HIDDEN FIGURES
Hidden Figures RELEASE DATE 24 FEBRUARY / Director Theodore Melfi / Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner / Genre Drama
The untold story of the brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk RELEASE DATE 6 JANUARY / Director Ang Lee / Starring Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Joe Alwyn / Genre Drama, War
19-year-old private Billy
Lynn becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened and contrasts the realities of war with America’s perceptions.
BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK
xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage RELEASE DATE 20 JANUARY / Director D.J. Caruso / Starring Vin Diesel, Nina Dobrev, Samuel L. Jackson / Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
The third chapter of the
blockbuster franchise that redefined the spy thriller finds extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage coming out of self-imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover an unstoppable weapon known as Pandora’s Box.
The Founder RELEASE DATE 17 FEBRUARY / Director John Lee Hancock / Starring Michael Keaton, Patrick Wilson, Laura Dern / Genre Biography, Drama
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He manoeuvred himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
SPLIT
Film Shorts SPLIT RELEASE DATE 20 JANUARY James McAvoy leads M. Night Shyamalan’s latest supernatural suspense thriller as Kevin, a sufferer of multiple personality disorder. Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist there remains one still submerged who is set to materialise and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around
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him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
SILENCE RELEASE DATE 6 JANUARY In Seventeenth-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs.
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