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The Company of Thorin has reached the Lonely Mountain, but can Bilbo and the Dwarves reclaim Erebor and the treasure? And, if so, can they hold onto it? The Battle of the Five Armies concludes the Hobbit trilogy from director Peter Jackson. While we might see further films set in Middle Earth, that is likely to be a few years away at least, so for now, Battle of the Five Armies is the closing chap...

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don’t go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme. In this day and age of franchise films even comedies are contributing their share of sequels to theatrical release lists, and in a world where The Hangover series is a trilogy, it should come as no sur...

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. Interstellar comes from director Christopher Nolan, in what is his first film to follow the conclusion of the Dark Knight trilogy. With the success of his Batman trilogy, Nolan has clearly won a lot of creative freedoms and...

When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him. Director Kevin Smith’s latest film “Tusk” comes to screens in October, born out of an episode of his popular podcast SMODCAST alongside long-time friend and colleague Scott Mosier, Tusk ...

Eva Green stars as Ava, a temptress who enlists Dwight McCarthy (Brolin) in a bid to escape her ex-husband. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Johnny, a mysterious gambler set on taking down his sworn enemy in a high stakes game of life and death. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales intertwined, Sin City’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more notori...

Jay, Neil, Simon, and Will reunite in Australia for a holiday. Just a few years ago the british sitcom The Inbetweeners took the step from TV to film and received a very welcome reception to the tune of approximately $86 million at the worldwide box office, naturally this led to a sequel which sees the four lads on holiday in Australia. Once again the series doesn’t over stay its welcome despite t...

In the far reaches of space, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan. We’re quickly racing towards the end of Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with Avengers 2: Age of Ultron coming up in 2015, the last film as part of this continuity prior to Avengers 2 of course is Guardians of the Galaxy, a film...

Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord. This latest Hercules film comes from Brett Ratner, the man behind the Rush Hour trilogy, and of course the recently overwritten X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand. Working with writers Ryan Condal an...

An automobile mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down the autobots and decepticons – and a paranoid government official – on them. Michael Bay returns to the Transformers franchise for its fourth instalment with Age of Extinction, the lucrative film series began in 2007 and has proven to be a financial powerhouse in cinema, grossing over a billion dollars across its first three...

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. Director team Phil Lord and Chris Miller are seemingly unstoppable at this point, in 2009 they were behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, they followed that up with 21 Jump Street which against expectation grossed over $200 million worldwi...

An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy. Doug Liman’s latest film Edge of Tomorrow brings Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt together in this sci/fi war tale, Liman’s last film Fair Game was released back in 2010...

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. Based on a storyline published in The Uncanny X-Men in 1981 written by Chris Claremont, the new X-Men film Days of Future Past features the return of Bryan Singer in a directing role on the series he started in 2000. This latest X-Men adventure uses ti...