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Iron Man 3
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley
Director: Shane Black
Out: 3rd May 2013 (U.S. Dates)
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Borrowing elements from the ‘Extremis’ graphic novel, this is about Tony Stark dealing with a virus that spreads through nanotechnology. Rebecca Hall (‘The Town’) plays Stark’s intellectual equal, a brilliant scientist who develops the nanotechnology that unintentionally lands in the hands of terrorists. Guy Pearce plays Aldich Killian, the evil geneticist who creates the virus. Ben Kingsley plays Mandarin, the villain ultimately pulling the strings. The hugely underrated Shane Black (‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’) is writing/directing, and the movie will have a global travel
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aspect similar to James Bond. There won’t be a role for Black Widow or any of The Avengers.



About Time
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander
Director: Richard Curtis
Out: 10th May 2013
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Romcom-drama starring Domhnall (son of Brendan) Gleeson as a young man from a family of time-travellers who attempt to change history for the better. During a trip to the past he falls for a woman (McAdams), but as he goes through his life he realises his ability can’t save him from the ups and downs that affect all families. Writer-director Curtis (dir. ‘Love Actually’, ‘Boat That Rocked’ / writ. ‘Four Weddings’, ‘Notting Hill’) has been shooting in the likes of Cornwall and Abbey Road, and knows how to do charming human relationships. McAdams has been a time traveller’s wife once before, but this will be more fun.



The Great Gatsby
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Out: 10th May 2013
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Remake of the Robert Redford-starrer, which was an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantic-drama. On Long Island, Midwesterner Nick (Maguire) is lured into the lavish world of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio), a young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan). Nick soon begins to see through the cracks of Gatsby’s nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. The movie’s timely theme criticises the irresponsible lifestyles of some wealthy people. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Australia’, is well suited to the grand material, and DiCaprio rarely disappoints.



Star Trek Into Darkness
Starring: Crew from previous movie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, Peter Weller
Director: J.J. Abrams
Out: 17th May 2013
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After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. 2009′s pleasant surprise returns, keeping the same cast and director. Benedict Cumberbatch will play the villain, said to be similar to Khan (from ‘Star Trek II’). Peter Weller will be an important ‘CEO’ figure, while Alice Eve is a femme fatale. Location-wise, it will feature a “jungle planet” (is it Project Genesis?). If the movie has half the impact of the original ‘Star Trek II’ it will be terrific entertainment.


Epic
Starring: (voices) Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, Colin Farrell
Director: Chris Wedge
Out: 24th May 2013
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3D animation about a teenager (Seyfried) who finds herself in a secret world in the forest, where a battle between the forces of good and the evil is taking place. There she must help a team of whimsical characters save their civilisation, in order to save hers. Based on the childrens book ‘The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs’, this is from the director of the perfectly-decent ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Robots’. It would appear to be somewhere between ‘Ferngully’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’, with a touch of ‘Avatar’. Beyoncé voices an evil spider queen. The lead couple closely resemble the pair from Disney’s ‘Tangled’. It all looks ok. Bad title.



Fast & Furious 6
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: Justin Lin
Out: 24th May 2013
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Universal are shifting the series focus from car culture street-racing to heists where car driving ability is just one aspect. The intention is to expand the audience further and ‘Fast
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Five’ was the transitional movie. The director of the previous three returns for this installment which is set in the UK and Germany. Luke Evans plays the villain, the leader of a crew of thieves targeting the same heist job. Michelle Rodriguez is back as Letty. MMA fighter Gina Carano will play a member of Hobbs’ (Johnson) team. Brazilian reviewers hated the inaccuracies in ‘Fast Five’s’ depiction of Rio, I expect fellow Brits will find the crew coming to the UK quite clunky too. Nonetheless, ‘Fast Five’ did huge box office numbers and since Vin Diesel’s return for the fourth movie the series just keeps getting bigger.



The Hangover Part III
Starring: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha
Director: Todd Phillips
Out: 24th May 2013
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The wolfpack are back on another misadventure only this time it won’t have anything to do with lost memories. Instead the story is about Phil and Stu taking Alan to Las Vegas to cheer him up after his father
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dies. They are intercepted by a gangster (John Goodman) who kidnaps Doug and orders them to find their old associate Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong), with whom he has a score to settle. It’s a sensible move changing the formula at this stage, it was getting tired and this frees up their wild antics. However starting with a funeral and looking to cheer someone up is a bit bleak. Director Todd Phillips returns, but says it’s the last ‘Hangover’ for all of them. The three leads are being paid $15m each for this, they got $300k for the first movie.
 

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After Earth
Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Out: 7th June 2013
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A father (Will Smith) and son (Jaden Smith) crash land on Earth, one thousand years after it has been abandoned by mankind. When the father is captured by a remaining Earth-dwelling force, his son is left to locate and save him in what has become a strange and dangerous place. After so many dreadful movies it’s amazing director M. Night Shyamalan can still secure a star like Will Smith. If this one has any chance it’s because Smith, as a producer and global star, has significant input into the creative process and is rarely associated with anything too awful. Also Shyamalan is less involved with the script this time. Wait for the reviews before seeing.



The Internship
Starring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rose Byrne, John Goodman
Director: Shawn Levy
Out: 7th June 2013
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Two recently laid-off salesmen in their 40s (Wilson, Vaughn) try to make it as interns at Google where their managers are 20-somethings. It’s a ‘Wedding Crashers’ cast reunion, including a Will Ferrell cameo. The script was written by Vaughn, who previously co-penned ‘Couples Retreat’. The director made the amusing ‘Date Night’. So it’s an interesting setting and we already know the leads have good chemistry.



Now You See Me
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine
Director: Louis Leterrier
Out: 7th June 2013
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A team of spectacular illusionists pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances, showering the profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of an FBI squad. Jesse Eisenberg has chosen another unusual-bank-robbery movie after ’30 Minutes Or Less’. It’s also a ‘Zombieland’ reunion with Harrelson. The director of ‘Incredible Hulk’ and ‘Clash Of The Titans’ will give this a kinetic visual edge, and The Chemical Brothers are doing the score. It’s a preposterous premise, but a great cast.



Man Of Steel
Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner
Director: Zack Snyder
Out: 14th June 2013
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Superman reboot developed by Christopher Nolan, with a script from ‘Dark Knight’ co-writer David Goyer, although it’s definitely now Zack Snyder’s (’300′, ‘Watchmen’) movie. So expect strong visuals and action, based off solid story elements. Brandon Routh is out as Superman, replaced by ‘Immortals’ star Henry Cavill. Amy Adams is Lois Lane. Costner and Diane Lane are Ma and Pa Kent. Laurence Fishburne is Perry White. Russell Crowe will pull a Brando as Superman’s ill-fated father on Krypton. Michael Shannon is a solid pick for the rebooted General Zod (an army leader with several Kryptonian soldiers by his side). They have wisely got rid of Lex Luthor and, despite Zod, this is the first Superman movie to really go off the comics and not Richard Donner’s vision. Has enormous potential.



This Is The End
Starring: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, James Franco
Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Out: 14th June 2013
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While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Rihanna, Michael Cera and other celebrities encounter the apocalypse. This is an action-comedy were everyone plays themselves. Written and directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (their directorial debut), it began life as 2007 short made by Rogen called ‘Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse’. The feature has a top drawer headlining comedy cast and a potentially hilarious concept.



World War Z
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Lucy Aharish
Director: Marc Forster
Out: 21st June 2013
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A U.N. employee (Pitt) races against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the spread of a deadly Zombie pandemic. Based on the novel (which reads like a UN report and doesn’t really have a lead character), this $125m movie has a large international scope, and a political emphasis. Stylistically it is said to be similar to ‘Children of Men’. It ought to be an interesting return to the big star horror of the ’70s, but it’s undergone extensive reshoots and delays which suggest a very troubled project. The novel is great. Fingers crossed they didn’t mess it up.



Monsters University
Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Dave Foley, Julia Sweeney
Director: Dan Scanlon
Out: 21st June 21 2013
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Pixar sure is making a lot of sequels now. But wait, this is their first prequel, set back when Mike and Sully were in their college days, at the University of Fear. Imagine a Northeastern university monsterised – frat monsters, nerd monsters, goth monsters, and monster professors. Plus archways that look like mouths and horns on the roof. It’ll tell the tale of how the dynamic duo transitioned from rivals to BFFs, and how they ended up joining the Monsters Inc. workforce. Who’d bet against this being highly entertaining, even if the quality of Pixar’s output has gone down the last 2 years.



Kick-Ass 2
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Out: 28th June 2013
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The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass (Johnson) joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, Red Mist (Mintz-Plasse) plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows. Jim Carrey joins the cast as Colonel Stars, an ex-mob villain turned vigilante hero. Writer-director Wadlow has made two good movies that looked cheap-ish (‘Cry_Wolf’, ‘Never Back Down’), he has the potential to rise to the challenge here. Matthew Vaughn directed the first movie independently of the studio, which enabled him to keep the Hit Girl character so young etc, this time the controversy of Mark Millar’s sequel comic (gang-r*pe anyone?) will likely be toned down. If it’s a 12A you know the studio won.



White House Down
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx , Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke
Director: Roland Emmerich
Out: 28th June 2013
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A Secret Service agent (Tatum) must rescue the President (Foxx) from a paramilitary group that has taken over the White House. Tonally it’s similar to ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Air Force One’, and in every way it’s similar to ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ earlier this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays another agent. Richard Jenkins is the Speaker of the House. James Woods is the head of the presidential detail. The screenplay by James Vanderbilt was one of the biggest spec sales in recent memory, at $3 million. Director Emmerich is moving away from huge-scale disaster movies, let’s hope he doesn’t dumb this down too much.
 

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The Lone Ranger
Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter, Dwight Yoakam
Director: Gore Verbinski
Out: 3rd July 2013
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“Hi-yo Silver, away!” From the writers, director, producer and star of the first ‘Pirates OTCaribbean’ trilogy comes this latest attempt to revamp the popular 30s radio show / 50s TV show. Johnny Depp is Tonto, the Indian warrior who finds a wounded Texas Ranger (Armie Hammer, ‘The Social Network’) and teams up with him to fight injustice. It’s a little unclear whether they are still going up against werewolves and the mystic, which would be a huge departure for the brand. Depp (part Cherokee) was keen to play a strong native American role, as he believes they’ve been underserved in cinema. Expect a similar energy to the ‘Pirates’ movies, and probably a box office success in a not very commercial blockbuster genre (westerns).



Despicable Me 2
Starring: Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Al Pacino
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Out: 3rd July 2013
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No plot details yet but new cast members include Al Pacino as Gru’s nemesis, and Steve Coogan in a yet unnamed role. The directors of the original return. If you liked the first, expect more of the same heart, smarts and laughs. Incidentally a spin-off theatrical feature film, featuring The Minions as the main characters, is scheduled for release 18 months later.



Grown Ups 2
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek
Director: Dennis Dugan
Out: 12th July 2013
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Follow up to the 2010 feature about a group of childhood friends who reunite years later. The original cast return, except (apparently) for Rob Schneider – which has prompted rumours of a falling out with Sandler. Steve Austin joins the cast, as does Andy Samberg playing a cheerleader, and Taylor Lautner as an antagonistic frat boy. Patrick (son of Arnie) Schwarzenegger has his first significant on-screen role. This is perhaps the most artistically unnecessary sequel of all time. There are two sharply divided audiences these days – Adam Sandler fans, and non-Adam Sandler fans who see his output as beyond lazy. Luckily for him his fans are still worth a lot at the box office – the original ‘Grown Ups’ had 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, brutal reviews, but made a staggering $162 million in the U.S. alone.



Pacific Rim
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Out: 12th July 2013
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In the future, soldiers piloting giant robots battle against various Godzilla-like monsters that have risen mysteriously from five miles beneath the ocean to attack coastal cities like L.A. and Tokyo. Director Del Toro says the film is his homage to Japanese giant monster films, known as the Kaiju genre. We’ll see both future earth and ‘The Anteverse’ – the universe on the other side of the portal under the sea. Relative unknown Charlie Hunnam (‘The Ledge’) is the lead, supported by the only slightly better known Idris Elba, comedian Charlie Day, and Ron Perlman. This is all about the epic visuals, and it should be a hell of spectacle.



R.I.P.D.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Robert Schwentke
Out: 19th July 2013
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Crime action-comedy about a recently slain young cop (Reynolds) who joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest In Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the graphic novel, it’s directed by the man behind the highly-enjoyable ‘Red’. To give you an idea of the tone, Zach Galifianakis was originally cast in Jeff Bridges’ role. Imagine ‘Beetlejuice’ meets ‘Men In Black’. Bridges (playing a mix of The Dude and Rooster) and Bacon (the villain) are two of the most compelling and fun actors in modern cinema, so I’ll be first in line.



Turbo
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Sam Jackson, Snoop Lion
Director: David Soren
Out: 19th July 2013
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DreamWorks Animation sports-comedy about a garden snail with dreams of becoming the fastest in the world who experiences a freak accident that gives him that power of incredible speed. He embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the impossible: racing against the best that IndyCar has to offer. The director is new to features having worked himself up the ladder at Dreamworks. I don’t expect Ryan Reynolds to bring anything interesting to the voice (isn’t he someone you cast for looks?). The movie will turn out fine as it’s near impossible to make a really bad big-budget studio animation these days (the visuals alone are always jaw-dropping) but the concept sounds too childish to find an audience beyond kids.



The Wolverine
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova
Director: James Mangold
Out: 26th July 2013
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An adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic 1982 comic book arc, this sees Wolverine heading to Japan where he falls for the daughter of a Japanese crime lord and goes up against Silver Samurai (Lee) and Viper (Khodchenkova). We’re told to expect different forms of martial arts – mano-a-mano, extreme fighting. Jackman says “It’s a world full of honour, tradition and customs and Wolverine’s obviously someone who’s really anti-all of that, trying to negotiate his way. He gets his ass kicked by a couple of samurai – not even mutants. He’s shocked by that at first.” Coming from a solid director (James Mangold, ’3:10 To Yuma’) and writer (Christopher McQuarrie, ‘The Usual Suspects’) this sounds different enough to erase the underwhelming memory of Origins.



The Smurfs 2
Starring: (live) Neil P. Harris, Hank Azaria (voices) Katy Perry, Alan Cumming
Director: Raja Gosnell
Out: 31st July 2013
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The Smurfs team up with their human friends (inc. Harris) to rescue Smurfette (Perry) from Paris. She’s been kidnapped by Gargamel (Azaria) since she knows a spell that can turn the sorcerer’s newest creations, creatures called the Naughties (see pic above), into real Smurfs. Brendan Gleeson and Sofia Vergara are amongst the new live-action performers, Christina Ricci voices one of the Naughties. The first movie copied the ‘Alvin’ formula to great financial success – expect this series to see similarily diminishing returns quality-wise.
 

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Red 2
Starring: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Lee Byung-hun
Director: Dean Parisot
Out: 2nd August 2013
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Retired black-ops Frank (Willis) reunites his unlikely team of ancient operatives to track down a missing portable nuclear device, travelling through Paris, London and Moscow. In their way: relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials. It’s a bland premise this time, not helped by an absence of a Warren Ellis graphic novel to base it off. It’s a shame they seem to be turning Helen Mirren from ally into minor villain and that Mary-Louise Parker will be at Willis’ side for the entire movie. Catherine Zeta Jones is the worst actress in Hollywood and her addition will detract. Anthony Hopkins however is a good choice for the mix. The trailer suggests the new director (of ‘Fun with Dick and Jane’) hadn’t quite nailed the tone/sharpness of the excellent first movie and the result will be… meh.



300: Rise Of An Empire
Starring: Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro, Callan Mulvey, Jamie Blackley
Director: Noam Murro
Out: 2nd August 2013
Prequel based on Frank Miller’s follow-up graphic novel which focuses on Greek leader Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton, ‘Animal Kingdom’) leading Athens against Persian invaders in a battle that played out simultaneously with the Battle of Thermopylae (depicted in the first film). The story also covers the background of Xerxes (Santoro), explaining how he became ‘the God King’. Zach Snyder is directing Superman so he’s chosen his own replacement, a commercials director whose work includes recent ‘Halo’ campaigns. The visual style will match the first movie.



Elysium
Starring: Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foster, Wagner Moura, Alice Braga
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Out: 9th August 2013
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In 2159 the very wealthy live on a man-made orbital habitat while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. One man (Damon) takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds, but on his tail is a South African mercenary (Copley) who’s been alive and fighting for 150 years. The movie has a budget of only $40m, compared to ‘Pacific Rim’s’ $130m, but it’s the writer/director of the excellent ‘District 9′ that’s the reason to get excited about this. That and the bizarre pictures of Matt Damon in an exoskeleton. It’ll be sci-fi action with smart sociopolitical undertones.



We’re The Millers
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms, Emma Roberts
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Out: 9th August 2013
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Road trip comedy about a drug dealer (Sudeikis) who, in order to pay off a debt to his supplier (Helms), is forced to smuggle a shipment of marijuana from Mexico to the US. He devises a scheme to create a fake family known as the Millers with his neighbours (Aniston, Roberts, Will Poulter) posing as his wife and kids to bring back an RV full of weed. From the director of ‘Dodgeball’, who’s completely flunked since that movie in 2004 – 8 years of nothing and disappointment. I’m not convinced by Sudeikis as a leading man in a comedy. Aniston can be good, but has the potential to be annoying. It could work, the concept sounds appealing, but it’s a dodgy prospect as this point.



2 Guns
Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, Fred Ward
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Out: 16th August 2013
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A DEA agent (Washington) and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer (Wahlberg), who have been tasked with investigating one another, entrap each other into robbing a mob bank. Also neither realise they’re actually being set up to rob $50m from the CIA. This is a light-hearted crime romp based on the graphic novel, in the vein of ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ or ‘The Italian Job’, with a touch of ‘Tango & Cash’. Expect average from the director of ‘Contraband’. It’s great to see Bill Paxton back on the big screen.



Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters
Starring: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Jake Abel
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Out: 16th August 2013
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Sequel to 2010′s teen fantasy film. Percy Jackson (Lerman), the demigod son of Poseidon, teams up with his friends
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to find the golden fleece to save Camp Half-Blood’s magical borders from monsters. Bigger names like Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman are no longer involved, but here we get geek favourites Nathan Fillion as the God of Thieves and Mark Hamill as an Underworld dweller. The first movie barely did well enough to earn a sequel, and infuriated its fanbase with countless unnecessary changes to the source material. Hopefully this new director (whose name is Thor) will be more respectful. It’s hard to see the movie appealing beyond the fanbase or the series going any further.



You’re Next
Starring: Sharni Vinson, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz, Barbara Crampton
Director: Adam Wingard
Out: 23rd August 2013
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Home invasion horror. A couple invite their four adult children and partners to enjoy a family reunion at their luxurious rural abode and share
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middle-class angst. But things turn deadly when they all become targeted by masked murderers. Their only hope is the girlfriend of one of the siblings, whose resourcefulness might just protect the home. ‘You’re Next’ prompted a bidding war after screening at the Toronto Film Festival, and early reviews have been very good. The director has been making indie horrors for a few years, but this is his breakthrough. The movie also has an electronic score reminiscent of John Carpenter – I’m in.



The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones
Starring: Lily Collins, Jared Harris, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Harald Zwart
Out: 23rd August 2013
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When her mom is attacked and taken from their home in New York by a demon, a seemingly ordinary teenage girl (Collins) finds out truths about her bloodline on her quest to get her back. Teen action-fantasy based on the popular book series that’s a bit-Buffy, a bit-Harry Potter. From the director of ‘The Karate Kid’ remake and ‘Agent Cody Banks’. Will this turn Lily Collins into a teen superstar? She took it instead of ‘The Evil Dead’ remake.
 

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wow,, some great movies in there
 

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couple of these look real good. World War Z and the bank heist one with mark wahlberg and denzel (2 Guns)

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I can't see many of these worth watching, and that's been the case the last few years. I looked forward to watching Argo and Zero Dark Thirty and I thought they both sucked. Just watch Django Unchained yesterday and that was a good movie. All the other movies I've rented the past three years have all sucked.
 
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I wanna see that badly too.. di caprio is a genius usally in these.. you seeing it in 3D BAS? I seen the previews in 3D and it looked insane. puff_>>


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No, because I just don't think it should be in 3-D
my question is why is it in 3-D ??? It's not a Action Movie like Ironman ? mission impossible ??

it might be cool, but I just can't see why it is
 

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If they never made another action iron man hero super hero transformers xmen movie again I wouldn't complain at all.
 

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No, because I just don't think it should be in 3-D
my question is why is it in 3-D ??? It's not a Action Movie like Ironman ? mission impossible ??

it might be cool, but I just can't see why it is

trust me.. I seen the previews in 3D.. it looked well worth it. I would consider it man.. tons of action in it in the car chases and money flying all over the place :grandmais

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trust me.. I seen the previews in 3D.. it looked well worth it. I would consider it man.. tons of action in it in the car chases and money flying all over the place :grandmais

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Well I missed that boat since I bought the tickets ahead of time :)

if it's that good, maybe i go back and see it again in 3-D
 

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ok, Old Fart

hehehe

to each his own I guess. Just give me a couple movies a year that will be classics. Is that too much to ask from Hollywood? Give us another Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Goodfellas, The one who flew over the cuckoos nest, the matrix, saving private ryan or Shawshank. There are definitely some very decent movies being made but like good Rock and Roll, its much harder to find because of the tons of mediocre stuff that is out there.

I said my peace. I feel better. Go Canucks go!
 
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to each his own I guess. Just give me a couple movies a year that will be classics. Is that too much to ask from Hollywood? Give us another Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Goodfellas, The one who flew over the cuckoos nest, the matrix, saving private ryan or Shawshank. There are definitely some very decent movies being made but like good Rock and Roll, its much harder to find because of the tons of mediocre stuff that is out there.

I said my peace. I feel better. Go Canucks go!

well for the record, you can keep all the Spider man and Superman movies... very played out
 

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