Spies, Space and a Chariot Race
Summer Blockbusters 2016
They’re baaaack! From apparitions and aliens to animated fish, 2016 is the summer of the sequel. It’s no surprise, given Tinseltown’s current penchant for spinning a franchise faster than you can ask, “Exactly how many Marvel characters are there?” but this year’s summer offerings will rock air-conditioned theatres with more action, excitement and CGI than a Tolkien trilogy.
Blockbuster season kicks off in June with the long-awaited in which the titular fish journeys to find her family in a sequel 13 years in the making. From underwater fun to outer space anarchy, the aliens who attacked Earth in 1996 return with a vengeance in while a young Capt. Kirk, Spock and the crew battle more testy extra-terrestrials in
Back on Earth, four fearless females deal with something strange in their neighbourhood in the reboot, and Matt Damon reprises his famed super-spy character in for the first time since 2007. The summer wraps with the anti-hero flick (not a sequel, though it still has Batman and the Joker) and a re-imagining of (the fifth film based on the classic tale), though this version is less Heston and more Huston – as in Jack, grandson of John, nephew of Anjelica. Which means that when it comes to the wild ride through summer’s biggest blockbusters, your chariot very literally awaits. —Mike Crisolago