Curse of the Golden Flower

Date: 23rd December 2006, Saturday
Cinema : Shaw Choa Chu Kang
Hall Number : 1
Time : 9.30pm
Seat Number(s) : H:13 and H:14
With: Yi Hui


China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The EMPEROR (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, PRINCE JAI (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing EMPRESS (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous.

For many years, the Empress and CROWN PRINCE WAN (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love CHAN (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor's daughter.

Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress's health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path?

The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the IMPERIAL DOCTOR (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor's family from the Palace to a remote area.

While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, JIANG SHI (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises.

Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai's loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner?

Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Battle Scenes
Genre: Drama/ Action
Main Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Jay Chou, Gong Li
Director: Yimou Zhang
Release Date: 21 December 2006
Running Time: 113 minutes

http://www.sonyclassics.com/curseofthegoldenflower/

Night at the Museum

Date: 23rd December 2006, Saturday
Cinema : Shaw Choa Chu Kang
Hall Number : 1
Time : 7.25pm
Seat Number(s) : D:13 and E:14
With: Yi Hui

Good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley, despite being perpetually down on his luck, thinks he's destined for something big. But even he could never have imagined how big, when he accepts what appears to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history. During Larry's watch, extraordinary things begin to occur: Mayans, Roman Gladiators, and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; in his quest for fire, a Neanderthal burns down his own display; Attila the Hun pillages his neighboring exhibits, and a T-Rex reminds everyone why he's history's fiercest predator.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Comedy
Main Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais
Director: Shawn Levy
Release Date: 21 December 2006
Running Time: 110 minutes

http://www.nightatthemuseum.com/

Charlotte's Web

Date: 21st December 2006, Wednesday
Cinema : Cathay Orchard
Hall Number : Level 4, Manhatten
Time : 7pm
Seat Number(s) : Free Seating
With: Mummy and Ian


The classic story of loyalty, trust, and sacrifice comes to life in this live-action adaptation. Fern is one of only two living beings who sees that Wilbur is a special animal as she raises him, the runt of the litter, into a terrific and radiant pig. As Wilbur moves into a new barn, he begins a second profound friendship with the most unlikely of creatures--a spider named Charlotte--and their bond inspires the animals around them to come together as a family. When the word gets out that Wilbur's days are numbered, it seems that only a miracle will save his life.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Animated/ Family
Main Cast: Dakota Fanning, Adrian Roberts, Julia Roberts
Director: Gary Winick
Release Date: 20 December 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes

http://www.charlotteswebmovie.com/

Casino Royale

Date: 19th November 2006, Sunday
Cinema : NEW STADIUM CINEMA, GV VIVOCITY
Hall Number : 4
Time : 12:20AM
Seat Number(s) : E:17E:18
With: Melvin

James Bond is a new recruit at the MI6 team. He's reckless and careless and on a mission. After just earning his 00 status with his first 2 kills he is sent to the Bahamas where he is to verse Le Chiffre in a game of Texas Hold 'Em Poker. Although Bond must ensure that Le Chiffre's death comes at the hands of his own people.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Violence
Genre: Action/ Adventure
Main Cast: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green
Director: Martin Campbell
Release Date: 16 November 2006
Running Time: 45 minutes

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/site/

The Guardian

Date: 4th November 2006, Saturday
Cinema : NEW STADIUM CINEMA, GV VIVOCITY
Hall Number : 3
Time : 11:45PM
Seat Number(s) : F:07F:06
With: Melvin

After losing his crew in a fatal crash, legendary Rescue Swimmer, Ben Randall (KEVIN COSTNER), is sent to teach at “A” School, an elite training program for Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers. Wrestling with the loss of his crew members, he throws himself into teaching, turning the program upside down with his unorthodox training methods.

While there, he encounters a young, cocky swim champ, Jake Fischer (ASHTON KUTCHER), who is driven to be the best. During training, Randall helps mold Jake’s character, combining his raw talent with the heart and dedication required of a Rescue Swimmer.

Upon graduation, Jake follows Randall to Kodiak, Alaska, where they face the inherent dangers of the Bering Sea. In his initial solo rescue, Jake learns firsthand from Randall, the true meaning of heroism and sacrifice, echoing the Swimmer’s motto...”So Others May Live!”


Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Neal McDonough, Clancy Brown, Melissa Sagemiller, Brian Geraghty and Sela Ward
RunTime: 140 minutes
Release Date: 26 October 2006
Rating: PG

http://theguardian.movies.go.com/

The Prestige

Date: 29th October 2006, Sunday
Cinema : NEW STADIUM CINEMA, GV VIVOCITY
Hall Number : 4
Time : 12:30AM
Seat Number(s) : E:14E:13
With: Melvin

From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins) comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first meet as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) are competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry, making them fierce enemies for life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Full of twists and turns, The Prestige is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London.

Genre: ThrillerDirector: Christopher NolanStarring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, Piper Perabo, Andy Serkis, Ezra Buzzington
Released By: Warner Bros
Rating: PG
RunTime: 130 minutes
Opening Day: 19 October 2006


http://theprestige.movies.go.com/

World Trade Center

Date: 9th October 2006, Monday
Cinema: Eng Wah, West Mall
Time: 7pm
With: Yi Hui

The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it’s easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on the true story of two Port Authority Police Department officers who were trapped beneath the wreckage of the fallen World Trade Center.

Veteran officer Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) and his team, including rookie Will Jimeno (Michael Pena) are gathering equipment to enter the burning Twin Towers when the concourse comes crashing down around them. Twenty feet below the surface, pinned by debris and unable to reach anyone by radio, the officers must rely on their own will--and on each other--to survive. Above ground, their families watch the towers fall, uncertain whether or not McLoughlin and Jimeno are there, since they are normally assigned to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Like so many that day, Donna McLoughlin (Maria Bello) and Allison Jimeno (Maggie Gyllenhaal) wait for news at home surrounded by their families, fearing the worst and praying for the best. Stone’s film depicts the horror and heartbreak of the victims, survivors, and their families with an understated, subtle touch.

From the ash and dust covering everyone and everything to the dazed expressions of the workers leaving the towers to the steaming twisted metal remains of the World Trade Center, attention to detail is exceedingly realistic. Rather than being political or sensationalistic, this is a film about everyday heroes--men and women doing their best in the face of an unspeakable event. It may be just one story of many from September 11, but it represents the efforts, emotions, and reactions of so many on that fateful day.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Disturbing Images
Genre: Drama
Main Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello
Director: Oliver Stone
Release Date: 6 October 2006
Running Time: 129 minutes

http://www.wtcmovie.com/

Miami Vice

Date: 1st October 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.45am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: H-04 & H-05 (Hall 6)

The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice.

Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx of Ray, Jarhead) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, played by British actress Naomie Harris (28 Days Later, upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean II and III), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders.

Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell of S.W.A.T., The New World) ]to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Isabella is played by the Chinese actress Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha).

The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Miami Vice, as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover...especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don't count...


Rating: NC16
Consumer Advice: Violence & Some Sexual References
Genre: Action/ Adventure
Main Cast: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li
Director: Michael Mann
Release Date: 21 September 2006
Running Time: 128 minutes

http://www.miamivice.com/

Snakes On A Plane

Date: 26th August 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Jurong Point
Time: 11.30pm
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: K-02 & K-03 (Hall 5)


Snakes on a Plane stars Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent who is escorting an eye witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when a crimelord sets in motion the release of hundreds of deadly snakes on the commercial airplane in order to eliminate the witness before he can testify against him. The FBI agent must protect his witness while banding together with the pilot, frightened crew and passengers in a desperate attempt to survive.


Rating: NC16
Consumer Advice: Some Violence & Gore
Genre: Horror; Suspense
Main Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Byron Lawson, Kenan Thompson
Director: David R. Ellis
Release Date: 24 August 2006
Running Time:101 minutes

http://www.snakesonaplane.com/

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Date: 9th August 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: H-11 & H-12 (Hall 5)

From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and its sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed—The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world.

Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo.

Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form—with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks.

On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han (Kang). Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: NIL
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Bow Wow, Lucas Black, Sung Kang
Director: Justin Lin
Release Date: 3 August 2006
Running Time: 106 minutes

http://www.thefastandthefurious.com/

Dragon Tiger Gate

Date: 30th July 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 2.10am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: G-04 & G-05 (Hall 5)

Tiger Wong is a highly skilled martial artist with a strong sense of justice. At the yearly bun festival, Tiger realizes that a group of triad gangsters are bullying innocent people. Tiger, unable to stand by and just watch, defeats the gangsters using his special move – Dragon Slaying Leg Eighteen, and accidentally grabs the garland from the top of the bun mountain winning the applause and admiration of the audience. Hidden in the garland is a gold medal.

It turns out that this gold medal is the Lousha token decreed by the leader of the Lousha Gate, Shibumi. ‘Gate’ is a word describing martial arts sect or organization and Lousha Gate is a criminal organization in Asia and whoever owns the gold medal has the right to demand the full cooperation of Lousha Gate. Tiger, unaware of the medal’s powers, is ambushed by the gang during his celebrations. As fate has it, he is saved by Dragon Wong, the bodyguard of one of the gangsters, who is sent to retrieve the medal. A blonde youth using nunchakus, Turbo Shek, also joins in to help them. Dragon retrieves the medal from Tiger. Tiger is shocked when he notices a jade pendant and realizes that Dragon is his step-brother.

Although Dragon is part of Jiang Hu - the complicated society of the martial arts world involving different Gates of evil and good, and working for a criminal gang, he has never been involved in any criminal activities. After Dragon’s gangster boss Ma Kun returns the plaque he announces his retirement from the Jiang Hu. Shibumi is angry upon hearing this news and sends his adopted daughter Lousha to get rid of Ma.

In the mean time, Dragon has asked Ma Kun’s daughter Ma Xiaoling, who has already taken a liking to Tiger during the bun festival, to help him tell Tiger that they are brothers. Tiger is shocked by the news and unwilling to accept Dragon as family. Lousha kills Ma Kun and massacres everyone. Dragon fights his way out and manages to escape to Dragon Tiger Gate with Ma Xiaoling. Tiger and Shek are incensed when they hear of the Ma family massacre and the three heroes join force for the first time forming the Dragon Tiger Gate Trio, they pledge to avenge Xiaoling’s lost. The Dragon Tiger trio burn down the warehouse of Lousha Gate and destroy their drug supply, thus officially confirming Dragon Tiger Trio’s status as arch-enemy of Lousha Gate.

Although Shibumi is extremely angry when he is told of the fire, the anger is tinged with inexplicable joy when hearing of the presence of martial arts experts from Dragon Tiger Gate. One night Shibumi turns up at Dragon Tiger Gate and kills the master Wong Jianglong. He then defeats the Dragon Tiger Trio with his supreme martial arts skills and persuades them to join Lousha Gate. His efforts are in vain as the trio refuse all his offers. Shibumi is about to kill them, when there is a sudden huge thunder and flash of lightening. In that split second of distraction, the trio mysteriously disappeared.

Overnight Dragon Tiger Gate is demolished. Xiaoling escapes with the badly wounded trio to Bai Yun Mountain in China for help. There resides a recluse, Master Qi. Qi is famed for his expert skills in martial arts and healing, but also know for his eccentricity and unpredictable character. Xiaoling uses everything she can think of to persuade him to help and finally wins him over with her sincerity and Master Qi brings the trio back from the gates of death. The trio beg Master Qi to teach them his skills, they vow to revenge the death of their master Wong Jianglong.

Back at Lousha Gate, Shibumi is unafraid of the trio’s attack. He has set the trap and waits at the scene of their final showdown…


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Fighting Scenes
Genre: Action
Main Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue
Director: Wilson Yip Wai-shun
Release Date: 27 July 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes

http://www2.dragontigergatemovie.com/dtg/e_main.html

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Date: 22nd July 2006, Saturday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 4.00 0pm
With: Yen Hong
Seat: Free Seating

Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reunite in Walt Disney Pictures', in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, an all new epic tale chronicling the further mis-adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Captain Jack sets sail on an all new adventure - filled with more intrigue, more spectacular special effects and more comedy.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Disturbing Scenes
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Director: Gore Verbinski
Release Date: 13 July 2006
Running Time: 155 minutes

http://www.pirates.movies.com/

How Much Do You Love Me?

Date: 18th July 2006, Tuesday
Cinema: Lido 4, Shaw House
Time: 7.30pm
With: Hsiao Yin
Seat: Free Seating

Balding, elfin-eared Francois (Bernard Campan) enters a hooker-in-the-window joint in Paris’ Pigalle district to meet the woman who has become his obsession – the voluptuous Daniela (Monica Bellucci). Her attention can be had for 150 Euros and an extravagant bottle of champagne. Francois doesn’t balk at the cost. Instead, he reveals that he has just won a fortune in the lottery and offers Daniela 100,000 Euros a month to live with him until the money runs out. Daniela accepts and appears to cheerfully transform herself into the highly sexed domestic goddess of every man’s dreams. But Francois has a debilitating heart condition and Daniela’s unnerving gangster boyfriend Charly (Gérard Depardieu) is not ready to let her go without a fight.


Rating: R21
Consumer Advice: Sexual Content
Genre: Dramatic Comedy
Main Cast: Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Bertrand Blier
Release Date: 20 July 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes

http://www.festivefilms.com/loveme/

Superman Returns

Date: 2nd July 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 1.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: L:07 & L:08 (Hall 1)

Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she?

Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.


Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Action Violence
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey
Director: Bryan Singer
Release Date: 29 Jun 2006
Running Time: 154 minutes

http://supermanreturns.warnerbros.com/getflash.html

X-Men:The Last Stand

Date: 7th May 2006, Sunday
Cinema: GV Plaza Singapura
Time: 12.00am
With: Melvin Ho
Seat: J:08J:09 (Hall 8)

In X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, the final chapter in the "X-Men" motion picture trilogy, a "cure" for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier, who preaches tolerance, and Magneto, who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test – triggering the war to end all wars.

http://www.x-menthelaststand.com/

Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some Action Violence
Genre: Action, Adventure
Main Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry
Director: Brett Ratner
Release Date: 25 May 2005
Running Time: NIL

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/