July 2016 - Ghostbusters, Colonia and more...

Hey guys! It's now July and we have a lot more blockbusters and big name movies coming out of the next couple out weeks (and we'll have more over the next couple of months), so there will be something for everyone.

There are a few films, over the next couple weeks, that stand out amongst the rest for me but I have chosen The Legend of Tarzan as Movie of the Fortnight as seems it like the movie will be an interesting and fresh take on the Tarzan story. Based of the fictional story of a boy who was raised in the jungle by great apes, this film tells the tale of an adult Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) who is now living in the UK with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie). When Tarzan, now known as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, is invited back to The Congo to act as a trade emisary, he becomes entangled in a murderous plot of greed and revenge but those involved have no idea what they have started.

The retelling of another well-known story, this time in the form a film franchise reboot is Ghostbusters. This time, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy play a pair of unheralded authors who write a book that posits the reality of ghosts. A few years later, Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) lands a teaching position at Columbia University (similar to the original film), that is until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Erin and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) reunite and are joined by the two other proton pack-packing phantom wranglers and Erin has the chance to get some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and the ghostbusting team have to save the world. 

The second film in the Now You See Me franchise, The Second Act, is also released next week. A year after outwitting the FBI, Danny (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt (Woody Harrelson) and Jack (Dave Franco) return as three of the Four Horseman and now they are joined by Lula (Lizzy Caplan), replacing former member, Henley (Isla Fisher). The illusionists are back to expose the unethical practices of tech magnate Owen Case (Ben Lamb) but the heist is interrupted, the Horsemen are captured and are conscripted by Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe), a rival tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the architect behind it all.

Set in Chile during military coup of 1973, Colonia is based on the true story of Lena's (Emma Watson) desperate search for her boyfriend, Daniel (Daniel Brühl), who has been abducted by Pinochet's secret police. Lena tracks him to a sealed off area of the country called Colonia Dignidad which, although from the outside it appears to be a charitable mission run by preacher Paul Schäfer, is actually a place nobody ever escaped from so Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel.

Dwanye Johnson and Kevin Hart star in the action-packed comedy, Central Intelligence, which sees Bob Stone (Johnson), a one-time bullied geek and now a CIA agent returns home for a high school reunion. There he meets former "big man on campus" and now an accountant, Calvin Joyner (Hart), and enlists his help whilst claiming to be on a top-secret case. Before the Calvin realises what he's gotten himself into, his unpredictable new friend takes him through a world of shoot-outs, double-crosses and espionage that could get him killed in a multitude of way.

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is the big screen debut of Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone who are still loving the glamourous high-life - shopping, drinking and partying around London's trendiest hotspots but when they accidently push Kate Moss into the River Thames at a fashionable launch party, the two decide to escape from the UK and move to the French Riviera after becoming embroiled in the relentless media storm surrounding the supermodel's untimely demise. In the glamourous playground of the rich and famous, the penniless pair hatch a plan to ensure they can stay permanently in the south of France whilst still living the high-life.

The only romantic comedy on this list is Maggie's Plan. This film is a modern, witty take on the genre in which titular character, Maggie (Freta Gerwig) is a young and vibrant but single New Yorker who wants a child of her own. When she meets "ficto-critical anthropologist" and struggling novelist, John Harding, she falls in love and adjusts her plans but there is one problem - he is still married, however strained the marriage may be. Whilst best friends Tony and Felicia watch from the side-lines, Maggie creates a new plan that throws her into a love triangle with John and his wife, Georgette (Julianne Moore) and Maggie learns that destiny should be left to play out as intended.

The final film is very intriguing but is unfortunately only available in the USA, at least for the foreseeable future. Swiss Army Man is a very marmite type of film as not everyone is going to like this but I think it is worth a watch. In the film, Hank (Paul Dano) is stranded on a deserted island and as he prepares to leave this world, he spots a man laying by the shore although unfortunately he is dead and quite flatulent. With the help of the dead man, named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe), Hank uses his flatulence to return to the mainland but now he finds himself lost in the wilderness but does not leave Manny behind.

UK Release Dates
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie             01 July 2016 TRAILER

Central Intelligence                             01 July 2016 TRAILER
Colonia                                             01 July 2016 TRAILER
Now You See Me: The Second Act         04 July 2016 TRAILER 
Maggie's Plan                                     08 July 2016 TRAILER
The Legend of Tarzan                          08 July 2016 TRAILER
Ghostbusters                                     11 July 2016 TRAILER

USA/Canada Release Dates
Swiss Army Man                                01 July 2016 TRAILER