After conquering the box office as a fearsome dragon, the brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch returns to do it again as a not so fictional character, in the WWII drama The Imitation Game.
If trying to break the Nazi enigma code doesn’t sound like a fun way to spend New Year’s Day, Ridley Scott is on hand to provide us with a big budget biblical epic, and those adorable penguins from the Madagascar films get their own outing.
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THE IMITATION GAME……FILM OF THE WEEK
UK, USA | 114 minutes | Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Director: Morten Tyldum (Headhunters)
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Aaron Paul, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with a little help from fellow number crunchers.
With Tyldum at the helm and Cumberbatch in the lead, this promises to be a cracking film.
Distributor: Roadshow Distribution
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EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
UK, USA | 170 minutes | Action, Drama
Director: Ridley Scott (Prometheus, Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner)
Cast: Christian Bale, Sigourney Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Ben Kingsley, John Turturro, María Valverde, Indira Varma
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey to escape Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
It’ll be an incredible looking film, but can the script match the visuals.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
USA | 92 minutes | Animation, Comedy, Family
Director: Simon J. Smith (Bee Movie)
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, John Malkovich, Jada Pinkett Smith, John DiMaggio, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization, The North Wind, to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
There’ll be laughs aplenty – hopefully enough to fill 92 minutes.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
