Stars  Ryan Gosling George Clooney Philip Seymour-Hoffman Paul Giamatti

synopsis  The Ides of March takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary when an up-and coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidates shot at the presidency
Aust Box Office:   $ 4.5M                 Good mature watch academy Awards Nominations LEV Magazine Top 12 LEV Posters
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Naomie Harris

synopsis  In a small remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied - even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six-year-olds.
LEV Top 24 Poster
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Malcolm Kamulette Sharon Duncan Brewster Kierston Wareing Ashley Walters Kane Robinson Geoff Bell Giacomo Mancini

synopsis Set in the fictitious Summerhouse Estate Top Boy is an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city urban drug and gang culture in East London. Thirteen-year-old Ra'Nell is left alone after his mentally ill mother Lisa is suddenly hospitalised. At the same time his mum's friend Heather pregnant and penniless enlists Ra'Nell's help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her baby the chances she never had. Meanwhile Dushane runs a thriving drug business with his friend Sully and makes a deal with drug barron Bobby Raikes in hope of becoming top boy at Summerhouse.
  
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Ray Winstone Gillian Anderson David Suchet Douglas Booth

synopsis  This 2011 production is a raw and passionate three-part adaptation of one of Dickens' finest novels starring Ray Winstone Gillian Anderson and Douglas Booth. A terrifying encounter with escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes; a summons from Miss Havisham the eccentric and reclusive owner of Satis House; a friendship with her beautiful but cold-hearted adopted daughter Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor: these are the events that see the orphaned Pips life change for ever.
   
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3 

Stars  Adam Sandler Katie Holmes Allen Covert Nick Swardson Eugenio Derbez Valerie Mahaffey Geoff Pierson Rohan Chand Elodie Tougne Al Pacino

synopsis  Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler) has his normal tranquil life turned upside down when his twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler) arrives for visit.
Aust Box Office:  $ 5.5M      Major Easter Weekend title. LEV Magazine LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   4/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Josh Gad Arielle Kebbel Danneel Harris Regina Hall Becky O'Donohue Jessie O'Donohue Carmen Electra

synopsis  Three best friends in search of a booze-fueled sexcapade find their way to Mardi Gras for boobs beads and brews. What could go wrong?
Flesh Teens Fun Good support. LEV Top 24 Posters
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   4/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Matthew Lillard Efren Ramirez Rachelle Lefevre Brett Davern Tom Arnold

synopsis  A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
Teen comedy Flesh fun Good Support. LEV Top 24 Poster
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   4/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Cam Gigandet Jena Malone Will Yun Lee Brooklyn Sudano

synopsis  A man loses everything and must come to terms with what is most important in his life.

Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   4/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Toni Collette Ioan Gruffudd
synopsis     Zooey and Alec Morrison are a married couple who are struggling to bridge the painful gap that is developing between them. Unable to conceive the Morrisons await confirmation of a child to foster. One day a seven year old boy who calls himself 'Eli' appears on their doorstep quite mysteriously explaining the foster agency has sent him.

Good cast Nice Family watch Support 
Distributor: ANCHOR BAY       RELEASE DATE  4/4/2012        BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars 
synopsis   Meet Wubbzy a loveable little ball of fun with a kooky tail and his best pals Widget and Waldren as they play in their beloved town of Wuzzleburg!

Distributor: ANCHOR BAY       RELEASE DATE            4/4/2012        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Katie Holmes Guy Pearce
synopsis   A young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend. Soon after she discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own. As a newly formed family they must unite and become a whole to defeat the army of malignanat monsters.

Aust Box Office:   $   500K      LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: 21ST CENTURY     RELEASE DATE  4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars Scarlett Allice Johnson Jack Gordon.
synopsis  Four young people win a trip of a lifetime to NYC courtesy of their favourite social networking website All2gether.com. As they board the private jet they are asked to relinquish their mobile phones and take part in the in-flight entertainment a new online gaming experience.But this is no ordinary game. Trapped at 30000 feet they are forced to play for their lives and the lives of their loved ones by their invisible captor who seems to know all their most intimate secrets.Putting your life on-line has deadly consequences.

  
Distributor: 21ST CENTURY     RELEASE DATE  4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Jennifer Love Hewitt Jamie Kennedy
synopsis   For the up-and-comers on Philadelphia's west side the caf? West Philly Grounds is the place to be. There the waitress serves wisdom along with coffee and muffins. The clientelle comes to her for advice in love life and careers. But even the neighbourhood gathering place has a dark side.

  
Distributor: 21ST CENTURY     RELEASE DATE  4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz) Jodie Whittaker (One Day St Trinians)

synopsis/  It's inner city versus outer space and HARRY BROWN meets WAR OF THE WORLDS when aliens drop in on a London housing project and the only line of defence against the extraterrestrial invaders is a group of teenage hoodlums. The sci-fi comedy ATTACK THE BLOCK begins as trainee nurse Sam is walking home and is robbed by a gang of hooded youths. She's saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. A small alien creature leaps from the wreckage and the gang chase and kill it dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block?but bigger more savage beasts are on the way and the estate is about to become a battleground.
Great watch fun a little different. LEV top 24 Posters  
Distributor: ICON     RELEASE DATE  4/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars Alicia Witt Jamie Kennedy Jennifer Esposito Jessica Walter Philip Baker Hall WWE Superstar Edge
synopsis  Theo Gold the New Orleans Assistant District Attorney is about to have the worst day of his life. Not only does his wife decide to leave him on the eve of his birthday but he manages to lose a high-profile case against Harry Blades (WWE Superstar Edge) an eccentric yet hardnosed detective on trial for corruption. Now the only thing Theo has left is the car his father entrusted to him ? a 1956 Studebaker Goldenhawk. But when he discovers his father?s ?pride and joy? has been stolen Theo is determined to do whatever it takes to get that car back. And ironically the only ally he has within the police department is the same person he tried to put away Harry Blades. As the two set-off to find the car action and comedy quickly develop when they come to realize that the stolen ?Hawk? was merely a small piece of a much larger puzzle.   
Distributor: SHOCK   RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars CM Punk John Cena Randy Orton The Miz
synopsis   Elimination Chamber 2012! In this Pay-Per-View event the main events are elimination chamber matches with 6 Superstars competing in the metal structure. Being the last stop on the road to WrestleMania all Superstars will be looking to make an impact and secure themselves a place on the big stage.

   
Distributor: SHOCK   RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Big Show Chris Jericho Christian Edge Jeff Hardy John Cena Kane Kurt Angle Lita Matt Hardy Mick Foley Randy Orton Rob Van Dam Shawn Michaels Triple H
synopsis  You think you know him?he?s the Rated-R Superstar the Ultimate Opportunist and one of the most decorated champions in WWE History. Edge has won more than 30 championships including 11 world championships and a record 14 tag team championships. He?s the only superstar in history to win the King of the Ring the Royal Rumble and Money in the Bank. And now that his career has been cut too short fans can relive his entire storied career in the first ever home video biography to chronicle this Canadian superstar?s rise through the independent ranks into WWE. The release is also packed with career-spanning matches hand selected by Edge himself.

   
Distributor: SHOCK   RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Josh Folan Chris Perry Natalie Wetta
synopsis  For three years and 49 episodes landmark program?PARANORMAL INSPECTORS?established itself as?the number one ghost hunting reality series on television. Shortly after?filming the 50th episode the show was mysteriously cancelled and nothing was seen nor discussed thereafter until now... ? For the first time in the show's illustrious history two?television crews each?comprised of?paranormal experts embarked on a controversial fact-finding mission in an abandoned hospital?to observe the presence?of supernatural forces. One?crew?containing skeptics looked to de-bunk the many and varied myths about ghosts spectres and wraiths?whilst the other consisted of believers looking to prove their very existence. ? Both parties teamed up for a definitive exploration of the spiritual unknown and gravely discovered much more than they?were ever prepared?for. ? When the forces of evil have something to say you'd better believe?they will make themselves known. In the spine-tingling tradition of Paranormal Activity and REC Episode 50 is a terrifying new vision of horror from Ian Holt acclaimed co-author of the international best-seller Dracula: The Un-dead. ?    
Distributor: UMBRELLA       RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Itzik Cohen Togo Igawa
synopsis  Winner of three Israeli Film Academy Awards and recipient of the prestigious Audience Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival A Matter of Size is the larger than life story of one man?s heartfelt fight to fit in to an otherwise shrinking world. Tipping the scales at 155 kilograms hefty Herzl (Itzik Cohen) lives at home with his?mother in the Israeli city of Ramla and is in desperate need of a break. Fired from his hospitality job for being unpresentable and spectacularly shunned from his dieting club for lack of commitment Herzl drowns his sorrows as chief dishwasher for a local Japanese restaurant run by former Sumo wrestling coach Kitano (Togo Igawa). Exposed to the?noble world of Sumo wrestling Herzl is instantly drawn to a sport where large people are not only appreciated for their size but honoured and celebrated as true sporting heroes. Aspiring to become the first ever Jewish Sumo wrestler in the world Herzl must not only gather the support of his three corpulent comrades but?secure expert training from?an otherwise?reluctant Kitano in order to shake the world to its very foundations in?a?heavyweight comedy about?friendship respect and?learning to love the skin you're in.?

Made in Israel?Hebrew and French language.    
Distributor: UMBRELLA       RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Nic and Tristan
synopsis  Step aside wimpy kids -? Nic and Tristan Puehse -?skateboard super heroes of YouTube where their videos have been viewed more than 10 million times are set to not only defy gravity but all reasonable expectations in this gnarly action-packed adventure ride for the whole family. ? When 11 year-old twins Nic and Tristan prepare for the most prestigious skateboarding event in their young lives - the Mega Dega - it seems nothing can stand in their way that they can't skate around. But their plans take a serious spill when a scheduling conflict places their parents' anniversary at the top of the family social calendar. With the clock ticking down to the all-important Mega Dega the twins are forced to dig deep into their bag of tricks to out-maneuver the world's toughest babysitter contemplate an army of cockroaches?elude a skater-hating security guard and outwit a gang of tough punk rockers. ? There's no rest for the wicked and it's going to take all their ingenuity some radical skateboarding and a little help from their friends to make the Mega Dega?on time and?share their top-notch shredding skills with the rest of the skateboarding world.? ?    
Distributor: UMBRELLA       RELEASE DATE 4/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Bingbing Li Gianna Jun Hugh Jackman
synopsis  Inspired by the bestselling novel by Lisa See SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN tells the story of seven-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China who had their feet bound at the same age and on the same day which sealed their fates together as laotongs ? bound together for eternity. Isolated in their marriages they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai their descendants Nina and Sophia struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers complicated love lives and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan or risk losing one another forever. What unfolds are two stories generations apart but everlasting in their universal notion of love hope and friendship.

Mandarin with English subtitles   Based on Best-selling novel Will have much interest from mature females    
Distributor: PINNACLE    RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars Paul Gross Sienna Guillory Dustin Milligan
synopsis When notorious American gunslinger The Montana Kid staggers over the border into the tiny Canadian hamlet of Barclay?s Brush life for the town?s 29 inhabitants is about to get exciting. But unbeknownst to The Kid a ruthless American posse has illegally crossed the border to hunt him down. Doggedly tracking his movements the posse is about to close in on Barclay?s Brush. Surrounded in a place with no weapons and no hope and where the townsfolk don?t comprehend the brutal code of the Wild West it?s gonna be up to The Kid to save the town take down the posse and show these Canadians just how the west was won!     
Distributor: PINNACLE    RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Mira Sorvino Peter Fonda Louis Gossett Jr. Jason London
synopsis  Lovable mutt SMITTY is left behind by his owners when their home is foreclosed and they are forced to move. After a cross country trek the dog ends up captured and placed in a pound in Summit Town Iowa. Meanwhile thirteen-year-old city-brat Ben Barrett (Brandon Tyler Russell) has been arrested... and his struggling single mother (Mira Sorvino) has had enough of him getting into mischief. Now Ben has to spend the summer in Iowa on a farm run by his tough old grandfather Jack (Peter Fonda). Jack figures Ben needs a friend and takes him to visit the dog pound where they find SMITTY. Even though it?s not pals at first sight - Ben hates that SMITTY insists on checking his every move - gradually SMITTY Jack and their friendly neighbor (Louis Gossett Jr.) soon teach Ben life-changing lessons about friendship family and responsibility.

   
Distributor: PINNACLE    RELEASE DATE   5/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Brad Pitt Jonah Hill Philip Seymour Hoffman Robin Wright

synopsis  Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team
Aust Box Office:  $  5.0M  Very good watch good Sports story ( relates to AFL & NRL ). LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   11/4/2012  BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Henry Hopper Mia Wasikowska Ryo Kase Schulyer Fisk Jane Adams Chin Han Lusia Strus

synopsis  From acclaimed director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) comes a quirky coming-of-age love story between a young man (Henry Hopper) who has given up on life and a beautiful charming young girl (Mia Wasikowska) who possesses a deep felt love of life and the natural world.
Aust Box Office:  $   500K
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   11/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars   Tyrone Brown Mishael Morgan Ray Johnson

synopsis  As the best hip-hop dancers in the world descend upon Detroit for the International Beat the World competition three crews put their hopes and dreams on the line as they battle for the title of World Champion.
 
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   11/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Val Kilmer Matt Dallas Daniel lBooko Trace Adkins Shawn Roberts Wilson Bethel

synopsis  In this action-packed true story the legends of the West are brought together to avenge the vicious murder of Wyatt Earp's beloved Dora. Joined by the famed Bat Masterson Charlie Bassett Bill Tilghman and Doc Holliday Earp rides after the ruthless Kenedy brothers who are on a murder spree that spans from Dodge City to Mexico.

Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   11/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Rob Lowe Carla Gugino Thomas Jane Jeremy Piven

synopsis  Richard (Thomas Jane) Ron (Jeremy Piven) Tim (Christian McKay) and Jonathan (Rob Lowe) are friends from college who gather for a weekend each year to celebrate their friendship and catch up with each other. On the surface they look like other men going through life: they have careers and families and responsibilities. But as with many people there is more to them than meets the eye. As the weekend progresses they go down the rabbit hole of excess. Fueled by sex drugs and rock 'n' roll their bacchanalian reunion drives them to an unexpected place where they are forced to confront themselves and the choices they've made.
 
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   11/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars   Halle Berry Jessica Biel jon Bon Jovi Robert de Niro Zac Efron Katherine Heigl Hilary Swank

synopsis  New Year's Eve is all about parties glitz a midnight kiss and maybe a few short-lived resolutions right? Or could it be about something more? Valentine's Day writer Katherine Fugate and director Garry Marshall have once again joined forces to explore one of the most emotionally charged days of the year. Their uncanny ability to tell multiple stories at the same time to intertwine those stories in the most unexpected ways and to make sure viewers are emotionally invested in every single character makes the film an intriguing puzzle. Of course a cast list that reads like an award-nomination roster doesn't hurt its success either. Among the host of 'main characters' in the story is Claire Morgan (Hilary Swank) the woman in charge of the ball drop in Times Square. Naturally things don't go quite as planned and she's forced to do some serious on-the-spot improvising--oh and it should be noted that she's deathly afraid of heights and there's somewhere else she really should be on New Year's Eve.
Aust Box Office:   $  11.0M            LEV Top 12 Poster
Distributor: WARNER       RELEASE DATE  11/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  VOICES Antonio Banderas Salma Hayek Zach Galifianakis

synopsis Years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive. While trying to steal magic beans from the infamous criminals Jack and Jill, the hero crosses paths with his female match, Kitty Softpaws, who leads Puss to his old friend, but now enemy, Humpty Dumpty. Memories of friendship and betrayal enlarges Puss' doubt, but he eventually agrees to help the egg get the magic beans. Together, the three plan to steal the beans, get to the Giant's castle, nab the golden goose, and clear Puss' name

My two 20+ sons went a saw this and said it was really good .one for the kids and older ones as iT is a spin off from shrek
Aust Box Office:$  15.1M                 LEV Top 12 Posters 
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 11/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Matthew Goode Rachel Griffiths Bojana Novakovic

synopsis  Burning Man is the reckless sexy funny moving and ultimately life-affirming story of Tom a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own very different ways to help put him back together.
Aust Box Office:$      215K                LEV Top 24 Poster
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 11/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Tom Cruise Jeremy Renner Simon Pegg

synopsis  In the 4th installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Aust Box Office:$   17.3M   LEV Cover of Magazine APRIL LEV Top 12
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 18/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Gerard Butler Michelle Monaghan Kathy Baker Madeline Carroll Michael Shannon

synopsis When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers makes the decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the regions vulnerable populace especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of aide workers Sam breaks ground for an orphanage in the middle of territory controlled by Lords Resistance Army a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before their teens. Determined to save as many as possible he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children restoring peace to their lives - and eventually his own.
    LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   19/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Channing Tatum Al Pacino Juliette Binoche

synopsis A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the Queens neighbourhood where he grew up. To provide for his wife and ailing daughter he works hard to keep his life on track. But this life is threatened when a dark secret bubbles to the surface. An anonymous source reveals new information about the unsolved murder of two boys and a possible police cover-up setting off a chain of events that rattles the neighbourhood.
Similar to "Brooklyn 's Finest". Good support. LEV Top 24 Posters   
Distributor: ROADSHOW      RELEASE DATE   19/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars C. Thomas Howell Jason London
synopsis  On the morning of Christmas Eve a terrorist sets off an explosion that rocks the Federal building and unleashes a toxic gas throughout the ventilation system. His purpose - to expose the Government's secret biological warfare weapon a deadly virus that instantly attacks a person's adrenal system causing them to become inhumanly aggressive with an uncontrollable urge to kill each other.

 
Distributor: ANCHOR BAY       RELEASE DATE    15/4/2012        BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Kirsten Dunst Alexander Skarsg?rd Charlotte Gainsbourg Kiefer Sutherland Charlotte Rampling John Hurt Stellan Skarsg

synopsis In Lars von Trier's acclaimed masterpiece about the end of the world Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsg?rd) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire's best efforts the wedding is a fiasco with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth?
Aust Box Office:  $    560K Directed by Lars Von Trier. Very good reviews Winner Best Actress @ Cannes Film Fest 2011 Nominated for many International Awards. Arthouse Must. LEV Top 24 Poster
Distributor: MADMAN       RELEASE DATE 18/4/2012       BRETT'S  RATING 2

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synopsis On an isolated oil rig platform Hae-jun works as the equipment manager for a small but dedicated crew. After an undersea expedition goes horribly wrong other crew members begin to turn up dead; one by one their bodies viciously multilated. What the few survivors soon discover is a transparent underwater creature feeding on the crew to survive. Hae-jun and her colleagues' frantic fight for survival begins.
Korean / English subtitles    
Distributor: MADMAN       RELEASE DATE 18/4/2012       BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Charlie Bewley Christy Andersen and Gillian Zinser
synopsis  A single church-going mother desperately tries to save her two daughters from walking down the same dark path she was once on; and a young woman fights against addiction to a mysterious party drug.

    
Distributor: PEACOCK    RELEASE DATE   18/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Michael Madsen Dustin Booth Morgan Simpson Grinnell Morris Shi Ne Nielson Carla Toutz Heather Simpson Paul Ben-Victor
synopsis  In 1994 residents of the small town of Clear Lake WI fall victim to a strange and horrible disease. As fears spread through the town an influential local preacher (Michael Madsen) called the outbreak a supernatural punishment for the sins of the people and recruited a small group of high school students to help him kidnap the worst of the sinners...people who the preacher called sinners. By the time the government health officials arrived to find the cause of the outbreak thirteen people had gone missing and most of the townspeople had fled. The government evacuated the remaining citizens and permanently quarantined the town. Fifteen years later a documentary filmmaker tracks down the four surviving students and convinces them to return to Clear Lake to tell their side of the story. Upon returning to the empty town strange things begin to happen.  
Distributor: PEACOCK    RELEASE DATE   18/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Jess Weber Doug Junior Kristin Sargent Robert Bozek
synopsis 1965 South Vietnam two American Soldiers find themselves trapped in the Jungle with a War surrounding them. The only thing keeping them alive is the promises in their hearts; they kept to their families - to return home at any cost. One Soldier Private David M. Church (Doug Junior) awakes from being rendered unconscious to find all of his squad killed by the Vietcong. Three Days by foot he must travel to the Landing Zone for extraction. In the distant Jungle Church comes across an injured VC and makes him pay for the lives of his squad. Payment comes in the form of a bullet to the VC shoulder. Moving closer Church finds out the farmer dressed as VC is actually an American Tunnel Rat (Jess Weber). Mentally broken Church carries the Tunnel Rat closer to the LZ    
Distributor: PEACOCK    RELEASE DATE   18/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Meredith Monroe Bonnie Dennison Michael Welch David Chokachi
synopsis  When a rebellious girl from a good family falls for the town drifter she unwittingly brings a psychopath into her loving home.

   
Distributor: PEACOCK    RELEASE DATE   18/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Heather Hemmens XIN Alan Rachins Keith Allan Michelle Boyd and David Chokachi
synopsis  Alexandra D'Artagnan junior NSA officer uncovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States and enlists the help of three infamous international spies to stop the threat.

  
Distributor: PEACOCK    RELEASE DATE   18/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Thomas Dekker Jeremy Piven Mira Sorvino Kate Walsh Elizabeth McGovern Lynn Collins
synopsis  A young father takes his three year old son out to the woods to watch the first snow of the year. But when the child wanders off a series of devastating events unfold rocking the small community. Soon a city lawyer is dispatched to help with the prosecution leaving the citizens to confront their own values and question the lives they have lead in this often desolate snowscape.

   
Distributor: GRYPHON      RELEASE DATE  19/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars Kenichi Matsuyama Kiko Mizuhara Rinko Kikuchi
synopsis First love is never forgotten. For Toru a student in the turbulent 1960s he is coming to terms with the suicide of his best friend Kizuki whose grief-stricken girlfriend Naoko he has since formed a complex bond. But Naoki?s reclusive lifestyle and melancholic envelopment make it tough for Toru to form a connection something he has no trouble in doing with the vivacious Midori who soon becomes his infatuation. But it won?t be long before he will have to choose between the two if fate doesn?t intervene first.

Aust Box Office:  $   200K  Japanese / English subtitles. IMDB rates 6.4 from 3160 votes Based on novel and features John Lennon's Song "Norwegian Wood".
Distributor: GRYPHON      RELEASE DATE  19/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Melissa Leo Brad William Henke AnnaSophia Robb Phillip Rhys Hunter Parish Anthony Keyvan
synopsis September 11 2001. Montine McLeod a lonely flight attendant disinterested in her job and her life is placed in charge of ten year old Pakistani-American Omar Hassan an unaccompanied minor travelling from his home in New York to his new boarding school in LA. When their plane is grounded in Texas amidst the chaos of that day Montine is forced to take responsibility for Omar and decides to drive him across country back to New York City to re-unite him with his father. Along the way they help each other discover the importance of friendship tolerance redemption acceptance and hope.

   
Distributor: GRYPHON      RELEASE DATE  19/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Elijah Wood Pink

synopsis  The sequel Happy Feet 2 begins a few years after the 2006 original ended: Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) is now married to Gloria (Pink) and the father of Erik (Ava Acres) a chick who's afraid to dance. When Erik sees the puffin Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria) he decides he can learn to fly: Sven is the leader of a cult that preaches if you believe it it can happen. An unexplained seismic event causes a glacier to shift trapping Gloria and all the other emperor penguins: Mumble Erik and two other chicks must rescue them before they starve. What begins as a familiar story about a diffident chick quickly becomes needlessly and hopelessly mired in subplots involving elephant seals skua gulls human explorers and a pair of renegade krill (voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon). The motion-capture animation is adequate at best with snow and water splashing around the dancing penguins to hide the fact that their feet aren't making contact with the ground plane.
Aust Box Office:   $   10.5M LEV Magazine Comp. LEV Top 12 Poster
Distributor: WARNER       RELEASE DATE  24/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Harry Connick Jr. Ashley Judd Nathan Gamble Kris Kristofferson Morgan Freeman

synopsis Inspired by a true story Dolphin Tale is about courage ingenuity and never giving up. Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) is a young boy who's struggling with school and doesn't have many friends other than his cousin Kyle (Austin Stowell). When Kyle a star swimmer joins the army to earn money for college and is called to active duty it looks like Sawyer is destined to spend his summer alone tinkering in the garage and attending summer school. Sawyer stumbles upon a dolphin that's been severely injured becomes fascinated by dolphins and is suddenly intellectually engaged like never before. In spite of his shyness he forms a friendship with marine rescue doctor Clay (Harry Connick Jr.) and his daughter Hazel (Cozi Zuehlsdorff) and more importantly a special and very powerful bond with the rescued dolphin who's dubbed Winter.
Aust Box Office:   $   2.0M  LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: WARNER       RELEASE DATE  24/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Meryl Streep  Jim Broadbent  Richard E. Grant

synopsis/ London 2008. In her well-appointed apartment the elderly former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares breakfast for her husband Denis as she has every morning of their married life. It?s not until Margaret?s personal aide bustles in that we see that Margaret sits at the table alone. Denis is alive only in her imagination. THE IRON LADY is the story of a woman who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. It is a film about power and the price that is paid for power a story that is both unique and universal
Aust Box Office:    $ 10.0M         Excellent watch Mature audience ( "The Queen" "Kings Speech" ). Winner Best Actress Golden Globe Awards Nominations for Academy Awards. LEV top 12 Posters        
Distributor: ICON     RELEASE DATE  25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Ben Stiller Eddie Murphy Casey Affleck Alan Alda Matthew Broderick Judd Hirsch Tea Leoni Michael Pena Gabourey Sidibe

synopsis  When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.

Aust Box Office:  $ 10.0M  Great cast Fun watch LEV Magazine LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   25/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Lauren German Michael Biehn Milo Ventimiglia Courtney B. Vance Ivan Gonzalez Michael Eklund Abbey Thickson Ashton Holmes Rosanna Arquette

synopsis In this graphic and violent post-apocalyptic thriller nine strangers all tenants of a New York high rise apartment escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building's bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door the group begins to descend into madness each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle and tensions flare and they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows themselves to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape even with no promise of salvation on the outside.

Distributor: UNIVERSAL / SONY      RELEASE DATE   25/4/2012      BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Jamie Bell Andy Serkis Daniel Craig

synopsis Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn.
Aust Box Office:$  15.0M  Directed by Steven Spielberg. . LEV Top 12 Posters
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 1

Stars  Geoffrey Rush Judy Davis

synopsis Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society her staff her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Aust Box Office:$    1.9M   Winner Best Actress AACTA Awards LEV Top 24 Posters
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars  Freddie Highmore Victoria Hamilton

synopsis  TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960?s Britain. Based on the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater?s childhood and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield TOAST is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.
      
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars  Jake T. Austin Gabriela Aisenberg Rosie Perez Constanza Sperakis Kathleen Herles

synopsis  Join Diego his sister Alicia and their friends all over the world as they race to the rescue of animals in trouble! Help them reach Antarctica to help some penguins! Save a Bengal Tiger in India and thirsty camels in Egypt! Dive under the sea to save a Humpback Whale and swing through the Latin American rainforest to help a deer a hawk and even those silly Bobo Brothers (and their spider monkeys sisters too)! ?Al rescate!
     
Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 3

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synopsis NEXT IN SERIES OF SPINOFFS
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Distributor: PARAMOUNT       RELEASE DATE 25/4/2012         BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Bug Hall Donnie Jeffcoat Sean McGowan
synopsis When the commander of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action his replacement a young na?ve pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit crew. Ordered into a suicide mission their only chance for survival is to band together as brothers in battle. With unparalleled aerial action Fortress pays homage to the sacrifices of an entire generation during the most important war in history.     
Distributor: EAGLE    RELEASE DATE    24/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 2

Stars Paul Rhys Claire Skinner Paul Ritter
synopsis  When Archie Cookson (Paul Rhys) a washed-up British spy mysteriously receives stolen secret tapes he becomes the target of an assassination by senior MI6 officials. Archie survives the elimination of his departmental colleagues only to be confronted by his long time friend and ex-CIA 'problem solver' Ennis Miller (Paul Ritter). Initially appearing to be Archie's salvation Ennis is soon revealed to be a reluctant assassin hired to finish the job.
Distributor: EAGLE    RELEASE DATE    24/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

Stars Nunzio La Bianca Biagio Ventrelli Jemery La Bianca
synopsis  At the start of Aussie Park Boyz we see that Cam is working as a labourer on a building site. Deep down he's tormented by the guilt he feels for his brothers death. The plasterers make a big mistake when they goad Cam about his brother. Cam explodes in a blind fury and leaves them in need of hospitalisation. Pep returns from America and is distressed to hear that his best mate Cam is prize fighting for the dodgy nightclub owner Jemmy. The crunch comes when Cam throws another fight which causes Jemmy to lose a stack of money and Cam is worked over and thrown onto the street. It is now that he descends into a maelstrom of drugs and despair

     
Distributor: EAGLE    RELEASE DATE    24/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3

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synopsis Dragon Hill is a fantastic and magical world where all dragons live and is protected by four gates: Fire Water Earth and Air. Only Ethelbert the wise guardian dragon holds the key and knows the secret to traveling between the dragon and the human worlds. And from time to time people of different ages and centuries arrive at Dragon Hill for different reasons. One such person is the evil wizard Septimus who Ethelbert has held prisoner at Dragon Hill to prevent his return to the human world and continue his scheming ways. But now Septimus has discovered a way to escape and he'll need the help of a young innocent boy Kevin to complete his plan.

     
Distributor: EAGLE    RELEASE DATE    24/4/2012          BRETT'S  RATING 3