VietNamNet Bridge – Fifteen films of various genres will appear at Vietnamese theaters this month, including blockbusters like “Big Hero 6”, “Interstellar” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”.
1. Big Hero 6
Release date: 7/11
Genre: Animation
Actor: Jamie Chung, Genesis Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr.
Director: Don Hall, Christ Williams
Duration: 90 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
A little-genius engineer, Hiro Hamada, with support from his elder brother Tadashi, determines to work hard to improve his ability. Unexpected happenings come to his city with bad effects. To protect the city, he seeks help from his friend to protect the city.
When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends into a band of high-tech heroes called “Big Hero 6.”
2. Addicted
Release date: 7/11
Director: Bille Woodruff
Stars: Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, John Newberg
Duration: 106 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Based on the best-selling novel by Zane, Addicted is a sexy and provocative thriller about desire and the dangers of indiscretion. Successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) appears to have attained it all – the dream husband she loves (Boris Kodjoe), two wonderful children and a flourishing career. As perfect as everything appears from the outside, Zoe is still drawn to temptations she cannot escape or resist. As she pursues a secretive life, Zoe finds herself risking it all when she heads down a perilous path she may not survive.
3. Love, Rosie
Release date: 20/11
Director: Christian Ditter
Stars: Sam Claflin, Lily Collins, Suki Waterhouse
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Duration: 102 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn’t possibly be right for one another… or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies. One awkward turn at 18, one missed opportunity… and life sends them hurling in different directions. But somehow, across time, space and different continents, the tie that binds them cannot be undone. Will they find their way back to one another, or will it be too late? Based on Cecelia Ahern’s bestselling novel “Where Rainbows End”, LOVE, ROSIE is a modern comedy-of-errors tale posing the ultimate question: Do we really only get one shot at true love?
4. The Hundred Foot Journey
Release date: 21/11
Director: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal
Genre: Drama
Duration: 122 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam, has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance auto accident and the kindness of a young woman, Marguerite, in the village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val inspires Papa Kadam to set up a Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts the Kadams in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallory’s acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street where Marguerite also works as a sous-chef. The resulting rivalry eventually escalates in personal intensity until it goes too far. In response, there is a bridging of sides initiated by Hassan, Marguerite and Madame Mallory herself, both professional and personal, that encourages an understanding that will change both sides forever.
5. Dumb and Dumber to
Release date: 21/11
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 110 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long-lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
6. Penguins of Madagascar
Release date: 28/11
Directors: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Stars: Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights
Genre: Animation
Version: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Super spy teams aren’t born…they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know). Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, from destroying the world as we know it.
7. Interstellar
Release date: 7/11
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
Genre: Action – Adventure – Sci-Fi
Duration: 169 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
In the near future Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen their lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life.
The crew of the Endurance are required to think bigger and go further than any human in history as they embark on an interstellar voyage, into the unknown. However, through the wormhole, one hour is the equivalent of seven years back on Earth, so the mission won’t work if the people on Earth are dead by the time they pull it off. And Coop, the pilot of the Endurance, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race.
Christopher Nolan loves using the IMAX camera, and we love him for using it. It gets amazing footage, but it’s tough to wield. The camera is bulky, noisy, and there aren’t many of them in the world, so you have to be careful. Strapping an IMAX camera to the front of a Learjet may not be the most cautious use of expensive equipment, but Nolan’s probably going to get some amazing footage out of it for his new movie.
8. Exists
Release date: 7/11
Genre: Horror
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Actor: Dora Madison Burge, Brian Steele, Denise Williamson
Duration: 86 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway – a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a blood-curdling force of nature is unleashed – something not exactly human, but not completely animal – an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.
9. Jessabelle
Release date: 14/11
Director: Kevin Greutert
Stars: Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter
Genre: Horror
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a horrific car accident, Jessabelle comes face to face with a long-tormented spirit that has been seeking her return — and has no intention of letting her escape.
10. Eliza Graves
Release date: 14/11
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
Genre: Thriller
Duration; 112 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues – though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change.
11. Northmen: A Viking Saga
Release date: 14/11
Genre: Action
Actor: James Norton, Ryan Kwanten, Charlie Murphy
Director: Claudio Fah
Duration: 97 minutes
Version: English with Vietnamese Subtitles
Inspired by true events. Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne – a book of great beauty and power – to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell – bent on its capture.
A gang of Viking marauders under the command of their young leader, Asbjörn, bear down on the coast of Britain, intent on pillaging Lindisfarne of its gold. But, caught in a vicious storm, their longboat is dashed to pieces on the rocks off Scotland. Trapped deep within enemy territory, the shipwrecked men’s only chance of survival is to reach the safety of the Viking stronghold Danelag.
With only the enigmatic Conall, a monk who preaches with his sword to help them, they cut a bloody swath through anyone who gets in their way. But the journey becomes a race for their lives when the King of Scotland sends his most feared mercenaries, the Wolf Pack, after them. Traversing an unfamiliar and hostile land, they are pursued relentlessly. However the hunters become the hunted when the Vikings, eager for battle, set deadly traps and mercilessly decimate their pursuers one by one…
12. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Release date: 20/11
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
Duration: 125 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.
13. Reclaim
Release date: 21/11
Director: Alan White
Stars: John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe, Rachelle Lefevre
Genre: Drama/thriller
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter.
14. Wolves
Release date: 28/11
Director: David Hayter
Stars: Jason Momoa, Merritt Patterson, Lucas Till
Genre: Action/Horror
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders, lost, without purpose… Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe, who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge, to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end, who’s really hunting whom?
15. Nightcrawler
Release date: 28/11
Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Duration: 117 minutes
This is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling – where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
T. Van