Your weekly dose of cinema entertainment – October 9
These movies will hit the big screen this weekend:
Pan
Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Amanda Seyfried, Rooney Mara, Levi Miller and Cara Delevingne.
Based on the classic by J.M. Barrie, this is the story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny – to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.
American Ultra
Comedy, Action
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg and Walton Goggins.
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly unfortunate and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Mike is unaware that he is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper CIA agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Dope
Drama, Crime, Comedy
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Tony Revolori, Shameik Moore and Kiersey Clemons.
Life changes for Malcolm, a high school geek who is just trying to survive life in a tough neighborhood, with dreams of attending Harvard. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a gritty Los Angeles adventure complete with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he can go from geek to dope and ultimately himself.
The Walk
Thriller
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ben Schwartz.
The Walk is the true story of a young dreamer, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, and a band of unlikely recruits who together achieve the impossible – an illegal high-wire walk across the immense void between the two World Trade Centre towers in 1974. With little more than nerve and blind ambition, Petit and his ragtag crew overcome daunting physical obstacles, betrayals, countless close calls and overwhelming odds to beat the system and execute their mad plan.
Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet
Animation
Starring: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek and John Krasinski.
Author Kahlil Gibran’s timeless verses have been given new form in this animated cinematic adventure about freedom and the power of human expression. The film intersperses Gibran’s poetry within animated sequences. Set in a Mediterranean sea-side village, Kamila cleans house for exiled artist and poet Mustafa, but the more difficult job is keeping her free-spirited young daughter, Almitra, out of trouble. The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa’s return home – but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion.
Pawn Sacrifice
Drama
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Robin Weigert, Michael Stuhlbarg and Lily Rabe.
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. The film accounts Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
Sicario
Thriller, Crime
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jeffrey Donovan and Maximiliano Hernandez.
In Spanish ‘sicario’ means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent, Kate Macy, is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.
