Summer is very much with us and with it we are promised a sizzling season of cinematic choices for those who want to seek refuge from the sun and catch up on the latest big screen output.
Once more, KRS Releasing Ltd has a number of titles on offer, ranging, of course, from the dramatic to the comedic with a dollop of blockbuster action thrown in for good measure.
The current blockbusters will soon have to make way for key releases in the next couple of weeks, starting with How to Train Your Dragon 2. The sequel to Dreamworks’ blockbuster hit of 2010 promises to be even better than the awesome original.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes sees the return of hyper-intelligent simian Caesar and his troop of genetically-evolved apes.
Director Michael Bay unleashes more mayhem in the latest instalment of the Transformers franchise in Transformers 4: Age of Extinction; while Dwayne Johnson steps into Hercules’s sandals in the latest incarnation of the Greek demigod.
From the dramatic to the comedic with a dollop of blockbuster action thrown in
A little less action and more serious drama is in Devil’s Knot, in which Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon star as a private investigator and a mother caught up in the true events of the brutal murder of three eight-year-old boys. Wearing his director’s hat, Clint Eastwood also tackles a true-life story, in musical form, however, as he traces the origins of the 1960s iconic rock band The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys.
Another musically-tinged story is Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo as a budding singer and record producer respectively who bond over their passion for music in New York.
On the comedy spectrum Jon Favreau writes, produces, directs and stars in Chef; as a the titular chef who quits his job in a prominent LA restaurant over creative differences with his overbearing boss – and sets up a touring food truck with his best friend and son.
Melissa McCarthy continues to bring in the laughs in Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie is a big-screen version of the UK smash TV comedy starring Brendan O’Carroll.
Younger kids will be well-served by Earth to Echo, in which a group of best friends inexplicably begin to receive strange encoded messages on their mobile phones.
The animated The House of Magic features the voices of Emily Blunt and Cinda Adams while horror aficionados can scare their insides out with Oculus.
The Purge: Anarchy traces the misadventures of a couple caught in the middle of the so-called ‘purge’, including murder.
These titles will hit our cinemas throughout July.