December
The beginning of a
beautiful friendship?
Watch the trailer
Mortal
Engines
TBC
Epic fantasy thriller based
on the YA bestseller...
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Bumblebee
DIRECTOR Christian Rivers
starring Hugo Weaving,
Stephen Lang, Robert Sheehan
TBC
Mixing brawn with brains, Travis Knight’s 1980s-set
Transformers prequel will leave you buzzing...
DIRECTOR Travis Knight
starring Hailee Steinfeld,
Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux
Set two decades
before the events of
2007’s Transformers,
this sixth chapter in the
no-holds-barred, Michael
Bay-moulded franchise takes
us back in time to 1987.
Doubling as a Volkswagen
Beetle, Autobot Bumblebee
is on the run from a series of
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threats. He takes refuge in
a junkyard in a backwater
American beach town where
he meets 17-year-old Charlie
(Hailee Steinfeld) who
promises to help him.
Less crash-bang-wallop
than previous outings (to
its benefit), and also funnier
too (the Rick Astley scene
is hilarious), this origins
tale is the perfect mix of
action, humour and heart.
1987 – The Year that was
Sylvester McCoy
becomes the seventh
actor to play the
Doctor (in Doctor Who)
Margaret Thatcher
rules the roost as
British Prime Minister
Everton win the
Football League
First Division (the
then top league)
Rick Astley releases ‘Never Gonna
Give You Up’ (see above review)
Based on the novel
of the same name by
Philip Reeve, this
thunderous sci-fi adventure is
written and produced by the
makers of The Lord of the
Rings, which means world-
building on an epic, eye-
popping scale and characters
you can really root for.
The story is set in a future
world devastated by a “Sixty
Minute War”, which is the
time it took for Earth to be
damaged almost beyond
repair. Hundreds of years after
this extinction level event,
humankind has adapted its
way of life with many choosing
to live in giant mobile cities.
These massive metropolises
roam the planet looking for
smaller dwellings to plunder.
Amid the chaos, disfigured
assassin Hester Shaw (Hera
Hilmar) seeks vengeance on
Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo
Weaving), the head historian
she blames for her mother’s
death. Just as she’s about to
kill him, however, the earnest
Tom Natsworthy (Robert
Sheehan) stops her. But this
proves to be a grave mistake!
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