Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
Nick Wild is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Jason Statham : Nick Wild
Stanley Tucci : Baby
Sofía Vergara : DD

Director : Simon West

Maggie (2015)

vrijdag, augustus 07, 2015

Summary
After a couple of weeks seeking out his teenage daughter Maggie, Wade finds her in the quarantine wing of a hospital. Maggie has been infected by a lethal outbreak that transforms the victim into a zombie. Wade's friend Dr. Vern Kaplan releases Maggie to spend her last days with Wade and her family. Her stepmother Caroline asks Wade to take their little kids to her sister's house to keep them safe. While Maggie is slowly transformed, Wade stays with her protecting Maggie. But Dr. Vern warns him that the moment that he will have to take an ultimate decision is closer.

Genre : Horror/Drama
Country : USA/Switzerland

Cast :
Arnold Schwarzenegger : Wade
Abigail Breslin : Maggie
Joely Richardson : Caroline

Director : Henry Hobson

6/10 Adventure SF

Insurgent (2015)

donderdag, augustus 06, 2015

Summary
One choice can transform you or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable and even more powerful.

Genre : SF/Adventure
Country : USA

Cast :
Shailene Woodley : Tris
Theo James : Four
Kate Winslet : Jeanine

Director : Robert Schwentke

2/10 Comedy Horror Romance

Stung (2015)

donderdag, augustus 06, 2015

Summary
Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey. It's up to Paul and Julia, the two catering staffers, to stop the creatures, fight for their lives, and incidentally getting their stumbling romance in order.

Genre : Horror/Comedy/Romance
Country : USA/Germany

Cast :
Matt O'Leary : Paul
Jessica Cook : Julia
Lance Henriksen : Caruthers

Director : Benni Diez

7/10 Romance War

Suite Francaise (2014)

woensdag, augustus 05, 2015

Summary
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Genre : War/Romance
Country : UK/France/Belgium

Cast :
Michelle Williams : Lucile Angellier
Kristin Scott Thomas : Madame Angellier
Matthias Schoenaerts : Bruno von Falk

Director : Saul Dibb

3/10 Drama Thriller

Final Girl (2015)

woensdag, augustus 05, 2015

Summary
A psychological thriller about a beautiful teen girl new to town who is lured out to the woods by a group of senior boys to be the victim in their final initiation. Taught by her trainer, William, to be a lethal weapon, she turns the hunters into the hunted with a level of perversity far beyond anything they could have ever imagined.

Genre : Thriller/Drama
Country : Canada/USA

Cast :
Abigail Breslin : Veronica
Wes Bentley : -
Alexander Ludwig : Chris

Director : Tyler Shields

5/10 Horror Mystery

Residue (2015)

donderdag, juli 16, 2015

Summary
An unnamed UK metropolis. The future. Renowned photojournalist Jennifer Preston is investigating the aftermath of a terrible explosion that ripped through the city on New Year's Eve. Known simply as 'The Catastrophe', this shocking tragedy has left behind a festering wound. The city is on edge, thousands have evacuated and a sprawling, militarized Quarantine Zone has been erected around the epicentre of the blast. The 'QZ', as it becomes known, is a network of empty buildings and abandoned streets, shrouded beneath clinical plastic and fenced in behind impenetrable barricades. Heavily armed security units ensure that nobody goes in and nobody comes out. As unexplained and increasingly bizarre acts of violence erupt across the city, Jennifer begins to notice strange, ephemeral phantoms in her photographs. What begins as an artistic documentation of The Catastrophe's lingering aftershock soon becomes an obsession with 'The Phenomenon'.

Genre : Horror/Mystery
Country : UK

Cast :
Natalia Tena : Jennifer Preston
Iwan Rheon : Jonas
Jamie Draven : Levi Mathis

Director : Alex Garcia Lopez

1/10 Action Adventure

Big Game (2014)

donderdag, juli 16, 2015

Summary
When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him - a 13-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their own "Big Game" prize, the unlikely duo must team up to escape their hunters. As anxious Pentagon officials observe the action via satellite feed, it is up to the President and his new side-kick to prove themselves and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives.

Genre : Action/Adventure
Country : Finland/UK/Germany

Cast :
Samuel L. Jackson : U.S. President William Allan Moore
Ray Stevenson : Morris
Onni Tommila : Oskari

Director : Jalmari Helander

4/10 Horror

Haunt (2014)

woensdag, juli 15, 2015

Summary
A mother and father and their three teen-age children move to a new home that was the scene of a "personal tragedy". The son meets a mysterious neighbor girl and together they experiment with an old radio they find in the attic, that can be used to communicate with the dead. Something is unleashed that brings new horror.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
Jacki Weaver : Janet Morello
Liana Liberato : Sam
Harrison Gilbertson : Evan Asher

Director : Mac Carter

4/10 Crime Drama

The Living (2014)

woensdag, juli 15, 2015

Summary
A man hires an ex-con to kill his sister's abusive husband, but the desperate act sets into motion a shocking series of events in this intense indie drama.

Genre : Drama/Crime
Country : USA

Cast :
Fran Kranz : Teddy
Jocelin Donahue : Molly
Kenny Wormald : Gordon

Director : Jack Bryan

4/10 Horror Mystery

The Stranger (2014)

vrijdag, juli 10, 2015

Summary
A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.

Genre : Horror/Mysterie
Country : Chile

Cast :
Lorenza Izzo : Ana
Cristobal Tapia Montt : Martin
Ariel Levy : Caleb

Director : Guillermo Amoedo

3/10 Action

American muscle (2014)

donderdag, juli 09, 2015

Summary
John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Nick Principe : John Falcon
Robin Sydney : Darling
Todd Farmer : Sam Falcon

Director : Ravi Dhar

8/10 Action Comedy

Kingsman : The Secret Service (2014)

zaterdag, juli 04, 2015

Summary
Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Genre : Action/Adventure/Comedy
Country : UK

Cast :
Colin Firth : Harry Hart
Taron Egerton : Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Samuel L. Jackson : Valentine

Director : Matthew Vaughn

5/10 Crime Drama

Focus (2015)

donderdag, juli 02, 2015

Summary
Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy.

Genre : Crime/Drama
Country : USA/Argentina

Cast :
Will Smith : Nicky
Margot Robbie : Jess
Rodrigo Santoro : Garriga

Director : Glenn Ficcara,Rodrigo Santoro

6.5/10 Action SF

Chappie (2015)

woensdag, juli 01, 2015

Summary
In the near future, Indian born Deon Wilson, is a high ranking executive in a Robotic Police Force company. When he comes up with an idea to make a self conscious robot named Chappie to protect better, his higher-ups disapprove it. Nonetheless, he makes it and when the company finds out, scraps the robot. When 2 small time criminals planning a $200 million heist find Chappie, they kidnap Deon and force him to program Chappie to assist them in their heist. When power-corrupted military general Vincent finds out, he rallies all forces to stop Chappie, at any cost that leads to an monumental showdown between Good and Evil.

Genre : Action//SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Sharlto Copley : Chappie
Dev Patel : Deon Wilson
Hugh Jackman : Vincent Moore

Director : Neil Blomkamp