Genre Films (USA): 7

The upcoming action spy film, The 355 (2022), helmed by director Simon Kinberg and written by Theresa Rebeck and Kinberg, follows the story of a group of individuals embroiled in an intense race for a special decryption program drive. This sought-after drive, capable of accessing any digital system on Earth, is presented to criminal mastermind Elijah Clarke by a drug lord at a location 150 mi (240 km) south of Bogotá, Colombia. However, Clarke’s betrayal leads to chaos as he kills the drug lord just as authorities ...

Director Kenneth Branagh helmed the romantic fantasy film Cinderella (2015), with a screenplay written by Chris Weitz. Ella, the benevolent daughter of a wealthy merchant, enjoys a happy life with her parents. However, their peaceful existence is disrupted when her mother falls ill and passes away. Before she dies, Ella’s mother implores her to always be courageous and kind. After some time, Ella’s father remarries a widow named Lady Tremaine who has two daughters of her own: Drisella and Anastasia. Upon returning from a business trip, Ella’s father suddenly passes away. This leaves Lady Tremaine to ...

The science fiction film, The Martian (2015) was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Matt Damon. It was adapted from Andy Weir’s 2011 novel of the same name by Drew Goddard. In the year 2035, the Ares III mission to Mars was exploring Acidalia Planitia on sol 18 of their 31-sol expedition. However, a severe dust storm threatened to topple their Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). During the evacuation, astronaut Mark Watney was hit by debris and presumed dead. With the MAV in ...

Directed and co-produced by Bryan Singer and written by Simon Kinberg, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) is a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team. The fifth installment in the X-Men series, it serves as both a sequel to 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and 2011’s X-Men: First Class, as well as a follow-up to 2013’s The Wolverine. Set in a dystopian version of 2023, the film follows robot Sentinels who hunt and kill those with mutant potential or those who protect them. In Moscow, this results in an attack on ...

Elysium (2013), an American sci-fi action film written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp, depicts a dystopian future where Earth is overcrowded, plagued by disease and pollution. The wealthy inhabitants of the planet live in luxury on Elysium, an orbiting space station just beyond Earth’s reach. Spider, a skilled hacker residing in Los Angeles, operates three shuttle flights to Elysium in order to smuggle individuals seeking access to Med-Bays; advanced devices that can cure any ailment. Unfortunately, Elysium Defense Secretary Delacourt takes down two of the shuttles in space, causing the death of all ...

This Means War (2012) is an American romantic comedy spy film directed by McG and produced by Will Smith. CIA agents, Franklin ‘FDR’ Foster and Tuck Hansen, are sent to Hong Kong to stop international criminal Karl Heinrich from obtaining a weapon of mass destruction. Despite their best efforts, the mission goes wrong and results in the death of Heinrich’s brother, Jonas. As revenge, Heinrich vows to get back at them. Upon their return to the US, their boss Collins assigns them desk duty for their safety. Tuck is divorced with a young son named Joe. ...

The superhero film, X-Men: First Class (2011), is based on the X-Men characters from Marvel Comics. At the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, Nazi officer Klaus Schmidt witnesses a young Erik Lehnsherr using his mind to bend a metal gate after being separated from his parents. Schmidt then takes Erik to his office and asks him to move a coin on his desk. When Erik fails, Schmidt kills his mother. In distress, Erik’s magnetic power suddenly appears and destroys the room. Meanwhile, at a mansion in Westchester County, New York, child telepath Charles Xavier meets Raven, whose natural form is blue-skinned scales and has the ability to shapeshift, and invites her ...