Cinema Goggles – latest dose of entertainment
These are the latest films, starting on Friday, January 31.
Fire with Fire
Genre: Thriller
The life of fireman Jeremy Coleman (Josh Duhamel) changes in an instant when he witnesses a fatal shooting in this action thriller. When Coleman identifies white supremacist gang leader Hagen (Vincent D’Onofrio) in a police line-up, the criminal makes it clear he knows everything about the person behind the glass and vows vengeance upon his release.
Captain Phillips (Academy Awards-nominated second screening)
Genre: Action, Documentary, Drama
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking, by Somali pirates, of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years.
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs 2
Genre: Animation
The story picks up where its predecessor hit comedy left off. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognised and he’s invited by his idol, Chester V, to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind.
However, everything changes when Flint discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating the food-animal hybrids, foodimals. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Flint goes on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures, to save the world again!
Gravity (Academy Awards-nominated second screening)
Genre: 3D, Drama, Sci-Fi
Dr Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other, and spiralling out into the blackness.
Elelwani
Genre: Drama
It all begins with a car journey. For urbanites Elelwani and Vele, it feels like they’re setting out on the summer holiday of their lives. Having long ago left her rural village for the big city, Elelwani has just completed her studies. She’s been offered a dream job in Chicago, and she’s engaged to Vele, the love of her life.
They drive through the ever greener countryside into Elelwani’s village, where they intend to tell her parents of their plans to marry and spend their future together. They are greeted with a dramatic dance in honour of her being the first woman from the village to have gained a degree — or, at least, that’s what Elelwani thinks.
But she’s wrong. She’s blindsided when her parents reveal shortly afterwards that her hand has been promised to the tribal king, with the dance being the prelude to the celebrations for the planned wedding. Torn between a glowing future and familial duty, she initially rebels, but finally consents.
