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72 / ENTERTAINMENT<br />
ENTERTAINMENT / 73<br />
Movies<br />
Movies<br />
Ready<br />
Player One<br />
SCI-FI<br />
From Steven Spielberg comes a<br />
sci-fi phenomenon based on Ernest<br />
Cline’s bestselling novel of the<br />
same name.<br />
The year 2045 sees earth and its people<br />
besieged by poverty, overcrowding and<br />
energy crises. Humanity’s redemption<br />
comes in the form of an immersive<br />
online gaming platform: the OASIS.<br />
Created by reclusive genius James Halliday<br />
(Mark Rylance), the OASIS allows<br />
the masses to liberate themselves from<br />
their dystopian reality. However, in<br />
exchange they are shackled by their<br />
addiction to the OASIS.<br />
When Halliday dies, he wills ownership<br />
of the OASIS to whomever discovers<br />
the Easter egg he buried within the<br />
game. In their efforts to find it, thousands<br />
of Gunters (egg hunters) devour every<br />
piece of Halliday trivia available and<br />
become consumed by the 80s culture<br />
Halliday was so fond of. One such person<br />
is teenager Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan).<br />
Watts much prefers the OASIS to his<br />
bleak existence in The Stacks, a shanty<br />
village of trailers piled precariously atop<br />
one another. He is joined by four others,<br />
who teach him that perhaps reality is<br />
not so bad after all.<br />
Join the nostalgic thrill-ride that is<br />
Ready Player One onboard Kenya<br />
Airways now!<br />
The Great Gatsby (2013) ROMANCE<br />
A writer and Wall Street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and<br />
lifestyle of his millionaire neighbour, Jay Gatsby.<br />
Leonardo Dicaprio. PG-13, 143 mins. Director: Baz Luhrmann<br />
Rampage (<strong>2018</strong>) ADVENTURE<br />
When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a<br />
primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.<br />
Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris. PG-13, 107 mins. Director: Brad Peyton<br />
Deadpool 2 (<strong>2018</strong>) ACTION<br />
Mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (aka, Deadpool) brings together a team to<br />
protect a boy of supernatural abilities from the brutal mutant Cable.<br />
Josh Brolin, Ryan Reynolds. R, 119 mins. Director: David Leitch<br />
Life of the Party (<strong>2018</strong>) COMEDY<br />
After her husband abruptly asks for a divorce, a middle-aged mother<br />
returns to college in order to complete her degree.<br />
Melissa McCarthy, Debby Ryan. PG-13, 105 mins. Director: Ben Falcone<br />
Overboard (<strong>2018</strong>) COMEDY<br />
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target<br />
of revenge from his mistreated employee.<br />
Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez. PG-13, 112 Mins. Director: Rob Greenberg<br />
Corpse Bride (2005) ANIMATION<br />
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of<br />
a deceased woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.<br />
Johnny Depp. PG, 77 mins. Directors: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson<br />
Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke. PG-13, 140 mins.<br />
Director: Steven Spielberg<br />
Did you know?<br />
~ Steven Spielberg said that Ready Player One was the third-most<br />
difficult movie he has made, behind Jaws and Saving Private Ryan.<br />
~ OASIS is actually an acronym. It stands for Ontologically<br />
Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.<br />
White Fang (<strong>2018</strong>) ANIMATION<br />
A boy befriends a half-breed wolf as he searches for his father, who has<br />
mysteriously gone missing during the Gold Rush.<br />
Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman. PG, 85 mins. Director: Alexandre Espigares<br />
The Hatton Garden Job (2017) ACTION<br />
The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company was burgled by four elderly men.<br />
The incident has been called, “the largest burglary in English history”.<br />
Matthew Goode, Joely Richardson. R, 93 mins. Director: Ronnie Thompson<br />
Tomb Raider (<strong>2018</strong>) ADVENTURE<br />
Lara Croft, daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her<br />
limits when she discovers the island where her father disappeared.<br />
Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins. PG-13, 118 mins. Director: Roar Uthaug