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First Viewing Viewing Date: September 15th Via: DVD Plot: An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.

First Viewing Viewing Date: September 12th Via: Cinema Plot: A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting demon, taking the appearance of clown, begins hunting children.

First Viewing Viewing Date: September 5th Via: Blu-ray Plot: Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.

First Viewing Viewing Date: September 3rd Via: 3D Blu-ray Plot: Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy - whether he likes it or not.

First Viewing Viewing Date: August 28th Via: Netflix Plot: Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.

A lacklustre DTV cheapie

“The real-life story of the USS Indianapolis, a warship that sank during World War II in shark-infested waters after a top-secret mission, is a no-brainer for a movie adaptation, particularly in the shadow of WWII movies like Fury and Hacksaw Ridge. It was actually given the telemovie treatment all t” read more

First Viewing Viewing Date: August 23rd Via: Blu-ray Plot: During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.

First Viewing Viewing Date: August 21st Via: Cinema Plot: Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.

The best possible filmic depiction of Spider-Man

“2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming represents the second reboot of the titular Marvel character in just a decade, which may seem excessive and even unnecessary a mere three years following the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. But Sony has done it right this time, collaborating with the good folks ove” read more

First Viewing Viewing Date: August 19th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist with local celebrity status reluctantly trains a rising Olympics aspirant.

An engaging, harrowing disaster pic

“Deepwater Horizon sees director Peter Berg follow up his 2013 hit Lone Survivor with another dramatisation of a harrowing true story, tackling the worst oil disaster in American history for the first of his two cinematic endeavours of 2016 (the excellent Patriots Day being the second). Deepwater Hor” read more

Enormously successful Marvel sequel

“2014's Guardians of the Galaxy was something of a curveball from the folks at Marvel Studios, with its irreverent nature, space setting and lack of any actual superheroes in its alien ensemble. But it worked like gangbusters, and movie-goers fell in love with the motley team of Guardians, propelling” read more

The best kind of action sequel

“Ostensibly appearing out of nowhere, 2014's John Wick exceeded all reasonable expectations, belying its low-budget origins to blow film-goers away with astonishing gun-fu and outstanding cinematography, becoming one of the best movies of the year. For 2017's John Wick: Chapter 2, stuntman-turned-fil” read more

Too by-the-numbers considering the source

“At this point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a certain degree of competency is expected and it seems impossible for the studio to produce an outright bad motion picture. With this in mind, although the productions can be somewhat let down by imperfections or nit-picky things, you can always rest ” read more

The best Marvel movie in some time

“The status quo of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was blown to smithereens in 2014 by Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a sizzling espionage thriller which reinvented its titular superhero and took the MCU to a deeper, darker place. Thankfully, this thematic density and harder edge is preserved for” read more

Simply a fun, well-made monster yarn

“A quasi-remake of King Kong, 2017's Kong: Skull Island is a mightily entertaining B-movie in every sense of the word, and it represents the second instalment in Legendary Entertainment's interconnected "MonsterVerse" franchise, following 2014's Godzilla. Whereas Peter Jackson's 2005 reimagining of K” read more

First Viewing Viewing Date: August 5th Via: Netflix Plot: A story set in Indochina in 1959, a land beyond rule and a time without mercy and the birth of a legend.