Astro Boy is an animated movie out on 29th January 2010
Astro Boy is a computer animated movie with 3-D film action suitable for families to be released in cinemas in the UK on 29th January 2010.
Based on the Japanese comic-book created by the Japanese artist Osamu Tezuka in 1951, the animated Astro Boy bears all the hallmarks of the original cartoon character famous across the whole of Asia. Containing some of the pathos and themes present in the story of Pinocchio, it’ll probably make you want laugh and want to cry.
With voice-overs provided by high-profile names including the likes of Kirsten Bell, Nicholas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Sutherland and Charlize Theron, the story is set in the world of Metro City, a community that hovers high above the Earth littered with spent robots. Visually stunning, with imaginative futuristic worlds and superbly animated explosions Astro Boy is designed to appeal to the whole family.
After the death of his son, a brilliant scientist, De Tenma (Nicholas Cage) attempts to recreate him by building Astro Boy – a young robot with incredible super powers (Highmore), but finds that his creation is sadly lacking. Rejected by his inventor father and painfully aware that he is not human, Astro Boy sets off on a journey to the Earth below to find acceptance. Although at first, he finds refuge in a group of outcast robots, he has to face huge challenges; robot gladiators, a villainous president (Sutherland) and an alien race that threatens to invade planet Earth.
Will Astro Boy single-handedly save the planet and finally be accepted by his father? You’ll have to go to the cinema on 29th January to find out.
Saw VI will be in cinemas from 23rd October 2009
The latest thriller from the Saw franchise, Saw Vl will be launched on 23rd October and stars Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor and Betsy Russell.
Combining crime, horror and mystery the legacy of the “Jigsaw Killer” continues, so called because of the executioner’s habit of removing a puzzle shaped piece of flesh from victims in a representation of the fact that they have something missing – ironically enough – the survival instinct. Now that Special Agent Strahm is dead, his apprentice, Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is free to continue the Jigsaw Killer’s deadly work using physical or psychological torture to test his victims and change the world “one person at a time.”
When the FBI starts to close in on Hoffman a dark game is set in motion and the grand plan of the Jigsaw Killer is at last revealed in a complex and chilling climax.
Directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton and Thomas Fenton, the bleakly macabre format introduces a plot that’s as uncomfortable as it is ingenious. Saw Vl is coming to a cinema near you on 23rd October, don’t miss the latest twist in this epic tale that has introduced a whole new meaning to the genre of the horror movie.