What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (PG) starring Brenden Fraser, Josh Hutcherson. Contains intense adventure action and some scary scenes. Journey to the Center of the Earth stars Brendan Fraser as a science professor whose untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic community. But on an expedition in Iceland, he and his nephew stumble upon a major discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey deep beneath the Earth's surface, where they travel through never-before-seen worlds and encounter a variety of unusual creatures.

The Visitor (15) starring Hiam Abbas, Danai Gurira, Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman. In Thomas McCarthy's follow-up to his award-winning debut THE STATION AGENT, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as widower Walter Vale who discovers that a young immigrant couple, Tarek (Sleiman) and Zainab (Gurira), have been scammed into illegally renting his vacant flat in New York City. Walter agrees to let them stay until they find a place and soon Walter and Tarek form a friendship. When Tarek is confined to a detention centre, and his mother arrives in search of him, Walter's emotional commitment to Tarek's case is sealed. As the four people struggle to deal with the stark realities of the US immigration system and their own individual lives, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways.

Meet Dave (PG) starring Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks. Contains mild language, violence, toilet humour and scary moments. 'Meet Dave', he's a nice guy, nothing unusual to report, only that Dave is no ordinary person. A race of tiny humanoid aliens have landed on earth, and their "spaceship" of sorts is a 6ft human representation of their leader - Dave. Soon the Aliens have to discover what world Earth is and if they can integrate their society with average human beings.

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