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This weekend there are five new films out for you to choose from: action in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Lucy & Into The Storm, comedy in What If, and horror in Deliver Us From Evil.
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is the follow-up to 2005’s Sin City and is directed by both Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez and in it, the town’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. It stars Eva Green, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jessica Alba, Juno Temple, Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke, Jamie Chung, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Piven, Ray Liotta, Marton Csokas, Stacy Keach, Dennis Haysbert and Powers Boothe.
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has had its UK release date brought forward to August 25th and the excellent trailer shows that it retains the cool feel of the first film. Might even be worth a watch in 3D, since it was filmed that way according to realorfake3d.com.
Of course, the release date is this coming Monday, rather than a usual Friday. I’ve never seen this before except for, obviously, Blu-ray and DVD releases. We’ve recently had a couple of Saturday releases (Transformers: Age of Extinction and Bad Neighbours), so as to get a maximum 9 days of revenue. This Monday is a bank holiday, so perhaps they’re trying to capitalise on that, but even still they may as well go for the Saturday. Hey ho.
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Lucy
Lucy is probably the most unassuming film title I’ve heard in a long time, but it features Scarlett Johansson as a woman who has the night out to end all nights out, and wakes up to find someone’s performed surgery on her….
But no-one’s taken out a kidney or anything… they’ve actually sewn some drugs inside her. They get disrupted and, before long, she’s able to use far more of her brain’s capacity than the average human’s usual 10%. Yes, it sounds like Limitless, but hey, it’s Scarlett Johansson, so why not. It looks pretty cool, too.
Written and directed by Luc Besson, as well as being produced by Besson and Christophe Lambert (no, not that one), it also stars Morgan Freeman, Analeigh Tipton, Min-sik Choi and Borgen’s Pilou Asbæk.
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Into The Storm
Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton, in a film starring Richard Armitage and Prison Break‘s Sarah Wayne Callies, and it looks like a…
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
What If
What If puts Daniel Radcliffe sporting his usual British accent in an Irish/Canadian romantic comedy as medical school dropout Wallace, who has been repeatedly burned by bad relationships.
He meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan), an animator who lives with her longtime boyfriend Ben (Rafe Spall), and they form an instant connection, striking up a close friendship. Still, there is no denying the chemistry between them, leading the pair to wonder, what if the love of your life is actually your best friend?
What If also stars Mackenzie Davis, Adam Driver, Oona Chaplin, Jemima Rooper, Megan Park and looks worth a watch.
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Deliver Us from Evil
Deliver Us from Evil stars Eric Bana as NY police officer Ralph Sarchie who investigates a series of crimes, joining forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city.
Also starring Olivia Munn, Sean Harris and Joel McHale, I like the look of this, so this is a…
Hit or Miss? Verdict: Hit!
Yes, all five of them! That’s a first!
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