Independence Day: Resurgence

(M) ★★★½Director: Roland Emmerich.Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Jessie Usher, Brent Spiner."What do you mean they rebooted Jurassic Park without me?"SURELY it hasn't been 20 years since Roland Emmerich had the nerve to blow up the White House, make Bill Pullman the President, and turn Will Smith into a bona fide action star?Sadly, yes, two decades...

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Finding Dory

(G) ★★★★Director: Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane.Cast: (voices of) Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy.Dory's friends were tiring of her whale impersonations.OUTSIDE of the brilliant Toy Story trilogy, Pixar has been underwhelming with its prequels and sequels to date.Cars 2 was largely panned by critics and is rightly regarded as the worst Pixar film to date. Monsters...

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Warcraft

(M) ★★★Director: Duncan Jones.Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper,Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Daniel Wu.Boy, there sure are some ugly actors in this film.THE great soothsayers of Hollywood predicted that a hoodoo would be lifted this year.They spoke of a time in 2016 when the curse of the video game movie would be lifted, and critics and gamers could finally be as one in enjoying a film that had sprung...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows

(M) ★★Director: Dave GreenCast: Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Megan Fox,Stephen Amell, Will Arnett, Brian Tee, Tyler Perry, Laura Linney. Is this the queue for nose jobs?THE longevity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is kind of amazing.Despite starting as comic book that was intended as a joke (hence the absurd title), the heroes in a halfshell have spawned four animated TV series, countless video games and toys,...

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Money Monster

(M) ★★★Director: Jodie Foster.Cast: George Clooney, Jack O'Connell, Jodie Foster, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Christopher Denham, Giancarlo Esposito, Lenny Venito."I promise I'll never go near another superhero franchise ever again."YOU know who it’s cool to hate right now? Those fat cats on Wall Street.It certainly feels like that at the moment. After The Big Short and The Wolf Of Wall Street, and with the spectre of the real-life Global Financial...

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