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Wednesday 26 July 2017

Overdrive


Release Date: July 27
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 96 min
  • Director: Antonio Negret
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Action

StoryThe story centers on two car thieves, brothers, who journey to the south of France for new opportunities and wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss. Andrew and Garrett Foster (Scott Eastwood and Freddie Thorp) are thieves who specialize in luxury cars, only the most expensive cars. They've been hired to steal a gorgeous Bugatti 1937 valued million euros, so they head to the south of France for the job. But they get caught, and Jacomo Morier (Simon Abkarian), the local crime boss who owns the Bugatti, doesn't take it lightly. In exchange for their lives the two brothers will have to steal a car from Max Klemp (Fabian Wolfrom), Morier's arch-rival, and not any car, Morier wants them to steal Klemp's 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, his most prized car. 

  • Starring: Freddie Thorp, Scott Eastwood, Ana de Armas, Gaia Weiss

Atomic Blonde


Release Date: July 27
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Director: David Leitch
  • Genre(s):  Mystery, Thriller, Action

StoryThe crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. 

  • Starring: James McAvoy, Charlize Theron, John Goodman

Shot Caller


Release Date: July 27
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 121 min
  • Director: Ric Roman Waugh
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Drama

StoryAfter a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he slowly loses his previous identity and his relationship to his former life, including his wife and son. The grip of his new family, the prison gang, extends beyond the prison walls. Upon his release, chased by the law enforcement, threatened by his incarcerated “protectors,” Money must orchestrate one last dangerous crime. All is not what it seems. The ruthless process of fulfilling his obligations also becomes his path to sacrifice, retribution and self-definition.

  • Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Bernthal, Lake Bell

Sunday 16 July 2017

Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets


Release Date: July 20
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 137 min
  • Director: Luc Besson
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action

StoryIn the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. 

  • Starring: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen

Dunkirk


Release Date: July 20
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 106 min
  • Director: Christopher Nolan
  • Genre(s): Drama, History, Thriller, War, Action

StoryDunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.

  • Starring: Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance

Baby Driver


Release Date: July 20
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 112min
  • Director: Edgar Wright
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Music, Action

StoryA talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom. 

  • Starring: Lily James, Ansel Elgort, Eiza González, Jamie Foxx, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Micah Howard

Our Time Will Come (Mandarin) - 明月幾時有


Release Date: July 20
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 131 min
  • Director: Ann Hui
  • Genre(s): Romance, War, Action

StorySet in the 1940s, the story tells the story of a legendary woman "Fang Gu" (Zhou Xun), who is one of the key figures during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. It will also portrayal the fight and struggle for freedom and independence by youths of the resistance groups.

  • Starring: Eddie Peng, Wallace Hu, Zhou Xun

The House That Never Dies II (Cantonese) - 京城81号II


Release Date: July 20
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Director: Chie Jen-hao
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Suspense 

StoryDuring the last years of the Republic, the country was in chaos. With the warlords’ mutiny in the capital, Marshal Zhang Zhisheng (played by Julian Cheung) was forced to marry the great warlord’s daughter Ji Jincui (played by Gillian Chung) but subsequently, strange things occurred at the mansion. People were intimidated. Soon afterwards cases of “baby corpse” popped up around the capital with suspicion spearheaded at the Marshal’s first wife NiuMenghe (played by Mei Ting). Niu disappeared mysteriously later and within one night, the entire household at Chaonei No. 81 was exterminated ruthlessly, leaving behind a derelict haunted house. A hundred years later, cultural relic restorer Song Teng discovers a large amount of baby skeletons and weird spells in the process of conserving and restoring the ancient mansion. The bloodied events of the past seem to drag everyone into the abyss. The intricate love and hate relationship of past and present lives emerge gradually. A haunting tale of the wrongly dead seeking life thus commences...

  • Starring: Gillian Chung, Julian Cheung, Mei Ting, Geng Le, Vivian Wu, Wang Shuilin

Saturday 8 July 2017

War For The Planet Of The Apes


Release Date: July 13
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 140 min
  • Director: Matt Reeves
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, War, Action

StoryCaesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson). After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

  • Starring: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Steve Zahn

Wish Upon


Release Date: July 13
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Director: John R. Leonetti
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Story17-year-old Clare Shannon (Joey King) is barely surviving the hell that is high school, along with her friends Meredith (Sydney Park) and June (Shannon Purser). So when her dad (Ryan Phillippe) gifts her an old music box with an inscription that promises to grant the owner's wishes, she thinks there is nothing to lose. Clare makes her first wish and, to her surprise, it comes true. Before long, she finally has it all: money, popularity and her dream boy. Everything seems perfect - until the people closest to her begin dying in gruesome and twisted ways. Now, with blood on her hands, Clare has to get rid of the box, before it costs her and everyone she loves the ultimate price. 

  • Starring: Joey King, Sherilyn Fenn, Elisabeth Röhm

A Day (Korean)



Release Date: July 13
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 91 min
  • Director: Cho Sun-Ho
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense

StoryA desperate father who tries to save his daughter and a man who tries to save his wife. And in their desperate efforts to save their beloved, the day repeats in an endless loop. Lost in repetition, the two men decide to work together to redesign the gruesome future.

  • Starring: Byun Yo-Han, Kim Myung-Min

Wu Kong (Mandarin) - 悟空传


Release Date: July 13
  • Rating: TBD
  • Runtime: 130 min
  • Director: Derek Kwok
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action

StoryWukong, born in Huaguo Mountain, has a heart of stone. Ji Hua, a powerful general from the heaven was going to terminate him. But Wukong was rescued by Bodhi and became his pupil. Jian Yang, was given an opportunity to become a strong god, but he needs to kill Zixia, the daughter of the Heaven Emperor’s rival, who he is in love with. Tianpeng, Ji Hua’s bodyguard, was given the secret order to investigate Wukong. All three of them entered the Heaven school together, and their lives are about to change...

  • Starring: Shawn Yue , Eddie Peng , Ni Ni , Oho , Zheng Shuang

Meow (Cantonese) - 喵星人


Release Date: July 13
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Director: Benny Chan
  • Genre(s): Comedy

StorySince ancient times, the earth has been home to alien called MEOW. They come from a far-away planet and have transformed themselves as cats, live in every corner of the world. With their adorable appearances plus the clever mind, MEOWS easily made them to human’s beloved pets, served with endless food. Some MEOWS are uninhibited, live like an undergo mafia boss; some MEOWS are smart, they treat human like minions, live like kings and queens in their homes...

  • Starring: Marry Ma, Louis Koo

Wednesday 5 July 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming


Release Date: July 6
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 133 min
  • Director: Jon Watts
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action

StoryA young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine – distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.

  • Starring: Tom Holland, Marisa Tomei, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.