GET HIM TO THE GREEK (15)
AFTER years of dizzying success, rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) releases the album African Child, which is lambasted by critics. Soon after, the singer breaks up with his girlfriend and falls into disrepute in London. During a meeting with record company supremo Sergio (Sean Combs), underling Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) hits upon the idea of a 10th anniversary comeback concert to celebrate Snow’s most famous live outing at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Despite initial reservations, Sergio eventually agrees and issues his minion with an ultimatum: “From the moment you touch down, you have 72 hours to get Aldous Snow to the Greek.” Unfortunately, Aldous loves to party, leading to a series of debauched encounters that jeopardise Aaron’s relationship with his girlfriend.
STAR RATING: ***
HEARTBREAKER (15)
ALEX (Romain Duris) runs a company with his sister Melanie (Julie Ferrier) and her surveillance expert husband, which specialises in terminating relationships which are doomed to fail. Concerned family and friends hire the trio to befriend the female target and open her eyes to the failings of a boyfriend or fiance. Millionaire industrialist Van Der Becq (Jacques Frantz) hires the group to stop the impending wedding of his beautiful heiress daughter, Juliette (Vanessa Paradis). Posing as the socialite’s new bodyguard, Alex joins Juliette in Monaco, where he quickly makes an impression and sparks of attraction fly. With mere days until Juliette walks down the aisle, Alex lets his feelings cloud his judgment and for once, he has to consider breaking his heart to complete the job.
STAR RATING: ***
KILLERS (12A)
IF ROBERT Luketic’s action-packed romantic comedy is to be believed men are capable of hiding everything from their nearest and dearest. The film’s charming hero meets, woos and marries the woman of his dreams without revealing a vital part of his genetic make-up. Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) marries Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher). Spencer has been keeping a tiny secret: he is an international spy and assassin, who retired from active duty but has now been marked for death. Killers is an odd mishmash of genres, veering wildly from action to comedy and back again, sometimes in a single scene. Kutcher and Heigl are far better than the screenplay.
STAR RATING: **
LETTERS TO JULIET (PG)
WRITER Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is poised to marry chef Victor (Gale Garcia Bernal). They embark on a trip to Italy. She visits Juliet’s famous balcony and is surprised to see dozens of tourists penning letters to the ill-fated Capulet. A group of women known as the secretaries of Juliet collect the missives and reply to these love-sick strangers.
STAR RATING: ***
LOURDES (U)
JESSICA Hausner’s wryly comic tale of a young woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who heads for Lourdes with a group of pilgrims all in search of a miracle. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Tuesday-Thursday.
STAR RATING: ***
ONDINE (12A)
A MAGICAL fairy tale for grown ups from director Neil Jordan stars Colin Farrell as Syracuse, a devilish but lonesome Irish fisherman who one day finds a beautiful woman (Alicja Bachleda) caught in his nets. Or, as his young daughter would have it, a selkie – a mythical seal-creature able to assume human form. Showing at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold from Friday-Monday.
STAR RATING: ***
PREDATORS (15)
TENACIOUS mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody) wakes in the sweltering heat of a jungle, where he stumbles upon other people in a similar disoriented state, including drug cartel enforcer Cuchillo (Danny Trejo), Russian Special Forces soldier Nikolai (Oleg Taktarov) and Israeli Defence Force sniper Isabelle (Alice Braga). Reconnaissance reveals that the group is stranded on an alien world with limited ammunition. The misfits are systematically hunted by a new breed of Predator, which is more cunning than before.
STAR RATING: **
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (U)
SHREK (voiced by Mike Myers) is suffering mid-life angst with mewling kids and his beautiful and pungent wife, Fiona (Cameron Diaz). In his hour of desperation, Shrek meets the conniving Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn), who offers a tantalising deal: he will gift Shrek one whole day as a scary ogre, just like in the past, if the father agrees to sign away one day of his childhood. Shrek agrees to the Faustian pact, blind to Rumpelstiltskin’s devious plan: to erase the day that Shrek was born and thereby alter the future. Shrek must join forces with Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas) to break the pact before the sands in Rumpelstiltskin’s oversized hourglass run out.
STAR RATING: ***
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (12A)
GRADUATION approaches for Bella (Kristen Stewart) and the teenager must choose between Edward (Robert Pattinson), the vampire who won her heart, and Jacob (Taylor Lautner), the best friend who has snuck into her affections. Rejection for one young man could potentially ignite the ancient rivalry between the lycans and the bloodsuckers. Meanwhile, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) returns to Forks, Washington, to kill Bella in revenge for Edward’s slaying of her lover. The avenger brings with her a new race of vampires with phenomenal strength, led by local boy Riley (Xavier Samuel), and only the combined forces of sworn enemies, the Cullens and the Blacks, can stop these ferocious, blood-crazed predators.
STAR RATING: ****
