Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

Genre : SF/Thriller
Country : Spain/Bulgaria 

Cast :
Antonio Banderas : Jacq Vaucan
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen : Rachel Vaucan
Melanie Griffith : Dr. Dupre

Director : Gabe Ibáñez

Summary
Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

Genre : Horror/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Rose Leslie : Bea
Harry Treadaway : Paul
Ben Huber : Will
Hanna Brown : Annie

Director : Leigh Janiak

Summary
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

Genre : Action/Crime
Country : UK/Puerto Rico 

Cast :
Gina Carano : Ava
Luis Guzmán : Chief Ramón Garza
Danny Trejo : Big Biz

Director : John Stockwell

Summary
When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA
 
Cast :
Ashley Rickards : Hannah
Naya Rivera : Vera
Catalina Sandino Moreno : Leigh

Director : Nicholas McCarthy

Alternative title : Home

Summary
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring. So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss who ordered the hit.

Genre : Crime/Action/Drama
Country : USA
 
Cast :
Matt Dillon : Jesse Weiland
Willem Dafoe : Bud Carter
Neal McDonough : Kiersey
Tom Berenger : Lutin

Director : Chris Brinker

Summary
Four friends spend a night in an abandoned drug rehab clinic hoping to film some paranormal experiences. They soon end up fighting for their lives as a 25 year old legacy comes to haunt them... One of them is more involved than they would ever have thought...

Genre : Horror
Country : UK

Cast :
Jenny Gayner : Nicole Hunter
Sean J. Vincent : Adam
Thea Knight : Liz
Dan Peters : Mike

Director : Sean J. Vincent

A twin review.

The Calling

Genre : Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Susan Sarandon : Hazel Micallef
Gil Bellows : Ray Green
Ellen Burstyn : Emily Micallef

Director : Jason Stone

Summary
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

Summary
Shortly after the Second World War, Max visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. He was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth.

Genre : Drama/Music/Romance
Country : Italy

Cast :
Tim Roth : 1900
Pruitt Taylor Vince : Max Tooney
Bill Nunn : Danny Boodmann

Director : Giuseppe Tornatore

Alternative title : La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano

Summary
This film tells the story of a perfect world. Everyone here is happy. When Jonas is 18 years old, he's chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. He enters into training with an old man called The Giver. From the Giver, Jonas learns about pain, sadness, war, and all the unhappy truths of the "real" world. He quickly realizes that his community is fake. Confronted with this reality, Jonas faces difficult choices about his own life and his future.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Brenton Thwaites : Jonas
Jeff Bridges  : The Giver
Meryl Streep : Chief Elder

Director : Philip Noyce

Summary
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.

Genre : Biography/Drama/Romance
Country : USA

Cast :

Daniel Radcliffe : Allen Ginsberg
Dane DeHaan : Lucien Carr
Jack Huston : Jack Kerouac

Director : John Krokidas

Summary
An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski.

Genre : SF/Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Tom Cruise : Cage
Emily Blunt : Rita
Charlotte Riley : Nance

Director : Doug Liman

Summary
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill... or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Sylvester Stallone : Barney Ross
Jason Statham : Lee Christmas
Mel Gibson : Stonebanks

Director : Patrick Hughes

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Genre : Drama
Country : Pakistan/USA

Cast :
Mahnoor Baloch : Maryam
Faran Tahir : Ali
Dendrie Taylor : Lea

Director : Jeremiah Birnbaum

Summary
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.

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Genre : Crime/Drama
Country : Australia/USA

Cast :
Guy Pearce : Eric
Robert Pattinson : Rey
Scoot McNairy : Henry

Director : David Michôd

Summary
Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naïve young man along as his unwitting accomplice.

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Genre : Comedy
Country : USA

Cast :
Jon Favreau : Carl casper
Emjay Anthony : Percy
Sofía Vergara : Inez

Director : Jon Favreau

Summary
Carl Casper is an acclaimed chef with a family life that seems as decaying as his artistic freedom. Those frustrations boil over into a raucous viral-videoed public confrontation against a restaurant critic who panned his cooking of food that his boss ordered him to make against his instincts. Now with his career ruined, Carl's ex-wife offers an unorthodox solution in Miami: refit an old food truck to offer quality cooking on his own terms. Now with his young son, Percy, and old colleague, Martin, helping, Carl takes a working trip across America with that truck to rediscover his gastronomic passion.