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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Absolutely Anything


Release Date: August
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 85 min
  • Director: Terry Jones
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Sci-Fi

Story:  A group of eccentric aliens confer a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.

  • Starring:  Robin Williams, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Palin, Terry Jones


Inside Out


Release Date: August
  • Rating: U
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Director: Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen
  • Genre(s): Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Story:  Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

  • Starring: Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis Smith

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Robot Overlords


Release Date: August
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Director: Jon Wright
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

Story:  Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy. Survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.

  • Starring:  Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley, Callan McAuliffe

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.


Release Date: August
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 116 min
  • Director: Guy Ritchie
  • Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure

Story:  In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) are forced to put aside longstanding hostilities and team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

  • Starring:  Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant

Pixels


Release Date: August
  • Rating: P13
  • Runtime: 106 min
  • Director: Chris Columbus
  • Genre(s):  Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Story:  When intergalactic aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper (Kevin James) has to call on his childhood best friend, '80s video game champion Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), now a home theater installer, to lead a team of old-school arcaders (Peter Dinklage and Josh Gad) to defeat the aliens and save the planet. Joining them is Lt. Col. Violet Van Patten (Michelle Monaghan), a specialist supplying the arcaders with unique weapons to fight the aliens.

  • Starring:  Brian Cox, Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage

One Night In Taipei (Cantonese) - 台北夜蒲團團轉


Release Date: August
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 91 min
  • Director: Wilson Chin
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Story: Caprio`s girlfriend May is now in Taipei having a wild birthday party. Caprio then flies to Taipei with his mother`s engagement ring in order to propose to May. However, in Taiwan, Caprio accidentally loses the ring after running into a Taiwanese man named JinGua. JinGua and his friend Ar Fai help Caprio find his ring, which leads to them ending up at a night club. As they look for the ring, the group encounters a series of odds and unexpected developments on that one night in Taipei.

  • Starring:  Kelvin Kwan, Onetwofree, 6 Wing, Sharon Hsu

The Black Death (Thai)


Release Date: August
  • Rating: 18
  • Runtime: 84 min
  • Director: Chalermchatri Yukol
  • Genre(s): Horror

Story:  When King Bayinnaung led his army to invade, Ayutthaya lost the war after a long continuous battles by 1569 and end her independency. However, some said that the collapse of the Ayutthya Kingdom could not be explained only by the armies from Hongsawadi. They said that the cause might be the “Black Death” that wipe out the residents. In a small village in Ayuthhaya, while people are frightened by the war and some left their home to safety, some stayed behind and faced the coming of the catastrophe that can be counted as the last straw which would shake all morale and endlessly lit up the fear of the people. The body of Toon the blacksmith’s assistant and a big strong person, was found with many animal bite-like wounds and some other villagers were dead without any reasonable causes, and the body counts kept on increasing. Some blamed the hungry ghosts, some blamed the plague that came with the Portuguese. But nobody could find out the real cause until all the corpses transformed themselves into a kind of living dead called ‘The Black Death’ who fearlessly bit and ate the villagers, even the monks can not exorcised them, no herbs nor medicine will cure them, no weapon will ever stop them. The surviving villagers band themselves together to fight the threat. The group consisted of Thep, the drunkard whom many believed that he used to be the sergeant who betrayed his troops to Hongsawadi to save his own life. Kong, the temple orphan who was aiming high to win the heart of the wealthy girl Mien. While Mien who was the daughter of the rich merchant would run away from home to prove her love. Kwan the village’s playboy who frequented the local brothel and Ploy the young prostitute who was pretty and shapely but deaf and dumb. Bua, the lady blacksmith who was as good a fighter with various weapon as a man. Her archenemy Jan, a greedy and selfish owner of the brothel, with his loyal slaves; Lek and Noi. However, the fates of these villagers seems destined to be “survived without souls or be alive in the bodies of the Black Death”.

  • Starring:  Arpa Pawilai, Chalad Na Songkhla