Tron Legacy leads movie list at Gmall

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

THE long-awaited sequel to the 80s hit sci-fi-adventure-action is zooming on the big-screen of Gaisano Mall of Davao this week.

"Tron Legacy" will open in two theaters --- in its 3D Extreme Cinema and its conventional cinema -- on Friday, simultaneous with its worldwide release.

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To open on Wednesday are the aliens-are-no-longer-aliens sci-fi Monsters, the save-your-wife action-thriller "The Next Three Days," the nerd-befriends-a-vampire horror-drama "Let Me In," and the coming-of-age sex-drama "Don't Look Down."

Family-fantasy "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" gets another week extension.

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Tron Legacy

Inside the ENCOM computer system, a program called CLU, created by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) during the original fight against the Master Control Program, has been causing chaos and destruction across the grid. Kevin's son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) is in search of his missing father, but he soon discovers that Kevin's whereabouts are somehow connected to the program making a mess of the ENCOM system. In order to find his father, Sam has to go into the system itself, teaming up with Quorra (Olivia Wilde), Kevin's loyal confidante, and facing the same high-stakes world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years in order to fight his way to CLU. But in the neon realm of Tron, a lot has changed and new challenges await him at every turn. Eventually, father and son must embark on a life-or-death journey across the visually stunning cyber universe -- a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous with vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.

Monsters

Six years ago, NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an Infected Zone. Today, the U.S. and Mexican militaries still battle to contain the creatures with air-strikes and defoliation, while a wall stretching along the American border keeps the United States protected. Meanwhile, a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

Next Three Days

Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for murdering her boss whom she had an argument with. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John (Russell Crowe) would spend the next few years trying to get her released but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family especially her son gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

Don't Look Down

In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does advertising -- handing out flyers while walking on stilts or wearing an empanada costume. When his melancholy father dies, Eloy imagines that his father visits him at night; the explanation is more pedestrian -- Eloy has started sleepwalking. Things change abruptly: while sleepwalking, he falls through an open skylight into the bed of Elvira, a young woman from Barcelona visiting her grandmother. Elvira invites Eloy to become her lover and teaches him Tantric sex. Eloy discovers bliss. And his father?

Let Me In

Twelve-year-old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens's age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond. When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby's father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen's efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an unthinkable secret.