MOVIE GUIDE

BAY CITY CINEMAS
June 24 to 30
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG)
Animated Comedy
After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws' kingdom, what's an ogre to do?
 Well, if you're Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitchforks. What's happened to this ogre's roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a "real ogre", Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker Rumpelstiltskin.
 Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it's up to Shrek to undo all he's done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his true love.
GET HIM TO THE GREEK (R16) Comedy
Aaron Green has been given a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort a rock god to LA's world-famous Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a huge comeback tour.
 His record mogul boss gives him one warning: "The artist is the worst person on Earth. Turn your back on him at your own peril." British rocker Aldous Snow is a brilliant musician, but a bad breakup and nose-diving career sees him falling off the wagon and he's now a drunken disaster.
 As the countdown to the concert begins, one innocent young man must navigate a minefield of London drug smugglers, New York City brawls and Vegas lap dances to deliver his charge safe and, sort of, sound, all the while trying to remain faithful to his med student girlfriend. He may have to coax, lie to, enable and party with Aldous, but Aaron will get him to the Greek.
THE A-TEAM (M) Action
The A-Team follows the exciting and daring exploits of a colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers who were set up for a crime they did not commit.
 Going rogue, they use their talents to try to clear their names and find the true culprit. Liam Neeson (Taken), Bradley Cooper (The Hangover), martial arts champ Quinton (Rampage) Jackson, and District 9' sensation Sharlto Copley, are The A-Team.
SEX AND THE CITY 2 (R16)
Comedy/Drama
What happens after you say, "I do"? Life is everything the ladies ever wished it to be.
 But it wouldn't be Sex and the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises, this time in the form of a glamorous, sun-drenched adventure that whisks the women away from New York to one of the most luxurious and exotic places on Earth, where the party never ends and there's something mysterious around every corner.
 It's an escape that comes exactly at the right moment for the four friends, who are finding themselves fighting against, the traditional roles of marriage, motherhood and more. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
PRINCE OF PERSIA: The Sands of Time (M) Fantasy Action/Adventure
A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) and together they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time - a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
ROBIN HOOD (M) Action Adventure
Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard's army against the French.
 Upon Richard's death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion, a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest.
 Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by their appetite for life.
 Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. Starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.
THE BLIND SIDE (PG) Drama
Depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home who is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfil his potential.
 At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome.
 As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle. Starring Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock.
BOY (M) Comedy
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand.
 Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his Gran and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue.
 Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version - an incompetent
hoodlum who has returned
to find a bag of money he buried years before.
RIALTO
CEMETERY JUNCTION
(M) Comedy/Drama
Written and Directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Mechant. Tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of an escape.
 In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is.
 When Freddie gets a job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives forever.
COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY
(M) Romance/Drama
French With English Subtitles
Picking up where Coco Avant Chanel left off, focusing on the period when Chanel became Igor Stravinsky's artistic benefactor, this film offers a darker second chapter to the designer's long biography.
 In 1920 she befriended the great revolutionary composer and his family, offering the penniless and homeless musician refuge in her country mansion.
THE LAST STATION (M)
True Story/Drama
A period romance set during the last year of the life and turbulent marriage of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren).
 After 50 years of marriage, Sofya suddenly finds her world turned upside down when the novelist renounces his noble title, his property and even his family in favour of poverty, vegetarianism and celibacy.
MICMACS (M)
Comedy French with English Subtitles
Comedy from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie, following the sad exploits of Bazil (Danny Boon).
 Bazil, is shot in the head while working near a street shoot-out. He survives, and convinces some new friends to help him carry out his revenge on the weapon manufacturers.
A SINGLE MAN (M)
Drama
It's 1962, and native Briton George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles college, is finding it difficult to cope with life after Jim, his partner of 16 years, dies in a car accident.
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
Thriller/Drama (R16) Spanish with English Subtitles
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar at the Academy Awards. Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin decides to write a novel based on a 25-year-old unresolved murder case which still haunts him.
MAO'S LAST DANCER (PG)
True Story
The true, rags-to-riches story of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin - from rural China to ballet stardom as one of the world's greatest dancers.