Insights from the Cinematic World: premise

Don’t Think Twice

With a top-flight ensemble of comic actors including Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Kate Micucci, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher and Birbiglia, Don’t Think Twice tells a nuanced story of friendship, aspiration and the pain and promise of change.

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Central Intelligence

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Pairing Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart as unlikely former high school friends, and even unlikelier spy-busting, world-saving, accidental partners on the run, director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s “Central Intelligence” offers a fun and fast-paced mash-up of comedy and explosive action.

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The Perfect Guy

The Perfect Guy offers a fascinating glimpse into the dark side of human relationships. But with all the cyber methods we have available now, the things that happen to Leah (Sanaa Lathan) in this movie are all too real, it’s not a fantasy, this could actually happen

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Snowpiercer

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In a new Ice Age, where Earth has been frozen for 17 years, SNOWPIERCER is the only place for survivors. Those few who survived the planet’s demise live aboard a train that perpetually circles the same track. The tail section is like a slum, filled with people who are cold and hungry.

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Lucy

Besson directs Scarlett Johansson and Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman in Lucy, an action-thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind.

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Looper

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson with a time travel plot. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt.

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Apollo 18

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Apollo 18 centers around a fictional premise of an actual Apollo 18 mission that was launched in December 1974, that supposedly never returned and as a result, signified the real reason why the United States never commissioned another expedition to the Moon.

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