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Alien: Covenant
- 2017
- US
- 123 min
- 15
- Directed by: Ridley Scott
- Written by: Michael Green
- Cast: Michael Fassbender, Demián Bichir, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Callie Hernandez
The spaceship Covenant ends up on an unknown planet littered with little egg things, which can’t be good. The latest in the franchise is basically an excuse for Scott’s fantastic visuals and a series of more or less ingenious variations on grisly death, although some will enjoy the spectacle of Fassbender kissing himself.
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Baywatch
- 2017
- US
- 116 min
- 15
- Directed by: Seth Gordon
- Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera
Mitch (Johnson) is a devoted life-saver who reluctantly recruits Matt (Efron), a disgraced champion who’s only doing it as a kind of community service. Plenty of good jokes, but minor characters almost drowning doesn’t make for good cinema, and the relentless formulaism makes it long outstay its welcome.
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The Boss Baby
- 2017
- USA
- 97 min
- U
- Directed by: Tom McGrath
- Written by: Marla Frazee/Michael McCullers
- Cast: Miles Christopher Bakshi, Alec Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi
The Boss Baby (Baldwin) is a tot with the mannerisms of a ruthless corporate tycoon, who upsets seven year old Tim (Bakshi). The frantic visual style and crude slapstick overwrite the charm of the original story by Marla Frazee, and there’s not much for audiences to take to their hearts.
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Denial
- 2016
- UK/US
- 109 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Mick Jackson
- Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall
Deborah Lipstadt (Weisz) is a historian and lecturer who faces a libel suit after she derides controversial author David Irving (Spall) for his views on the Holocaust. This dramatisation of a 1996 court case has some compelling stretches, but Hare’s script lacks insight and it’s little more than a dry reconstruction of the trial.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
- 2017
- US
- 91 min
- U
- Directed by: David Bowers
- Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Alexa Blair Robertson, Jason Drucker, Charlie Wright
Greg (Drucker) and Rodrick (Wright) go on a two-day road trip with their family in order to attend a birthday party. The fourth film in the sequence completely recasts the main characters (the previous ones having become too old) and despite likeable performances it’s only moderately amusing.
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Thu 1 Jun
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
- 2017
- US
- 137 min
- 12A
- Directed by: James Gunn
- Written by: James Gunn
- Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Glenn Close, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Kurt Russell
The gang are back, with a rollicking plot involving stolen batteries and Ego (Russell) who may or may not be the long-lost dad of Peter Quill (Pratt). It’s very CGI-heavy, sometimes tiringly so, but the humour still charms and the finale picks it up after a sluggish second act.
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Wed 31 May
Half Girlfriend
- 2017
- India
- 135 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Mohit Suri
- Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Rhea Chakraborty
Madhav is in love with Riya but she will only agree to be his 'half girlfriend'.
Tue 30 May
Wed 31 May
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
- 2017
- United Kingdom
- 126 min
- PG
- Directed by: Guy Ritchie
- Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Annabelle Wallis, Hermione Corfield
Arthur (Hunnam) is the ‘bastard son of a prostitute’, or so he thinks; then he discovers his power when he draws the sword Excalibur from its resting place. Brash, bold and noisy retelling of the myth, with armed elephants, lots of shouting and too much reliance on CGI trickery.
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Thu 1 Jun
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
- 2017
- US
- 129 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
- Cast: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom
Captain Jack (Depp) and friends are on a mission to obtain the trident of Poseidon before ghoulish Captain Salazar (Bardem) can get his hands on it. A partial return to form for the franchise, with Bardem vigorous as Jack’s nemesis and a winning performance from Scodelario as an astronomer. It’s all too crowded but it manages to stay afloat.
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Sachin: A Billion Dreams
- 2017
- 138 min
- Directed by: James Erskine
- Cast: Mayuresh Pem, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni
A biopic of Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.
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Wonder Woman
- 2017
- US
- 133 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Patty Jenkins
- Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright
The first great female superhero gets her first solo movie, only 75 years after her comic's debut.
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