The elite team of mercenaries fight to prevent the start of World War III in Expend4bles. The Expendables mercenary team consisting of Barney Ross (Sylvester Stalone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture), and new members Easy Day (Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson) and Galan (Jacob Scipio) are assigned by their […]
A new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel hits the big screen with Dune: Part One. In 10191 A.G., Duke Leto I (Oscar Isaac) of House Atreides is assigned by the Emperor to the desert planet of Arrakis to takeover harvesting of the precious substance melange, also known as “spice.” Leto’s son Paul (Timothée
The war against the Mexican drug cartels heats up in Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Following a suicide bombing in Texas, where the terrorists sneaked in through the Mexican border, CIA Special Activities Division agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) is assigned by Secretary of Defense James Riley (Matthew Modine) to help instigate a war between the Mexican cartels, as
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Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds organizes a music festival in support of LGBTs in the Morman community in Believer. Raised as part of the Morman church, Dan Reynolds begins to have a major crisis of faith involving the church’s strict stance against gay rights, which has contributed to an pandemic of suicides by LGBT youth
Two men and a young girl try to survive in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland in Extinction. Nine years after a zombie apocalypse, the world has frozen over and all of humanity appears to be extinct. Jack (Jeffrey Donovan) tries to live a relatively normal life with his daughter Lu (Quinn McColgan), while Patrick (Matthew Fox)
Tom Cruise stars in the sci-fi time loop action film Edge of Tomorrow. For five years, humanity have been engulfed in a war with an alien race, known as Mimics, which seemingly have the ability to predict battles before they happen. Major William Cage (Cruise) is a spokesperson for the United Defense Forces, who finds
The documentary Skull World covers two subjects. On one hand, the film follows two years in the life of Greg Sommer. Sommer is better known by his alter-ego off Skull Man, in which he puts on a skeleton costume and exhibits a personality quite different from his own. The other subject of the film is
Kathryn Bigelow follows up her Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker with another film based on the War on Terror. In the case of Zero Dark Thirty, its a dramatization of the CIA’s search for Osama bin Laden. These events are shown from the point of view of a feisty operative named Maya (Jessica Chastain),
So here is the second part of my IMAX contrast, with this one centering on the habit of using the format as a premium way of seeing major blockbuster films. With at least one major film released in IMAX every month, it’s hard to believe that this is a habit that only really began a decade ago.
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Considering all the hype that went into this film, it end up with more a whimper than a bang. It was alright enough a film, but it was a far cry from “the action film to end all action films.” Probably the most hyped scene in the movie that united Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and
