

hat, they’ve remade
Point Break
already? Well, it has
been 25 years – that’s a long time in Hollywood. So, Patrick
Swayze’s Bodhi and Keanu Reeves’ Utah have been replaced
with newer, hipper models in Edgar Ramirez and Aussie
Home
and Away
escapee Luke Bracey. The story’s also been given a
21st century bump in the excitement stakes, with the action
sequences amped considerably. The chilled bank-robbing
surfers are now a bunch of Robin Hood-styled extreme sports
athletes, pulling off such capers as nicking a fortune in cash
and then letting it loose over an underprivileged Mexican
village, and ripping off diamonds from a skyscraper before parachuting to
freedom. But with FBI guy Utah deeply embedded among them, they’re gonna
go down, right? Much like a movie equivalent of your favourite energy drink,
this
Point Break
takes Hollywood recycling TO THE EXTREME!
AF
100% pure adrenaline.
POINT BREAK
Release Date:
11/05/16
Format:
With over 60 books in R.L. Stine's mega-selling series
of scary tales for kids, how does Hollywood pull off a
Goosebumps
movie? It takes a meta approach; casting
Jack Black as the reclusive author, who keeps his creepy
creations locked within their respective manuscripts in his
basement. When said books are opened, a maelstrom of
monsters is unleashed upon the quiet town of Madison,
Delaware, and it's up to Stine's daughter (Odeya Rush)
and her new neighbour (Dylan Minnette) to get the
fictional creatures back between the covers. A chaotic
clash of
Jumanji
and
Night at the Museum
, there's simply way too much
going on in this overly ambitious adventure, including Black pulling double
duty as Stine and the voice of his diabolical dummy nemesis, Slappy.
Goosebumps
won't raise any, but kids will be sufficiently entertained.
SH
There goes the neighbourhood.
GOOSEBUMPS
Release Date:
25/05/16
Format:
Our world hasn’t always been the paradise of gender
equality that it is today (a pause to let the scornful laughter
subside). But seriously folks, things have actually come
quite a long way. While Australia was only second to New
Zealand in allowing votes for women, the rest of the world
lagged well behind. Early 1900s England was one such
place, and this inequality gave birth to the suffragette
movement – women inspired by one Emmeline Pankhurst
(Meryl Streep), who were prepared to fight for justice,
often quite literally. Amidst this rousing maelstrom of
female assertiveness we have laundress Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan),
who is seduced by the movement. As such she is shunned by neighbours
and her husband alike, which just inspires her to further fight for the cause.
Suffragette
is a gripping historical drama that also holds a few shocks.
AF
They're going to move it, move it.
SUFFRAGETTE
Release Date:
OUT NOW
Format:
J-Law is, appropriately, a joy in this uplifting David O.
Russell dramedy that’s loosely based on real life. That
would be the rise of American entrepreneur Joy Mangano,
who went from inventing a mop that changed the face
of, well, mopping, to running a multi-million dollar empire
creating home shopping products. We meet Joy when
she’s still juggling more than any woman should have to.
She’s a divorced mum with two young kids, her mother,
dad and grandmother all living under her roof – plus her
ex, an aspiring lounge singer who’s still at the aspiring
stage. Creative since she was little, Joy works as an airline clerk, but
invents things in what little spare time she has. When she comes up with
the mop, Joy faces mass indifference – even her family are dismissive.
But she’s one tenacious woman, determined to, er, clean up.
AF
J. Law cleans up.
JOY
Release Date:
OUT NOW
Format:
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