Your weekend cinema guide at a glance
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(6) RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER: This is the sequel to Resident Evil: Retribution and the final installment in the series. Alice and her friends are betrayed by Albert Wesker, who gathers the forces of Umbrella into one final strike against the apocalypse survivors. (Hemingways, Baywest, Boardwalk)
(6) THE SPACE BETWEEN US: Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, begins an online friendship with a teen in Colorado. Problems arise when scientists discover that Gardner’s organs can’t withstand living in the earth’s atmosphere. (Walmer Park, Hemingways)
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(10) LA LA LAND: Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts, so does the fragile fabric of their love affair. (Walmer Park)
(6) xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE: Daredevil operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) must race against time to recover Pandora’s Box, a device that controls every military satellite in the world. (Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest, Walmer Park, Boardwalk)
(4) COLLATERAL BEAUTY: A New York advertising executive suffers a tragedy and retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he writes letters to Love, Time and Death seeking answers. (Hemingways, Baywest, Walmer Park)
(8) RAEES: This Indian film explores how a man named Raees’ relationships and meteoric rise helped him build an entire empire from scratch. (Baywest)
(No rating yet) HOENER MET DIE ROOI SKOENE:
Kaptein Hendrik Greyling, known among colleagues as the “Iron Rooster”, is appointed as the investigating officer of a very abnormal murder scene, where the body disappears without a trace. (Bridge, Walmer Park)
(8) ALLIED: It’s 1942 and a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. (Walmer Park, Baywest)
(8) LION: Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train in India and is adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later he sets out to find the family he lost. (Baywest, Hemingways, Walmer Park)
(5) MONSTER TRUCKS: Looking to get away from the life and town he was born into, high school pupil Tripp builds a monster truck, but an accident displaces a strange subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed. (Walmer Park, Boardwalk)
(7) PATRIOTS DAY: This is the powerful story of a community’s courage in the face of a terror bombing at the Boston City Marathon. (Bridge)
(7) BALLERINA: Computer-animated musical adventure about an orphan who dreams of becoming a ballerina. (Bridge, Baywest)
(5) WHY HIM?: Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad is a stuffy conservative dad, with James Franco the sexually ostentatious, flash-the-cash nemesis who is after his daughter. (Boardwalk, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) PASSENGERS: You wake up on a spaceship heading towards an off-world colony with 4 999 travellers still in cryosleep. Your pod has malfunctioned and you’re alone, save for an android bartender. (Boardwalk)
(9) HACKSAW RIDGE: Fantastically moving and bruising war film about Desmond T Doss, who saved 75 men in Okinawa without firing a shot. Directed by Mel Gibson. (Walmer Park, Bridge)
(6) ASSASSIN’S CREED: Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum experiences the adventures of his ancestor in this sci-fi fantasy. (Bridge)
(7) SING: Set in a world inhabited by animals, Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), is a dapper koala presiding over a theatre that has fallen on hard times. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(Ratings are out of 10)