Find out what this week's trip to the cinemas will yield.
Ungli
Rensil D’Silva, writer-director of Kurbaan and co-writer of Rang De Basanti, assembles a band of vigilantes who set corrupt government officials straight through a combination of punches and punchlines.
Emraan Hashmi and his fellow conspirators, played by Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut, Neil Bhoopalam and Angad Bedi, go after greasy-palmed public servants but run afoul of Sanjay Dutt’s police officer. Ungli has suffered several production delays and comes to cinemas well after the Aam Aadmi Party moment has passed and the national political debate has changed from corruption to co-operation.
Penguins of Madagascar
All those who thought that the four men in black suits were the highlight of the Madagascar animated movies, raise your flippers.
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private get to have their own adventure in this spin-off involving no less than the future of the planet, which is in the tentacles of the evil octopus Brine. We have already giggled ourselves halfway to death. The voice cast includes flavour of the year Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified, a wolf and the leader of the North Wind protection force.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay ‒ Part One
The concluding chapter in the movie franchise based on Suzanne Collins’s best-selling dystopian trilogy has been split into two parts, with the first movie exploring Katniss Everdeen’s transformation from reality contest winner to revolutionary figure.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss finds that her responsibilities have considerably expanded. Our doughty heroine is now the icon for the underground resistance that signals its protest through a three-finger salute. One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final films before the gifted actor’s death in February, the movie also stars Julianne Moore as rebel leader Alma Coin. Part deux will be released sometime in 2015.
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Ungli
Rensil D’Silva, writer-director of Kurbaan and co-writer of Rang De Basanti, assembles a band of vigilantes who set corrupt government officials straight through a combination of punches and punchlines.
Emraan Hashmi and his fellow conspirators, played by Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut, Neil Bhoopalam and Angad Bedi, go after greasy-palmed public servants but run afoul of Sanjay Dutt’s police officer. Ungli has suffered several production delays and comes to cinemas well after the Aam Aadmi Party moment has passed and the national political debate has changed from corruption to co-operation.
Penguins of Madagascar
All those who thought that the four men in black suits were the highlight of the Madagascar animated movies, raise your flippers.
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private get to have their own adventure in this spin-off involving no less than the future of the planet, which is in the tentacles of the evil octopus Brine. We have already giggled ourselves halfway to death. The voice cast includes flavour of the year Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified, a wolf and the leader of the North Wind protection force.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay ‒ Part One
The concluding chapter in the movie franchise based on Suzanne Collins’s best-selling dystopian trilogy has been split into two parts, with the first movie exploring Katniss Everdeen’s transformation from reality contest winner to revolutionary figure.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss finds that her responsibilities have considerably expanded. Our doughty heroine is now the icon for the underground resistance that signals its protest through a three-finger salute. One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final films before the gifted actor’s death in February, the movie also stars Julianne Moore as rebel leader Alma Coin. Part deux will be released sometime in 2015.
