VietNamNet Bridge – Three Vietnamese and 20 foreign films will come to local cinemas this month.
Happy Family
Director: Holger Tappe
Cast: Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost
Genre: Animation, Family
Release date: Sep 1, 2017
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle and dubbing
Rated: P – GENERAL MOVIE TO ALL CUSTOMERS
Despite the title the Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family Mum, Emma, plans a fun night out. However her plan backfires when an evil witch curses them and they’re all turned into Monsters.
Renegades
Director: Steven Quale
Cast: J. K. Simmons, Sullivan Stapleton, Sylvia Hoeks, Charlie Bewley
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release date: Sep 1, 2017
Running Time: 103 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
A team of Navy SEALs discover an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
15+ Coming of Age
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
Cast: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Chanon Santinatornkul, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Eisaya Hosuwan
Genre: Humorous
Release date: Sep 1, 2017
Running Time: 91 minutes
Language: Thai with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
The movie is about a 15-year-old boy named Chaladlert who begins to learn about love and sex. He fell in love with Cherry – a hot girl in his school. To win her affections, Chaladlert must win a scientific research contest. The movie has a lot of details about puberty, sexual desire of teenagers.
Birth of the Dragon
Director: George Nolfi
Cast: Billy Magnussen, Yu Xia, Philip Ng
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C13 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD
Set against the backdrop of 1960s San Francisco, BIRTH OF THE DRAGON is a modern take on the classic movies that Bruce Lee was known for. It takes its inspiration from the epic and still controversial showdown between an up-and-coming Bruce Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man – a battle that gave birth to a legend.
IT
Director: Andrés Muschietti
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard,…
Genre: Horror
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 133 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C18 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
IT is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.
Tokyo Ghoul
Director: Kentarô Hagiwara
Cast: Yû Aoi, Masataka Kubota, Shun’ya Shiraishi
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 119 minutes
Language: Japanese with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 137 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
James Cameron’s masterpiece starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his most iconic role, has been converted in immersive 3D by Cameron himself. First hitting screens in 1991 with groundbreaking special effects, the 4K and 3D version will take the seminal blockbuster to the next level of effects and into the 21st century for the next generation of fans.
Wind River
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 117 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
An FBI agent teams with a town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter
Director: Kôbun Shizuno
Cast: Minami Takayama
Genre: Action, Animation
Release date: Sep 8, 2017
Running Time: 113 minutes
Language: Japanese with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C13 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD
A bombing case at Nichiuri TV in autumn. The Satsuki Cup, which crowns the winner of Japan’s Hyakunin Isshu, is currently being filmed inside the facility. The incident results in a big commotion and, while the building is burning to ashes, the only people left inside are Hattori and Toyama Kazuha. They get rescued just in time by Conan, who rushes to the scene. Both the identity and purposes of the bomber are unknown. While confusion takes over due to the explosion, Conan meets a mysterious beautiful girl who claims she is “Heiji’s fiancée”. Her name is Momiji Ooka and she is the Kyoto High School champion of karuta game. As fate would have it, Kazuha is going to face Momiji in the Hyakunin Isshu, so she begins to train with the help of Heiji’s mother, Shizuoka, who is a skilled Karuta player. At the same time, in a Japanese house in Arashiyama Kyoto’s outskirts, the reigning Satsuki Cup champion is murdered. Pictures of the crime scene reveal Momji’s presence. Additionally, several Karuta cards were spread around the victim. Conan and Heiji, along with the Osaka and Kyoto police departments, begin their investigation on the Satsuki Cup and the related murder case. As the inquiry goes on, they come across a secret connected with the Hyakunin Isshu.
Mumon
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast: Satoshi Ohno, Satomi Ishihara, Ryohei Suzuki, Yuri Chinen, Yuna Taira, Jun Kunimura, Yūsuke Iseya
Genre: Action
Release date: Sep 12, 2017
Running Time: 120 minutes
Language: Japanese with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C13 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD
Mumon – talented, with extraordinary strength but lazy. One day, he kills a Samurai from another family to win the prize. Mumon did not know that his actions would lead to a deadly battle between the Iga Legions of Iga Province and the Nobukatsu Oda Legion in Ise Province.
Logan Lucky
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Katherine Waterson, Sebastian Stan, Hilary Swank, Daniel Craig, Dwight Yoakam
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 120 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C13 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver) set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Chi Pheo Ngoai Truyen
Director: Danny Do
Cast: Thu Trang, Tien Luat, Kieu Minh Tuan, Nhan Phuc Vinh, Pho Dac Biet
Genre: Action
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Na, an ugly girl, works in the detective office which investigates adultery with the hope to find the culprit that killed her police brother. Chi, a wandering bully nicknamed Chi “Pheo”, has the dream of whitewashing his life because he is continuously stuck in his gang’s traps. One day, they suddenly meet each other like a humorous arrangement of fate …
Bad Genius
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
Cast: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo
Genre: Thriller
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: Thailand with Vietnamese and English subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating on tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the million-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC(SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.
Shark Terror
Director: Gerald Rascionato
Cast: Joey Hogan, Megan Peta Hill, Josh Potthoff, Pete Valley
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 80 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Three friends filming an audition tape for an extreme reality showtake part in shark cage diving, only to be left in great white infested waters, turning their recording into life and death.
The Hatred
Director: Michael G. Kehoe
Cast: Sarah Davenport, Andrew Divoff, Darby Walker
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 120 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Four young women travel to their college professor’s new country home for a weekend getaway, only to discover that the house has a malevolent past.
American Assassin
Director: Michael Cuesta
Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release date: Sep 15, 2017
Running Time: 141 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.
Tao không xa mày (Forever Yours)
Director: Rony Hòa, Thái Minh Nhiên
Cast: Anh Tú, Châu Trọng Tài, Hữu Châu, Thanh Hoàng, Hải Triều, Nguyệt Ánh…
Genre: Drama, romantic, humorous
Release date: Sep 22, 2017
Running Time: 98 minutes
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Based on his father’s diary, doctor Truong goes to a small village in the central region during his business trip, where he gets to know Nguyet and Hai. While Hai tries to seduce Truong, Truong only pays attention to Nguyet. It’s fate when Truong and Nguyet know about the love story of their fathers.
Amityville: The Awakening
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release date: Sep 22, 2017
Running Time: 115 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Director: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher
Cast: Jackie Chan, Dave Franco , Michael Pena , Zach Woods , Olivia Munn , Justin Theoroux …
Genre: Animation, Family
Release date: Sep 22, 2017
Running Time: 115 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle and dub
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry, Taron Egerton, Sophie Cookson, Channing Tatum, Julianne Moore, Elton John …
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release date: Sep 22, 2017
Running Time: 115 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
“Kingsman: The Secret Service” introduced the world to Kingsman – an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate goal is to keep the world safe. In “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” our heroes face a new challenge. When their headquarters is destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents’ strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that’s becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy…
Ngày mai Mai cưới (Ms. Mai is getting married tomorrow)
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director: Nguyễn Tấn Phước
Actor: Diệu Nhi, Minh Beta
Release date: Sep 22, 2017
Running Time: 115 minutes
Language: Vietnamese
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
Mai is a tomboygirl who wants to get married. Her parents are very worried about that. They try to arrange meetings between Mai and many boys, causing a lot of funny circumstances.
Devil’s Whisper
Director: Adam Ripp
Cast: Violkys Bustamante, Alison Fernandez, Marcos A. Ferraez
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release date: Sep 29, 2017
Running Time: 115 minutes
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
15 year-old Alejandro Duran, who comes from a religious Latino family, aspires to one day be a Catholic priest. But when Alex discovers a mysterious box he unwittingly unleashes a demonic spirit bent on possessing him. Alex must find a way to defeat this ancient demon, which has been tormenting children since the dawn of man, before it destroys him and everyone he loves. On the surface Devil’s Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it’s a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.
Net I Die
Director: Weeratham Preedee
Cast: Kachai Pich, Fahkuelon Ratsameekhae, Klai-Udom Sarantorn
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release date: Sep 2̣9 2017
Running Time: 130 minutes
Language: Thai with Vietnamese and English subtitle
Rated: C16 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD
One year after the mystery of ‘Monica’ net, the national idol, the video of her death turns up in the social world. Then something happens to Jasmine and a guy who was addicted to hacking. A different story occurs before the horror of the surprise.
Mr. Hurt
Director: Ittisak Eusunthornwattana
Cast: Sunny Suwanmethanon, Mashannoad Suvalmas, Pongsatorn Jongwilak, Marie Broenner
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release date: Sep 8 2017
Running Time: 128 minutes
Language: Thai with Vietnamese Subtitle
Rated: C13 – NO CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD
A perfect world champion tennis pro “Don Sri-Chang” (Sunny Suwanmethanont) who is an idol for everyone. He’s both lucky in game and lucky in love that his girlfriend is a superstar. Later, his girlfriend turns his marriage proposal down to date with a rock star. Don is left heartbroken. After having sunk into misery for months, his long-lost friend, “Dew” appears from nowhere and revives his paralyzed mind. Can this girl be the game changer in Don’s love life?
Thanh Van