7 Khoon Maaf
Who’s in it? Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh
Rating 4/5
The plot Priyanka stars as Susanna Johannes, a woman looking for love in all the wrong places, which sees her end up killing the six husbands she weds in succession. With her doctor friend, Arun (Vivaan Shah), who has long harboured a crush on her, narrating Susanna’s story to his wife on the eve that he must find out if a body recovered from a house fire is hers, the audience is taken on a journey through her misplaced love, to discover why she disposed of her hubbies in some pretty nasty ways. Killing one on a panther-hunting trip, another with a Viagra overdose and one more during a game of Russian Roulette – what could possibly await the fate of husband number seven?
Dh40 at Virgin Megastores
Rio
Who’s in it? Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez
Rating 4/5
The Plot As a cosseted family pet, pampered exotic bird Blu (Eisenberg), is shocked to discover that he’s not a one-of-a-kind as he first thought, after his owner takes him to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female macaw in order to propagate their disappearing species. Falling in love with Jewel (Hathaway), a fiercely independent macaw who only wants to be free, the pair are targeted and then trapped by bird smugglers looking to sell them to the highest bidder. They manage to escape to the jungle where the pair is revealed to be completely out of their depth survival-wise and have to form their own gang in order to make it to the Rio carnival so they can find their owners.
Dh85 at Virgin Megastores
Burke & Hare
Who’s in it? Simon Pegg, Isla Fisher, Andy Serkis
Rating 3/5
The Plot Based on the true events that rocked Edinburgh in the early 1800s, William Burke (Pegg) and William Hare (Serkis) soon discover that delivering cadavers to the local medical professors Dr Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr Monroe (Tim Curry) to use for their medical experiments is quite a lucrative business. However, when the bodies start running low – along with the cash rewards – what’s a pair to do except start hurrying people towards their graves whether they want to shuffle off their mortal coil or not. And after Hare falls in love with young actress, Ginny (Fisher), he soon finds he can only keep her interested if he can make good on his plans to buy her a theatre.
Dh85 at Virgin Megastores
