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Wednesday 31 May 2017

Wonder Woman


Release Date: Jun 1
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 141 min
  • Director: Patty Jenkins
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War

StoryBefore she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full power and her true destiny...

  • Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Lucy Davis, Robin Wright

Baywatch


Release Date: Jun 1
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 116 min
  • Director: Seth Gordon
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Action, Drama

StoryBaywatch follows devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) as he butts heads with a brash new recruit (Zac Efron). Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.

  • Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Zac Efron

God Of War (Cantonese) - 荡寇风云


Release Date: Jun 1
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 129 min
  • Director: Gordon Chan
  • Genre(s): Action

StoryDuring the 16th century, Japanese pirates proliferate along the Chinese coastline. In 1557, the pirates take over Cengang in Zhejiang. After months of futile advances, Commander Yu (Sammo Hung) finally defeats them under the leadership of newly promoted General Qi (Vincent Zhao). The pirates, however, manage to escape. No sooner has Qi identified the key weakness of the Chinese army than he starts remapping the coastal regions to eradicate the pirates. When he finds the villagers of Yiwu loyal and courageous, he drafts them into his own army which soon becomes a formidable force against the pirates, with tactics developed specifically against them. In 1561, the pirates regroup and once again attack the coastal cities of China. With both the cities of Xinhe and Taizhou under attack, Qi's army is caught between two fires. Even though most family members of his soldiers are located in Xinhe, Qi makes the tough decision to go to Taizhou and leaves his wife in charge of the fight against the pirates in Xinhe, knowing that the defeat of the pirates’ elite team in Taizhou will bring long lasting peace to the coastal cities. But one month into the battle of Taizhou, there is still no clear winner and loser.

  • Starring: Sammo Hung, Vincent Zhao, Wan Qian

Beautiful Accident (Mandarin) - 美好的意外


Release Date: Jun 1
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Director: Ho Widing
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

StoryLi Yuran is a successful female lawyer who one day gets into an unfortunate accident on a highway. After the accident, she is forced to take on a new role as a housewife. The story follows her transformation from a single successful woman to a full-time housewife with her architect husband and two kids...

  • Starring: Aloys Chen, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Jing Chun, Ouyang Nana

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Resident Evil: Vendetta


Release Date: May 27
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 97 min
  • Director: Takanori Tsujimoto
  • Genre(s): Horror, Animation, ActionAdventureSci-FiMystery

StoryBSAA Chris Redfield enlists the help of government agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers from Alexander Institute of Biotechnology to stop a death merchant with a vengeance from spreading a deadly virus in New York.

  • Starring: Kari Wahlgren, Matthew Mercer, Cristina Valenzuela

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge


Release Date: May 25
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 129 min
  • Director: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning
  • Genre(s): Comedy, ActionAdventureFantasy

StoryThrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea—notably Jack. Jack's only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has ever faced. 

  • Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario, Orlando Bloom


Eat Local


Release Date: May 25
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Director: Jason Flemyng
  • Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

StoryIn a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last.

  • Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Charlie Cox, Eve Myles

Wednesday 17 May 2017

The Shadow Effect


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Director: Obin Olson, Amariah Olson
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Action

StoryGabriel Howarth lives a normal life in a small west Georgia town: He has a house, a beautiful wife, and he owns a small diner that all the locals frequent. On the surface, it seems like he's living the American dream. But it's his actual dreams that are causing a stir in his life. In them, he's a talented but mindless assassin who carries out vicious murders of political figures. Upon waking, his wife, Brinn, tries to convince him that they are in fact only dreams - some sort of wish fulfillment revenge fantasy. But Gabriel soon learns that the individuals that he's killed in his dreams have recently died in a similar fashion. As the clues start to become too big to ignore, Gabriel decides that he must confront the truth: Either he's some weapon being used as a pawn by a hidden operation to wipe out it's enemies or he's losing his mind...

  • Starring:  Micheal Biehn, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Cam Gogandet

Colossal


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 109 min
  • Director: Nacho Vigalondo
  • Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy, Action

StoryGloria (Anne Hathaway) is an ordinary woman who, after losing her job and being kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world. 

  • Starring:  Anne Hattaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis

The Circle


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 110 min
  • Director: James Ponsoldt
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Sci-FiDrama

StoryAs she rises through the ranks of the world’s largest tech and social media company, The Circle, Mae (Emma Watson) is encouraged by company founder Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) to live her life with complete transparency. But no one is really safe when everyone is watching.

  • Starring:  Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega

Dealer / Healer (Cantonese) - 毒。诫


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 101 min
  • Director: Lawrence Lau Kwok Cheong
  • Genre(s): Action

StoryChen once was the leader of the famous gang "The 13 Tsz Wan Shan", he lost his family, lovers, brothers and finally ended up imprisoned for his drug abuse and trafficking. After jail, he devoted himself to save the lost fellows and was selected as "The JCI Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons". Being respected by the world, Chen is always asked to solve the most difficult situations between evil and good. People give him a nickname "The Fixer". However, there are two sides of a coin, Chen can work out any problem of others, he does not know how to deal with his personal knot with his love, with whom he has had guilty conscience all his life. 

  • Starring:  Louis Koo, Gordon Lam, Sean Lau, Jiang Yiyan

29+1 (Cantonese)


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Director: Kearen Pang
  • Genre(s): Romance, Comedy

StoryOpening a new page in her career, Hong Kong theater actress and writer Kearen Pang turns her 2005 one-woman show 29 1 into her first feature film about two women at life’s crossroads as they approach the big 3-0. Faced with work stress, aging parents and a stagnant romance, 29-year-old Christy, like many others her age, is gripped with insecurity about her present and future. Single and unaccomplished but nonetheless optimistic, Joyce makes a different choice at age 29: She packs her bags and pursues her childhood dream. These two strangers who share the same birthdate form a deep invisible connection when Christy moves into Joyce’s apartment and begins to read her journal.

  • Starring: Joyce Cheng, Chrissie Lau, Ben Yeung, BabyJohn

This Is Not What I Expected (Mandarin) - 喜欢你


Release Date: May 18
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 107 min
  • Director: Derek Hui
  • Genre(s): Romance, Comedy

StoryAn obsessive CEO of a company meets a ragged chef by chance. They are drawn closer together because of their love for delicacies, yet their personalities clash big time.

  • Starring:  Zhou Dongyu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Chiling Lin Chi-Ling