Ned and Barb Fleming, and their 15-year-old-son Scott visit their eldest child, 22-year-old Stephanie in California, where she goes to college. The family live in Grand Rapids, Michigan where Ned runs a printing business. The Flemings expect to spend some family time with their daughter for Christmas, but from the moment they land, plans change. Stephanie introduces them to her new boyfriend Laird...
Trickster demigod Maui is powerful. He discovers the secret of fire. He hauls up islands from the sea using his magical fishhook. He snares the sun to make it travel slower. Finally, he steals a greenstone “heart” that belongs to the goddess Te Fiti in order to give it to humanity. Here he goes too far and is attacked by the lava demon Te Ka. Maui loses the heart and his fishhook in the ocean. He ...
In 2011, the film RED DOG was released in Australia to good reviews and box office success. It told of an ownerless dog, a kelpie cross, who was beloved by the people of Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Based on the true story of a dog who was known to wander vast distances in the 1970s, Red Dog became something of a legend. Pilbara dwellers and travellers would try to piece together where Red ...
Twelve enormous spacecraft arrive at a dozen different locations around planet Earth. Governments do not know who is inside, nor what mission the ships are fulfilling. Scientists and the military are sent to get answers from these giant craft. The vessels are nicknamed “shells” because at first glance, they seem egg-shaped. Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams), an eminent linguist, joins a theoretical ph...
Jesse (Elle Fanning) is recently arrived in Los Angeles. She is sixteen-years-old and aspires to be a model. Her agent Roberta (Christina Hendricks) advises her to say she is nineteen in order to work. Roberta arranges a test with an A-list fashion photographer and from there, Jesse’s star begins to rise. THE NEON DEMON is Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film. He has been making feat...
Desmond Doss and his brother are raised in rural Virginia. When the Second World War begins, both the Doss boys enlist, much to the chagrin of their father (Hugo Weaving). He fought in the First World War and lost all his close friends. It damaged him psychologically which drove him to drink and violence. Desmond (Andrew Garfield) has very different ideas from his father. Raised as a Christian by ...
Toby Howard and Tanner Howard are two down-on-their-luck brothers living in West Texas. They were born into poverty and recently their mother died, leaving them a ranch and debts. Tony (Chris Pine) is out of work. Tanner (Ben Foster) has been out of prison for almost a year and is looking for some excitement. The pair have taken to robbing branches of the Texas Midlands Bank. The raids are quick a...
Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a gifted neurosurgeon who is involved in a serious car accident that damages both his hands. Unable to work as a result of his injuries, he researches the cutting edge of medicine for a treatment. When he exhausts these possibilities, he is led to Katmandu; he has heard rumours about a place where the powers of the mind can be used to overcome physical dam...
Jeff and Karen Gaffney live in a lovely middle-class Atlanta suburb. Their two sons have just left for summer camp and for the first time in more than a decade, the couple are alone; having time to concentrate on their own needs, confirms that their life has become a dull routine of television and vanilla-sex date nights. Jeff (Zach Galifianakis) works in Human Resources, for a large engineering f...
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield) travels to a Welsh island called Cairnholm in the aftermath of his grandfather Abe’s death. The two were close. Jacob chooses the island because it is the setting of the fantastic tales Abe told his grandson. The tales focused on a home for peculiar children run by a Miss Peregrine. The children have talents and abilities far greater than those of m...
The farming community of Rose Creek is under siege. It 1879, we’re in the Old West and industrialist scumbag Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) has sent his men to intimidate the gentle people of Rose Creek, so he can buy their land cheaply and strip mine it. These bad men confront the townspeople in church. In the violence that follows, they kill Matthew Cullen (Matt Bomer) one of the few farmer...
American system administrator and computer professional Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is contracted to the National Security Agency to work in an NSA facility in Hawaii. While there, he learns how the security agency is surveilling US citizens’ communications without their knowledge and without warrants issued from the judiciary. He decides the American people need to know the U.S. Governm...
