.
Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla. The mole's trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and - Smiley himself.
Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate...
Release Date: 17/05
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy
Rated:MA15+ (Strong violence)
Genre:Drama
Duration:127 mins
Hugo
Let the countdown begin
SYNOPSIS:
Throughout his extraordinary career, Academy Award-wining director Martin Scorsese has brought his unique vision and dazzling gifts to life in a series of unforgettable films. This holiday season the legendary storyteller invites you to join him on a thrilling journey to a magical world with his first-ever 3D film, based on Brian Selznick's award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret." HUGO is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can call home.
Release Date:23/05
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Christopher Lee
Rated:PG (Mild themes)
Genre:Family
Duration:127 mins
Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chip Wrecked
The Chipmunks go overboard
SYNOPSIS:
The vacationing Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a remote island. As the 'Munks and Chipettes try various schemes to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Release Date: 23/05
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney
Rated:G (General)
Genre:Family
Duration:87 mins
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
She's coming
SYNOPSIS:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian.
Release Date:23/05
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Christopher Plummer
Rated:MA15+ (Strong sexual violence, themes, sex scenes and violence)
Genre:Action
Duration:158 mins
A Few Best Men
For better or worse
SYNOPSIS:
When David travels to Australia to marry the love of his life, his three best men give a whole new meaning to the phrase “for better or worse”. The chaos-filled wedding is a classic culture clash between his friends and her family… because blood is thicker than water and so are David’s mates!
Release Date: 25/05
Director: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Xavier Samuel, Rebel Wilson and Olivia Newton-John
Rated:MA15+ (Strong crude humour and drug references)
Genre:Comedy
Duration:97 mins
