Inspired by the perennial New York Times bestseller of the same name, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is a hilarious and heartfelt big screen comedy about five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down by the challenges of impending parenthood. Over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body; while Wendy’s husband, Gary, struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad, who’s expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife, Skyler. Photographer Holly is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child, but her husband Alex isn’t so sure, and tries to quiet his panic by attending a “dudes” support group…
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back… in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing – not even aliens – perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K’s life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him — secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
Nineteen year old Orla from Country Antrim wins ‘Follow a Star’ on the Irish national TV station. Her prize is a quest – to find C&W star Jed Wood, give him a kiss, and report on her adventure on the following week’s show. Ray Timmons, a middle aged documentary cameraman, is the only person available to document her on her quest. Together they travel to New York, meet up with a jaded sound recordist, Mike, and set about chasing down Jed – arriving at film sets, recording studios, everywhere Jed is due to be. Their progress is followed by a couple of DJs on a local radio station. During the week the chase continues, their relationship changes, and they learn a lot about each other and bout pursuing their own dreams, before they return to face the music back home.
From the comedy mind of Sacha Baron Cohen – the man who brought brought you Ali G, Borat and Bruno – comes this heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
The Filarmonica della Scala: an Italian orchestra live in HD at Movies @ Gorey Cinema
To mark our thirtieth anniversary, the orchestra inaugurates a project that will bring great symphonic music live in HD from La Scala to cinemas in Italy and abroad: Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, Andrea Battistoni and Fabio Luisi will be conducting four concerts, which will be broadcast in cinemas around the world.
The Filarmonica della Scala under the lead of an outstanding German conductor, namely Christoph Eschenbach, as well as with three Italian maestros: the highly acclaimed Riccardo Chailly and Fabio Luisi and, for the first time on its podium, Andrea Battistoni.
Saturday, April 21st @ 7pm
George Gershwin: An American in Paris, Catfish Row , Concerto in fa
Riccardo Chailly, conductor.
Stefano Bollani, piano.
Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, and the Italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani has already topped the charts around the world with their recordings of Gershwin. However, without any doubt, the fusion of classical sounds with jazz improvisations is at their best when heard live. Riccardo Chailly has had an on-going and invaluable rapport with the orchestra, having conducted numerous opera productions, such as Madama Butterfly, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rigoletto and Aida, and a wide ranging symphonic repertoire which includes a triumphant tour of the United States in 2007.
Monday, May 7 @ 7pm
Matteo Franceschini world première commissioned by the Filarmonica della Scala
The 23-year-old Andrea Battistoni, the most successful young Italian conductor who will conduct a production of The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala in 2012, will lead the Filarmonica and together with the equally young pianist Alexander Romanovsky through the most spellbinding melodies by Rachmaninov.
Andrea Battistoni makes his debut with the Filarmonica with an impressive programme of romanticism, with remarkable virtuosity that starts with a world première of a musical composition by the 32-year-old Matteo Franceschini commissioned by the Filarmonica.
Monday, May 21st @ 7pm
Gabrieli, Three Canzonas (transcription by Claudio Ambrosini)
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4
Casella, Paganiniana
Respighi, Feste Romane
Fabio Luisi conductor.
Rafał Blechacz, piano.
Fabio Luisi, after his commitments in Geneva, Dresden and Vienna, is in the limelight owing to his recent appointment as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. For his debut with the Filarmonica scheduled for 21 May, he will perform, apart from three canzonas to mark the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli, Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto with the young Polish prodigy Rafał Blechacz and two Italian symphonic pieces of extraordinary orchestral virtuosity: the enthralling Paganiniana by Alfredo Casella and the Feste Romane by Ottorino Respighi, a piece of such vivid imagery as to embody an authentic example of musical cinema.
