The Next 48hOURS ≈ Movies Guide Tyger Valley Ster-Kinekor set to wow audiences with all-new cinema experience

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FILM: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOUR- ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of NEY (3-D) the King’. CAST: IAN McKELLEN, Martin Freeman, The adventure follows the journey CATE BLANCHETT, CHRISTOPHER LEE, HUGO of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is WEAVING, ELIJAH WOOD, ANDY SERKIS, swept into an epic quest to reclaim the RICHARD ARMITAGE, JED BROPHY, ADAM lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the Movies BROWN, JOHN CALLEN, MARK HADLOW, PE- fearsome Dragon Smaug. TER HAMBLETON, STEPHEN HUNTER, WIL- Approached out of the blue by LIAM KIRCHER, SYLVESTER McCOY, GRA- the Wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo HAM McTAVISH, JAMES NESBITT, DEAN finds himself joining a company of 13 O’GORMAN, AIDAN TURNER, KEN STOTT, Dwarves led by the legendary warrior BARRY HUMPHRIES, IAN HOLM Thorin Oakenshield. DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands swarm- From Academy Award-winning film- ing with Goblins, Orcs and deadly Wargs, maker Peter Jackson comes ‘The Hob- as well as a mysterious and sinister fig- bit: An Unexpected Journey’, the first of ure known only as the Necromancer. Ian McKellen in ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ a trilogy of films adapting the endur- Although their goal lies to the East ingly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, and the wastelands of the Lonely Moun- by J.R.R. Tolkien. tain, first they must escape the Goblin that surprise even him, he also gains Elijah Wood as Frodo; and Andy Serkis The three films tell a continuous sto- tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring as Gollum. ry set in Middle-earth 60 years before that will change his life forever…Gollum. that holds unexpected and useful quali- “‘The Hobbit’ has a breathless pace ‘The Lord of the Rings’, which Jackson Here, alone with Gollum, on the ties... A simple, gold ring that is tied to because Tolkien was writing it as a story Also in cinemas: and his filmmaking team brought to shores of an underground lake, the un- the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bil- for his children and for the children of ‘Finding Nemo 3D’ the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy assuming Bilbo Baggins not only dis- bo cannot begin to know. Ian McKellen the world,” Jackson notes. “It’s a ripping that culminated with the Oscar-winning covers depths of ingenuity and courage returns as Gandalf the Grey, the charac- yarn that moves from event to event, ter he played in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and really doesn’t stop. Trilogy, with Martin Freeman in the cen- It’s a little more humorous than ‘The tral role of Bilbo Baggins, and Richard Lord of the Rings’, the characters are a Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield. little more colorful, but it nonetheless EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST IN MOVIE ENTERTAINEMENT Also reprising their roles from ‘The has elements of greed and madness, of Lord of the Rings’ in ‘The Hobbit Tril- an innocent who is changed forever, and AT THE NEWLY UPGRADED STER-KINEKOR TYGER VALLEY ogy’ are: Cate Blanchett as Galadriel; of the gathering forces that will lead di- Ian Holm as Old Bilbo; Christopher Lee rectly into the events in ‘The Lord of the as Saruman; Hugo Weaving as Elrond; Rings’. This is where it all starts.”

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Martin Freeman in ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’

LABIA Gardens Tel (021) 424 5927 Fri 07 - 13 Dec R35 (Subject to Concessions) www.thelabia.co.za Labia on Kloof Fri to Tues 12.00, 2.00, 4.00, 6.00, 8.15pm PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING (16D) Wed, Thurs 10.45am, 2.00, 5.15, 8.30pm THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey Daily 12.15, 2.15, 4.15, 6.15, 8.30pm THE ORANGES (16L) Labia on Orange 12 DECEMBER Daily 11.30am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.15, 8.30pm (no Final screenings: Fri 11.30am, 1.45, 4.00, 11.30am, 1.45pm Mon, no 8.30pm Thurs) 6.15, 8.30pm, Sat 11.30, 1.45, 6.15, 8.30pm, JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (PG) Sun 11.30am, 1.45, 4.00pm HABEMUS PAPAM (We have a Pope) Daily 2.45, 8.15pm (13, Subtitles) CLOUD ATLAS (16LPVSN) Thurs 6.15, 8.30pm: Daily 11.30am, 4.00, 8.30pm WAVESCAPE SURF FILM FESTIVAL MOONRISE KINGDOM (10M) www.wavescapefilmfestival.co.za

Daily 1.45, 6.00pm Sun 6.15pm: www.exploringconscious- DIE WONDERWERKER (Subtitles 13MVD) ness.org.za 10 QUESTIONS FOR THE DALAI LAMA Mon to Thurs 11.30am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.15, 8.30pm (no 6.15 Thurs,, no 8.30pm Wed, Thurs) Daily 12.15, 6.15pm (no 6.15pm Sun) HOPE SPRINGS (13LS) BRAVE HEARTS

12 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 07 December - 13 December 2012