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Battleship

It's a game of skill and honour, the stakes are raised and the planet is in peril... Lets play Battleship? Alex Hopper is pushed by his brother into a life of servitude to his country, though even the navy can't tame his brash and arrogant nature something his commanding officer Admiral Shane sees only too well. Unfortunately for Alex, not only is Admiral Shane in charge of his budding career but he also just so happens to be the unwilling giver of consent and father to his girlfriend Samantha. So after roughing around and causing a ruckus, being denied the hand of his love and threatened that his career may be swiftly sinking, Alex has to pull out all the stops in the the annual RIMPAC battle exercise to save his neck. While else where over the years good ol' NASA have been sending out a signal to attract intelligent life to pay humanity a visit, however the two events collide as the receivers of the signal land ships in the vicinity of the training exercise and enclose th...

Wrath of the Titans

Perseus is fresh from his previous clash with a kraken only to find some wrathful titans waiting on the horizon. When pesky Kronos threatens to come back to the world of existence, the gods rise to the occasion and head to his prison to restore order. The trio arrive Ares, Poseidon and Zeus to find Hades waiting with an army of under dwellers to entrap his brothers, Aries betrays his father Zeus (angered by Zeus' favoring of Perseus) and joins forces with Hades to awaken Kronos. Poseidon manages to escape the clutches of Hades just barely with only enough life left in him to appear before Perseus and revealing that he is the last hope of  both the mortal world and the realms above. Perseus sets out to save the world for his son's future joining forces with another demigod, Agenor and the Queen Andromeda. Once again Perseus must go the distance against his loving uncle Hades, prove himself against his treasonous half-brother Ares and stop Kronos fr...

The Hunger Games

Fresh from the Capitol and pages of Suzanne Collins is the 74th annual Hunger Games! Katniss Everdeen, our leading heroine lives in the twelfth district of those that surround and make up the nation of Panem and has to deal with the hardships of poverty in her district hunting with her best friend Gale Hawthorne for food to survive while those in the Capitol live in luxury. 74 years ago when the districts tried to rebel against the tyrannical Capitol and lost, the Hunger Games came into existence as a means of punishment. Now every year two children from the ages 12 - 18, one boy and one girl, are picked out from each district to fight amongst one another to the death in the arena as both a punishment for the districts and entertainment for the Capitol. When Katniss' sister Prim is selected for their district she frantically volunteers in her sister's place to face the games alongside the local baker's son Peeta Mellark. Soon Katniss finds herself preparing...

21 Jump Street

Fresh out of training, two drastically failing cops are pushed into an undercover program for and to quote 'Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus looking motherf******' which means Jenko and Schmidt apparently fit right in. So the two head back to school to bring down a new drug on the rise, though soon things start to get mixed up with Schmidt finding himself better off than his previous journey through high school while Jenko realizes the times they are a changing. Both get caught up in the hectic new lives of undercover students to the point where they'll have to get over personal issues, allegiance and where their priorities really lie to bring the case to a close and save the day. A journey of self discovery, romance and thrilling conspiracies... is drop kicked out the window as this is all about the laughs of two idiots returning to the wild world of high school, who just happen to be police officers who really don't give a crap about how the job gets done as...

John Carter

Disney throw out another live-action blockbuster trying to enthrall the big kids. After a few establishing flashbacks to set the scenery and apparent death of John Carter, the action skips even further back in time and when we catch up with our hero he's far out of his comfort zone on Earth, instead trapped on Mars though not with out some fancy new talents to help him out against some equally new and menacing alien threats. Not a barren land but rather a lively world where warring civilizations struggle for control, the Mars John Carter faces is full of Martian combatants who capture Carter and on seeing his skills plan to use him as a weapon against the other civilizations on Mars. With Red Martians(Human like) warring amongst themselves with the aid of the mysterious Therns and keeping the native martians at bay, Carter is thrown into this new galactic warfare with much distaste and realizes he needs to find his way back to Earth before he too becomes a victim of the war wa...

Ghost Rider - Spirit of Vengeance

Nicholas Cage is feeling the heat as Johnny Blaze takes a ride through Eastern Europe to try and escape the curse of the Ghost Rider. As Blaze travels the world in an attempt to escape his curse he finds himself pulled into a new struggle by a mysterious Frenchman named Moreau who wants Blaze's help to rescue a young boy named Danny from the Devil in return assured that Moreau can save him from his curse. Nadya and son Danny like Blaze are on the run, from not just the devil but also an ex boyfriend named Ray who's become a pawn of the Devil. It's up to Blaze as the last chance to save Danny's soul before the Devil can use him for his own grievous undertakings, Blaze will have to channel the wrath of the Rider in order to stop the infamous evil he faces but will even that be enough to take on the Devil, save the boy and finally escape the curse. Nicholas Cage is the headline and clearly driving force of the film, yet to this moment that i type these words if he was in...

Safe House

Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington soon realize that nowhere is safe in this high-octane action packed kicker. Young CIA agent Matt Weston isn't enjoying what he thought would be the dramatic and adrenaline fueled life of a US government secret agent, he's stuck staring at the same four walls of a safe house in South Africa everyday just begging for a chance to prove himself. Elsewhere in South Africa renegade CIA agent Tobin Frost finds himself in a deadly scenario with foreign involvements which forces him to turn himself into the protection of the US embassy. Frost is taken to Weston's safe house to be questioned and kept secure but midway through his interrogation his pursuers catch up and massacre the CIA agents. Weston finds himself alone with Frost and only one choice though unwilling to be known as the man who let Tobin Frost escape, he starts out to personally deliver frost and midst the chaos finally prove he has what it takes. Stepping away from Ro...