Synopsis
After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself.

Cast & crew
James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp, Common...

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Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten

Cast & crew
Nurgül Yesilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz

Synopsis
In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth over three million pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a 'D' Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden for the first time. The story involves murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.

Cast & crew
Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays

Synopsis
A pair of druggie losers reach the top of the hit list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently.

Cast & crew
Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, James Franco

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On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin’s padawan learner, Ahsoka. Sinister villains – led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous – are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi Knights. Their exploits lead to the action-packed battles and astonishing new revelations that fill STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS.

Cast & crew
TBC

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A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Cast & crew
Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Lucy Voller, Marie-Laure Descoureaux

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A former spy must use his skills to rescue his estranged daughter, who is kidnapped and forced into the slave trade.

Cast & crew
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Holly Valance...

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"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.

Cast & crew
Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza...

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The music of Rossini's The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) has been featured in Bugs Bunny cartoons and TV commercials, but is best heard in its original setting, where its infectious charm and bubbling joy are given free reign. In the Met's new production, the dashing young Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez (from La Fille de Régiment) sings one of his greatest roles: Count Almaviva.

Cast & crew
Featuring: Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, John Relyea. Bartlett Sher's new production conducted by Maurizio Benini. Directed for telecast by Gary Halvorson

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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Cast & crew
Frances McDormand, Amy Adams...

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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough... After learning from the steely head (Sigourney Weaver) of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.

Cast & crew
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Dax Shepard, Greg Kinnear, Maura Tierney, Romany Malco

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Through a series of freak occurances, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to try and become the soldiers they are portraying-with hysterical results.

Cast & crew
Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin, Andrea De Oliveira, Reggie Lee, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise...

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CLASSIC SILVER SCREENING.ALL TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA, COFFEE, CAKE AND SANDWICHES .................Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children.

Cast & crew
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno

Synopsis
Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development—pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann—the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.

Cast & crew
Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss

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Our festival prides itself on presenting the highest standard of short films with programs developed for open and family audiences. In The Bin is also one of the leading educators in Short Films with a three day program that tours regionally with the festival. More info www.inthebin.net.au

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Harold and Kumar try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Cast & crew
John Cho, Kal Penn, Roger Bart, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris

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The world premiere production of Chinese composer, and Oscar winner (for the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon music score), Tan Dun's epic opera, The First Emperor. It features legendary tenor Plácido Domingo as Emperor Qin, who founded an empire that would survive for 2,000 years. Tan Dun's music is a fascinating mix of East and West and the monumental production is by revered Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern and House of Flying Daggers) with costumes by designer Emi Wada (Kurosawa's Ran).

Cast & crew
Featuring: Elizabeth Futral, Michelle DeYoung, Susanne Mentzer, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Hao Jiang Tian, Wu Hsing-Kuo. Zhang Yimou's world premiere production conducted by composer Tan Dun. Directed for telecast by Brian Large.

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A despotic Emperor (Li) in 50 B.C. is punished for his evil when a witch lays a curse on him, turning him and his army into terra cotta for all time. Forward to 1946, where Rick (Fraser) and Evelyn (Bello) have retired to Oxfordshipre, England, having worked as British spies during WWII. They’re offered one last mission from the Foreign Office. Their assignment: courier a precious artifact back to the museum in Shanghai, China.

Cast & crew
Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford, John Hannah

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After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.

Cast & crew
Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard...

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Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.

Cast & crew
Georgia Groome, Aaron Johnson, Alan Davies, Kimberley Nixon, Eleanor Tomlinson, Liam Hess, Eva Drew....

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In Step Brothers, Will Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. John C. Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

Cast & crew
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Andrea Savage, Kathryn Hahn...

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Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly

Cast & crew
Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Erica Hubbard

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The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer.

Cast & crew
Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Josh Gad...

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Anna Faris stars as Shelley Darlington, a former playboy bunny who signs up to be the new house mother at UCLA’s nerdiest sorority, Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individualism. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

Cast & crew
Katharine McPhee, Kellan Rhude, Beverly D'Angelo, Emma Stone, Anna Faris...

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A young slacker returns home when his overachieving twin brother dies mysteriously. Both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.

Cast & crew
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton...

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In this update of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," Brendan Fraser will portray a geologist who, with his teenage son, discovers a message hidden in an ancient artifact, leading them into a previously unseen world. "Journey 3-D" will be shot in live action, with the otherworldly landscapes and creatures supplied by high-definition, photo-real 3-D technology.

Cast & crew
Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem

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The story follows two NASA trained chimpanzees; Lucy (a well trained, disciplined, typical “company woman”) and Ham (a classic good-natured goofball) who have to forego their usual comforts and live like animals when their space mission propels them into a distant universe. Forced to land on a magical planet they find a world inhabited by a host of wonderful animals and ruled over by a vicious king.

Cast & crew
Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Patrick Warburton, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Omid Abtahi, Zack Shada

Synopsis
CLASSIC SILVER SCREENING.ALL TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA, COFFEE, CAKE AND SANDWICHES .................One stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice?

Cast & crew
Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones

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In the Disney comedy, BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, a pampered pooch named Chloe (voice of DREW BARRYMORE) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends -- including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of ANDY GARCIA) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of GEORGE LOPEZ) -- to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.

Cast & crew
Drew Barrymore, Jamie Lee Curtis, Andy Garcia, Salma Hayek, George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Edward James Olmos, Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, Piper Perabo

Synopsis
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events

Cast & crew
Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker, Ike Barinholtz...

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After an over-the-top prank pushes her father one step too far, Poppy is shipped off to an English boarding school. Finding herself in a foreign world of early curfews, stern matrons and mandatory lacrosse, the American princess has finally met her match: a school of British girls who won't tolerate her spoiled ways.

Cast & crew
Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn...

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Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Cast & crew
Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Mark Strong, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis
Sidney Young (Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him. Based on the novel by Toby Young.

Cast & crew
Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship.

Cast & crew
Ryan Gosling, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson, Billy Parrott...

Synopsis
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.

Cast & crew
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand...

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In the fifth installment of the successful "Saw" film series, an investigative journalist stumbles into Jigsaw's game while on assignment.

Cast & crew
Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Julie Benz, Meagan Good

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CLASSIC SILVER SCREENING.ALL TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA, COFFEE, CAKE AND SANDWICHES .................In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

Cast & crew
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor

Synopsis
Met Opera Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome at the Met for the first time in 2004. She reprises her stunning interpretation of the part, including her unforgettable Dance of the Seven Veils.

Cast & crew
Conductor: Mikko Franck; Production: Jürgen Flimm; Karita Mattila, Ildikó Komlósi, Juha Uusitalo, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser

Synopsis
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

Cast & crew
Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane...

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Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

Cast & crew
Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve

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Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Cast & crew
Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Wenham...

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CLASSIC SILVER SCREENING.ALL TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA, COFFEE, CAKE AND SANDWICHES .................Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

Cast & crew
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

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Disney’s “High School Musical” phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR, which finds high school seniors Troy (ZAC EFRON) and Gabriella (VANESSA HUDGENS) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High’s talented ensemble. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR will be released only in theaters in October, 2008.

Cast & crew
Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman

Synopsis
Daniel Craig reprises his role as James Bond. The story takes the super spy (Daniel Craig) out for revenge on a mission that takes him to Austria, Italy and South America. Bond girl Camille, played by Ukrainian-born Olga Kurylenko, leads the secret agent to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), member of a mysterious organisation and a ruthless businessman, seeking to control huge natural resources. The story starts "literally an hour after the last film left off," as Bond aims to uncover the truth about Vesper, the beauty who betrayed him, and discovers that she had been blackmailed.

Cast & crew
Daniel Craig, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis
Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a 30-year-old Londoner with a bright outlook on life. She loves her job, she loves her friends, she loves her freedom. Mike Leigh's new film follows her over a few weeks one spring as she learns to drive and embarks on a new romance.

Cast & crew
Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough, Samuel Roukin

Synopsis
Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defenses and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information.

Cast & crew
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, Jim Broadbent, Helen McCrory, Jessie Cave...

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All the loveable characters are back -- Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins -- in "Madagascar: The Crate Escape." Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane -- sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all -- the vast plains of Africa itself -- where our zoo-raised crew encounters species of their own kind for the very first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the differences between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a "crack-a-lackin" great place...but is it better than their Central Park home?

Cast & crew
Ben Stiller, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer

Synopsis
CLASSIC SILVER SCREENING.ALL TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY AFTERNOON TEA WITH TEA, COFFEE, CAKE AND SANDWICHES .................A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Cast & crew
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney

Synopsis
A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

Cast & crew
Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates...

Synopsis
At the height of WWII, a group of high-ranking German officers hatch a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The code name for the operation is "Valkyrie," for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. Based on true events.

Cast & crew
Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, Carice van Houten, Tom Wilkinson, Eddie Izzard, Daniel Brühl