For your convenience a list of all the movies that are opening up in theaters for July 25, 2014. What are you going to see? Post in the comments below.
Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman and Giovanni Ribisi
The movie opens similar to the old Wild West movies, with long sweeping scenes of the desert landscape and big bold credits that go on for far too long. The story is set in Arizona in 1882, with the classic Wild West formula where a ruthless outlaw comes to town threatening the town and eventually leading to a showdown with the hero.
Warning: There are spoilers below. In this case, I don’t think I can give an honest review without them.
Frozen is the most recent movie to come from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Sisters Anna and Elsa spent the majority of their lives apart from each other in the same palace. Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) doesn’t understand why all of a sudden, her sister, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), cannot be around her anymore. Their parents decide that it’s best to keep them apart for fear that Elsa may lose control of her magical powers and injure Anna. The two sisters barely speak until Elsa’s coronation. At the event, Elsa can no longer restrain herself, and as her emotions escalate, so does her strength. Within minutes, the entire kingdom of Arendelle is winterized, and Elsa retreats into the woods. Anna chases after her sister, trying to restore their relationship and knowing that without Elsa’s help, summer will never return to their kingdom.
After a minute-long pause of all of us just staring at each other, Peter Jackson and Anderson Cooper confirmed that everyone watching on the internet was officially “offline.” Peter Jackson spoke for a few minutes about what we were about to see: the music video for “I See Fire,” followed by twenty minutes of film from The Desolation of Smaug. While he assumed that most of us had blogs, he politely asked that we not give too many spoilers away, and then, he instilled the fear of Sauron in us if we tried to record any of it. On that note, I will try not to give away too much in terms of spoilers, but if you have not read the book, this will definitely contain spoilers for you.
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When Jane Foster is targeted by the denizens of the dark world of Svartalfheim, Thor sets out on a quest to protect her at all costs.
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Director: Alan Taylor
Writers: Don Payne and Robert Rodat (story), Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely (screenplay), Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby (comic book)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Anthony Hopkins, Zachary Levi, Jaimie Alexander, Stellan Skarsgård
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The Earth was ravaged twice by the Buggers, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Seventy years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise himself as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. Written by CrystalSinger45, Jesse Daniels, strouda56
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A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.
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A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
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The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.
