TENET (12A) Released:
DAMON SMITH LOOKS AHEAD TO SOME OF THE MAJOR RELEASES HOPING TO TEMPT AUDIENCES BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN THIS YEAR
August 26
IT IS 10 years since British writerdirector Christopher Nolan gleefully twisted the minds of audiences with his high-stakes espionage thriller Inception. Nolan’s new adventure, which is shrouded in secrecy, is the first major studio blockbuster to storm multiplexes since the pandemic and promises another jaw-dropping feast for the senses.
Tenet follows a tenacious and highly skilled operative (John David Washington from Blackkklansman) as he attempts to avert Armageddon.
A Russian oligarch (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is connected to a mystery that can only be solved by abandoning preconceived ideas about the linear flow of time.
Robert Pattinson and Sir Michael Caine co-star. sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle, director Matthew Vaughn steps back in time to the early 1900s for a prequel that traces the origins of the world’s first independent intelligence agency.
A group of “civilised but merciless” operatives will do whatever it takes to defeat greed and corruption.
When the world’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds, including Grigori Rasputin (Rhys Ifans) and Erik Jan Hanussen (Daniel Bruhl) hatch a plot to wipe out millions of innocent souls, the debonair Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) and his son Conrad (Harris Dickinson) lead the charge to avert a world war.
The gentlemen are accompanied on their daredevil mission by nanny-turned-code breaker Polly (Gemma Arterton) and their bodyguard Shola (Djimon Hounsou). of all time from a solo female director. Patty Jenkins returns to helm the eagerly anticipated sequel, which relishes the dubious fashion choices and toe-tapping music of the 1980s.
At the end of the first film, Amazonian warrior Diana Prince embraced her destiny as Wonder Woman but lost her sweetheart, dashing American pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), in the climactic melee.
Here, Diana is reunited with Steve and seeks to make her mother Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen) proud by protecting mankind. However, she faces a new threat from media mogul Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) and archaeologist Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), who is reborn as the super-powered Cheetah.