Wednesday, 30 December 2015

2015 Catch up Part 2


Based on the successful and, what I gather, excellent Hitman video game franchise this second attempt at adapting the game into movie format is even drabber and more boring than the previous film made back in 2007. In this adaptation, an organisation known as The Syndicate wish to restart the abandoned Agent program but first they must find the creator and persuade him to reveal how the deadly agents where created.

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Southpaw


Billy Hope is the undefeated light-heavyweight World Champion, however his life is thrown into chaos when his wife, Maureen (Rachael McAdams), is shot in a scuffle in a hotel lobby. He begins a downward spiral where his house and entire relationship with his daughter is under threat.

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

2015 Catch Up




In the 1960s CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavil) successfully helps Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) defect to West Germany despite opposition from the KGB's top agent, Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer). Later Napoleon, Illya and Gaby and the secret agencies of Russia and America find themselves working together in a mission to stop a criminal organization from using Gaby's father's scientific expertise to construct their own nuclear bomb. 

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two



Mockingjay Part Two starts off where Part One left off with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) recovering from an attack from a possessed Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). With almost everyone she knows and loves dying around her, the only way to end this suffocating drama is to kill President Snow (Donald Sutherland). Meanwhile the twelve districts are rebelling agaist The Capital.

Sunday, 20 December 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens


Three decades on from events in The Return of the Jedi the legecy of those events still litter the landscape with the wreckage of Imperial Star Cruisers left abandoned on many planets across the Galaxy, including the planet Jakku where we find a lonely Ray (Daisy Ridley) whose life is about to change forever. It's thirty years on and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has vanished, he becomes one of the most sought after men of galaxy with both the First Order and the Rebels trying to locate him. Ray is thrown into the midst of this war when she stumbles across a droid that contains a missing part of the map that will reveal Luke's location.

Monday, 14 December 2015

Bridge of Spies


During the Cold War, an American lawyer, James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), is hired to defend an arrested Soviet spy (Mark Rylance) in court. He is then asked by the CIA to help them facilitate an exchange of the spy for Francis Gary Powers, a pilot captured by the Soviets.