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Sabotage
Frank
Release date 9 May / director David Ayer / starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard / Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Released 9 May / director Lenny Abrahamson / starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal / Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Directed by David Ayer, Sabotage follows Arnold Schwarzenegger as he leads an elite DEA task force against the world’s deadliest drug cartel. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect. Joining Arnie for some serious knuckle crunching are Sam Worthington, Terence Howard, Josh Holloway and Mireille Enos. Expect action a plenty!
Frank is a comedy about a wannabe musician, Jon, who discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew when he joins a band of eccentric pop musicians led by the enigmatic Frank and his terrifying sidekick, Clara. Frank’s uniqueness lies in the fact that he makes music purely for the joy of creating and because he wears a giant fake head. After a rocky start, Jon ingratiates himself with the band, and they retreat to a cabin in the woods to record an album. As his influence waxes, creative tensions mount and the band’s entire reason for existence is called into question.
LIVE, DIE, REPEAT
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22 Jump Street Released 6 June / director Phil Lord, Christopher Miller starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
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after making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. now they don’t have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
EVIL HAS A BEGINNING
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Edge Of Tomorrow
Maleficent
Release date 30 May / director Doug Liman / starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton / Genre Action, Sci-Fi
Release date 30 May / director Robert Stromberg / starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley / Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
The action unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
From Disney comes Maleficent-the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal-an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realises that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well. March / April 2014 21