Ghafla! Movies This Weekend (15th June 2012)

Movie enthusiasts have an extremely wide selection of titles to choose from this coming weekend, though the downside is that there will be virtually no premieres this weekend

The mark of the Avengers has finally been extinguished at the top of the global box office as Madagscar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted sits at the top spot having raked in an impressive $60million (approximately Kshs.4.9 Billion). Prometheus comes in second place on the chart, despite predominantly mixed responses to the sequel to Alien vs. Predators.

Below is the bouquette of titles you can enjoy at the theatres from the weekend of June 15th-17th 2012: 

PROMETHEUS (IN 3D)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Horror

Starring: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall Green and Michael Fassbender.

A team of scientists journey through the universe on the spaceship “Prometheus” on a voyage to investigate Alien life forms. The team of scientists becomes stranded on an Alien world, and as they struggle to survive it becomes clear that the horrors they experience are not just a threat to themselves, but to all of mankind.

MIGHT SHOW AT:

Fox Theatres, Sarit Center

IMAX XX Century

*****

MEN IN BLACK III (IN 3D AND IMAX 3D)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy

Starring: Will Smith, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones

An alien criminal kills the young Agent K in 1969, altering the timeline, changing the Agency and placing the Earth in danger. Veteran Agent J (Will Smith) must travel back in time to 1969 to before the murder and work with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save him, the Agency, the Earth and humanity itself.

SHOWING AT:

IMAX XX Century – Mama Ngina Street

Fox Cineplex, Sarit Center – Westlands

*****

THE AVENGERS IN 3D AND IMAX

Genre: Fantasy, Action, Sci Fi

Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L Jackson

Ghafla Rating: 9/10

A 2012 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures1, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is the sixth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast, which includes Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, and Samuel L. Jackson. In The Avengers, Nick Fury, director of the peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D., recruits Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, and Captain America to save the world from destruction.
Development of The Avengers began when Marvel Studios received a grant from Merrill Lynch in April 2005. After the success of the film Iron Man in May 2008, Marvel announced that The Avengers would be released in July 2011. With the signing of Scarlett Johansson in March 2009, the film was pushed back for a 2012 release. Whedon was brought on board in April 2010 and rewrote the screenplay that was originally written by Zak Penn. Production began in April 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio in August 2011 and New York City in September 2011. The film was converted to 3D in post-production.

SHOWING AT:

Fox Theatres, Sarit Cineplex

Nu Metro Westgate

Starflix Prestige

*****

BATTLESHIP

Genre: Action, Sci Fi

Starring: Alexander Skarsgaad, Liam Neeson and Rihanna

Ghafla! Rating: 7/10

Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada whilst on a Naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land and air. What do they aliens – known as ‘The Regents’ – want?

SHOWING AT:

Fox Theatres, Sarit Cineplex

Fox Theatres, Capital Centre

Starflix Prestige

*****

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure

Starring: Christen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth

Ghafla Rating: 7.5/10

Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen. Unable to tolerate the insult to her vanity, the evil queen decides that Snow White must die. The queen sends a huntsman to kill Snow White. However the huntsman finds himself unable to murder the innocent young woman, and instead ends up training her to become a warrior capable of threatening the queen’s reign.

SHOWING AT:

Starflix Village Market

Fox Cineplex, Sarit Centre

*****

ONE FOR THE MONEY

Genre: Action, Comedy

Starring: Katherine Heigl and Jason O’Mara

Ghafla Rating: 5/10

Jersey girl Stephanie Plum after losing her job, is broke. Needing a job she is told that her cousin, a bail bondsman, needs someone to help out in the office. But all he has are skip tracers. She learns that Joe Morelli, a guy she knew intimately years ago, is one of them. She eventually finds him but wasn’t really prepared so he gets away. Another bounty hunter, Ranger tries to teach her. Eventually she finds him again but he claims he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and he is trying to prove his innocence. Eventually Stephanie thinks he’s telling the truth so she stakes out the person who can help him but she only finds herself in trouble and Morelli saves her. She tries to find someone who can prove his innocence but problem is shortly after meeting with them they’re killed or attacked.

SHOWING AT:

Nu Metro Westgate

****

21 JUMP STREET

Genre: Comedy, Action

Starring: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum

Ghafla Rating: 7/10

In high school, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a dork and Jenko (Channing Tatum) was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.

SHOWING AT:

Starflix Prestige

Nu Metro Westgate

*****

THINK LIKE A MAN

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Gabrielle Union, Chris Brown, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart

Ghafla Rating: 8.0/10

Four women have given up on getting their men to do what they want until they find a how to book written by Steve Harvey. They start using his advice about relationships, and their men start falling in line, until the men discover what the women have been doing, then the war is on.

SHOWING AT:

Starflix Prestige

*****

THE MUPPETS

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Starring: the Muppet Cast, Amy Adams, Jason Segel

Ghalfa Rating: 7/10

When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater. Kermit the Frog now lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, The Great Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo’s Royal Flush, Fozzie Bear performs with a tribute band called The Moopets, Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab center in Santa Barbara.

SHOWING AT:

Starflix Village Market

*****

AT THE TOP OF THE BOX OFFICE is:

And a release we’re looking forward to in Kenya on 22nd June 2012:

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (IN 3D)

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Starring: (the voices of) Jada Pinkett Smith and Ben Stiller

Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still trying to get back to the Big Apple and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to find the penguins. They travel to Monte Carlo where they attract the attention of Animal Control after gate crashing a party and are joined by the penguins, King Julian and Co., the monkeys and a new arrival: a performing llama. How do a lion, zebra, hippo, giraffe, four penguins, two monkeys, three lemurs and a llama travel through Europe without attracting attention? They join a traveling circus.