Forthcoming cinema releases
OPENING NEXT FRIDAY
YEAR ONE
Harold Ramis ( Groundhog Day) directs an Old-Testament comedy pairing Jack Black and Michael Cera as hunters who encounter Biblical figures.
RUDO & CURSI
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna play Mexican half-brothers working as banana pickers and dreaming of becoming professional footballers. Carlos Cuarón directs.
MY SISTER’S KEEPER
Cameron Diaz plays a lawyer defending herself when her teen daughter (Abigail Breslin) sues for emancipation from her parents.
BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE
A plucky teen vampire (Gianna Jun) goes undercover at a US military base in Tokyo to seek out and destroy a demon in disguise. With Allison Miller and Liam Cunningham.
OPENING JULY 1
ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
The hit computer-animated adventure series continues. Featuring the voices of Simon Pegg and Seann William Scott.
PUBLIC ENEMIES
Michael Mann’s gangster drama features Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, with Marion Cotillard as his lover and Christian Bale as the dogged FBI agent on his tail.
OPENING JULY 3
GIGANTIC
A quirky film of a mattress salesman (Paul Dano) who longs to adopt a Chinese baby and falls for the insecure daughter (Zooey Deschanel) of a bombastic customer (John Goodman).
SUGAR
Writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden follow Half Nelson with a film of a Dominican Republic pitcher (Algenis Pérez Soto) signed by an Iowa baseball team.
OPENING JULY 10
BRUNO
Sacha Baron Cohen (left) tries to top Borat for outrageousness with a provocative comedy in which he plays a flamboyant gay Austrian fashion journalist.
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE
Robin Wright Penn portrays a woman facing upheaval in her life after she turns 50, in Rebecca Miller’s film. With Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin and Monica Bellucci.
35 SHOTS OF RUM
French director Claire Denis is on mellow form with her tender, low-key picture observing the relationships between disparate neighbours in a suburban Paris apartment building.
FIRED UP!
Comedy yarn in which two high-school footballers (Nicholas D'Agosto from Heroesand Eric Christian
Olsen from Brothers and Sisters) hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp for cheerleaders.
