Cinema releases by week

, 1h37
Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Shō Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Edison Chen, Kenichi Endō, Ren Osugi
Rating66%
Two contract killers cross paths on the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decide to team up and use their talents in killing for good... upsetting the crime syndicates they used to work for.

, 1h30
Directed by Julie Dash
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Monica, Christian Kane, Essence Atkins, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Rozonda Thomas, Tyrese Gibson
Rating64%
Camille Livingston is the reserved, sheltered only child and daughter of prosperous African American parents in New Orleans. She attends school, works with under privileged inner city children and lives with her two roommates. Camille has been dating Calvin, who looks up to Camille's father and appears to be following him into medicine. It is also understood that Camille will follow Calvin and work in some type of medical field. Her life is considered by her and people around her to be "normal" and what is expected.

, 1h25
Directed by Greg Beeman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films, Children's films
Actors Hallee Hirsh, Brenda Song, Spencer Breslin, Hallie Todd, Greg Kean, Susan Ruttan
Rating55%
Two teen girls, Samantha Elizabeth "Sam" Kwan (age 13) (Brenda Song) and Allison Rachel "Allie" Thompson (age 13) (Hallee Hirsh) find a weather machine at a shack in the woods. After learning of its controls, they use it to make it snow in Los Angeles.

Directed by Anders-Thomas Jensen
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Mads Mikkelsen, Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sofie Gråbøl, Iben Hjejle
Rating74%
Four small-time gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they steal over 4,000,000 Danish kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize that they would like to stay there, starting a new life, renovating the house and forming it into a restaurant. But their past eventually catches up with them.

, 1h35
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Linn Skåber, Jorunn Kjellsby, René Dif
Rating72%
The band is a three-piece vocal group dominated by their utterly untalented lead singer "M*Pete". When they are caught lip-synching before the release of their first album, scandal erupts (fed also by their manager's physically assaulting an elderly male and an elderly female member of the Salvation Army and the revelation that M*Pete's 16-year-old girlfriend is actually only 12) and they are dropped by their record company. They consider leaving the music industry, but their manager gets them a sponsorship deal with a Norwegian fish finger manufacturer. Ultimately they bounce back to fame after an appearance at the HitAwards Norwegian music awards show.

, 1h28
Directed by Henry Bromell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors William H. Macy, John Ritter, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman, Barbara Bain
Rating66%
Alex (Macy), a sad-eyed mournful man, goes into psychotherapy disclosing that he is a hit man. He also tells the doctor (Ritter) after a few sessions that he is attracted to a young woman he has met in the waiting room. She is Sarah (Campbell), 23, quick, edgy, and perhaps attracted to him as well. But he is married, the dutiful father of a young precocious boy, so Sarah brushes him off. In flashbacks we see him get his start as a killer, at his father's prompting since it is the family business. Dad gives Alex his next assignment: to kill the therapist. Alex keeps returning to Sarah, calling her, stopping by her apartment, as he decides what to do about the hit, his father, his marriage and his malaise.

, 1h27
Origin USA
Actors Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour
Rating67%
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots. In true bad guy fashion, a traveling salesman appears and truths about the baby's origin start to unravel.

Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Amanda Peet, Ron Livingston, Cara Buono, Linda Larkin, Jill Hennessy, John Rothman
Rating60%

, 1h25
Directed by David Carson
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Blair Brown, Christine Cavanaugh, Gillian Kearney, Lee Williams, Christine Kavanagh, Jamie Glover
Rating59%
Beginning in Liverpool in the 1950s, the film concentrates on the early life of John Lennon (Philip McQuillen) as he struggles to become a successful musician in the embryonic stages of British rock and roll. Lennon goes on to form a number of bands, widening his local audience as he develops, before later joining with Stuart Sutcliffe (Lee Williams), George Harrison (Mark Rice-Oxley), Pete Best (Scot Williams) and Paul McCartney (Daniel McGowan) to form the Beatles. The group attract the attention of music promoter Brian Epstein (Jamie Glover) who engineers their success and fame. However, Sutcliffe and Best are both dropped from the band, to be replaced by Ringo Starr (Kristian Ealey).

, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Stiller, Paul Logan, Janeane Garofalo, Roger Corman, Max Perlich, Ben Stiller
Rating59%

, 1h26
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Tchéky Karyo, Nino Manfredi, Johan Leysen, Isabelle Pasco, Paolo Sassanelli
Rating69%
Lorenzo, an astrophysicist, has inherited a house in Sicily. He has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts the job with help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them. He finds out Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first Lorenzo is angry but then his good heart prevails.

, 1h48
Directed by Shirley MacLaine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Alex D. Linz, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, Gwen Verdon, Kiami Davael
Rating60%
Bruno Battaglia (Alex D. Linz) is a young boy attending an American Roman Catholic school. Bruno's estranged father Dino (Gary Sinise), a police officer, left the family long ago and Bruno lives with his mother Angela (Stacey Halprin). Angela is overweight and dresses flamboyantly in outfits that she designs and makes herself, standing out in stark contrast to the rest of their conservative Italian American neighborhood.