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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

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Review by CJ

Batman v Superman

Director:
Zack Snyder

Starring:
Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg

Other notable appearances:
Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Patrick Wilson, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher

Running time:
151 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Man of Steel, Watchmen, The Dark Knight

 

After witnessing first hand the devastation caused by Superman’s battle with General Zod, Bruce Wayne (Affleck) decides that the Man of Steel must be stopped. When Batman starts branding criminals of heinous crimes who are then murdered by inmates in prison, Clark Kent (Cavill) knows that the Caped Crusader has gone too far. While the two heroes fight amongst themselves, Lex Luthor  (Eisenberg) concocts a plan that could destroy the world as we know it. Can Batman and Superman put their differences aside and unite with Wonder Woman (Gadot) to save the planet?

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Godzilla (1998)

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Godzilla (1998)

Director:
Roland Emmerich

Starring:
Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Other notable appearances:
Harry Shearer, Kevin Dunn, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Lerner

Tag line:
Size does matter

Running time:
139 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Independence Day, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Godzilla (2014)

 

Everyone’s favourite giant radioactive lizard returns in his first reboot. Godzilla makes his way to Manhattan to start a family. It’s up to biologist Nick Tatopoulos (Broderick), French agent Philippe Roaché and the national guard to stop him.

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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

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Guardians of the Galaxy

Director:
James Gunn

Starring:
Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace

Other notable appearances:
Michael Rooker, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Alexis Denisof, Stan Lee

Running time:
121 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Avengers, Ant-Man, Deadpool

 

Peter “Star-Lord” Quill (Pratt), Gamora (Saldana), Drax (Bautista), Rocket (Cooper) and Groot (Diesel) are criminals of varying degrees who find themselves thrown together by fate to save the galaxy from destruction.

Guardians of the Galaxy is the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

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World War Z (2013)

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Review by CJ

World War Z

Director:
Marc Forster

Starring:
Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz

Other notable appearances:
David Morse, Peter Capaldi

Running time:
116 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Dawn of the Dead (2004), Zombieland, The Walking Dead

 

When the zombie apocalypse begins, former UN employee Gerry Lane (Pitt) is called back into action to ensure his family a safe haven. Lane travels the world to find the origin of the outbreak in an effort to manufacture a cure and save the world. But will he succeed in time for there to still be a world worth saving?

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I, Frankenstein (2014)

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I, Frankenstein

Director:
Stuart Beattie

Starring:
Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski

Other notable appearances:
An army of Frankenstein’s monsters

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Van Helsing, Underworld

 

Victor Frankenstein has created his monster (Eckhart). The monster has killed Frankenstein’s wife. Frankenstein has hunted his monster to the arctic circle. Frankenstein has succumb to the elements and died.

When the monster takes his creators body back to the Frankenstein family home for burial, he is attacked by demons searching for Frankenstein’s journal and the secret of creating more monsters. The monster is saved by two gargoyles (created by Archangel Michael) and taken to the gargoyle queen (Otto). The gargoyle queen dubs the monster Adam and sends him on his way with weapons to fight the demon forces.

Adam survives for centuries fighting demons with the gargoyle weapons. However after a human is killed by one of the demons he is fighting, Adam discovers the demon side has an army of Frankenstein’s monsters ready to unleash upon the world. It’s up to Adam to work out who is friend and who is foe in order to stop the abomination army from being released on the world.

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