New this week The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 87 PG-13 Bilbo Baggins’ (Martin Freeman) epic quest with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 13 dwarfs to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor continues as they encounter the skin-changer Beorn, a battle with giant spiders, the dwarfs’ imprisonment by the Wood-elves, a sojourn in Lake-town and their arrival at the Lonely Mountain - and a meeting with Smaug the dragon. With Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry; directed by Peter Jackson.
(161 minutes)A Madea Christmas PG-13 Writer-director Tyler Perry’s Madea character reluctantly agrees to help a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas - with the biggest surprise turning out to be what they find when they arrive.
With Kathy Najimy, Chad Michael Murray, Anna Maria Horsford, Tika Sumpter, Eric Lively, JR Lemon, Alicia Witt, Lisa Whelchel, Larry the Cable Guy. (105 minutes)
MovieStyle, Pages 35 on 12/13/2013