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Re-Bourne JASON BOURNE

Release Date: 07/12/16

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Bringing Back Bourne Las Vegas Showdown

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Bourne to Fight The Athens Escape

Matt Damon returns to arguably his best known role (apart from being left stranded on planets) in the fifth entry in the Robert Ludlum-created franchise. Although the eponymous agent has now remembered everything, Bourne must still dig deep to uncover the truth about his past – namely what really happened to his father. We meet him KO-ing people in

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The Las Vegas car chase sequence took five weeks to shoot and wrecked 170 cars. Matt Damon refused to voice Jason Bourne in the video game The Bourne Conspiracy (2008) due to its excessive violence This is the first Bourne film not have the franchise’s trademark title format of “The Bourne...” It was rumoured, though, that it was to have have been called The Bourne Betrayal .

may have been more to his past – and his father’s death – than he initially believed. It’s great to have both Damon and director Paul Greengrass back onboard, and although Jason Bourne doesn’t hit the relentless heights of series’ benchmark The Bourne Ultimatum , it’s a welcome return to form for the franchise following that Jeremy Renner outing that nobody seems to talk about. Alesha Kolbe

one-hit fights for money, having seemingly left the CIA and Treadstone behind. Alicia Vikander joins the series as a proficient hacker who’s part of a counter-terrorism taskforce, and Nicki (Julia Stiles) is back, trying to get her hands on some Black Ops files. Bourne eventually returns to the fold and teams up with Nicki, who informs him that there

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The Bourne Ultimatum

Worst Heroes Ever SUICIDE SQUAD

Release Date: 07/12/16 Format:

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Gag Reel

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Theatrical and Extended Cuts Task Force X: One Team, One Mission Chasing the Real Joker & Harley: “It” Couple of The Underworld Squad Strength and Skills Armed to the Teeth This is Gonna Get Loud: The Epic Battles of Suicide Squad The Squad Declassified

When a ruthless government agent decides that the worst criminals are the best line of defence against a meta- human menace known as the Enchantress, the Suicide Squad is assembled. Chief among them are bad girl Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), mercenary assassin Deadshot (Will Smith), pyrokinetic El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), reptilian cave

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Deluxe Edition Blu-ray inc. Hard-Cover Graphic Novel Limited Edition Steelbook

Quinn is the movie’s pin-up girl, but it’s actually Will Smith (in one of his least grating performances in years) who steals the film. And Jared Leto’s Joker, who was criminally underused in the theatrical version, gets a bit more screen time on the Blu-ray in an Extended Cut that adds 13 minutes of unseen footage. SH

dweller Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and bogan Aussie thief Boomerang (Jai Courtney). A candy-coloured mash-up of gritty urban action, comic book aesthetics, lurid production design and a streak of insanity that matches its characters, the overall effect is Fight Club meets The Avengers . Harley

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Batman vs Superman

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