Film Screening 17th November, 2012

Poster for Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania 

6:00 PM, 17th November, 2012
No Guests

  • PG
  • 91 mins
  • 2012
  • Genndy Tartakovsky
  • David I. Stern, Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman
  • Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Selena Gomez

Stunning views, large and spacious rooms, a secluded location for the ultimate peace and quiet. A place of relaxation for you and your family, Hotel Transylvania is the perfect destination for a getaway... especially if you're some of the world's most famous monsters!

Bigfoot, Frankenstein (James) and his bride, the Mummy (Cee Lo Green) and Quasimodo (Jon Lovitz) are on the guest list for a huge birthday party that the hotel's owner, Dracula (Sandler) is hosting for his beloved 'teenage' daughter - she's finally turning 118!

Dracula has no problems with plumbing issues or the variety of guests in his hotel, but he is fiercely over-protective of his baby girl, Mavis (Gomez) and has been fabricating tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. Thanks to Dracula's careful planning the hotel has been human free since 1898 - a place where monsters are free to be themselves - until Jonathan (Samberg) stumbles upon the hotel. With Jonathan's arrival, Dracula's world could come crashing down as the 21 year-old human boy takes a shine to Mavis.

Hotel Transylvania brings to life all your favourite characters from classic monster movies (in much less creepy versions). Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (best known for his work on Cartoon Network's "Dexter's Laboratory" and "The Powerpuff Girls") and featuring the voices of a star-studded cast, this movie caters to all members of the family - the monster variety or otherwise.

Xin Yi Tan

Poster for Total Recall

Total Recall 

8:00 PM, 17th November, 2012
No Guests

  • M
  • 118 mins
  • 2012
  • Len Wiseman
  • Kurt Wimmer, Mark Bomback
  • Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel

Douglas Quaid (Farrell) is a working man that longs for more in life. This longing inspires him to visit Rekall, a company offering to implant the memory of the holiday of a lifetime for a fraction of the cost, against the express wishes of his wife (Beckinsale) and best friend. After choosing a package with all the extras, Quaid discovers that his whole life is a lie. Those people that warned him off Rekall were in fact agents trying to prevent the secrets inside Quaid's head from being unlocked, and Quaid himself is a rogue agent caught up in a war between the two superpowers that control the world, Euroamerica and New Shanghai.

The original Total Recall stands as a bastion of the action genre, essentially the culmination of a decade of excess and the last great effects movie before CGI crashed the party (and began to kill off ingenuity in the genre). A remake of such a critical and commercial success was always going to be a ballsy move, however it looks like one that has paid off thanks to the involvement of writer Kurt Wimmer (best known for Salt and cult favourite Equilibrium) and director Len Wiseman (who surprised many with his surprisingly good fourth Die Hard outing). The pair elected to keep the broad story of the original but shift the action to a significantly different locale, replacing the Martian conflict of the original for an Earth-based warring superpowers setting (the original took no more than the basic story and general vibe of the short story it was based on, at any rate). The resulting film is familiar but far from a complete rehash, and well worth a look.

Adam Gould