IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 from votes | |
Release: 2017 / Ghost in the Shell (2017) | |
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, | |
Director: Rupert Sanders | |
Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Michael Wincott, Michael Pitt, Juliette Binoche, | |
Synopsis: In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. Based on the internationally acclaimed Japanese Manga, "The Ghost in the Shell." |
IMDB Rating: 7/10 from votes | |
Release: 2017 / Life | |
Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller | |
Director: Daniel Espinosa | |
Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, | |
Synopsis: Six astronauts aboard the space station study a sample collected from Mars that could provide evidence for extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. The crew determines that the sample contains a large, single-celled organism - the first example of life beyond Earth. But..things aren't always what they seem. As the crew begins to conduct research, and their methods end up having unintended consequences, the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected. |
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IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 from votes | |
Release: 2017 / Power Rangers 2017 | |
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | |
Director: Dean Israelite | |
Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston, Naomi Scott, David Denman | |
Synopsis: High school outcasts stumble upon an old alien ship, where they acquire superpowers and are dubbed the Power Rangers. Learning that an old enemy of the previous generation has returned to exact vegenance, the group must harness their powers and use them to work together and save the world. |
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 from votes | |
Release: 2016 / Dead Rising: Endgame | |
Genre: Horror | Comedy | |
Director: Pat Williams | |
Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Keegan Connor Tracy, Jessica Harmo | |
Synopsis: Investigative reporter Chase Carter attempts to stop a secret government conspiracy that threatens the lives of millions of innocent people in a quarantined city during a zombie outbreak. A sequel to the 2015 horror film, 'Dead Rising: Watchtower'. |
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 from 18,649 votes | |
Release: 2016 / X-Men: Apocalypse | |
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | |
Director: Bryan Singer | |
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrenc | |
Synopsis: Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction. |
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 from votes | |
Release: 2015 / They Call Me Jeeg Robot | |
Genre: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | |
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | |
Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastore | |
Synopsis: The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch. |
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 from votes Release: 2017 / Sleepless Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller Director: Baran bo Odar Stars: Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney Synopsis: Vincent Downs is a cop in Las Vegas, who's partnered with a crooked cop. His partner asks him to steal some drugs, which they do. But what they don't know is that the drugs belong to a crime family, the Novaks who goes after anyone who crosses them. And Rob Novak the man who was handling the drug sale sets his sights on the man who sold him the drugs, casino boss Rubino. Rubino discovers Downs was the one who stole the drugs so he has Downs' son abducted and tells Downs to bring the drugs to his casino. Jennifer Bryant, an idealistic cop who wants to take down every criminal including the Novaks. Recently one her busts went bust and she did everything by the book. She thinks all the men are patronizing her. When she meets Downs she gets a vibe off of him and follows him. Downs brings the drugs to the casino and hides the drugs. Downs meets with Rubino and asks for his drugs. Downs wants his son first before he gives him the drugs. Rubino shows him his son and goes to get the drugs but... |
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 from votes | |
Release: 2016 / Split (2016) | |
Genre: Horror | Thriller | |
Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad | |
Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson | |
Synopsis: When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 different personalities they have work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will will try to stop them. James McAvoy produces a master class performence playing the psychotic kidnapper and 24 roles. |
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 from votes | |
Release: 2016 / Collateral Beauty | |
Genre: Drama | |
Director: David Frankel | |
Stars: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet | |
Synopsis: When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it's not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty |
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drama
IMDB Rating: 7/10 | |
Release: 2016 / Bokeh | |
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | |
Director: Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan | |
Stars: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary, Arnar Jónsson, Gunnar Helgason, | |
Synopsis: On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world. |
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 from votes | |
Release: 2016 / Hidden Figures | |
Genre: Drama | |
Director: Theodore Melfi | |
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae | |
Synopsis: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. |
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drama
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 from votes | |
Release: 2017 / Burning Sands | |
Genre: Drama | |
Director: Gerard McMurray | |
Stars: Segun Akande, Sidney Alexandria, Malik Bazille | |
Synopsis: Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. |
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drama
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 from votes | ||
Release: 2016 / Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing | ||
Genre: Documentary | ||
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Su | ||
Stars: Celeste Corcoran, Sydney Corcoran, Patrick Downes | ||
Synopsis: Gripping documentary focusing on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) it's victims and their lives in the aftermath. Follows specific people and their experiences as they adapt and recover from their injuries. Includes behind-the-scenes details of the hunt for the bombers. Graphic photos of the bombing scene and resultant injuries. Comprehensive photodocumentary.
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Labels:
documentary
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 from 11,614 votes | |
Release: 2016 / The Secret Life of Pets | |
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Family | |
Director: Yarrow Cheney, Chris | |
Stars: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart | |
Synopsis: Taking place in a Manhattan apartment building, Max's life as a favorite pet is turned upside down, when his owner brings home a sloppy mongrel named Duke. They have to put their quarrels behind when they find out that an adorable white bunny named Snowball is building an army of lost pets determined to take revenge |
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 from votes | |
Release: 2016 / The Accountant | |
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | |
Director: Gavin O'Connor | |
Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons | |
Synopsis: Christian Wolff is a math savante with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. |
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 from 176,743 votes | |
Release: 1991 / Beauty and the Beast | |
Genre: Animation | Family | Romance | |
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk | |
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White | |
Synopsis: Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced "affections" of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet. |
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 from votes | |
Release: 2017 / King Arthur: Excalibur Rising | |
Genre: Action | |
Director: Antony Smith | |
Stars: Adam Byard, Annes Elwy, Gavin Swift | |
Synopsis: A re-imagining of the Arthurian legend centered around Arthur's illegitimate son Owain who must learn to take up his father's mantle as king. |
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action