“Hugo” (PG for mature themes, action, peril and smoking) Martin Scorsese directed this 3-D fantasy, set in the Thirties, about a 12 year-old orphan (Asa Butterfield) befriended by a toymaker (Ben Kingsley) and a fellow street urchin (Chloe Grace Moretz) while living in the walls of a Paris train station.

Once Slide (Eddie Murphy) joins the conspiracy, the only remaining hurdles involve first gaining access to an apartment guarded by the FBI, and then robbing it right under the nose of the accused who’s restricted to the premises, 24-7.

“Happy Feet Two” is the Animated 3-D sequel revolving around Mumbles’ (Elijah Wood) uncoordinated son (Elizabeth Daily) who runs away from home only to be befriended by a mighty flying penguin (Hank Azaria).

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the third installment in the franchise, unfolds a half-dozen years after the conclusion of the pot-smoking pair’s previous outing, Escape from Guantanamo. At the point of departure, we learn that the pals have grown apart over the interim, ostensibly because Harold has married, settled in suburbia and taken a job on Wall Street while Kumar has continued to enjoy the life of a carefree bachelor after getting kicked out of med school for flunking a drug test.

Charlie (played by Hugh Jackman) is a down on his luck, washed-up, ex-fighter who now spends his time piecing together low-end scrap boxing robots, dragging them from one venue to the next to compete in underground matches. Come to find out, Charlie’s got an 11-year-old son he never knew about. Charlie now finds himself with a new tag along, Max, in a last ditch bonding effort before turning over custody. “Real Steal”  is a feel-good story with a few surprises that the whole family can appreciate it (don’t worry mom, Charlie’s shirtless scenes turn boys’ toys into a chick-flick in a heartbeat!).

Jamie Foxx  talks about producing “Thunder Soul,” a reverential bio-pic which pays tribute to the late Conrad “Prof” Johnson (1915-2008), the founder and conductor of Houston’s Kashmere High’s legendary stage band.