Movie Addicts – March 9th

Each week we update you on what new films are hitting cinemas around town with trailers and ratings so you can impress your friends with all the movie trivia you know 😉  What’s in store for movie lovers this week??

Chris Pine stars in the action-packed thriller as Special Forces Sergeant James Harper who is involuntarily discharged from the Army and cut off from his pension in The Contractor, a mother desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown in The Desperate Hour, and Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence in Turning Red.
The Contractor

Rotten Tomatoes Score: (Rating Unavailable)

The plot: Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a special forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force When his very first assignment goes awry.

The elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.

The Desperate Hour

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 30% Fresh (Critics) – (Audience Rating Unavailable)

The plot: Recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts) is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town.

As she’s on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son’s school. Miles away on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her son.

Turning Red

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Fresh (Critics) – (Audience Rating Unavailable)

The plot: Mei Lee is a confident, dorky 13-year-old who’s protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager.

And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda!