Director Taika Waititi Staring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata Rated PG Score 5/6 A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. This is the second movie that I have watched that was directed by Taika Waititi the first being…
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Hardcore Henry
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Director IIya Naishuller Staring Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett Rated R Score 6/6 Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers. Okay, a quick message to Hoyts Australia, I really hope that the Friday night screening of Hardcore…
X-Men: Apocalypse
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Director Bryan Singer Staring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence Rated MA Score 4/6 With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. Now with the release of Apocalypse it seems that director Bryan Singer has more than redeemed himself for his 2003 offering X-men…
Bastille Day
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Director James Watkins Staring Rated M Score 5/6 A young con artist and former CIA agent embark on an anti-terrorist mission in France. I’m sure there is more than a few who would remember recent discussions about possible actors to take over the mantle of James Bond when Daniel Craig hangs up his Walther PPK…
The 5th Wave
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Director J Blakeson Staring Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez Rated M Score 2/6 Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Okay this one was adapted from a 2013 novel written by American author Rick Yancey…
Extraction
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Director Steven C Miller Staring Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano Rated MA Score 2/6 A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation. Even though I was unfamiliar with director Steven C…
A Walk in the Woods
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Director Ken Kwapis Staring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson Rated M Score 3/6 After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. This another movie that can be…
Captain America: Civil War
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Director Anthony Russo & Joe Russo Staring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson Rated M Score 5/6 Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. As you should all know by now is that I’m not the biggest comic book fan (so I am in…
Eddie the Eagle
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Director Dexter Fletcher Staring Taron Egerton & Hugh Jackman Rated PG Score 5/6 The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The rule of thumb that we are going to have to use for these sort of bio-pics is that if the…
Eye in the sky
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Director Gavin Hood Staring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman Rated M Score 6/6 Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. When asked at a…