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FRANKENWEENIE
Young filmmaker and scientist Victor Frankenstein lives with his parents, Ben and Susan Frankenstein (Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara) and dog Sparky in the quiet town of New Holland. One day, victor plays baseball with Sparky but this one is hit by a car while pursuing the ball. Inspired by his science teacher Mr. Rzykruski's demon-stration of the effect of electricity on dead frogs, a de-pressed Victor digs up Sparky's corpse, brings him to his makeshift laboratory in the attic, and successfully reani-mates him with lightning. One day, the undead Sparky escapes from the attic and explores the neighborhood… PG, 1 hr. 30 min. Horror, Animation, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy Directed By:Tim Burton Written By:Tim Burton, John August
BRAVE:
Merida, a Scottish princess whose interests include arch-ery and horse riding, is told by her mother that her inter-ests are not what a princess should be doing and that she has to marry. But Merida chooses to defy her mother. And when she and her mother have an argument Merida rides off and meets a witch. She asks for a spell to change her mother. And the witch gives her a cake which she gives to her mother but the change is not what she was hoping for. So she tries to find a way to fix it… PG, 1 hr. 33 min. Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy Directed By:Brenda Chapman , Mark Andrews
THE ADVENTURE OF TINTIN: THE
SECRET OF THE UNICORN.
Intrepid reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock’s ancestor... 45 min. Kids & Family Directed by: Steven Spielberg. Written by: Hergé.
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC
In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping , she can't seem to break her habit for making impulsive purchases, and while she's always dressed in the latest styles, her credit card bills are as thick as a telephone book. Rebecca becomes an advice columnist at a financial magazine published by the same company as her favor-ite fashion magazine. But her bank account is still bone dry, Rebecca gradually begins to reassess her priorities in life… PG, 1 hr. 52 min. Drama, Comedy Directed By:P.J. Hogan Written By:Tim Firth, Tracey Jackson
MIRROR, MIRROR
After a beloved King vanishes, his ruthless wife seizes control of the kingdom and keeps her beautiful 18-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, hidden away in the pal-ace. But when the princess attracts the attention of a charm-ing and wealthy visiting prince, the jealous Queen ban-ishes the girl to a nearby forest. Taken in by a band of rebellious but kind-hearted dwarfs, Snow White changes into a brave young woman determined to save her country from the Queen... PG, 1 hr. 35 min. Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Tarsem Singh Written By:Melisa Wallack, Jason Keller
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES:
A supernatural love story set in the South, "Beautiful Creatures" tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respec-tive families, their history and their town... PG-13, 1 hr. 58 min. Drama, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Richard LaGravenese Written By:Richard LaGravenese
ICE AGE 4
CONTINENTAL DRIFT:
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon a new adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world. PG, 1 hr. 27 min. Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy Directed By:Steve Martino , Michael Thurmeier
JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN.
Rowan Atkinson plays the role of an improbable secret agent who is obviously oblivious of fear or danger (read: stupid). Watch him as he goes on a mission to stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.
It is a comedy spy-thriller jam-packed with Rowan At-kinson’s classic humour, action, high technology, wee bit of romance, and more humour. This guy is just so capa-ble of making you laugh even at the most tensed mo-ments.
If you’re looking for something lighthearted this week, don’t miss Johnny English Reborn! PG, 1 hr. 41 min. Mystery & Suspense, Comedy Directed By:Oliver Parker Written By:Hamish McColl, Neal Purvis
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN The hallowed halls of the Natural History Museum are lined with the most amazing things - wild-eyed prehis-toric creatures, fierce ancient warriors, long lost tribes, African animals and history's legendary heroes - all fro-zen forever in time. Or... are they? In this action-adventure-comedy, the new night guard at the Natural History Museum is about to discover that when the visitors go home at the end of the day, the real adventure begins - as the museum's stuffed, waxed and well-preserved residents come out to play… PG, 1 hr. 45 min. Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy Directed By:Shawn Levy Written By:Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
REMEMBER ME
His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him. Tyler wasn't looking for love, but that's exactly what he found when he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Enchanted by her beauty and inspired by her spirit, Tyler finds that his strange life suddenly makes sense when he's around Ally. As their relationship grows, Tyler learns to live his life with passion, and value the little things. When buried secrets threaten to tear the young couple apart, Tyler realizes that sometimes love is worth fighting for. PG-13, 1 hr. 52 min. Drama, Romance Directed By:Allen Coulter Written By:Will Fetters
AUSTRALIA
Romantic movie which stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch, and Hugh Jackman as the rough-and-tumble cattle driver who helps protect her property from greedy English cattle barons. As the pair drives 2,000 head of cattle hundreds of miles across the treacherous Australian outback, they experi-ence the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces -- who just a few months prior launched a devastating attack on Pearl Harbor... PG-13, 2 hr. 45 min. Action & Adventure, Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Classics Directed By:Baz Luhrmann Written By:Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie
AVATAR
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home … PG-13, 2 hr. 40 min. Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:James Cameron Written By:James Cameron
THE AVENGERS
Marvel Studios presents Marvel's The Avengers-the Su-per Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Cap-tain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the in-ternational peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. He brings together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki and his army… PG-13, 2 hr. 22 min. Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Joss Whedon Written By:Joss Whedon, Zak Penn
BLACK SWAN A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. BLACK SWAN follows the story of Nina (Portman), a bal-lerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan… R, 1 hr. 48 min. Mystery & Suspense, Drama Directed By:Darren Aronofsky
SKYFALL In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost... PG-13, 2 hr. 25 min. Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure Directed By:Sam Mendes Written By:Ian Fleming, Robert Wade, John Logan, Neal Purvis
ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER
Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmam-betov reinvent the time-honored genre and present the terrifying creatures of the night as they were meant to be experienced -- as fierce, visceral, intense and bloodthristy. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter brings to the screen the secret life of our nation's favorite president...as his-tory's greatest hunter of the undead... R, 1 hr. 45 min. Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Scien-ce Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Timur Bekmambetov Written By:Seth Grahame-Smith
EXPENDABLES 2 BACK FOR WAR
The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) -- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard -- are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Ex-pendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy pay check for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Ex-pendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile terri-tory ... R, 1 hr. 42 min. Action & Adventure Directed By:Simon West Written By:Sylvester Stallone
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Hunts-man, Kristen Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to de-stroy her. But what the wicked queen never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dis-patched to kill her. Sam Claflin joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power.
PG-13, 2 hr. 8 min. Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Rupert Sanders Written By:Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini
TOTAL RECALL
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaa-gen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. PG-13, 2 hr. 1 min. Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Len Wiseman Written By:Kurt Wimmer
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ON STRANGER TIDES
Johnny Depp returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed adventure. Crossing paths with the enigmatic Angelica (Penélope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love-or if she's a ruthless con artist who's us-ing him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the "Queen Anne's Re-venge," the ship of the legendary pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adven-ture in which he doesn't know whom to fear more: Blackbeard or Angelica, with whom he shares a mysteri-ous past… PG-13, 2 hr. 17 min. Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy Directed By:Rob Marshall Written By:Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio
IRON MAN 3 Marvel's "Iron Man 3" stars brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a quest to find those re-sponsible. This journey, will test his courage. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, rely-ing on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man? Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Shane Black Written By:Shane Black, Drew Pearce
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Based on the bestseller, Water for Elephants presents an unexpected romance in a uniquely compelling setting. Veterinary school student Jacob meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer in a circus of a bygone era. They discover beauty amidst the world of the Big Top, and come together through their compassion for a special elephant. Against all odds -- including the wrath of Marlena's char-ismatic but dangerous husband, August -- Jacob and Marlena find lifelong love. PG-13, 2 hr. Drama Directed By:Francis Lawrence Written By:Richard LaGravenese
THE GREAT GATSBY "The Great Gatsby" is about a writer named Nick Car-raway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her aristocratic husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears wit-ness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he writes a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. Drama, Romance
Directed By:Baz Luhrmann
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
CITY OF BONES.
When her mom is attacked and taken from their home in
New York City by a demon, a seemingly ordinary fifteen-
year old teenage girl, Clary Fray, finds out truths about
her past and bloodline on her quest to get her back, that
changes her entire life.
She discovers that she has descended from a sect of half-
angel warriors who protect the world from demons.
She meets three teenagers covered with strange tattoos
and weird weapons. They are the shadowhunters who
kill the demons who are invisible to ordinary people.
One of them is called Jace ...
Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Harald Zwart Written By:Cassandra Clare, I. Marlene King
MR & MRS SMITH Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of love-birds discover they've both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after five or six years. Both wish for more excitement in their relationship. Both Jane and John are world-class assassins who will take on perilous missions for the right price, but neither is aware of the other's secret life - Jane thinks her hus-band runs a successful construction company, and John believes his wife works on Wall Street. However, when John and Jane are both assigned to take out the same target, one Benjamin Danz (Adam Brody), they become aware of each other's secret lives, and sud-denly both their careers and their marriage go through some dramatic and potentially deadly changes…
PG-13, 1 hr. 32 min. Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy Directed By:Doug Liman Written By:Simon Kinberg
SHERLOCK HOLMES A GAME OF SHADOWS
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)-and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of con-science, may actually give him an advantage over the re-nowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evi-dence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Mar-san), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder-a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction-all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history. PG-13, 2 hr. 8 min. Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure Directed By:Guy Ritchie Written By:Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney
SEX AND THE CITY 2
The ladies are venturing outside New York City for the adventure of a lifetime. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall) gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they deduce that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to avoid their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down... R, 2 hr. 27 min. Comedy, Romance Directed By:Michael Patrick King Written By:Michael Patrick King
G.I. JOE RETALIATION
In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence... PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min. Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Jon M. Chu Written By:Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
THE HOST
What if everything you love was taken from you in the blink of an eye? "The Host" is the next epic love story from the creator of the "Twilight Saga," worldwide best-selling author, Stephenie Meyer. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about - Jared (Max Irons), Ian (Jake Abel), her brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and her Uncle Jeb (William Hurt) , proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. PG-13, 2 hr. 5 min. Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy Directed By:Andrew Niccol Written By:Andrew Niccol
WARM BODIES
A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special rela-tionship in their struggle for survival, R becomes in-creasingly more human - setting off an exciting, roman-tic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world. PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min. Comedy Directed By:Jonathan Levine
