TIN TIN-2D: Secret of the Unicorn

Two giants of cinema, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, team up to bring Hergé's comic book characters to life. The Secret of the Unicorn is the first film in a proposed Tintin trilogy.Belgian reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) finds a clue to an ancient treasure that belonged to Captain Haddock's (Andy Serkis, aka Gollum) ancestors. Together, with the help of intelligent mutt Snowy and Detective Thompson and Thomson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), they set out on a high seas adventure to recover the family fortune. But on their tail and after the same treasure is the dastardly Ivanovich Sakharine (Daniel Craig).Tintin uses Weta Digital's motion capture to bring the actors to life. Says Jackson: "We're making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people – but real Hergé' people." The story combines elements from three Tintin books: The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure.

• Running time 1hr 50mins
• (PG) Contains Violence
• Trailer

Screening times:

	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
10:45am	YES	YES	YES			YES	YES
3:20pm	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES

RED DOG

Australian family film loosely based on the real 'Red Dog', a Kelpie/Cattle cross who famously traveled around the small towns of Western Australia, befriending the locals, in search of his long lost master. Stars Josh Lucas (A Beautiful Mind), Noah Taylor (Submarine) and Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider).

• Running time 1hr 32mins
• (PG)
• Trailer

Screening times:

	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
1:20pm	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES
7:45pm	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES

Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen romantic comedy set in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni.Soon to be married Gil (Wilson) and Inez (McAdams) are holidaying in Paris. While Inez spends her time fawning over her smug former boyfriend also on holiday (Sheen), Gil (Wilson) frets over his literary talents – he’s a screenwriter yearning to put his name on a novel and join the pantheon of great American writers of a bygone era. When out exploring by himself, Gil comes across a group of retro-dressed partygoers who beckon him to join them in a spot of time-travelling carousing. There he meets an A-list of literary giants who rubbed shoulders in 1920s Paris. Returning night after night, Gil relishes his new intellectual chums and grows increasingly annoyed at the seemingly shallow reality of life with his future wife and in-laws (Kurt Fuller and Mimi Kennedy).Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Tom Hiddleston, Carla BruniDirected by Woody Allen (‘Vicki Cristina Barcelona’, ‘Bullets Over Broadway’, ‘Radio Days’, ‘Manhattan’, ‘Annie Hall’)

• Running time 1hr 40mins
• (M) Contains Adult themes
• Trailer

Screening times:

	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
5:50pm	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES

Albert Nobbs

Meryl Streep must be quaking in her court shoes. That 2012 best actress Oscar was all but ready-etched with Streep's name for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in biopic The Iron Lady (out at the start of next year), but her main rival in the race is looking like an increasingly smart bet.No surprise, really: Glenn Close has been trying to get a film of George Moore's 19th century-set novella off the ground ever since she won rave reviews for the role off-Broadway in 1982. And that 30-year gap would explain some of the casting kinks that are the sole distraction in this sly and intriguing period piece."I think you're the strangest man I've ever met," someone remarks at one point to our hero, and they've got a point. Albert Nobbs seems a deeply weird – perhaps even too freaky – chap, with his odd appearance and titchy figure and strangled voice and unwillingness to socialise. Reason being: he's a she – something discovered by a jobbing painter who's forced to share Nobbs's garret attic at the Dublin hotel where he's employed. But as luck would have it, the painter has a similar secret, and Nobbs, desperate for a bosom buddy, takes inspiration from their story, in particular the fact that he/she appears to have secured themselves a wife. So he embarks on a mission to woo unwitting maid Mia Wasikowska – an enterprise that seems doomed to disaster given Nobbs's lack of obvious charms. Plus new boiler-boy Aaron Johnson is on the scene – forever shovelling coal in unbuttoned tops.Close is, obviously, terrific, and the gradual stripping off of her layers of artifice is highly affecting and artistically justified, as well as machine-tooled for the awards showreel. What makes Rodrigo García's movie more than the sum of just one part is the space and time devoted to the supporting cast, from Pauline Collins's flirt of a landlady to Brendan Gleeson's boozy hotel doctor. Janet McTeer, too infrequently seen on screen (though she's also in the forthcoming The Woman in White) is astonishing as the painter, and Mia Wasikowska adds more heart to the dimpled maid role than it requires.I'm not totally convinced by the coherence or ultimate import of the gender-bending theme (there's a fancy dress party; plus chat about how clothes maketh the man). But it barely matters. Despite that title and those roots, this is a gripping ensemble piece, good-humoured even at the end of its tether. "Dear Jesus, I don't know why everyone has to have such miserable lives," exclaims Gleeson. Nobbs keeps impressively merry, given its misery.Release Date 26/12/2011 at the Metro Cinema Dunedin

• Running time 1hr 50mins
• (M) Contains Adult themes
• Trailer

Screening times:

	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
3:15pm*	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES

PINA-2D

PINA is a visually stunning contemporary dance film from award winning director Wim Wenders, which needs to be experienced on the big screen. The mesmerising cinematography takes audiences into the theatre and out into the streets and meadows of Wuppertal, following the dancers as they perform their tribute to legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch. PINA will attract sophisticated arthouse audiences who are familiar with Wenders, fans of Pina Bausch, fans of dance and performing arts and those looking for an alternative quality cinematic experience.

• Running time 1hr 43mins
• (PG)
• Trailer

Screening times:

	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
5:30pm*	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
7:50pm				YES