Hi guys, and welcome to the middle of the summer! I'm sorry that this post is a little late, but we still have plenty more holiday blockbusters coming out over the next couple of weeks and a few more smaller films as well.
As usual, there is more than one movie that I really want to see before the end of the month but my most anticipated movie of those released over the next two weeks, and therefore I have chosen as Movie of the Month, is the third film from the newly-rebooted Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Beyond. This time, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the Enterprise's crew face being stranded on a strange planet after travelling further into uncharted space than ever before when their ship is attacked by an unknown alien species. Now they must battle an enemy stronger than any previous foe as they also try to find a route off of this new world.
Almost a decade after discovering his true identity, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is back, but now he has gone off the grid. Some unexpected events, involving former associate Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) force him to come out into the open and embark on an exciting global journey that involves a car chase in Las Vegas and a riot in Greece, but the jouney may also lead to more important discoveries about his identity.
The only live-action comedy in this list is Keanu. Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key) and Rell (Jordan Peele) are cousins and when Rell's kitten, Keanu, is catnapped the far from streetwise pair must impersonate ruthless killers in
order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline.
But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight
over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to
take the law into their own hands.
There are three animated films to be released before the end of the month. The first, and arguably the biggest, is the eagerly anticipated Finding Dory, the the very late sequel to the 2003 film Finding Nemo and although being released thirteen years after the first film, this one is set less than a year later. After recalling memories of her family, the forgetful fish (Ellen DeGeneres) sets out on a journey with Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) which takes them to the Californian coast but when she is captured and taken to the Monterey Marine Life Institute, she must find a way back into the "big blue", with the help of new creatures she meets including octopus Hank (Ed O’Neill) and whale shark Destiny (Kaitlyn Olson).
The BFG is based on the Roald Dahl tale of the same name and sees the imaginative orphan named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) taken of an adventure by the "big friendly giant" (Mark Rylance), whose job it is to collect, catalogue and deliver pleasant dreams to children. They visit Giant Country where Sophie learns that not all "monsters" are scary, but when they meet a group of evil giants who have a very different plan for the sleeping children, the two new friends must save the children from becoming the not-so-nice giants next meal.
The third film is the fifth installment of the Ice Age franchise, Collision Course, which was released at the start of July but wasn't mentioned in the previous post. Scrat's never-ending pursuit for that elusive acorn takes him further than ever before as he is launched into outer space but this constant quest causes a chain reaction that threatens all life on Earth. Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) and the rest of the herd must leave their home and head off on another adventure, meeting new friends along the way, in order to save the Earth from destruction on a meteoric scale.
The final two films look very interesting but unfortunately aren't available in UK. Equals, the first film, seems to be due for release in every country except for the UK and is a futuristic Romeo and Juliet story in which people live in an emotionless society, with emotions having being supressed through genetic modification. Occasionally the suppression fails and emotions return, this is known as Switched On
Syndrome, or SOS and "sufferers" of this illness are heavily medicated or can dissappear after being sent to the "Den". Silas (Nicholas Hoult) is experiencing this awakening and feels strangely drawn to colleague Nia (Kristen Stewart), who is also hiding her own SOS symptoms and as they try to suppress their feelings, their attraction only growns stronger.
Indignation is a story that follows Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a young, Jewish atheist who attends college in 1951 in an attempt to avoid enlistment for the Korean War, not knowing that it was a Christian college that requires attendance at church at least ten times a year in order to graduate. Once at the university, the self-proclaimed atheist clashes with the already-established social order, but when Marcus notices gorgeous and alluring fellow student, Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), he is distracted and the pair end up going out on a date but he gets more than he anticipated when Olivia turns out to be more forthcoming than he expected on the way back from their date.
UK Release Dates
UK Release Dates
Ice Age: Collision Course 01 July 2016 TRAILER
Keanu 15 July 2016 TRAILER
Star Trek Beyond 22 July 2016 TRAILER
The BFG 22 July 2016 TRAILER
Jason Bourne 27 July 2016 TRAILER
Finding Dory 29 July 2016 TRAILER
