Poseidon

Date: 14th May 2006, Sunday
Cinema: Cathay Cineleisure
Time: 1.55am
With: Melvin Ho

It's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic.

One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks.

Tonight, many of the ship's guests have gathered to greet the new year in style in the magnificent Main Ballroom. They raise champagne glasses as Captain Michael Bradford (ANDRE BRAUGHER) delivers a holiday toast and the band (led by FERGIE of the Black Eyed Peas) rolls into a version of Auld Lang Syne.

Meanwhile, on the bridge, the First Officer senses that something is wrong. Scanning the horizon, he sees it – a Rogue Wave; a monstrous wall of water over one hundred feet high, bearing down on them with tremendous speed. He tries to steer the ship away from maximum impact but it's too late.

The wave strikes with colossal force, pitching the ship heavily to port before rolling it completely upside down. Passengers and crew are thrown into free fall, crushed by debris or dragged into the sea as water bursts in through shattered windows. Supports collapse, broken gas lines ignite flash fires and lights fail, leaving vast sections of the ship in darkness and chaos. In its aftermath a few hundred survivors are left to huddle in the still-intact Main Ballroom, now resting below the waterline.

They should stay together, the captain maintains, and wait here for rescue. One man, professional gambler Dylan Johns (JOSH LUCAS), prefers to test the odds alone. Ignoring orders, he prepares to exit the Ballroom and find his own way to safety, but is collared by eight-year-old Conor (JIMMY BENNETT), who asks that Dylan take him and his mother Maggie (JACINDA BARRETT) along. Fast behind them is Robert Ramsey (KURT RUSSELL), anxious to search for his daughter Jennifer (EMMY ROSSUM) and her fiancé Christian (MIKE VOGEL). Only an hour earlier this young couple had found it impossible to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges.

Wary of alliances, Dylan reluctantly leads the small band of survivors upward through the bowels of the ship. Those who choose to join them rather than wait below include a shy stowaway (MIA MAESTRO), a suicidal man (RICHARD DREYFUSS) who re-discovers his will to live and a young waiter with knowledge of the ship's layout (FREDDY RODRIGUEZ).

Determined to fight their way to the surface, they must forge a path together through layers of wreckage as the ship continues to sink. Bonds form quickly in this journey of vertical climbs, dead ends and sheer drops. And trust proves vital.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Intense Sequences
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Joshua Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Release Date: 11 May 2006
Running Time: NIL

http://www2.warnerbros.com/poseidon/

Mission: Impossible III

Date: 7th May 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.10am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: G:06G:07 (Hall 1)

Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt who faces the mission of his life in Mission: Impossible III. Director J.J. Abrams (TV series Lost, Alias) brings his unique blend of action and drama to this billion-dollar franchise. A stellar cast includes this year's Academy Award Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Matchpoint), Keri Russell (Felicity) and Asian star Maggie Q. Look out for more fast action, unbelieveable stunts, great locations (including Shanghai and Berlin) and exciting plot twists on 3 May 2006!


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip S. Hoffman
Director: J.J. Abrams
Release Date: 3 May 2006
Running Time: 120 mins

http://www.missionimpossible.com/

Take The Lead

Date: 23rd April 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.20am
With: Melvin Ho

Inspired by a true story, Antonio Banderas stars as internationally acclaimed ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane in the family drama Take The Lead. The film revolves around a professional dancer who volunteers to teach in the New York City public school system. But when his classic methods clash with his students' hip hop instincts, he teams up with them to create a new style of dance and becomes their mentor in the process. Take The Lead co-stars Alfre Woodard and marks the feature directing debut of veteran music video helmer Liz Friedlander.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Drama, Dance
Main Cast: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Alfre Woodard
Director: Liz Friedlander
Release Date: 13 April 2006
Running Time: 120 mins

http://www.taketheleadmovie.com/

Firewall

Date: 16th April 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Great World City
Time: 12.20am
With: Melvin Ho

Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield (HARRISON FORD) works for the Seattle-based Landrock Pacific Bank. A trusted top-ranking executive, he has built his career and reputation on designing the most effective anti-theft computer systems in the industry, protecting the bank’s financial holdings from the constant threat of increasingly sophisticated internet hackers with his complex network of tracers, access codes and firewalls.

Jack’s position affords a comfortable life for him, his architect wife Beth (VIRGINIA MADSEN) and their two young children – a standard of living that includes a beautiful home in a residential community just outside the city.

But there’s a vulnerability in Jack’s system that he has not accounted for: himself. It’s a vulnerability that one very ruthless and resourceful thief is poised to exploit.

Bill Cox (PAUL BETTANY) has been studying Jack and his family for many months; monitoring their online activity, listening to their calls and learning their daily routines with an arsenal of digital and video recorders and parabolic microphones that tap into the most personal of information. He knows the names of their children’s friends, their medical histories, and the I.D. code for the security station that guards their neighborhood.

Having spent the better part of a year methodically infiltrating every aspect of Jack’s identity, Cox is now ready to make good on his investment.

Leading a tight team of mercenary accomplices, he seizes control of the Stanfield house, making Beth and the kids terrified hostages in their own home and Jack his unwilling pawn in a scheme to steal $100 million from the Landrock Pacific Bank.

With every possible escape route shrewdly anticipated and blocked by Cox, every potential ally out of reach and the lives of his wife and children at stake, Jack is forced to find a breach in his own formidable security system to siphon funds into his captor’s offshore account – incriminating himself in the process and eradicating any electronic evidence that Cox ever existed.

Under constant surveillance, he has only hours to accomplish the risky transactions while desperately hunting for a loophole in the thief’s own impenetrable wall of subterfuge and false identities to save his family and beat Cox at his own game.

http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/

Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Violence
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen
Director: Richard Loncraine
Release Date: 13 April 2006
Running Time: 105 minutes

Inside Man

Date: 9th April 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 12.20am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: P:10P:09 (Hall 5)

It all starts out simply enough: four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a surgically planned siege, and the 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in an airtight heist.

NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and Bill Mitchell (CHIWETEL EJIOFOR) are dispatched to the scene with orders to establish contact with the heist's ringleader, Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), and ensure safe release of the hostages. Working alongside Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Captain John Darius (WILLEM DAFOE), all are hopeful that the situation can be peacefully diffused and that control of the bank and release of those inside can be secured in short order.

But things don't progress as planned. Russell proves an unexpectedly canny opponent—clever, calm and totally in command—a puppet master with a meticulous plan to disorient and confuse not only the hostages, but also the authorities. Outside, the crowd of New Yorkers grows as the situation becomes increasingly tense, with Frazier's superiors becoming more concerned about his ability to keep the standoff from spiraling out of control.

The robbers appear to consistently be one step ahead of the police, outwitting Frazier and Mitchell at every turn. Frazier's suspicions that more is at work than anyone perceives are justified with the entry of Madeline White (Jodie Foster), a power player with shadowy objectives, who requests a private meeting with Russell. The chairman of the bank's board of directors, controlling entrepreneur Arthur Case (CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER), is also uniquely interested in the moment-to-moment happenings inside the branch.

But just what are the robbers after? Why has nothing worked to alleviate the standoff, which stretches on hour after hour? Frazier is convinced that invisible strings are being pulled and secret negotiations are taking place as the powder keg situation grows more unstable by the moment. With loyalties and motives called into question, the detective engages in a risky game of cat-and-mouse—but with the rules of the game ever changing, one wrong move may take the volatile match closer to a disastrous and deadly conclusion.

http://www.insideman.net/

Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Drama
Main Cast: Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster
Director: Spike Lee
Release Date: 6 April 2006
Running Time: 129 minutes

Dorm

Date: 18th March 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 12.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: N:08N:07 (Hall 1)

"I still remember very well, the first time I left home…” “I was 12 and studying in 7th grade. In the middle of the semester, I was un-riotously transferred to a new boarding school…the reason…to be away from home…to get away from my father. You might be curious about this, but I am not surprised because it is only me who knows his secret.” “Being transferred in the middle of a semester is really cruel. I have to get used to new classes and a new dorm that does not feel like home, and the worse part is, the new bed that I’m sleeping on, who knows how many people slept on it before me. For years there has been this rumor floating around that there used to be a pool here, where children used to swim during the weekends, but was closed. The rumor is it’s because a kid drowned!” “Do you believe in this old school's tale?” “I know a secret and if you promise not to tell anyone, I will tell you”

Genre: Horror
Main Cast: Jintara Sukapat, Charlie Trairat, Sirarath Jianthavorn
Director: Songyos Sugmakanan
Release Date: 16 March 2006

Underworld: Evolution*

Date: 12th March 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 12.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: N:04N:05 (Hall 3)

Bloodthirsty vengeance is measured out in buckets, not spoonfuls for this hard-hitting vampire movie sequel. The story picks up right where the first UNDERWORLD left off, in the midst of a war between Lycans (werewolves) and vampires, with the gorgeous death-dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale), on the run with her vamp-wolf hybrid lover, Michael (Scott Speedman). This go-'round, there are flashbacks to three centuries earlier and the separation of two ultra-bad brothers, one vampire and one Lycan. The Lycan gets locked in a hidden tomb/prison and the feud begins. In the present, the winged vamp brother Marcus (Tony Curran) is determined to find his Lycan sibling and free him, which would wreak unimaginable havoc on the world. Selene's got to stop it, and the result is mayhem, with great gun battles, bashings and hackings, mysterious artifacts, orgies, and sneaking around in the dripping wet crypts and catacombs.

Running Time: 106 minutes

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworldevolution/

Wolf Creek

Date: 4th March 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Marina
Time: 12.20am
With: Melvin Ho

It was supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime in the Australian Outback – full of fun, sun and adventure. But what happened to a trio of twenty-something backpackers took a wrenching detour into the depths of unrelenting terror. Based on true events, WOLF CREEK is the haunting story of their unthinkable ordeal – a mounting white-knuckle nightmare so real it was destined to become horror legend. WOLF CREEK is a startlingly intense motion picture experience of rapidly escalating dread and suspense. At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the film – written and directed by Melbourne's Greg McLean – was acclaimed as a daring, original blend of visually hypnotic thriller with unbearably scary movie.

The chillingly believable events begin as freewheeling, college-aged pals Liz (Cassandra Magrath), Kristy (Kestie Morassi) and Ben (Nathan Phillips) head out for a holiday hike in stunning Wolf Creek National Park to see its mysterious meteor crater. When they return, their car won’t start. Trapped in the vast emptiness of the wilderness – all they can do is wait for rescue.

Luckily, as night falls, along comes colorful local bushman Mick (John Jarratt) and his massive truck, offering a tow to safety. But as the sun comes up the next morning, it becomes shockingly apparent that Mick has no intention of fixing their car or letting them leave the Outback...ever again. As Liz, Kristy and Ben search for any conceivable way out, WOLF CREEK plunges towards an unforgettable climax.

http://www.wolfcreekthemovie.com/

Match Point

Date: 14th February 2006
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 9.30pm
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: H:08H:09 (Hall 4)

A young tennis instructor and former tennis pro Jonathon Chris becomes involved with the family he is coaching. As his star rises in upper class circles, he becomes romantically entangled with two different women, but his clandestine affairs lead him into an ever deepening quagmire where the only way out seems to be murder.

http://www.matchpoint.dreamworks.com/main.html

Memoirs Of A Geisha

Date: 21th January 2006
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 10.55am
With: Celeste Tan
Seat: P:09P:08 (Hall 5)

Arthur Golden's blockbuster bestseller, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, has been brilliantly brought to the big screen by Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The film opens in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929, where two sisters, Chiyo and Satsu, are sold by their troubled father to people who place Chiyo in a classy geisha house known as an okiya in Gion and Satsu in a much more vulgar and dangerous district. Chiyo becomes a maid to Hatsumomo, a cold, controlling, and calculating geisha who is instantly jealous of Chiyo's unusual, beautiful eyes and childish innocence. Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin, another maid at the okiya, but the two are soon driven apart. Chiyo is shown compassion by the Chairman and another, more successful geisha, Mameha, who takes her under her wing as her "little sister," furthering the battle between Chiyo, now called Sayuri, and Hatsumomo. As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha, learning how to walk, talk, dance, and serve (up to a point) in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients, World War II looms on the horizon, threatening to upend Japan and its old ways.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/memoirsofageisha/

In Her Shoes

Date: 18th January 2005 , Wednesday
Cinema: GV Grand
Time: 9.30pm
With: Daniel Ng

Directed by Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson ("8 Mile," "Wonder Boys," "L.A. Confidential") from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich") based on Jennifer Weiner's best selling novel, "In Her Shoes" is the alternately hilarious and heart-rending story of two sisters with nothing in common but size 8 1/2 feet. Maggie Feller (Cameron Diaz) is a stunning male magnet whose reading disorder has made it impossible for her to hold down even a minimum wage job for longer than 3 months. Maggie's older sister, Rose (Toni Collette), is a Princeton educated attorney at a top Philadelphia law firm whose non-stop work schedule and constant weight struggle has left her dating life virtually non-existent. After a calamitous falling out, the two sisters travel a bumpy road toward true appreciation for one another - aided along the way by the discovery of the maternal grandmother (Shirley Maclaine) they thought was dead. It is through their re-connection with their grandmother that Maggie and Rose learn how to make peace with themselves and each other.

http://www.inhershoesmovie.com/

Derailed

Date: 7th January 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Plaza
Time: 4.20pm
With: Celeste Tan

"Derailed" is a suspense thriller about ad exec and family man Charles Schine (Clive Owen) who meets business woman, Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), on the commuter train to Chicago. Flirtation quickly escalates, but their fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal, LaRoche (Vincent Cassel), blackmails them, promising to reveal their indiscretion and threatening their families if they to not pay him. With their lives thrown terrifyingly off-course, they must figure out how to turn the tables on LaRoche and save their families.

http://www.weinsteinco.com/derailed/

King Kong

Date: 31st December 2005, Saturday
Cinema: GV Jurong Point
Time: 2.50pm
With: Ian and Melissa

Three-time Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) directs King Kong. The screenplay by Jackson, Walsh (three-time Oscar® winner) and Boyens (Academy Award® winner) is based on the original story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace, which became the classic 1933 RKO Radio Pictures film, directed by adventurers Cooper and Ernest B. Schoesdack. The RKO King Kong has been designated by the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress as one of the 100 Greatest Films and chosen by that organization for permanent preservation as a national treasure.

http://www.kingkongmovie.com/