MOVIES OUT NOW - MAY 2012
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Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
Gordon-Levitt stars as Adam, a 27-year-old diagnosed with the Big C. Struggling not only to beat the disease but come to terms with it, Adam relies on help from his mum (Houston), his therapist, Katie (Kendrick) and his best friend Kyle (Rogen), who uses the illness to pick up women.
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Check out Best In Show where we share our picks of the finest entertainment on board. This month, we look at politics and power in the superb new series Boss, we shine an old-fashioned spotlight on fabulous Oscar winner The Artist and whizz you through the legendary Best in Show Top Ten, counting down yet more films and programmes we don’t want you to miss.
Chronicle
Director: Josh Trank
Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell
A superhero movie but not as we know it, Chronicle discards the Lycra and asks: what would really happen if teenagers got superpowers? It's all fun and games at first, but as their powers grow, so does conflict between them and things get very dark, very quickly.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Director: Sean Durkin
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes
A nail-biting and occasionally terrifying psychological thriller starring Olsen as Martha, who has recently escaped from a dangerous cult, and is trying to reclaim her life. However, when she goes to stay with her sister in a secluded lakeside house, a series of strange happenings lead her to believe that the cult is out to reclaim her.
A Dangerous Method
Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender
This typically dark offering from director Cronenberg stars Knightley as the woman who comes between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, and Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis.
Warrior
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Stars: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte
Tom Hardy plays hard-as-nails cagefighter Tom Conlon. Tom and estranged brother, Brendan (Edgerton) are both haunted by their traumatic childhood Both men have found a way to deal with their frustrations and immerse themselves in the world of ultimate fighting.
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
Spielberg's adaptation harnesses the vigour of Herge's artwork as well as delivering on the story front, as Tintin (Bell), Snowy and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt. Trouble is, the evil Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Craig) wants the booty.
Albert Nobbs
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Stars: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Brendan Gleeson
Close is the eponymous Nobbs, a woman posing as a man in order to find work in 19th century Ireland. For years the subterfuge remains in place - until Albert meets another male-female interloper (McTeer).
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Director: Mike Mitchell
Stars: Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate
When their riotous behaviour gets them shipwrecked on a desert island, the musical chipmunks meet at castaway called Zoe, who turns out to be more than a match for them...
Anonymous
Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis
Independence Day and 2012 director Emmerich takes a break from destroying cities for this What if...? thriller imagining that the 17th Earl of Oxford (Ifans) was the real author of Shakespeare's works.
The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman
An unashamed homage to the films of the 1920s. Starring Jean Dujardin as George Valentine, a silent-movie legend. But as the film industry moves to talking pictures, George sees his career decline.
Big Miracle
Director: Ken Kwapis
Stars: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Ted Danson
Adam (Krasinski) is a small town reporter who finds 3 whales trapped in the Alaskan ice. With the help of his ex girlfriend and Greenpeace activist Rachel (Barrymore), they set out to save the poor, trapped creatures, and cause a giant media frenzy in the process.
The Change-Up
Director: David Dobkin
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde
Crude body-swap comedy starring Reynolds and Bateman as best friends Dave and Mitch. Though Dave is an overworked married man and Mitch a semi-employed playboy, both envy the other one. All that changes when they wake up one morning in each others' bodies, and neither like it very much.
Contagion
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
From the Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh comes this slick, fast paced disaster movie. Featuring an all star cast, this movie throws you straight into the action as a new lethal virus, which kills within days, infects the world. As people start to drop like flies, the medical authorities rush to find a cure and panic spreads quicker than the virus.
Contraband
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster
Contraband is not to be missed if it's edge-of-the-seat fare you're after. Wahlberg play a reformed smuggler Chris, who must pull one last job, outrunning brutal drug lords, cops and hit-men, to save his wife and kids.
Crazy Stupid Love
Director: John Requa
Stars: Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling
Cal (Carell) and his wife Emily (Moore) live the all American dream that is until Emily revels that she wants a divorce! Fortysomething, straight laced Cal then finds himself thrown into the single scene and accepts the help of local lothario Jacob (Gosling) in the art of seduction.
The Descendants
Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges
Winner of best drama and best actor, for Clooney, at the Golden Globes, The Descendants revolves around a lawyer makes some uncomfortable discoveries about his own family - not least that his comatose wife was having an affair.
The Devil Inside
Director: William Brent Bell
Stars: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth
A terrifying horror film following a woman who becomes involved in a number of unsanctioned exorcisms in Italy, while unravelling her mother's turbulent past involving murder. Was she really possessed by the devil when she did it?
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock
Hanks and Bullock are superb in this drama about a boy unravelling a secret left by his late father, a 9/11 victim. But it is Thomas as Oskar who steals the film, delivering one of the best debut performances in recent memory.Warning: Contains scenes that may upset nervous passengers.
Footloose
Director: Craig Brewer
Stars: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
This remake of the 1984 crowd-pleaser sees Kenny Wormald stepping into Kevin Bacon's shoes as Ren MacCormack, the kid who's horrified to discover that his new hometown has banned music and dancing.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard
Tense, explicit serial killer thriller, with Craig as the reporter tracking down a missing girl with help from teenage computer hacker, Lisbeth (the Oscar-nominated Mara).
The Grey
Director: Joe Carnahan
Stars: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo
Neeson finds himself the leader of a group of rag-tag oil-rig workers stranded in Alaska after a plane crash. Injury and the bitterly inhospitable weather however take a back seat, when the survivors discover a pack of bloodthirsty wolves are stalking their every step…Warning: Contains scenes that may upset nervous passengers.
Happy Feet Two
Director: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink
The groovy penguins are back in this feel-good animated musical. Mumble and Gloria are bringing up Erik, who has difficulty fitting into the all-singing, all-dancing world of the Emperor penguins and so takes off for adventures in far-flung lands...
Haywire
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender
Carano, a former mixed martial-arts star and American Gladiator, plays a highly trained covert operative who double-crossed, finds herself the target of assassins. Needless to say, she can handle herself, and these are some of the best fight scenes you'll see all year.
Hugo
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloe Grace Moretz
Set in 1930's Paris, the young, orphaned Hugo (Butterfield) lives alone in a Parisian train station. But when he is befriended by the young, free spirited Isabelle (Moretz), they embark on a magical and mysterious adventure…
In Time
Director: Andrew Niccol
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy
Intriguing sci-fi thriller set in a future where aging stops at 25, and citizens watch their life tick away. But when Timberlake's Will gets a time windfall he decides to bring the system down - with the help of beautiful heiress Seyfried.
The Iron Lady
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant
Streep has of course been Oscar-nominated for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in this biopic that sees the ageing ex-PM looking back on her life, her career, and her relationship with the dear, departed Denis (Broadbent).
J. Edgar
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench
Clint Eastwood's masterful biopic sees the legendary FBI director brought to life, complete with dark, untold secrets, by Golden Globe-nominated DiCaprio, who gives a riveting, powerhouse performance universally acclaimed by critics.
Jack & Jill
Director: Dennis Dugan
Stars: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino
Sandler stars as Jack AND Jill in this comedy about a successful advertising executive who dreads the yearly visit of his identical twin sister, while Pacino is in fine, scenery-chewing form as an irrepressible womanizer.
Jane Eyre
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
In this latest adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte's timeless classic, rising star Mia Wasikowska stars as Jane. After being sent to a stark boarding school by her aunt, Jane emerges as a fine governess and finds employment at Thornfield Hall. It doesn't take long for the master of the house (Fassbender) to fall under the spell of his modest yet captivating governess.
Johnny English Reborn
Director: Oliver Parker
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West
Rowan Atkinson's bungling secret agent returns for this Bond-spoofing sequel. After a period of retraining, Johnny is assigned and has to go up against international hitmen planning to assassinate the Chinese premier - and the chaos begins...
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