ENTERTAINMENT: Two big, big movies have hit the big screen at Eclipse Cinemas, with the much anticipated releases of Miss Pelegrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Deep-waters Horizon.
Miss Pelegrine’s Home For Perculiar Children: 12A 127MINS:
A boy must save the residents of a mysterious island orphanage in Tim Burton’s imaginative fantasy.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield) has grown up listening to his grandfather’s bizarre stories of the residents of a strange and mysterious island orphanage known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiars. When the old man dies in mysterious circumstances, he leaves young Jacob clues that set him on an extraordinary quest.
What he finds is a magical place, spanning different worlds and times, whose residents possess astonishing abilities. But they are also under threat from sinister monsters. Now it’s up to Jacob to use his own ‘peculiarity’ to save them.
Adapted from Ransom Riggs’s creepy young adult book by Jane Goldman, of X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass fame, this latest dark fantasy from the fertile mind of Tim Burton boasts a superlative cast that includes Eva Green, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson.
Deepwaters Horizon: 12A 108MINS:
Mark Wahlberg stars in a thrilling drama of real-life environmental disaster heroism.
In April 2010, one of the world’s most devastating man-made eco catastrophes took place when BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to a massive oil spill.
Eleven people lost their lives. Little reported at the time were the stories of immense courage as workers struggled desperately to avert the calamity and managed to prevent an even greater death toll. Mark Wahlberg reunites with ‘Lone Survivor’ director Peter Berg to play electrician Mike Williams in this compelling and inspirational action drama charting the 48 hours leading up to the disaster.
Kurt Russell, Dylan O’Brien and Gina Rodriguez are cast as his colleagues, while John Malkovich takes the role of a BP representative who underestimates the mounting danger.
Appearing on screen with her adoptive father Kurt Russell for the first time, Kate Hudson plays Williams’ wife.
