January 13, 2006

Jarhead (15)
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper
Running time: 123 mins
Synopsis: Follows enlistee "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal) lugs a sniper-rifle and a 100lb rucksack around the Middle East deserts with both the heat and Iraqi soldiers against him in the first Gulf War.

Breakfast on Pluto (15)
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson
Running time: 129 mins
Synopsis: Foster child Patrick "Kitten" Brady (Murphy) leaves life in his town in Ireland for 1970s London, where he becomes a transvestite cabaret singer.

Memoirs of a Geisha (12A)
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Zhang Ziyi, Li Gong
Running time: 145 mins
Synopsis: Based on Arthur Golden's best-selling Geisha, the epic follows the life of a fisherman's daughter in her ascent to a renowned Geisha.

Cry Wolf (12A)
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Starring: Jon Bon Jovi, Lindy Booth, Kristy Wu, Jared Padalecki, Sandra McCoy, Julian Morris, Paul James
Running time: 89 mins
Synopsis: Teen thriller in which eight high school seniors play a game of lies about a serial killer they have made up, only to find that no-one will believe them when they need help.

The Night We Called it a Day (15)
Director: Paul Goldman
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Joel Edgerton, Dennis Hopper
Running time: 96 mins
Synopsis: A promoter books Frank Sinatra for an Australian tour in the '70s, but when relations between the press and the singer turn sour the unions scupper the show.


The Truth (15)
Director: George Milton
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Elizabeth McGovern, William Beck, Karl Theobald
Running time: 119 mins
Synopsis: British black comedy in which a wheelchair-bound woman joins a Scottish retreat where group therapy breeds sex, hatred and murder.