Coming to Cinemas (27/9/2012)

Dangerous Liaisons (危險關係)

Director: Heo Jin-ho
Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong-gun, Cecilia Cheung
Running Time: 1 Hour 45 Minutes
Language:: Mandarin
Classification: P13
Synopsis: A powerful and mesmerizing adaptation of the French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Choderlos de Jaclos, on which "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), which starred Glenn Close and John Malkovich, was also based, set in Shanghai, the 1930s. At a charity ball for refugees from the Japanese-occupied Northeast, the glamorous entrepreneur and libertine Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung) strikes a deal with her ex-lover, the devastatingly handsome playboy Xie Yifan (Jang Dong-gun). Mo's most recent lover, a tycoon, has dropped her for a young virginal schoolgirl. If Xie takes the girl's virginity, he'll make a laughingstock out of the tycoon while Miss Mo will give herself to Xie. But Xie has his eyes on a different prize: the virtuous widow Du Fenyu (Ziyi Zhang). As the stakes are raised higher and higher, the game becomes increasingly dangerous for everyone involved, particularly when Xie, despite himself, falls in love with Du.

Hantu Kapcai

Director: Ghaz Abu Bakar
Cast: Zizan Razak, Fizz Fairuz, Remy Ishak, Neelofa
Running Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Language:: Malay
Classification: 18
Synopsis: When Ajib (Zizan Razak), a mat rempit, dies as a result of joining an illegal drag race, he becomes a spirit trapped between the world of the living and the dead. What he needs to do to move on is to settle his real world affairs with his family, something that is almost impossible when he is helpless to do anything. That is, until he realises that he can be seen by Ibrahim (Fizz Fairuz). Will Ajib be able to find peace and move on into the afterlife?

Hotel Transylvania

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg, Fran Drescher, Cee Lo Green, Molly Shannon, Selena Gomez
Running Time: 1 Hour 31 Minutes
Language:: English
Classification: P13
Synopsis: Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - to celebrate his daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.

Looper

Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels
Running Time: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
Language:: English
Classification: 18
Synopsis: "Looper" is an action-packed science fiction thriller set in the future, where time travel is possible but illegal and only used by crime syndicates, for what better way to hide a body than to send it 30 years into the past? Joe (Gordon-Levitt), a 'Looper', and one of the best there is, is recruited by the mob to do one thing, which is to wait for his 'future' target to be sent back in time before killing them, until one day the syndicate decides to 'close the loop'. His future-self (Willis) is sent back for assassination and young Joe finds himself unable to pull the trigger. Now, the two of them must find a way to send older Joe back into the future, while being on the run from the mob.

OMG - Oh My God!

Director: Umesh Shukla
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chakraborty
Running Time: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
Language:: Hindi
Classification:
Synopsis: In Akshay's 116th film to date, "OMG - Oh My God" is adapted from a Gujrati play. Actor Paresh Rawal plays Kanjibhai a shopkeeper whos shop gets destroyed by a Tornado on one unfortunate day. Blaming the incident on God, he goes on a mission to take Him down while fighting all the priests in the city. Having enough of his demeanour Lord Krishna (Akshay Kumar) pays Kanji a visit.

Sofazr The Movie - Jiwa Kacau

Director: Tauke Raja Lawak, Isma AF7
Cast: Wan Shahbaharin bin Niktah, Wan Shah Baharom bin Niktah, Ahmad Fairouz bin Mohamad, Amir Mahiyidin, Zarimi bin Zahari, Rodie Bin Jamun, Angah Raja Lawak, Along Raja Lawak, Azrul Raja Lawak
Running Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Language:: Malay
Classification: P13
Synopsis: Sofazr, a group of musicians from Malaysia star in their very own movie directed by Tauke Raja Lawak dan Isma Af7. The film is a comedy horror about a group of mentally ill patients who are being haunted by a vengeful spirit. But how would they know that it is a real spirit and not a figment of their imaginations? Can they even protect themselves?

Tai Chi 0

Director: Stephen Fung Tak Lun
Cast: Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Angelababy, Eddie Peng, Feng Shaofeng, Shu Qi, Daniel Wu
Running Time: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
Language:: Mandarin
Classification: P13
Synopsis: Stephen Fung directs this Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. In this first film of the "Tai Chi" trilogy, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead travels far to learn Tai Chi but finds out the hard way that it is forbidden for a villager to teach an outsider when the villagers, from strong men to old women to little children, repeatedly challenge him to a series of fights, all of which he loses quite badly. But when a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines shows up, the villagers realize that in order to save their home, they must trust this strange outsider with the knowledge of Tai Chi.

Thandavam

Director: A.L. Vijay
Cast: Umesh Shukla, Anushka Shetty, Jagapati Babu, Amy Jackson
Running Time: 2 Hours 40 Minutes
Language:: Tamil
Classification: P13
Synopsis: "Thandavam" is an action movie starring Vikram as a blind man who practises 'human echolocation', the abilty to detect the distance and nature of objects within his vicinity using echoes. Anushka Shetty plays Vikram's wife while Jagapati Babu is the villian. Scenes of the movie were shot in Delhi, Chennai and UK, particularly by the River Thames.

Releases according to CinemaOnline.