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BIG GAME
While on a hunting mission to track down deer and prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, 13-year-old Oskari (Onni Tommila) instead finds the stranded President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson) in an escape pod when terrorists shoot down Air Force One. Oskari and the US president team up to escape the terrorists and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives. PG
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
R16 A thriller that follows Doug Martin (Nick Jonas) who, after starting an affair with Lena (Isabel Lucas), the young wife of an investment banker, finds himself embroiled in a scandal when Lena’s husband suspiciously dies and leaves a substantial life insurance policy.
CHILD 44
R16 A serial killer-thriller based on Tom Rob Smith’s novel of the same title, the film chronicles the crisis of conscience for disgraced Soviet intelligence agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) who uncovers a brutal series of child murders and teams up with General Mikhail Nesterov (Gary Oldman) to track down the serial killer whom everyone claims does not exist.
GET HARD
R16 Nailed for fraud and embezzlement, millionaire hedge fund manager James King (Will Ferrell) has 30 days to sort his affairs and prepare for jail. Desperate, he turns to his car washer Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) to teach him how to toughen up to survive in prison, assuming he was incarcerated because he’s black. But James later discovers that his mentor has a clean record and never actually went to prison.
HOT PURSUIT
R13 Officer Cooper (Reese Witherspoon), an uptight and by-thebook cop, is tasked to protect Daniella Riva (Sofia Vergara), the hot and outgoing widow of a drug boss, as they race through Texas pursued by criminals and crooked cops.
LOST RIVER
R13 An American fantasy-neo-noir film written, produced, and directed by Ryan Gosling about Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother living in Detroit, who is swept into a dark underworld while her son Bones (Iain De Caestecker) discovers a road leading to a secret underwater town called “Lost River”.
MAGGIE
An American independent horror film about Maggie (Abigail Breslin), a teenage girl in the Midwest who falls victim to a strange disease that slowly turns those infected into cannibalistic zombies. In spite of the dangers she faces during her transformation, her loving father (Arnold Schwarzenegger) stays by her side. R13
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
R13 The fourth entry of George Miller’s Mad Max franchise, this 2015 postapocalyptic action film follows “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a man of action and of few words, seeking peace of mind following the loss of his family in the early days of society’s collapse; and Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman of action, looking to cross the desert and make it back to her childhood homeland. The two rebels team up to run from, and eventually face, the tyrannical Fascist leader King Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his bloodthirsty military force.
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT
R16 The sequel to the 2010 film Monsters, it begins 10 years later. The Infected Zones have now spread worldwide. The Army drafts in more numbers to help deal with the new insurgency and proliferation of Monsters in the Middle East.
PARA SA MGA HOPELESS ROMANTIC
PG When the relationship of high school sweethearts Nikko (James Reid) and Rebecca (Nadine Lustre) falls apart, Becca writes a story slightly similar to her love story to cope with her broken heart. She projects her heartache when she can’t give her characters-Ryan (Iñigo Pascual) and Maria (Julia Barretto)--a happy ending either.
PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2
G Six years after the events of the first film, Paul Blart (Kevin James) heads to Las Vegas with his incoming UCLA college freshman daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) to attend a security officers’ convention. But while on vacation Blart faces yet more trouble when criminals plot to steal priceless works of art from their hotel.
PITCH PERFECT 2
PG Following a humiliating performance involving Fat Amy and a wardrobe malfunction at the Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas, led by previous Bellas Beca (Anna Kendrick), Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson), Chloe (Brittany Snow), Cynthia-Rose (Ester Dean), Lilly (Hana Mae Lee), and Stacie (Alexis Knapp), are suspended from the A Capella performance circuit. To regain their status and right to perform, the group enters an international competition that no American team has ever won.
UNFRIENDED
R13 An American finds footage of a supernatural horror film that unfolds over high school student Blaire Lily’s (Shelley Hennig) laptop screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure that they can’t get rid of online. Blaire and her friends discover that the unseen online stalker is their friend Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman), who killed herself because of incessant online bullying a year earlier.
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