Top new movie releases playing Wed July 3rd to Wed July 17th that we recommend:

Despicable Me 2
The Lone Ranger
Byzantium
Killing Season
Pacific Rim

Despicable Me 2

Wed July 3rd
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Studios: Universal Pictures
Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Ken Jeong, Steve Coogan, Moises Arias, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher, Benjamin Bratt

Synopsis: Now that the ever-entrepreneurial Gru has left behind a life of super crime to raise Margo (Miranda Cosgrove on television’s iCarly), Edith (Dana Gaier of Bullied) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher on television’s Masha and the Bear), Gru, Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand on Get Him to the Greek, Hop) and the Minions have some free time on their hands. But just as he starts to adjust to his role as a suburban family man, an ultra-secret organization dedicated to fighting evil around the globe comes knocking. Now, it’s up to Gru and his new partner, Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, television’s Saturday Night Live), to discover who is responsible for a spectacular crime and bring him to justice. After all, it takes the world’s greatest ex-villain to catch the one vying to take his place…

The Lone Ranger

Wed July 3rd
Genre: Action
Director: Gore Verbinski
Studios: Walt Disney Pictures
Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis: From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice, taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption. Note: this movie may not be for everyone and in fact some people may find it thoroughly offensive.

Byzantium

Fri July 12th
Genre: Thriller
Director: Neil Jordan
Studios: Mongrel Media
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Mays, Caleb Landry Jones

Synopsis: A bloodsucking tale that marks the director’s first foray into vampire 
territory since his award-winning 1994 Interview with the Vampire. Sexy 20 something Clara (Arterton) and cerebral 16-year-old Eleanor (Ronan) pass themselves off as sisters. But Clara is actually mother 
to Eleanor, both preserved at the ages they became vampires over 200 years ago. They are “soucriants” a kind of vampire who’s thumbnail grows into pointed talon for slitting victims. Clara takes blood from 
lowlife males like pimps and misogynists. Eleanor, on the other hand, opts for the elderly or ill who are near life’s end. Nevertheless, both 
Clara and Eleanor have to feed and, hence, they murder and move on. The two have landed in an English seaside town where Clara meets a 
lonely man (Daniel Mays) who invites them to stay at the Byzantium, his late mother’s hotel that has seen better days. No stranger to prostitution, Clara turns the place into a brothel. Meanwhile, Eleanor befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones), a sick teen who bleeds easily. When Eleanor breaks 
the code of silence and tells Frank her secret, the consequences are deadly.

Killing Season

Fri July 12th
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Studios: Millenium Entertainment
Starring: John Travolta, Robert De Niro

Synopsis: American military veteran Benjamin Ford (Robert De Niro) has fled to a cabin retreat somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, to forget the painful memories of the Bosnian War he fought in. One day, visitor Emil Kovac (John Travolta), a European tourist, knocks on his door, and the two men begin an unlikely friendship. When it develops that Kovac is in fact a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge, there begins a one-on-one confrontation and battle between the two throughout the harsh mountain environment.

Pacific Rim

Fri July 12th
Genre: Sci-fi, Action
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi

Synopsis: When great numbers of creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, that are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju.

On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes, a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and a new, untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi). Together, they are mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Christophe Chanel