Travel through time with Bruce Willis, or travel to Nelson with Vince Martin? Rian Johnson‘s sci-fi spectacular goes head-to-head with Tony Simpson‘s home-grown family comedy at the box office this weekend. Also fighting it out for your hard-earned cinema dollars are an animated Adam Sandler, a group of Lebanese women, a steampunk martial artist, an Indian man who tries to sue God, and a wimpy kid in his third instalment.
Let the battle commence!
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Here are the films opening today:
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LOOPER……FILM OF THE WEEK
USA | 118 minutes | Director: Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis battle it out as their future and past selves in a time travel sci-fi action fest. How could you say ‘No’?!
http://youtu.be/_DyrsPUBL3M
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KIWI FLYER
New Zealand | 87 minutes | Director: Tony Simpson (Feature Debut)
Good, wholesome, Aussie-bashing family fun, featuring New Zealand’s favourite lounge-singing, tyre-promoting, adopted Australian, Vince Martin.
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WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, | 98 minutes | Director: Nadine Labaki (Caramel)
This timely religious comedy won the People’s Choice Audience Award for Best Picture at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. If you watch the trailer, it’s easy to see why.
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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
USA | 91 minutes | Director: Genndy Tartakovsky (Feature Debut, TV’s Star Wars: Clone Wars)
Adam Sandler, Kevin James and David Spade! Are they allowed to work together again after… you know… that film that will remain nameless? Fortunately this one looks funny. And I’ll watch anything with Steve Buscemi in it.
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TAI CHI 0 3D
China | 94 minutes | Director: Stephen Fung (House of Fury)
A ‘steampunk kung-fu throw down’ from the creators of Ip Man. Well, I’m sold!
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 3: DOG DAYS
USA, Canada | 90 minutes | Director: David Bowers (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules)
Can’t say I’ve seen any of this series but I’m sure fans of the first two films, and the books, will enjoy this latest instalment.
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OMG Oh My God!
India | 130 minutes | Director: Umesh Shukla (Dhoondte Rah Jaoge)
It’s hard to know what the heck’s going on when the trailer has no subtitles, but a comedy about a fake idol dealer who sues God after an earthquake destroys nothing but his shop sounds like fun.
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Which of these is your number one contender?
