Cinema Goggles – Friday, May 23
Films opening at the cinemas on Friday, May 23.
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Genre: Adventure, Animation
Starring: Bernadette Peters, Dan Aykroyd, Hugh Dancy, Jim Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Lea Michele, Martin Short, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Patrick Stewart
In this animated adventure, Dorothy wakes up in Kansas to find it devastated by the tornado that had whisked her away to the magical Land of Oz. The home she was so desperate to return to has been shattered; the townspeople, with nowhere to turn, are packing up and moving out.
Distressed and overwhelmed, Dorothy suddenly finds herself transported back to Oz on a giant rainbow. Oz is also in trouble and Dorothy’s old friends, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion have been enslaved and the land is in a state of decay.
As Dorothy journeys to find and rescue her friends, she encounters a number of new and exciting companions.
Walk of Shame
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Alphonso McAuley, Bill Burr, Elizabeth Banks, Ethan Suplee, Gillian Jacobs, James Marsden, Ken Davitan, Willie Garson
An aspiring reporter’s dream of becoming a network news anchor is compromised after a one-night-stand with a handsome stranger. Now, stranded in downtown Los Angeles without a phone, car, ID or money, she only has eight hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
Grace of Monaco
Genre: Drama
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Somerville, Milo Ventimiglia, Nicole Kidman, Parker Posey, Paz Vega, Robert Lindsay, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Tim Roth
This bio-drama focuses on legendary Oscar-winning actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly, who gave up her Hollywood career to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco in April 1956.
This film takes a look at the period in her life from December 1961 to November 1962, during which time she played a major role in helping her husband settle a major dispute between France and Monaco.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Genre: 3D, Action, Sci-Fi
Starring: Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage
The sequel to X-Men: First Class, is set in an alternate future where all mutants are hunted by giant, government-sanctioned robots called Sentinels.
The storyline alternates between 1980 and 2014, as the X-Men venture back in time to stop the Sentinels from conquering North America, and placing all the mutants they can capture into internment camps. On the eve of a feared nuclear holocaust, the remaining X-Men send Kitty Pryde’s mind backward through time to possess the body of her younger self in order to prevent a pivotal event in mutant human history: the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by Mystique’s newly-reassembled Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Under the Skin
Genre: Sci-Fi
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jeremy McWilliams, Jessica Mance, Krystof Hadek, Michael Moreland, Paul Brannigan, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Dymond
In this Sci-Fi romp from Sexy Beast and Birth director Jonathan Glazer, an alien seductress arrives on Earth and takes over the body of a dead woman with one intention in mind: to prey on unwary male humans.
Scouring the country roads of Scotland in a white van, looking for hitchhikers, she seems to have little or no compassion for her victims, seducing them into believing that the remote house to which she takes them will be the scene of a sexual interlude between them.
Instead, they are trapped in a gooey black mass to which she is apparently immune and their bodies are drained of blood. But as she spends more time on the planet and the number of her victims grows inexorably, she slowly begins to start having feelings for the men she meets.