UPDATE: How Much Do You Love Me? is also play­ing at the Light­house in Petone.

Ocean's 13 posterThis week’s block­buster is the third install­ment in the Pitt/ Clooney/ Damon/ Soder­bergh smug-fest, Ocean­’s 13. This time the 11 from the first pic­ture are joined by Ellen Bar­kin and Mr Hoo-Haa him­self, Al Pacino. Dimin­ish­ing returns? You be the judge at Read­ings, Sky City Queens­gate, Pent­house or Empire Island Bay.

More down-to-earth is the messed-up Aus­sie no-budget romance Puppy (Para­mount), described as a “weird and won­der­ful jour­ney”. Anoth­er messed-up romance starts Thursday at the Para­mount: How Much Do You Love Me? stars Mon­ica Bel­luci as a pros­ti­tute who gets paid 100,00 euros a month to live with a lot­tery win­ner – until the money runs out. Also star­ring Gérard Depardieu.

Bridge to Ter­abith­ia, Pierre­point, Scenes of a Sexu­al Nature and Off the Grid – after the jump.

More fam­ily-friendly is Bridge to Ter­abith­ia, based on the kids’ book. Shot here in New Zild and with kid act­ors coached by Mir­anda Har­court it could be just the tick­et if Sat­urday turns rainy (Read­ings, Pent­house, Queens­gate and Empire).

Rialto opens two small-scale Brit­ish pic­tures: Pierre­point stars the unim­peach­able Timothy Spall in the true story of Bri­tain’s last offi­cial hang­man. Scenes of a Sexu­al Nature is an ensemble piece about a dis­par­ate group of Lon­don­ers enjoy­ing the sun­shine on Hamp­stead Heath. Not sur­pris­ingly, thoughts turn to mat­ters of the flesh. Ewen Mac­Gregor leads and a dis­tin­guished group of Eng­lish luv­vies fol­low.

More like a travelogue but worthy of men­tion all the same is the latest War­ren Miller snow film Off the Grid which plays two nights only at the Para­mount from Thursday. Reviews for all of the above (except the Miller) will appear next Wed­nes­day at Funer­als & Snakes and, in old-fash­ioned dead-tree format, in the Cap­it­al Times on the same day.