Michael Jackson's This Is It
Genre: Documentary / Musical
"Michael Jackson THIS IS IT" is being produced with the full support of The Estate of Michael Jackson and will be drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage, captured in high definition with state-of-the-art digital sound as the late singer was preparing for his concert series in London. The film, which will also offer select sequences in 3-D, will provide a unique career retrospective and feature interviews with some of Jackson's closest friends and creative collaborators. "Michael Jackson THIS IS IT" will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer, his career, and the stage spectacular that would have been. The film will provide moviegoers with an unforgettable front row experience compiled from extensive footage that shows Jackson's meticulous preparation for his 2009 London shows.
 

Director: Kenny Ortega
Stars: Michael Jackson, Orianthi
Showing at: City Complex Tripoli

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Genre: Adventure / Animation / Family / Kids
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
 

Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Stars: Anna Faris, Neil Patrick Harris, Lauren Graham, Bruce Campbell, Bill Hader, Al Roker
Showing at: St Elie

Halloween 2
Genre: Horror / Suspense
Picking up right where the first film left off, Laurie is taken to the hospital after supposedly killing the man who was responsible for the deaths of several people in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. However, her stay at Haddonfield General becomes very brief when a very much alive Michael appears once more, brutally murdering everyone in the hospital to find his sister. Michael disappears, and Laurie survives the infamous Halloween massacre, but is still haunted by it years later. Laurie struggles to come to terms with her dark past, or at least forget it. But the supposedly dead Hobo Myers has other plans, and as the anniversary of his massacre approaches, he returns to Haddonfield once more, with a family reunion planned that Laurie will never forget.
 

Director: Rob Zombie
Stars: Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif, Chris Hardwick, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips
Running Time: 103 min
Showing at: Abraj, City Complex Tripoli, Zouk

Management
Genre: Comedy
"Management" is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of management" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland - only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Woody Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But having found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.
 

Director: Stephen Belber
Stars: ennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Margo Martindale, Fred Ward
Running Time: 93 min
Showing at: Abraj, Zouk

Couples Retreat
Genre: comedy
Four Midwestern couples embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the other three set out to jet ski, spa and enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is not optional. Suddenly, their group-rate vacation comes at a price. What follows is a hilarious look at real world problems faced by all couples.
 

Director: Peter Billingsley
Stars: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Faizon Love, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell
Showing at: Galaxy

Surrogates
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Thriller
FBI agents (BRUCE WILLIS and RADHA MITCHELL) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves – fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles – enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

Director: Jonathan Mostow
Stars: Bruce Willis, Ned Vaughn, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike
Running Time: 104 min
Showing at: Abraj, City Complex Tripoli, St Elie, Zouk

Funny People
Genre: Comedy and Drama
George Simmons is a famous stand-up comedian who learns that he has a terminal illness and less than a year to live. When, he meets Ira, a struggling comedian at a comedy club where both the comedians are performing, George hires Ira to be his personal assistant and opening act at his performances. The two forge a close friendship as George helps Ira with his career and Ira helps George find closure in his legacy. However, when George learns that his disease has gone into remission and an ex-girlfriend re-enters his life, he's inspired to reevaluate what is important to him and what truly gives meaning to his life. 

Director: Judd Apatow
Stars: Seth Rogen ,Leslie Mann ,Adam Sandler
Running Time: 2h 20mins
Showing at: Cinemacity

Genre: Animated Comedy-Adventure
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
 

Director: John Lasseter
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
Running Time: 81 min
Showing at: Zouk

ORPHAN
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
The tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate and John, taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche as she is plagued by nightmares and haunted by demons from her past. Struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the couple decides to adopt another child. At the local orphanage, both John and Kate find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther. Almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, however, an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther--this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be. Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther's sweet facade. But her warnings go unheeded until it may be too late...for everyone.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, Lorry Ayers
Running Time: 2h 3mins
Showing at: Galaxy

The Final Destination 3-D
Genre: Horror, Thriller
While enjoying a day at the track, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a horrific premonition in which he and his friends all die following a freak accident involving multiple racecars. Nick manages to convince his friends to leave mere seconds before

Director: David Ellis
Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella, Richard T. Jones
Running Time: 1h 33mins
Showing at: Cinemacity, Espace

JULIE & JULIA
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Based on Julie Powell's book "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen." Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.

At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia's stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.
 

Director: Nora Ephron
Stars: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Jane Lynch, Dave Annable, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Running Time: 2h 20mins
Showing at: Sodeco

The Ugly Truth
Genre: comedy
The battle of the sexes heats up in Columbia Pictures’ comedy "The Ugly Truth". Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She's in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.

Director: Robert Luketic
Stars: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler
Running Time: 1h 32mins
Showing at: Cinemacity, Espace, Galaxy, Sodeco

COCO Before Chanel
Genre: Biography, Drama
The story of celebrated fashion designer Gabrielle «Coco» Chanel; her rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.
 

Director: Anne FontainE
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, Benoit Poelvoorde, Marie Gillain and Emmanuelle Devos.
Running Time: 1h 45mins
Showing at: Sodeco

Inglourious Basterds
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Adaptation and War
In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...
 

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, BJ Novak, Mike Myers, Michael Fassbender
Running Time: 2h 35mins
Showing at: Sofil

Tenderness
Genre: Drama / Thriller
A nail-biting psychological thriller, that never lets you go. Set in New York State, the story centre’s on juvenile murderer, Eric Poole, who at 18 is released from jail having served his sentence for the murder of a young girl. Russell Crowe plays the hard-bitten detective who put him away and who is sure that Poole is a potential serial killer who will reoffend. He makes it his mission to keep Poole under surveillance as he sets off on a seemingly innocent road trip up-state. But all is not as it seems as Poole soon finds himself on the run with a young girl who has become obsessed with him and may or may not have been witness to the first murder…

Director: John Polson
Stars: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster, Sophie Traub, Laura Dern, Tanya Clarke
Running Time: 101 min.
Showing at: Abraj, City Complex Tripoli, St Elie, Zouk

The Other Man
Genre: Drama
"The Other Man" tells the story of Peter (Liam Neeson) who discovers that his wife Lisa (Laura Linney) has been receiving emails and mobile messages from Ralph (Antonio Banderas), a man he never knew existed. Peter's obsession with this unknown rival escalates and, against the advice of his daughter Abigail (Romola Garai), a hurt and vengeful Peter flies to Milan to seek out the mysterious Ralph and the truth about his relationship with Lisa.

Director: Richard Eyre
Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, Romola Garai
Running Time: 1h 43mins
Showing at: Cinemacity,Dunes, Galaxy

Whiteout
Genre: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Adaptation
Carrie Stetko, the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, is investigating the continent's first murder, which draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.
 

Director: Dominic Sena
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Alex O'Loughlin
Showing at: Cinemacity, Espace, Galaxy

Arn - The Knight Templar
Genre: Action / Adventure / War
The film about Arn and Cecilia is set in Sweden as well as the Middle East, and offers a rich gallery of brave knights, powerful queens and treacherous kings. It is a tale of war and intrigue, friendship and betrayal, but also an unforgettable love story. Arn Magnussson is born in 1150 on Arnas farm in West Gothia in the western part of Sweden. He grows up to become an educated young man and a skilled swordsman. He meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel and jealous world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a monastery and Arn is sent away as a Knight Templar to the Holy Land, where war is raging between Christians and Muslims. They both have to fight to survive, they have to learn how to confront evil and overcome physical hardship. Their painful separation causes their faith in God and his goodness to waver – though not their faith in each other and their confidence that they will one day be reunited. When Arn returns home he has to fight for his love and what has become his life’s mission: to unite Sweden into one kingdom.
 

Director: Peter Flinth
Stars: Joakim Natterqvist, Mads Mikkelsen, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgard, Gustaf Skarsgard
Running Time: 140 min
Showing at: Abraj, Zouk

Bobboss
Genre: Comedy
A sarcastic comedy that follows two lovers whose business is hit by the global recession, so they try to overcome financial crunch together. The movie, written by Youssef Maati and directed by Wael Ehsan, stars Adel Emam, Yousra, Mai Kassab, Ashraf Abd Al Baki, Sameh Hussien and Yousf Dawoud.
 

Director: Wael Ihsan
Stars: Adel Imam, Yousra
Running Time: 130 min
Showing at: Abraj, City Complex Tripoli, Zouk

The Proposal
Genre: Comedy
When high-powered book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (RYAN REYNOLDS), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Director: Anne Fletcher
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Denis O’Hare, Betty White
Showing at: Abraj, City Complex Tripoli, St Elie, Zouk

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