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movies By GREG CLARKE
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Silence
Lion
This science fiction/action-horror film franchise must have planeloads of followers, for this is the sixth (and final) movie. The movies star Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Ruby Rose and South Korean actor, model and singer, Lee Joon-gi. In this film Jovovich – a Ukrainian-born cover girl, singer and actor – plays Alice (pictured), a secret agent who joins forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in a battle with mutant monsters and undead hordes. This, Alice’s most difficult adventure, is complicated by betrayal and Alice and her friends’ fight to save humanity may not go according to the plan, expectations, or even the script fans of the Resident Evil series may be expecting.
It has reportedly been a long-held ambition of Martin Scorsese to direct Silence, a dramatic adaptation of Japanese writer Shusaku Endo’s much-analysed novel about 17thcentury Jesuits who risked their lives to bring Christianity to Japan. In 1640 a young, idealistic Portuguese priest, Sebastian Rodrigues, sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there. But undertaking God’s work is not the sole reason for Rodrigues’ quest. The priest is also desperate to discover the truth about his missing former mentor, a man who is rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture. As Rodrigues’ journey takes him deeper into Japan and then into the hands of those who would crush his faith, he finds himself forced to make an impossible choice: whether to abandon his fellow Christians or his God. Andrew Garfield, Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-man, plays Rodrigues. Silence also stars Liam Neeson (pictured) and Adam Driver, who plays Kylo Ren in some of the Star Wars movies.
Adapted from the novel A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly, this true story opens with five-year-old Saroo alone and travelling on the wrong train away from his home in northern India. Saroo ends up thousands of miles away in chaotic and mesmerising Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, dodges all sorts of terror, and ends up in an orphanage. From there an Australian couple adopts him. While growing up in the Australian state of Tasmania, Saroo finds safety and love. He buries his past and his hope of ever finding his lost birth mother and his brother so as not to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings. Then as a young adult, Saroo meets some fellow Indians who reawaken his secret yearnings. With a small store of memories, and the help of some newly developed satellite-imaging technology, Saroo returns to India – in the land of a billion people he plans to search out his lost family. Dev Patel (pictured) from Slumdog Millionaire plays the adult Saroo. Lion also stars Nicole Kidman (Saroo’s Australian mother) and Indian actor and model Priyanka Bose. Port Moresby’s Paradise Cinema screens many of our reviewed movies. For screening dates and session times see paradisecinemaspng.com.
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