Cinema Scene
What's new this week.
Pitch Perfect 2
After the antics of Fat Amy get the Barden Bellas banned from competition in the US, the women’s collegiate singing group heads overseas in a bid to redeem themselves in the world championships in Copenhagen. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Hailee Steinfeld star. Rated 13+
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director George Miller returns to the stark post-apocalyptic landscape, where drifter former lawman Max (Tom Hardy) teams up with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to evade marauding goons in an epically violent car chase across the desert. Rated 15+
Bombay Velvet
James Ellroy’s “LA Quartet” of gritty crime novels about 1950s Los Angeles provides the inspiration for this stylish drama set in Bombay of the 1960s, where a boxer (Ranbir Kapoor) is in love with an aspiring jazz singer (Anushka Sharma). In Hindi with English and Thai subtitles at Major Cineplex Sukhumvit, Rama III and Pattaya.
Phi Ha Ayothaya
A mysterious plague grips the ancient Siamese realm, with the dead becoming flesh-hungry zombies. As panic grips a village, a disparate band of survivors take shelter in a brothel and try to make it through the night. MR Chalermchatri “Adam” Yukol directs.
Life Partners
Well-meaning Paige (Gillian Jacobs) makes a pact with her lesbian best friend Sasha (Leighton Meester) that she won’t get married until Sasha has the same legal right. But then Paige meets a charming young doctor (Adam Brody), and Sasha fears being left out. At SF.
Lost River
Ryan Gosling makes his directorial debut with this surreal fantasy about a single mother (Christina Hendricks) struggling to raise her children in an abandoned dreamlike city. Eva Mendes also stars. Rated 15+
The Last Five Years
A love affair and marriage between an up-and-coming novelist and a struggling actress is told almost entirely through song. Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick star. Richard LaGravenese directs. Rated 15+
Parasyte
Worm-like aliens fall from the sky and take over most everyone’s bodies, but one high-school student manages to keep his parasite confined to his right hand. He sets out to conquer the aliens. At Apex and SF. Rated 15+
Foosball
Tiny players from a foosball table come to life to aid a young man in his bid to win his girlfriend and save his town from being leveled to make way for a new sports stadium. At SF. Rated G
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow battle an artificial intelligence that has decided the only way to save the world is to destroy it. Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen star. Rated G
Postcard Tee Mai Me … Tee Ma
Three people cross paths thanks to a postcard. They are photographer Sai Lom (Puthipong Sriwat), Khet (Sarawut Makthong) and Karnda (Worranun Chantarasami), the woman Khet loves. Rated 15+
Skin Trade
An American cop and a tough Thai police officer tangle with human-trafficking Serbian mobsters in Bangkok. Phanom “Tony Jaa” Yeerum and Dolph Lundgren star. Ekachai Uekrongtham directs. Rated 18+
Woman in Gold
Helen Mirren stars in this fact-based drama, portraying an elderly Jewish woman who fights a decades-long legal battle for the return of priceless masterpieces. Rated 13+
