Passengers- Out this Christmas!

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Two of the hottest actors star alongside each other imn a big budget romantic sci-fi film, Passengers. Personally I love Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt and I can't wait for this film to come out in December!

Chris Pratt's character Jim and Jennifer Lawrence's Aurora find themselves alone on a passenger ship, after waking up from being frozen ninety years earlier than intended and being awoken from their sleeping pods.

They face a lifetime aboard the ship, with just each other for company. While the terrifying loneliness of their situation could easily be overwhelming, Aurora and Jim soon manage to find a silver lining: they both really, really fancy each other.

The ship and its unconscious people on board are in danger, and Jim and Aurora are the only ones in a position save everyone.

They are two passengers on board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn before they reach their destination.

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As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, only to be threatened by the collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind why they woke up.

The trailer shows Jim character hiding a few secrets from Aurora. Is there something more sinister to him than she knows?

Watch this space because it's going to be a great movie to watch this summer! Be sure to check it out at your nearest gold class cinemas for extra style and comfort!

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Finding Dory 2016

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Now that school holidays have started, we have the perfect solution for parents wanting to keep their kids entertained for those rainy days at home. Finding Dory is great movie that we just love at Movies 'n' Chill!

Parents need to know that Finding Dory is the long-awaited sequel to Pixar's 2003 classic Finding Nemo.

This time, instead of a worried parent trying to find his lost son the story revolves around Dory a tang fish that is  looking for her family that she lost when she was a kid. Like most Pixar movies, there are some very emotional moments, including a flash back in which young Dory is shown to have separated from her parents ,so  this  journey begins with Dory  searching for her parents in the great ocean that lies ahead.

This is until she forgets what she was looking for. There are other stressful separations between close friends as the  journey is taken  , as well as some peril and tense moments  for example the  predator giant squid the characters where  its action packed escape antics  which needs to be taken  down a notch , as well as slapstick and near misses.

This sad, beautifully voice-acted adventure is everything a sequel should be: emotionally satisfying, full of lovable  characters new and old, and just as Dory would want, utterly unforgettable. DeGeneres' performance  is shown to be  pitch perfect, and captures her great personality in this film.

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Audiences will also love new characters in Finding Dory like Hank, who wants Dory's tag that grants her transfer to the Cleveland Aquarium. Dory also reconnects   herself with her old friends Destiny, who is a nearsighted whale shark, and  also meets Destiny's neighbor, Bailey,  who is a  beluga whale.

A  pair of sea lions help Marlin and Nemo hitch a ride into the institute via a kooky loon Becky. Although this movies shows that Dory's adventure is subtler than Nemo’s , it  tugs at the heart strings and teaches a valuable lessons about disabilities, teamwork perseverance , friendship and the unconditional love of family.

What I liked about this movie was  that  it showed dory never had a problem asking help very time she forgot given that she had a problem with her memory ,  in which case she developed  a coping mechanisms which is get help where she can and when help was not available she succeeds on her own terms.  so in other worlds "believe in yourself and you can do it "

We hope you little kids and big kids  out there like this awesome movie. Get set for lots of laughs!

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The Pursuit of Happyness

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This is the one classic movie I personally suggest every one should have look!

In San Francisco, in 1981, salesman Chris Gardner invested all the family savings in the Portable Bone Density Scanner. He thinks he made a wise decision, because the scanner can give denser than the X-ray picture, although it is a little expensive.

However, they do not sell as Chris's imagination, and even brought him a lot of trouble. When Chris walked around trying to figure out how to sell the scanner, his wife left him and he lost his house to his bank account and a credit card. Forced him with his son live in the street, Chris is desperate to find a stable job.

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 Luckily, Chris had the opportunity to work for a stockbroker internship at Dean Witter. During the six months of training, he will not get a salary, there are 19 other candidates this unique position. At the same time, no money, homeless, Chris and his son have all kinds of difficulties. But he is very smart and hardworking, he will never give up. Eventually, for his efforts, Chris became Dean Witter's agent and started his career. In 1987, Chris founded investment firm Gardner Rich, and became a successful businessman.

In this great movie there are so many classic lines, from which I learned a lot. " You want something, go get it!" In reality, most of us have an equal chance if we really want it, just do it. “People can't do something by themselves they wanna tell you that you cannot do it.” Although we will encounter various difficulties, we must have confidence in ourselves and never give up.

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In this movie, I realized another thing, which is Chris's love his son. In fact, he did all the efforts not only to realize his dream, but also to give happiness to his son. Chris said:”You have a dream, you got to protect it”.

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The Martian

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The Martian is a story on Mark, played by the legendary Mark Wahlburg. Mark surviving in Mars for over 520 days. He did not explore him-self, but went to there with his explorer team crew with their mission.

While the team was browsing, they noticed an incoming storm and attempt to return to earth. But when Mark reached the spaceship, he was swept out by the storm. the leader Louis tries to save him but had to leave him out there without knowing that he is still alive. after the storm Mark wakes up, injured, on deserted mars, and tries his best to survive.

After Mark calculated the amount of food he had left, he decides to cultivate potatoes and makes it successful. No one in Earth knew he was alive, but he tries the best to live through out. On day SOL 54, NASA finds out that he is still alive, puts a mission to save him.

NASA and Mark finally finds a way to communicate each other with using pathfinder, and improves the mission status. As a part of the rescue mission, the team crew who were on their way back to earth, accepts to extend their mission duration for more than 500 days.

Rescue mission was going well, but with several mistakes and errors of calculation, chance to save Mark, reduces. However Mark never gives up and make effort with such patience.

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The Martian is a science fiction movie, but i was very surprised to see the emotion Mark feels and the sacrifices that his crew members made.

I think the whole story-line is such a beautiful story because it teaches a lesson; never give up.

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Cult Movie! Silence of the lambs

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Here is an oldie but a goodie!

FBI trainee Clarice Staring is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. He asks her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer. His insight might prove useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses.

Clarice travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she is led by Frederick Chilton to Lecter's solitary quarters.

Although initially pleasant, Lecter grows impatient. As she is leaving, one of the prisoners flicks semen at her. Lecter, who thinks this is disgusting calls Starling back and tells her to seek out an old patient of his. From there Lector helps Starling capture some of the most vicious criminals!

Lector skillfully digs into Starlings psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film also shows a lot of horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion questioning of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it.

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Overall, all of us at Movies 'n' Chill think this is definitely one of the best movies of all time. It's jam packed full of gory and nail biting moments. A thriller to watch this silly season when you're stuck indoors!

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The Butterfly Effect

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Check Out this Classic of the week!

'The Butterfly Effect' is one of the famous classic movies people recommend. The movie was released in 2004, but still beloved by many viewers around the world as it teaches us a lesson at the end and also gives us surprise with few different endings.

I strongly recommend 'The Butterfly Effect' ! there are DVDs out there you can purchase so please Enjoy :)

Evan Treborn grows up with a single working mother and his friends Lenny, Kayleigh and Tommy. He suffered from black outs which led to psychological trauma, and lost part of his memories. After he moved to another place, his problem with blackout, got better eventually, but one day in college, he finds his old journal and suddenly it flashes him back to past.

Evan finds out that he can make changes to his choices he made in the past and tries to put things back to "normal". Whenever he tried to change the future, someone had to be in a serious situation, and whenever he tried to save the person, made other people to be in danger. He realises that there's always an impact on the changes he made, no matter what decision he makes. Finally he makes a decision to eliminate the 'curse'.

When Evan couldn't remember the past, it wasn't lost but did not happened to him yet, because the future Evan is experiencing him-self in the past while going back and forth. The director did a great story-telling with such complex set-up. Past and the future links together like a jigsaw puzzle with sorted memories in the diary. Evan wanted to make everyone happy, satisfied and equally. When he changed the future to bring Kelly back to live, it killed Tommy, when he went back to save Tommy, he became a disabled person and his mother suffered from cancer. So he finally makes a decision to go back and kills him-self when he is a fetus. 

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There are always side effects when the Mother Nature breaks.  In the movie, it tells Evan's mother went through abortion two times so we can guess that his siblings went through all the things just like Evan, and made the same decision he made. When Evan went to see his father who was hospitalized in psychiatric hospital, his father tries to kill him by chocking his neck. 

No Butterfly, No Butterfly effect.

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Alice Through the looking glass

Here's a great whimsical movie for the whole family to watch! Alice in the looking glass can be best appreciated by surrendering to its mad digital 3D excess with 3D glasses. This sequel to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland "directed by James Bobin is so cluttered with an unwieldy mixture of Victoriana and special-effects that every nook and cranny is crammed with stuff. There’s more to look at than the eye can take in.

A symbol of that excess is a table set for a two-person tea party whose piles of goodies contain enough sugary calories to fell an entire Navy battalion from diabetic shock. Were it not for sweets, there would hardly be a story. Like Mr. Burton, whose original film made over $1 billion at the global box office, Mr. Bobin believes in taking opulence and extravagance to extremes.

One of the major plot threads concerns the conflict between the evil Red Queen, Iracebeth (a feisty, snapping Helena Bonham Carter), and her sister, the angelic White Queen. Iracebeth’s bitterness dates to a childhood incident involving cake crumbs, in which she is blamed for Mirana’s mess. The sibling feud escalates into a conflict that at one point stops time itself.

Alice has her own problems. After her adventures establishing trade routes to China on her ship, the Wonder, she returns to England to find that a rejected suitor, Hamish , has taken her ship by persuading Alice’s mother to agree to a deal. The adventurous Alice will from now on be trapped in stuffy Victorian England.

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Leading the list of stars is Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, an eccentric neurotic loner first seen dying of a broken heart. He has been chronically depressed since the day his strict, conservative father laughed at his first attempt at hat making.
His search for his parents, presumed dead at the end of the first film, ignites the third subplot in which his best friend, Alice, equipped with a whirly gyroscopic time machine called a Chronosphere, tries to alter the past to change the future.
In the end, to paraphrase the Beatles, the movie includes the quote "Everyone is desperate to get back to where they once belonged." A great addition to an already cult fairytale movie that will have everyone in curious fits of laughter, and the kiddies with wide eyes!

What I Liked about the movie was the colourful outfits that where show through out the movie.  This movie was also less -violent  compared to the first movie Alice in wonderland  including showing that Alice's courage and determination make her a force to reckoned with.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

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'Kingsman: The Secret Service' is a British-American spy action-comedy film. The film start from the raid in the Middle East in 1997, a probationary secret agent sacrifices himself to save the whole team. Thereafter, Harry Hart, code-name”Galahad”, delivers medal for valour the agent widow, Michelle Unwin, and her young son, Gary ”Eggsy”, saying that if they ever needed help, they should call the phone number on the back of the medal.

Seventeen years later, Professor James Arnold is kidnapped by Internet billionaire and philanthropist Richmond Valentine. One of Hart's fellow agents, "Lancelot", attempts a rescue single-handed, but is killed by Gazelle, Valentine's henchwoman, who wears prosthetic legs that are specially sharpened to double up as blades. Valentine secretly meets with various powerful individuals, some of whom go missing afterwards. He also announces a giveaway of SIM Smart cards, granting free cellular and Internet access forever to everyone.

In London, Eggsy is now an unemployed young adult living with his mother, infant half-sister, and abusive stepfather, Dean. Despite being highly intelligent and capable, he left training for Royal Marines and lives the aimless life of a stereotypical chav. Arrested for stealing a car, Eggsy calls the number on the medal. Hart has him released and tells Eggsy about his father - he was an agent of Kingsman, an "independent international intelligence agency" founded in 1919 by wealthy British individuals who had lost their heirs in the First World War.

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Unsure whom to trust, Merlin decides that he, Roxy and Eggsy must stop Valentine on their own. Roxy rides a high-attitude balloon into the stratosphere to disrupt Valentine's impending broadcast by destroying one of his satellites, while Eggsy and Merlin infiltrate Valentine’s mountain bunker complex in Argentina. Roxy downs the satellite, but Valentine gets a business contact to replace it, then activates the signal, causing worldwide violence.

Eggsy is recognised and engages in a running fight with Valentine's henchmen. Eventually, both he and Merlin are cornered separately, but at Eggsy's suggestion, Merlin hacks into Valentine's system and causes the implants to explode, killing every convert when their heads explode, except Valentine and Gazelle, both of whom did not carry the implants. Eggsy manages to successfully kill Gazelle after a fierce and intense fight with her, and then spears Valentine with the sharpened tip of Gazelle's prosthetic leg, ending the worldwide carnage as Valentine falls to the ground-floor and dies.

Eggsy later becomes a Kingsman agent. He offers his mother a new home away from Dean, who flatly objects to Eggsy's suggestion. Eggsy then waylays him in exactly the same manner that Hart dealt with one of Dean's henchmen earlier.
The movie is best in comedy and using movie techniques.

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Bad Santa 2

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The original “Bad Santa,” starring Billy Bob Thornton was a cult movie and one of the funniest Christmas movies to watch! (Maybe not with the kiddos)

The movie begins with Thornton’s Willie once again in the grip of alcoholism-fuelled depression and flirting hard with suicide. He’s saved by a seemingly inopportune visit from now-neighbour Thurman, who brings tidings from Cox’s Marcus. Willie is less than thrilled to hear from his one-time partner in crime and even less thrilled upon being persuaded to visit Chicago, where Willie learns the brains behind a new job is his long-estranged criminal mother, Sunny.

The trio is going undercover to rob a popular and lucrative children’s charity, but it’s alright, really, because the crooked head of the charity skims almost all their earnings for his own enrichment anyway.

Said head has a beautiful wife, played by Hendricks, who’s entirely innocent and also a recovering alcoholic. She takes some pity on Willie, who has trouble holding things together even as he’s casing the joint.

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However, especially in its portrayal of Thurman, who here isn’t so much misunderstood and unloved as he is dumber than a bag of rocks, this sequel actively devalues the compassion-on-the-knife-edge-of-misanthropy that distinguished the original in favour of a mainstream gross-out cartoon.

This is definitely screening for us this Christmas and we are going to be sure not to take the kiddies to this cheeky festive movie.

Click here to view the trailer. It's a great movie to watch these Christmas holidays!

Captain America: Civil War

When the bad guys find out the truth, they will never be able to defeat the heroes at the end of the story, which in turn inspires another view. Maybe only the superhero can defeat the superhero.

“Civil war” as the name suggests is the Avengers led by Captain America and Iron Man two faction superheroes fighting with each other。The war starts for many reasons as everyone knows Captain and Stark have completely different personality they are cannot get along with each other。In fact, every superhero has a distinct personality, iron man arrogant, captain's responsibility, hulk anger, Spiderman nonsense of a pile of... , all kinds of extreme background, ability, make appear in them, can the team is that they share the responsibilities of protecting the earth and split one big reason, from their perception of justice held.

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”and “Captain America: Civil War”are almost start from the same origin。There are too many innocent victims for the super battle, the key to this is batman determined to wipe out the superman, the earth does not require such powers, with excessive destruction way to preserve peace. The same, the avengers alliance also repeatedly suffered from governments, questioned the victims' families, and even for the revenge. The villain in the movie, this is a successful example, a single body of human, but let the avengers alliance.

“Captain America：Civil War” the heroes battle scenes, although fascinating, but always less the uniting of pleasant sensation, because the relationship between good and evil opposites becomes very weak in this, instead, the interpretation of justice, make the different divisions and the impact,

If you are the fans of Marvel you should not miss “Captain America: Civil War”
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Danish Girl

This is a movie based on a true story 

Danish girl is a story about a husband and a wife called Einar and Gerda.

Portrait painter Gerda, Landscape painter Einar, they truly loved each other and was peaceful, until one woman interrupts their marriage. 

Gerda asks Einar to become her model wearing lady’s' stockings and shoes, and Einar looks in himself with a dark confusion and discovers his gender identity.

Einar dressed as a woman, was called 'Lili'. While Gerda paints Lili, she implements Lili as her muse; Einar finds his true gender identity more and more. 

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After the lapse of time, Gerda finds out that Einar wants to live as Lili and give up on the identity of Einar. It was a shocking moment for Gerda, but she calmly tries to find a way. 

Gerda knew she was losing her husband Einar but also needed Lili because she was her muse. Gerda needed Einar, loved Einar didn't want to lose Einar, but she respected Lili, began to support her. 

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The main topic for this movie, seems like it is the 'freedoms and respects for sexual minority', however, the pure love from Gerda, stands out and from the film, you can see the pains and sacrifices that Gerda made.

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If you are looking for something that will give you a pleasant shock, I strongly recommend Danish girl. The actors’ performance is absolutely perfect; they express the feelings in so much detail. As you watch the movie, you find yourself empathising to them.

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Please enjoy :)

Warcraft

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 The story begins  at Draenor, the homeworld of the orcs, is being torn apart by a mysterious force known as fel magic. Gul'dan, a powerful orc warlock, unites the orc clans and forms the Horde, and creates a portal to the world of Azeroth. The orcs begin to use fel magic to drain the life out of captive darenei in order to sustain the portal. Once it is operational, Gul'dan leads a small warband to capture prisoners on Azeroth and sacrifice them to bring the rest of the Horde through the portal. Despite their doubts, Durotan, the chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan, his pregnant mate Draka, and his friend  Orgrim Doomhammer join this initial warband. While crossing through the portal, Draka goes into labor. When the orcs arrive on Azeroth, Gul'dan assists Draka with giving birth, but the baby is stillborn. Gul'dan then drains the life out of a nearby deer to revive and infuse fel magic into the baby, which Durotan later names Go'el.

   The orcs raid several settlements throughout Azeroth. Anduin Lothar, the military commander of the human forces in the Stormwind Kingdom, looks over some of the men that were killed, and finds a trespassing mage named  Khadgar, who explains that he was investigating the dead bodies because they contained traces of fel magic. Khadgar persuades Stormwind's king, Llane Wrynn, to consult Medivh, the renowned Guardian of Tirisfal, and Llane sends Anduin and Khadgar to Medivh's stronghold, Karazhan, to inform him of the fel magic's presence on Azeroth. In the Karazhan library, a ghostly shadow leads Khadgar to a mysterious book, which he takes.

Anduin, Khadgar and Medivh join a scouting team following traces of fel magic, but are ambushed by orcs. Medivh uses a spell to kill the fel-corrupted orcs, leaving the Horde's warchief, Blackhand to flee along with Durotan and Orgrim. Khadgar restrains a half-orc slave, Garona, and the soldiers take her prisoner. King Llane frees Garona in exchange for loyalty to Stormwind, and she leads the humans to spy on the orc camp, where they learn of Gul'dan's plan to bring the Horde to Azeroth. Meanwhile, Durotan realizes that the fel magic is responsible for the destruction of Draenor, and if Gul'dan is not thwarted, Azeroth will suffer the same fate. Despite Orgrim's objections, Durotan invites Llane to a secret meeting so that the Frostwolf Clan and the humans can unite to defeat Gul'dan. While studying the book he took from Karazhan, Khadgar learns that Gul'dan could not have opened the portal on his own; he had help from someone on Azeroth. He is confronted by Medivh, who burns Khadgar's research when Khadgar offers to help him with his work.

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The Frostwolf Clan meets with the humans to negotiate an alliance, but the group is ambushed by Blackhand. As the humans retreat, Medivh forms a magical barrier to protect them, but Lothar's son Callan is separated from the rest of the group and killed by Blackhand. Medivh is severely weakened, and Garona and Khadgar take him back to Karazhan to recover. After noticing Medivh's eyes shine green, showing that he is infected by fel magic, Khadgar returns to his former home, Dalaran, to seek help from the Kirin Tor, the authority of human and high elven mages. The Kirin Tor facilitate a meeting with Alodi, revealed to be the shadow who led Khadgar to the book; she confirms that Medivh has indeed been corrupted by fel magic and possessed by an unknown demon. At the orc camp, Blackhand purges the Frostwolf Clan. Orgrim helps Draka to escape, and she sends Go'el down a river in a basket, but is then found and killed by another orc. Durotan challenges Gul'dan to Mak'gora, a traditional orcish duel to the death for leadership of a clan – in this case, all of the orcs. During the fight, Gul'dan violates the honorable combat rules by draining the life out of Durotan with his magic, killing him and earning the disapproval of the orcs watching, and he empowers Blackhand with the same magic. Medivh, now in a half-demonic state, starts to open the portal to Draenor, and Gul'dan begins sacrificing the captured human villagers to allow the rest of the Horde to enter Azeroth.

Llane leads the human army in an assault on the orc camp, while Anduin and Khadgar fight Medivh and destroy the demon that had begun to manifest on the outside. Medivh is left mortally wounded, and uses the last of his strength to close the portal to Draenor and instead open a portal to Stormwind, allowing Llane to evacuate most of the freed prisoners. When Medivh eventually dies, the portal closes, leaving Llane, Garona and a small number of human soldiers to fight the orcs. Llane secretly orders Garona to kill him, bringing her honor among the orcs and putting her in a position of power to bring peace between the two races. Garona reluctantly does so, and is welcomed into the Horde by Gul'dan. As the orcs celebrate, Lothar arrives to retrieve King Llane's body and discovers Garona's knife in the body, realizing that it was she who had killed their king. Blackhand challenges Lothar to Mak'gora, and Lothar quickly disposes of him. Against Gul'dan's demands, the orcs, bound by tradition, allow Lothar to depart with Llane's body. At Llane's funeral in Stormwind, the leaders of the other human nations, along with the high elves and  dwarves, proclaim an alliance against the orcs and rally behind Lothar as the leader of the Alliance forces. Elsewhere, Orgrim takes one of Durotan's tusks to one day give to Go'el, and the basket containing Go'el is found by a human.

Warcraft movie is only demonstrate the begining of the whole game series, it is an good choice go movie for people who interest in movie technique or the warcraft game itself.

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Hacksaw Ridge

Mel Gibson’s new film Hacksaw Ridge has been nominated for 13 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA). Like Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Hacksaw Ridge features a roll call of well- known Aussie actors.

Hacksaw Ridge tells the incredible, but true story of Desmond Doss. He was an American farm boy and conscientious objector who resolved to never, ever touch a weapon. Despite this, he enlisted in the army and as a medic saved the lives of scores of men on a World War II battlefield. He received the US Medal of Honour for his bravery and was the first conscientious objector to receive it.

This story of American heroes, heroism and heroics is told with all the attendant American storytelling techniques required for it to be commercially successful in America.

It’s the story of an individual who overcomes his humble and difficult beginnings through his faith in his god and country. His principles are so strong he can withstand ostracism, and even violence from his peers and superiors. He will not back down when the Army bureaucracy tries to break him, or when his sweetheart pleads with him to take the path of less resistance. When he is finally tested on the battlefield, his belief in what’s good and what’s right sees him overcome obstacles of Biblical proportions. When he comes down from the mountain (or in this case, a ridge) those who doubted him now hold him in awe and even reverence.

Gibson, an American raised in Australia, directs Hacksaw Ridge with the confidence and skill you expect of Hollywood legend. The camera sweeps, the score swells, the dialogue is economical and effective but breaks into lump-in-throat lyrical when Desmond’s (Andrew Garfield) faith in himself is tested to the limit. In these moments he speaks to the sky as smoke, ash and dark cloud billow behind as if they’ve been choreographed by God himself.

The film is divided into two parts. The first tells of Desmond’s childhood, his traumatised and alcoholic father (Hugo Weaving), his tightly wound and put upon mother (Rachel Griffiths). An incident with his brother exorcises any self-doubt and sets the course of his life which includes his pursuit of his wholesomely gorgeous sweetheart (Teresa Palmer) and his dedication to serve the war effort by saving, rather than taking lives.

In the second half, Gibson violently changes course to unleash an orgy of bloodshed, gore and death. It’s horrible, unrelenting and effective. Technically, it’s pretty astonishing as body parts spin and splatter and headless corpses act as shields from the Japanese who rise from their burrows like rats. It works dramatically too, as its killing fields’ camera work focuses on Doss and the fate of the prickly fellow soldiers we met in the lighter, first half of the film — these include Vince Vaughn and Sam Worthington as his superiors.

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SPY

Spy is many things: A clever spoof. A chance for Melissa McCarthy and her co-stars to strut their comedic chops. An international romp. It's also a pretty darn engaging spy film. It's about a woman leaning in and finding her inner Bond.

It doesn't start out that way. When we first meet McCarthy's Susan Cooper, she's in the (pigeon-and-rat-infested) basement of the CIA, advising super spy Bradley Fine (Jude Law) as he infiltrates a party attended by a Russian crime lord who's peddling a nuclear weapon. Fine is suave and fearless, but he couldn't do it without Susan, who's with him every step of the way. Turns out, Susan was trained to be a field operative herself, but Fine convinced her she was best utilized as his right hand woman. The fact that Susan is madly in love with Fine possibly factored into her decision to languish behind the scenes.

One of the ongoing jokes of the film is that Susan is given frumpy spy identities—not sleek women of mystery, but soccer moms and cat ladies.
Little by little, as she gets more emboldened, she takes charge of not just the operation, but her own appearance, trading in her dumpy sweaters and bad permed wigs for high-collared coats and sleek dark hair.


 what I liked about this movie was that it was funny from the very start despite the plot being very simple and yet it keeps you waiting for the next punch, as the movie continues  the mystery starts to unwind slowly  throughout the movie making it the funniest movies yet.

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