January Movie Preview

January 6th

• Underworld: Blood Wars: Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her.
• A Monster Calls: A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mum’s terminal illness.
• Hidden Figures: Based on a true story. A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.

January 13th

• The Bye Bye Man: Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind man’s most unspeakable acts.
• Monster Trucks: Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
• Sleepless: A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son.
• Live By Night: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
• Patriots Day: An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’s actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
• Silence: In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism.

January 20th

• xXx: The Return of Xander Cage: Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.
• The Founder: Struggling salesman Ray Kroc meets Mac and Dick McDonald, co-operators of a burger restaurant in 1950s Southern California.
• Split: After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away and staying alive from the others.
• The Resurrection of Gavin Stone: A washed-up former child star, forced to do community service at a local megachurch, pretends to be a Christian to land the part of Jesus in their annual Passion Play, only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
• 20th Century Women: The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s.

January 27th

• Bastards: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
• A Dog’s Purpose: A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners.
• Gold: An unlikely pair venture to the Indonesian jungle in search of gold.
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.