Don't Breathe (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Don't Breathe (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Fede Alvarez

Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang

Runtime: 89 min

Three friends decide to break into a house of a blind man when they discover he might have over 300K saved somewhere in his home. They never did cash robberies before, only a few small jobs, but due to the amount of money involved and to the fact that they'd have to deal with a blind person, the rules changed.

After all, it was an easy job ... They thought.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Revie

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Revie

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: J.K. Rowling

Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Colin Farrell

Runtime: 132 min

J. K. Rowling published a new book from the same universe as Harry Potter's a few months ago, so we knew a movie was coming soon ... And here we are, starting a whole new saga of, apparently, 5 movies. For the first time, Rowling decided to also be part of the movie development, contributing as the screenwriter for this film and for the ones to come, so there's a lot of high expectations for this series.

70 years before the events on Harry Potter, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is looking around New York City for some magical creatures that escaped his unusual suitcase and trying to catch them before other wizards do. These creatures are feared by the magical community who defines them as dangerous, but Newt thinks the opposite: the beasts are friendly and kind for the ones that are the same to them, so this makes his mission secret, complicated and with a lot of adventures.

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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Travis Knight

Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara, Matthew McConaughey

Runtime: 101 min

Kubo and the Two Strings is a stop-motion animated film which tells the story of Kubo (Art Parkinson), a kid who finds himself on an adventure with a beetle and a monkey, searching for three specific objects in order to defeat an evil power from his past.

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Doctor Strange (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Doctor Strange (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Scott Derrickson

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong

Runtime: 115 min

The last movie of Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU) of this year has finally arrived! Doctor Strange is an origin story about a know-it-all doctor named Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who is famous (and extremely arrogant) for his incredible skill to save lives through science and medicine.

After a car accident (don't text while driving!), he finds himself alive, but without his "special power" ... His hands are no longer functional at the level he needed them to be so, after giving up on the "normal" methods to try to fix them, Strange travels to the East where he finds The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and starts discovering new worlds and possibilities ... Until the bad guys show up ... Hum, did I experience this kind of plot before? Interesting.

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Warcraft (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Warcraft (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Duncan Jones

Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Rob Kazinsky, Daniel Wu

Runtime: 100 min

The biggest video game ever is adapted to film with the early mythology story of Warcraft and the expectations (especially for gamers) were as high as the level of the game.

The orc's world is basically dying, so Gul'dan, a powerful warlock (sorcerer-like), opens up a portal to Azeroth, the world where humans live among other races, in order to save his race by literally collecting life out of humans' bodies. These have to defend themselves against the invaders before the rest of the horde gets through the portal, but they're not alone since an orc's group doesn't agree with Gul'dan's disrespect for their tradition and honor. Therefore, an alliance with the humans might be the right path to follow since there's a bigger evil that needs to be stopped.

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Swiss Army Man (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Swiss Army Man (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Runtime: 95 min

Weird. This movie is SO weird. I'll try my best to introduce it ... Swiss Army Man involves a guy named Hank (Paul Dano), who is stranded on an island and about to commit suicide, but when a supposed dead body appears near the sea, he stops and goes check it out. That dead body is Daniel Radcliffe's character, Manny ... And he can do basically anything! He can snap his fingers and start a fire or become a motor boat by farting. Yes, farting ... I told you this movie was weird! The story has its focus on Hank and Manny trying to escape and go back to civilization, but not without some life lessons between their adventures.

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Suicide Squad (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Suicide Squad (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Ayer

Starring: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Viola Davis, David Harbour

Runtime: 123 min

The most anticipated movie of the summer is here and DC Comics really needed this film to step up so they could catch up with Marvel. Everyone knows the story, but still: the world lost (supposedly) Superman and Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), who works for the government, thinks it's a good idea to put together a team of ... Bad guys, the worst of the worst, so that they can help humanity in case of an "evil Superman" comes by. Funny enough, there's a beacon shooting up the sky in the middle of the city and they have to stop it ... Basically, the plot of every comic book's movie adaptation.

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The Jungle Book (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Jungle Book (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Starring: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyongo'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, Neel Sethi, Christopher Walken

Runtime: 111 min

The Jungle Book is the n-th adaptation of this Disney story and this one has something really different from all the others since all the locations and animals are filmed inside a studio with an actual physical set and, of course, CGI. However, the plot remains the same as in the previous installments: Mowgli, a little kid (or "man-cub", as he's referred to in the movie) is found by a panther, Bagheera, who hands him over to the wolfs to be raised by them, butShere Khan, the tiger who rules that side of the jungle, wants him dead because of some past events involving Mowgli's family. For Mowgli to save himself he has to run and go back to his people, in the man's village.

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The Nice Guys (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Nice Guys (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Shane Black

Starring: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, Kim Basinger

Runtime: 116 min

I'm just gonna say it: The Nice Guys is the best movie I've seen this year so far! This is the story of two private detectives (PIs) that are looking for a girl named Amelia (played by Margaret Qualley) that is missing and that involves the death of several other people in some funny and weird ways. The plot is situated in the late 70s.

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Green Room (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Green Room (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Jeremy Saulnier

Starring: Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Macon Blair, Eric Edekstein, Joe Cole

Runtime: 94 min

Green Room tells the story about a band that decides to perform at a neo-Nazi bar (good idea) and after they witness a murder, they are locked in a green room by the orders of the neo-Nazi's boss (Darcy), portrayed by Patrick Stewart.

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